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Jack Nisbet
Starting in 1825, David Douglas made the first systematic collections of flora and fauna across many parts of the greater Pacific Northwest. This book examines various aspects of Douglas' meteoric…
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From a master historian of the Pacific Northwest comes a collection of essays that reveals how the land shaped the people-and how the people shaped the land
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In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life and times of David Thompson—fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North…
How can you know a place? Historian and naturalist Jack Nisbet—author of Sources of the River- Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America—looks to the relics of a region to…
Originally published in hardcover in 2009.
In the turn-of-the-twentieth-century Northwest, the lives and passions of an American physician and her Swedish naturalist husband helped shape a territory on the cusp of change–from the author of Sources…
In the turn-of-the-twentieth-century Northwest, the lives and passions of an American physician and her Swedish naturalist husband helped shape a territory on the cusp of change–from the author ofSources of…
Between 1801 and 1812, North West Company fur trader, explorer, and cartographer David Thompson established two viable trade routes across the Rocky Mountains in Canada and systematically surveyed the entire…
The awe-inspiring story of explorer David Thompson, whose expeditions helped shape western North America In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet recreates the life and times of David…
Gilbert Bishop
""The Beachcombers: Or Slave Trading Under The Union Jack"" is a historical novel written by Gilbert Bishop and published in 1900. The story is set in the 19th century and…
