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Summary of Jack Nisbet's Ancient Places
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 David Thompson, a fur trader working for the Hudson’s Bay Company, was witness to a night-traveling meteor that lit up the sky over Lake Susquagemow. #2 The story of David Thompson, a fur trader working for the Hudson’s Bay Company, tells of a night-traveling meteor that lit up the sky over Lake Susquagemow. Several days later, the fur agent was back near the same marsh on Lake Susquagemow, hunting for game in an open grove of aspen trees. He saw another concentrated light from the lake’s east end, which seemed larger than the first one. #3 A fur trader named David Thompson was witness to a night-traveling meteor that lit up the sky over Lake Susquagemow. The story of Thompson’s experience was reported by him and others who worked with him, and they believed they heard the aurora. #4 A NASA astronaut wrote me, asking about a book I wrote about David Thompson, a fur trader who saw a night-traveling meteor over Lake Susquagemow. He explained that the aurora is a plasma phenomenon in which energized electrons collide with gas particles to produce light effects.
The Dreamer and the Doctor
In the turn-of-the-twentieth-century Northwest, the lives and passions of an American physician and her Swedish naturalist husband helped shape a territory on the cusp of change--from the author of Sources of the River and The Collector. Dr. Carrie Leiberg, a pioneer physician, fought hard for public health while nurturing both a troubled son and a fruit orchard. Her husband, John Leiberg, was a Swedish immigrant and self-taught naturalist who transformed himself from pickax Idaho prospector to special field agent for the US Forest Commission and warned Washington DC of ecological devastation of public lands. The Leiberg story opens a window into the human and natural landscape of a century past that reflects all the thorny issues of our present time.
Sources of the River, 2nd Edition
The awe-inspiring story of explorer David Thompson, whose expeditions helped shape western North America In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life and times of David Thompson—fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America, and his field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of the what is now British Columbia, Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Thompson was the first person to chart the entire route of the Columbia river, and his wilderness expeditions have become the stuff of legend. Jack Nisbet tracks the explorer across the content, interweaving his own observations with Thompson’s historical writings. The result is a fascinating story of two men discovering the Northwest territory almost two hundred years apart.
Purple Flat Top
When a mining claim on a crumbling cliff of burnt-rose quartzite lured naturalist Jack Nisbet to the northeastern corner of Washington State in 1970, he began a search for an understanding of that open country through stories about the people who lived there and the everyday events he shared with them. Together, these vivid, engaging, and subtly humorous stories evoke the essence of this place. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwlNisTUyk
Prejudices
A great moralist and social thinker illuminates the most vexing issues of our time--war, old age, racism, abortion, boredom, crime and punishment, sociobiology--in a book which is by turns hilarious and somber but always vigorous and stimulating.
Lethal Injection
Overlook is remedying that with this paperback- the first of nine publications that will make up a Nisbet revolution. It's about as noir as you can get. In a bleak Texas prison Royce, an alcoholic doctor administers Bobby Mencken's last "high," convinced that the convicted killer was innocent. When Royce's marriage crumbles he takes off for Dallas to search for the real killer. Of Nisbet, Germany's Die Welt wrote, "Neither Norman Mailer nor Truman Capote has in their writing been able to produce such an intensity as Nisbet has achieved." With sharp humor and a poet's ear for language, Nisbet's world may be bleak, but it is frighteningly real. Overlook is proud to bring him to a new generation of readers.
Singing Grass, Burning Sage
Singing Grass, Burning Sage is a celebration in photos and text of eastern Washington's arid lands--a region that encompasses the heart of the Columbia River Basin, and supports a shrub-steppe environment dominated by sagebrush and bunchgrass. Formed by massive basalt flows that pulsed across the Basin, sculpted by ceaseless winds, and scoured by the cataclysmic Lake Missoula floods at the climax of our most recent Ice Age, this landscape offers some of the most spectacular geologic vistas in the world. The vast spaces of this wide domain are full of wonder and surprise, as that raw rock provides the setting for a dramatic interplay of human and natural history.
Montana's Pioneer Botanists
Montana is a large state with diverse vegetation from Great Plains prairie and deciduous forest in the east to northern coniferous forest and alpine tundra in the west. Discovering the botanical secrets of this spectacular landscape began with indigenous peoples and continued through the 20th Century with early explorers, geographers and entrepreneurs followed by teachers, scientists and curious and dedicated lay persons. Montana's multitude of rugged mountains and wide open spaces means that botanical discoveries which started with the Lewis and Clark Expedition continue to this day. Montana's Pioneer Botanists brings together more than thirty biographies of these diverse people and traces the growth of botanical knowledge in this wild and beautiful state. Includes over 200 photos and illustrations and seventeen different authors, all botanists themselves.
Plant Selection Guide
The Columbia Basin Chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society in partnership with the Benton Conservation District have published "Plant Selection Guide, Heritage Gardens of the Columbia River Basin." This beautiful full color,158 page, spiral bound book contains descriptions of over 100 native and low water-use plants. In addition to plant profiles the book provides information on the cultural and natural heritage of the plants along with stunning photos. Special thanks to award winning author and naturalist Jack Nisbet who provided the inspirational foreword.
Fishes of the Columbia Basin
Identify and learn how to catch 60+ fish species of the Columbia River and its tributaries.
