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Highly Recommended
Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest  •  Katharine Berry Judson
LITERATURE •  1997 •  PAPER  • 204 PAGES
First published in 1910 and with a new introduction by Jay Miller, this book collects the oral traditions of the Klamath, Nez Perce, Modoc, Chinook and other tribes of the Pacific Northwest. Presented here with 52 photographs, the stories reveal myths and traditions of the creation of the universe, rebirth of the salmon and, most interestingly, the formation of noted geographical features of the territory. It's a wonderful introduction to the traditional mindset and importance of the land to Native Americans of the region. (PNW17, $14.95)		   Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Pacific Northwest  •  Peter Alden
FIELD GUIDE •  1998 •  FLEXI-BOUND  • 448 PAGES
A compact photographic guide to the wildflowers, trees, mosses, butterflies, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals of the Pacific Northwest. Apart from its 1,000 photographs, the book also includes an overview of the ecology and habitats of the region and a list of parks and preserves. (PNW50, $19.95)		   National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Pacific Northwest
Oregon Map  •  Benchmark Maps
MAP
A folded recreation map of Oregon at a scale of 1:750,000. Two Sides. 27x34 inches. (PNW166, $7.95)		  



Also Recommended

Columbia River Gorge Map  •  Trails Illustrated    •  This topo map, printed on tear-proof and water-resistant paper, shows this popular recreation area. (PNW251, $11.95)
 		  
Mount Hood Map  •  Trails Illustrated    •  This topo map, printed on tear- and water resistant paper, shows this popular recreation area. (PNW252, $11.95)
 		  
Driving the Pacific Coast, Oregon and Washington  •  Kathy Strong   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A touring guide for the Pacific Coast. (PNW75, $13.95)
 		  
Frommer's Portable Portland  •  Karl Samson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical travel guide to Portland, featuring excellent annotated listings of what to do and where to eat and sleep. With one-color maps and suggested excursions. (PNW219, $12.99)
 		  
Hidden Pacific Northwest, Including Oregon, Washington, Vancouver, Victoria, and Coastal British Columbia  •  Eric Lucas   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide to attractions, sites and natural areas throughout the Pacific Northwest. With regional and local sketch maps and selective recommendations for where to stay and eat. (PNW13, $19.95)
 		  
The Rogue River, A Comprehensive Guide from Prospect to Gold Beach  •  Matt Leidecker   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Leidecker's comprehensive, practical guide features detailed topographic maps with mile-by-mile text and plenty of information, including regional history and a diagramed exploration of the Rogue's geology. Printed on waterproof paper. (PNW232, $25.00)
 		  
A Chef's Bounty, Celebrating Oregon's Cuisine  •  William King   • FOOD  •  With original recipes and color photographs, this book is a tribute to Oregon's diverse culinary landscape, divided into seven regions. (PNW247, $29.95)
 		  
Dungeness Crabs and Blackberry Cobblers  •  Janie Hibler   • FOOD  •  Full of personal reminiscences, geography, history and, of course, recipes, this cookbook doubles as a guide to the Northwest's culinary heritage and the blending of the food traditions from the Native Americans to various later settlers. (PNW248, $21.95)
 		  
Illahe: The Story of Settlement in the Rogue River Canyon  •  Kay Atwood   • HISTORY  •  Atwood weaves a captivating tale of the miners, packers, farmers and families who settled southern Oregon's rugged Rogue River Canyon in the 1860s. (PNW236, $19.95)
 		  
Requiem for a People, The Rogue Indians and the Frontiersmen  •  Stephen Beckham   • HISTORY  •  Originally published in 1974, Stephen Dow Beckham's classic history of the 1855-1856 and the Rogue River Indian wars opens with a sketch of the mountains and river canyons of region, documenting ways of life in the region before the arrival of homesteaders and miners. (PNW237, $17.95)
 		  
Undaunted Courage, Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West  •  Stephen Ambrose   • EXPLORATION  •  Ambrose recreates the high adventure and politics of late 18th-century America in this classic history, rich in details of Native American life, geography, flora and fauna. (USW20, $18.00)
 		  
Breaking into the Backcountry  •  Steve Edwards   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Edwards shares stories of seven months in "unparalleled solitude" along the Rogue River. (PNW282, $16.95)
 		  
