Visible Bones: Journeys Across Time in the Columbia River Country by Nisbet, Jack

Visible Bones: Journeys Across Time in the Columbia River Country

How can you know a place? Historian and naturalist Jack Nisbet--author of Sources of the River: Tracking...
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Visible Bones: Journeys Across Time in the Columbia River Country by Nisbet, Jack

Visible Bones: Journeys Across Time in the Columbia River Country

€24,00

Visible Bones: Journeys Across Time in the Columbia River Country

€24,00
Author: Jack Nisbet
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 connect the present moment to the distant past. In the vast Western territory defined by the Columbia River, Nisbet tracks the stories and meaning of relics such as a trilobite fossil that points to a tropical prehistoric ecology; the nearly extinct California condor, once the largest thing in the skies, described with amazement by Meriwether Lewis; the indelible stain of the smallpox pandemic that overcame the native peoples of the West; a rare and socially potent strain of indigenous wild tobacco that reveals the presence of vestigial Indian practices; and the remains of one Jaco Finlay, a mixed-blood trapper and scout who seems to have been everywhere in the region two hundred years ago. All of these relics are the visible bones that show how past is present in the Columbia River Country. Together the stories these bones tell lays out a wholly original, hybrid history that connects nature with human endeavor, geography with the passage of time--all contribute to the biography of a place. The arrow of time travels in one direction, and this is usually how history is told: beginning to end. But Jack Nisbet is up to something else: journeys across time through a place, knitting past to present and back again to assemble a portrait of the land that marked the culmination of Lewis & Clark's expedition, that saw the sad end of the Indian Wars with the flight of Chief Joseph, that has offered up fossil proof of mammoth species long extinct. In this western territory, the storied past is much in evidence.

Author: Jack Nisbet
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Published: 04/10/2007
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.56w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781570615245


Award: Washington State Book Award - Winner

About the Author
JACK NISBET is a historian, teacher, and author focusing on the intersection of human history and natural history in the Pacific Northwest. His books include Sources of the River (recipient of the Washington Governor's Award and winner of the Murray Morgan Prize from the Washington State Historical Society), The Mapmaker's Eye (named one of The Best Nonfiction Books of the Year by The Seattle Times), The Collector (a Pacific Northwest Book Award winner), The Dreamer and The Doctor, and Visible Bones. He lives in Spokane, Washington.

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