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Snow
Snow has had an astonishing influence on the shape of the land and human history. Ruth Kirk writes perceptively of how animals and people survive in the snow; of glaciers, continental ice sheets, blizzards, and...
ISBN: 9780295977348
more detailsExploring Washington’s Past
A Road Guide to History
Exploring Washington’s Past tells the state’s story in terms of where to go and what to see. With words, photographs, and maps, the authors evoke the cultural landscape and portray Washington’s people and events from...
ISBN: 9780295974439
more detailsThe Olympic Rain Forest
An Ecological Web
The forest of the northwest coast of North America accounts for two thirds of the world’s temperate-zone rain forest, which is a fraction of the size of the more publicized tropical rain forest but is...
ISBN: 9780295971872
more detailsMountain Fever
Historic Conquests of Rainier
ISBN: 9780295978475
more detailsArchaeology in Washington
Archaeology--along with Native American traditions and memories--holds a key to understanding early chapters of the human story in Washington. This all-new book draws together and brings up to date much of what has been learned...
ISBN: 9780295986968
more detailsTradition and Change on the Northwest Coast
The Makah, Nuu-chah-nulth, Southern Kwakiutl, and Nuxalk
Native elders remember well the last of the old days. They are living links to the past and their stories have the vitality and immediacy--as well as the authenticity--of those who have lived in the...
ISBN: 9780295966281
more detailsOzette
Excavating a Makah Whaling Village
Makah families left the coastal village of Ozette in the 1920s to comply with the federal government’s requirement that they send their children to school, and by doing so they ended nearly two thousand years...
ISBN: 9780295994628
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