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A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.

WestWinds Press is proud to bring back into print this classic history of the Pacific Northwest from native daughter Nancy Wilson Ross. Reading the book is like opening a time capsule to Oregon and Washington as they were from the Oregon Trail days through the 1930s. FARTHEST REACH is an engaging, affectionate account of the remote and mysterious Pacific Northwest and a celebration of its people-the loggers, fishermen, cowboys, Native Americans, and...

"True story of six thru-hikers whose journeys cross and eventually combine in a thrilling finale"--

See the whole 425 mile Loop from craggy snow capped mountain peaks to sunny Puget Sound beaches and the mighty Columbia River, to the turquoise waters of Ross Lake.

Novel woven around the lives of the early Oregon settlers, and the lives they lived when the wagons had come to rest.

Take a 30-minute video tour of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, including such highlights as the Hoh River Rain Forest, Lake Crescent, the trails at Olympic National Park, kayaking at Sequim Bay, and the Makah Indian Museum at Neah Bay.

The Sunset Highway works its way east to west across the 300-mile-wide expanse of Washington State from the Spokane River to its ending at Seattle on Puget Sound. Later known as Highway 10, the route traverses a landscape of big cities, small towns, and wide-open spaces; rolling hills and rugged mountains; fertile fields of grain, apple orchards, and ranches; roaring streams, deep rivers, and rock-walled coulees-now dry, but once a mighty watercourse....