Touching This Leviathan
Touching This Leviathan asks how we might come to know the unknowable—in this case, whales, animals so large yet so elusive, revealing just a sliver...
On the Highest Hill
The complex story of a shy young man whose life and fate are ruled by his love for a woman and a place — the...
A Richer Harvest
The voices of workers, from logging camps to the Microsoft campus. This fascinating collection of writings taps a rich vein of Northwest literature. From pioneer...
River Pigs and Cayuses
Ron Strickland’s oral histories recover a part of the original Northwest character that is rapidly disappearing. In River Pigs and Cayuses, he gathers stories from...
Paradise Wild
As a lifelong mountaineer and reader of nature literature, as a scholar, as a descendant of naturalist William Bartram, and as a gay ex-Baptist who...
A Place for Wayfaring
An excellent introduction for readers coming to Gary Snyder for the first time and an overview of the work for the many readers already familiar...
Up All Night
Night, inhospitable and dangerous, tantalizes the imagination. Rarely are we awake to see it through. This fascinating collection of voices from the graveyard shift shows...
Varieties of Hope
Oregon has always been a place of hope and new beginning. Yet all who have come to Oregon have not shared the same hopes, nor...