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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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Sasquatch Books
ISBN-10
1570615241
ISBN-13
9781570615245
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57165884

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Book Title
Visible Bones : Journeys Across Time in the Columbia River Country
Author
Jack Nisbet
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
Archaeology, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Historical Geography, Earth Sciences / Geology, Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers, Regional, United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa), Fossils
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Nature, Science, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
F853
Reviews
"Nisbet makes the landscape come alive on many levels, historical, biological and cultural. The writing is high quality and engaging. It is clear he cares for and knows the place he writes about." -The Seattle Times "â€¦[Nisbet's] passion and attention, "Nisbet makes the landscape come alive on many levels, historical, biological and cultural. The writing is high quality and engaging. It is clear he cares for and knows the place he writes about." The Seattle Times "...[Nisbet's] passion and attention, This is, flat-out, one of the best-written and most fascinationg books l've read about our particular corner of the continent.
Copyright Date
2007
Dewey Decimal
979.7
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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