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Salmon River Rafting Adventure   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Compass Guide Idaho  •  John Gottberg  •  Kit Duane
GUIDEBOOK •  2001 •  PAPER
Handsomely produced, illustrated and informative, this guide is an overview of the culture, history and attractions of Idaho, including a long chapter on the Sun Valley region. It features archival photographs, literary excerpts and much practical travel information. (USW296, $21.00)
 
In Mountain Shadows, A History of Idaho  •  Carlos A. Schwantes
HISTORY •  1996 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES
A concise, illustrated history of Idaho from the early 19th century to the present, covering Native Americans, economics, geography, industry and territorial disputes. (USW298, $24.00)
  In Mountain Shadows, A History of Idaho
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Rocky Mountain States  •  Peter Alden
FIELD GUIDE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 447 PAGES
A compact field guide to 1,000 commonly encountered plants and animals of Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. With 1,500 color photographs, 11 maps, and 16 night-sky charts. Alden also surveys the region's natural history, and tourist attractions. (USW286, $19.95)
  National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Rocky Mountain States
Recreational Map of Idaho  •   GTR Mapping
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A colorful, topographic map of Idaho at a scale of 1:800,000. (USW300, $3.95)
 
 

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The Complete Whitewater Rafter  •  Jeff Bennett   • REFERENCE  •  A popular, practical guide to whitewater rafting, with information on preparing for your trip, choosing equipment, safety and rescue, the history of rafting, as well as introductions to water currents and rapid classifications. (OCE59, $16.95)
 
 
Impassable Canyon: Journey Down the Middle Fork of the Salmon  •  Matt Leidecker   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Leidecker's oversized, illustrated account of floating the canyon, featuring hundreds of color photographs, sketch maps and accompanying essays by fellow river guides and Idahoans. (USW543, $35.00)
 
 
River of No Return  •  Johnny Carrey  •  Cort Conley   • HISTORY  •  A history and guide to the Salmon River, featuring 150 black-and-white photographs and 10 maps. (USW309, $15.95)
 
 
The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest  •  Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.   • HISTORY  •  A riveting, classic history of the Nez Perce from the encounters with Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877. (PNW88, $21.00)
 
 
Home Below Hell's Canyon  •  Grace Jordan   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Jordan's affecting depression-era memoir of life at Kirkwood Bar, a Idaho sheep ranch in the Snake River gorge just below Hell's Canyon. (RKY30, $16.95)
 
 
In the Wilderness, Coming of Age in Unknown Country  •  Kim Barnes   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A memoir of growing up during the 1960s and 70s in the isolation of the woods of rural Idaho. (USW299, $13.95)
 
 
Indian Creek Chronicles, A Winter Alone in the Wilderness  •  Peter Fromm   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Fromm's lyrical tale of a winter as a ranger deep in Idaho's Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness displays his sense of the land, self-deprecating humor, and the joys and solace of a winter alone. (USW310, $14.00)
 
 
Undaunted Courage, Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, And The Opening of the American West  •  Stephen Ambrose   • EXPLORATION  •  A fast-paced, marvelously detailed account of the exploration of the American West. Ambrose relies on newly published materials and original journals to recreate the high adventure and politics of late 18th-century America. (USW20, $17.00)
 
 
River Tales of Idaho  •  Darcy Williamson  •  Jim Paxton   • ANTHOLOGY  •  These 58 stories on the history and cultural importance of Idaho's rivers and streams range from tradional native american legends to early accounts by explorers and settlers to modern tales. (RKY29, $17.95)
 
 
Angle of Repose  •  Wallace Stegner   • LITERATURE  •  A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of one family and their lives in California, Colorado and Idaho, incorporating a great deal of history of the American West. (USW301, $16.00)
 
 
Housekeeping  •  Marilynne Robinson   • LITERATURE  •  A both tragic and comic novel of a girl and her sister growing up in the mountains of Idaho. It's evocative of the landscape and written with vivid, poetic prose. (PNW89, $14.00)
 
 
Myths of the Idaho Indians  •  Deward E. Walker   • LITERATURE  •  This short collection of traditional stories from Idaho's Indian population is published by the University of Idaho. (RKY32, $11.95)
 
 
The Big Sky  •  Alfred Guthrie  •  Wallace Stegner   • LITERATURE  •  First published in 1947, this classic novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning Guthrie examines mountain man Boone Caudill and his adventures in the American West -- a saga that continues in five more volumes. (USW52, $14.00)
 
 
Water, The Fate of our Most Precious Resource  •  Marq de Villiers   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An examination of the world's water supply and the global impact of its mismanagement. (NAT57, $16.00)
 
 
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America  •   National Geographic   • FIELD GUIDE  •  From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide published by the National Geographic Society, now in its fifth edition (with tabs!), is the one to carry. (FG09, $24.00)
 
 
Roadside Geology, Idaho  •  Donald Hyndman  •  David D. Alt   • FIELD GUIDE  •  The geologic history of Idaho as seen through the car window. A great introduction to basic geomorphology and how the dramatic landscapes were formed. (USW297, $20.00)
 
 
Rocky Mountain Wildflowers  •  John J. Craighead   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A Peterson guide to 590 species of wildflowers, with both line drawings and a section of color photographs. Focusing on family and genus, the book includes the most conspicuous and commonly encountered flowers. (USW41, $21.00)
 
 
Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains  •  James Halfpenny  •  Todd Telander   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An essential pocket guide to 70 species of mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds, with line drawings, range map and description. (USW118, $9.95)
 
 
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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