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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $97, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXPNW229)		  
Lewis & Clark, An Illustrated History  •  Dayton Duncan  •  Ken Burns
EXPLORATION •  1999 •  HARD COVER  • 248 PAGES
This is a handsomely illustrated account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-06. It features well chosen excerpts from the journals and short essays on topics of interest -- along with 150 period paintings, archival and contemporary photographs and maps. The companion book to the PBS series. (PNW36, $45.00)		   Lewis & Clark, An Illustrated History
The Essential Lewis and Clark  •  Landon Y. Jones  •  Meriwether Lewis  •  William Clark
EXPLORATION •  2002 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES
Edited by American Book Award nominee Landon Y. Jones, this compact book features well-chosen selections from Lewis and Clark's journals focusing on natural history, people and landscapes of the West. (PNW70, $13.99)		   The Essential Lewis and Clark
A River Lost, The Life and Death of the Columbia  •  Blaine Harden
NATURAL HISTORY •  2012 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES
A provocative social and environmental history of the Columbia River by a Washington Post journalist and native of the Pacific Northwest. This superbly reported, insightful history combines interviews and personal commentary with solid information. (PNW25, $15.95)		   A River Lost, The Life and Death of the Columbia
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
Washington and Oregon Map  •  Mad Maps
2004 •  MAP
A colorful regional map of Oregon and Washington at a scale of 1:675,000. Two Sides. 27x36 inches. (PNW12, $10.95)		   Washington and Oregon Map



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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)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide Pacific Northwest  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This superb guide to Oregon, Washington and British Columbia features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the area's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (PNW151, $25.00)
 		  
Frommer's Oregon  •  Karl Samson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive, practical guide to the region with excellent recommendations for hotels, restaurants and excursions. With two-color maps throughout. (PNW267, $18.99)
 		  
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)
 		  
Insider's Guide to Portland, Oregon  •  Dave Johnson  •  Rachel Dresbeck   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive, practical guide with detailed descriptions of local attractions. (PNW114, $18.95)
 		  
Lonely Planet Washington, Oregon & the Pacific Northwest  •  Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This comprehensive practical guide in the hallmark Lonely Planet style includes local and regional color maps, a section of photographs and chapters on history, culture and attractions. (PNW294, $24.99)
 		  
Lewis and Clark Among the Indians  •  James P. Ronda   • HISTORY  •  Ronda, a historian at the University of Tulsa, focuses on the various tribes encountered by Lewis and Clark, their ethnography and leaders. Originally published in 1984, this edition celebrates the Lewis and Clark bicentennial. (USW203, $19.95)
 		  
Lewis and Clark and Other Great Adventures  •  BBC   • HISTORY  •  This omnibus edition of three BBC-produced docudramas includes Lewis & Clark's journey across the West, Alexander von Humboldt's 18th-century South American adventures and Ernest Shackleton's extraordinary tale of survival in the Antarctic. (PNW228, $19.98)
 		  
Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes  •  Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.   • HISTORY  •  In nine absorbing essays, Native American scholars reflect on the impact of Lewis and Clark on the Indian nations they encountered, bringing the perspective of the Salish, Nez Perce and other groups to the bicentennial celebrations. Edited by the founding curator of the National Museum of the American Indian. (PNW226, $15.00)
 		  
Nch'I-Wana: The Big River, Mid-Columbia Indians and their Land  •  Eugene Hunn   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A scholarly, fascinating survey of the Native American people of the eastern Washington and Oregon with a focus on ecology and the environment. The author includes a chapter on contemporary life. (PNW29, $24.95)
 		  
Northwest Passage, The Great Columbia River  •  William Dietrich   • HISTORY  •  A sweeping portrait of the Columbia, its history, nature and transformation from wild river to engineering marvel by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Seattle Times. (PNW26, $24.95)
 		  
On the River with Lewis and Clark  •  Verne Huser   • HISTORY  •  Popular lecturer and a veteran river man himself, Huser conjures in vivid detail the planning, particulars and perilous journey of Lewis and Clark from the Ohio to the Columbia. With 46 black-and-white photographs and maps. (PNW225, $17.95)
 		  
River of Promise, Lewis and Clark on the Columbia  •  David L. Nicandri   • HISTORY  •  Historian Nicandri focuses on Clark's position as geographic problem-solver in Columbia River country, taking into consideration contributions by Native American leaders. (PNW272, $29.95)
 		  
Scenes of Visionary Enchantment, Reflections on Lewis and Clark  •  Dayton Duncan   • HISTORY  •  Duncan writes engagingly about Lewis and Clark in this collection of essays which retrace their journey and inspire the reader to do the same. (USW549, $22.00)
 		  
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, $38.95)
 		  
Lewis & Clark, Great Journey West  •  National Geographic Society   • EXPLORATION  •  With stunning aerial cinematography and meticulous recreations, this 40-minute National Geographic special dramatizes the legendary early 19th-century expedition that crossed the uncharted North American West. (PNW217, $19.95)
 		  