Fugitives and Refugees, A Walk in Portland, Oregon  •  Chuck Palahniuk   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Novelist Palahniuk's appreciative, decidedly eccentric account of his adopted city (and the other oddballs it has attracted), strong on local flavor and personality. (PNW150, $16.95)
 		  
Owning It All  •  William Kittredge   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A beautifully written memoir of growing up on a ranch in Oregon's Warner Valley in the 1930s by one of the great writers on the American West. (PNW49, $15.00)
 		  
Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone  •  John Daniel   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  In this lyrical chronicle of five months alone in the wilderness of Southwestern Oregon, Daniel writes not only of the nature and beauty of the Rogue River Valley but also of his coming of age in the 1950s and 1960s with a powerful, difficult father -- a key personality in the American labor movement. Winner of the 2006 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. (PNW233, $16.00)
 		  
The Oregon Trail, Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life  •  Francis Parkman  •  David Levin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The original, 19th-century account by the great American historian and romantic, based in part on the author's wanderings on the Oregon Trail through the plains of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas. (USW369, $16.00)
 		  
Sometimes a Great Notion  •  Ken Kesey   • LITERATURE  •  Kesey weaves a magnificent tale of a bitter strike that takes place in a small logging town on the coast of Oregon. (PNW310, $18.00)
 		  
The Living, A Novel  •  Annie Dillard   • LITERATURE  •  Pulitzer Prize-winning memoirist Annie Dillard tries her hand at fiction in this tale of 19th-century pioneers, adjusting to a difficult new life in the Pacific Northwest. (PNW108, $14.99)
 		  
Winterkill  •  Craig Lesley   • LITERATURE  •  A highly acclaimed novel by a Pacific Northwest literary lion, this book is a tale of fathers and sons, of modern Native American life, of the salmon and the spirit world. (PNW117, $17.00)
 		  
Rivers of America  •  Tim Palmer   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Palmer celebrates the natural history of America's waterways in 200 dazzling color photographs and accompanying incisive essays on the vital role of rivers. A Discovery Channel Book Club. (NAT148, $45.00)
 		  
The Good Rain  •  Timothy Egan   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A wonderfully readablet portrait of the Pacific Northwest. The Seattle journalist travels along the Columbia River in the footsteps of 1853 visionary Theodore Winthrop, focusing on the history, people and natural resources. (PNW11, $14.95)
 		  
The Great Northwest Nature Factbook  •  Ann Saling   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  From rain forests to glaciers and geoducks to rattlesnakes, this is a fun, take-along guide filled with fascinating facts about Washington, Oregon and Idaho. (PNW230, $14.95)
 		  
The Klamath Knot  •  David Rains Wallace   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The 20th-anniversary edition of Wallace's celebrated meditation on the natural history, myth and meaning of the Klamath mountains of northern California and southern Oregon. (CAL251, $21.95)
 		  
The Restless Northwest, A Geological Story  •  Hill Williams   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A popular geological history of the region by a native Washingtonian and former science writer for the Seattle Times. He divides the book between ancient and quaternary geology, explaining not only the formation of the varied terrain but also the ongoing geologic processes giving shape to the landscape. (PNW135, $19.95)
 		  
The Rogue: Portrait of a River  •  Roger Dorband   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Dorband's large-format color photographs of the Rogue capture the grandeur and beauty of this wild and scenic river. With quotations by western writer Zane Grey and a forward by Oregon's governor John Kitzhaber. (PNW234, $49.95)
 		  
Northwestern Seashore Life, Alaska to Oregon  •  Raymond Leung  •  James Kavanaugh   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This laminated, fold-out guide to almost 150 species of whales, birds, plants and other inhabitants of the Northwest coast is a handy, pocket-size reference for quick identification. (PNW105, $5.95)
 		  
Plants and Animals of the Pacific Northwest  •  Eugene Kozloff   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A convenient single-volume introduction to the natural history of the Pacific Northwest. Divided by habitat, it covers plant life in detail with some information on associated invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians and a few mammals. (PNW10, $35.00)
 		  
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska  •  Andy MacKinnon  •  Jim Pojar   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A terrific handbook to nearly 800 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens found along the Pacific coast from Oregon to Alaska. (PNW02, $24.95)
 		  
Roadside Geology Series, Oregon  •  David D. Alt   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Designed for the roadside traveler, this series explains in detail the geologic history of each of the states as seen through the window. (PNW65, $16.00)
 		  
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America  •  David Sibley   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact, geographically specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird. (USW418, $19.95)
 		  
 
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