The Journals of Lewis and Clark  •  Frank Bergon   • EXPLORATION  •  An expanded version of the journals with more on the natural history and peoples encountered. (USW48, $17.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
Home Below Hell's Canyon  •  Grace Jordan   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Jordan's affecting depression-era memoir of life at Kirkwood Bar, an Idaho sheep ranch in the Snake River gorge just below Hell's Canyon. (RKY30, $19.00)
 		  
Reach of Tide, Ring of History: A Columbia River Voyage (Northwest Reprints)  •  Robin Cody  •  Sam McKinney   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  McKinney follows the river from Cape Disappointment to the barrier of the Bonneville Dam, telling the story of the voyage through anecdotes, history and observations about the river. A spare, witty account of messing about in a homemade boat. (PNW98, $14.95)
 		  
Standing Up to the Rock  •  T. Louise Freeman-Toole   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Freeman-Toole chronicles her ten-year romance with the rugged and spectacular landscape of a small Idaho town on the banks of the Snake River in this deft and evocative memoir. (PNW256, $15.95)
 		  
The Journals of Lewis and Clark  •  Meriwether Lewis  •  William Clark  •  Bernard DeVoto   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A classic condensed version of the Lewis and Clark journals, originally published in 1953 and long the standard. (PNW96, $15.95)
 		  
The Lewis and Clark Journals  •  Meriwether Lewis  •  William Clark  •  Gary Moulton   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The definitive one-volume selection of the most significant, noteworthy and historic entries from the journals of Lewis and Clark, with helpful scholarly notes and annotations. (USW428, $17.95)
 		  
William Clark and the Shaping of the West  •  Landon Y. Jones   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Jones captures the drama and significance of the life of Brigadier General William Clark in this vivid tale of the man and the ruthless, often lawless, expansion of the American frontier. (USW437, $19.95)
 		  
Deep Creek  •  Dana Hand   • LITERATURE  •  Fast-paced and full of historical detail, this first novel brings to life the long-forgotten 1887 massacre of 40 Chinese miners in the Idaho's Hells Canyon. (PNW264, $25.00)
 		  
Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest  •  Katharine Berry Judson   • LITERATURE  •  Presented here with 52 photographs, these traditional stories, first collected in 1910, reveal myths and traditions of creation, alongside noted geographical features of the territory. (PNW17, $14.95)
 		  
The Fifth Generation, A Nez Perce Tale  •  Linwood Laughy   • LITERATURE  •  Laughy's sweeping novel interweaves the stories of five generations of a Native American family, capturing their land, culture and struggles from early European encounters, through the Nez Perce War to the complexities of modern Indian life in America. (USW643, $23.95)
 		  
The True Account  •  Howard Frank Mosher   • LITERATURE  •  Not true at all, Mosher's fast-paced novel is an enjoyable, madcap tale of Lewis and Clark and a wholly invented, competing expedition involving an eccentric Vermont school teacher. (PNW180, $13.00)
 		  
Cataclysms on the Columbia  •  John Allen  •  Marjorie Burns  •  Samuel C. Sargent   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The tale of early 20th-century discovery of the Bretz Floods, which created the Columbia River gorge and landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. (PNW115, $24.95)
 		  
Fires, Faults and Floods: A Road Trail Guide to Exploring the Origins of the Columbia River Basin  •  Marge Mueller  •  Ted Mueller   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Fifty-three trips around Missoula, Montana and the lower Clark Fork drainage; Grande Ronde and Joseph Creek Canyons on the borders of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho; the Columbia River Gorge; and the northern Oregon Coast. Targeted to assist readers in finding and understanding the area's major geologic features. (PNW67, $19.95)
 		  
In Earshot of Water, Notes from the Columbia Plateau  •  Paul Lindholdt   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Lindholf writes of life and history in the Pacific Northwest, including conservation on the Snake and Columbia rivers, in 14 deft essays. (PNW284, $19.00)
 		  
Mount St. Helens, The Eruption and Recovery of a Volcano  •  Rob Carson  •  Geff Hinds   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A beautifully illustrated chronicle of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, with particular emphasis on the decades of recovery since the explosion. (PNW133, $21.95)
 		  
Sky Time in Gray's River  •  Robert Michael Pyle   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Taking the form of a closely observed country year, this quiet book is an ode to the natural history of Gray's River, a half-forgotten village near the mouth of the Columbia. (PNW209, $13.95)
 		  
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 Natural World of Lewis and Clark  •  David Dalton   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A biology professor at Reed College, Dalton writes with humor and authority about the discoveries of the Lewis & Clark expedition, and the ecology and evolution of the American West. Particularly relevant to the Pacific Northwest, he includes modern concerns over salmon, climate change and conservation. (PNW254, $39.95)
 		  
The Organic Machine, The Remaking of the Columbia River  •  Richard White   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An environmental history of the Columbia River, focusing on its historic relationship to the people of the Pacific Northwest. (PNW28, $13.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America  •  Jon Dunn   • FIELD GUIDE  •  From Alaska to Baja California, Nova Scotia and Florida, this guide is the veteran's choice for birding anywhere in the United States. Tabbed for easy access, the color range maps in this sixth edition are outstanding. (FG09, $27.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest  •  David Moskowitz   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Covering 180 mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates of Washington, Oregon, northern California, Idaho, western Montana and British Columbia. (PNW274, $25.95)
 		  
 
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