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Exceptional Mountains: A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes
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Product Description: Over the past 150 years, people have flocked to the Pacific Northwest in increasing numbers, in part due to the region’s beauty and one of its most exceptional features: volcanoes. This segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire has shaped not only the physical landscape of the region but also the psychological landscape, and with it the narratives we compose about ourselves...read more
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9780803265479 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, August 1, 2016, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Over the past 150 years, people have flocked to the Pacific Northwest in increasing numbers, in part due to the region’s beauty and one of its most exceptional features: volcanoes.

The Norman Maclean Reader
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By Norman MacLean and O. Alan Weltzien (editor)
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9780226500270 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, April 30, 2012), cover price $17.50

A Father and an Island: Reflections on Loss
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Product Description: As author Ann Ronald notes, "Simultaneously a paean to his father and a personal memoir about a changing landscape caught by a ‘rising tide of affluence,’ Alan Weltzein’s A Father and an Island:Reflections on Loss, echoes my own Pacific Northwest youth—the endless saltwater summers, the quirky behavior of a bookworm, the sweet sharp tang of blackberry cobbler, the fierce games of badminton, the beachcombing days of discovery, the blessedness of parents well loved...read more
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9780911015997 | Sandhill Pr, October 30, 2008, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: As author Ann Ronald notes, "Simultaneously a paean to his father and a personal memoir about a changing landscape caught by a ‘rising tide of affluence,’ Alan Weltzein’s A Father and an Island:Reflections on Loss, echoes my own Pacific Northwest youth—the endless saltwater summers, the quirky behavior of a bookworm, the sweet sharp tang of blackberry cobbler, the fierce games of badminton, the beachcombing days of discovery, the blessedness of parents well loved.

Coming into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction
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Product Description: John McPhee, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for Annals of the Former World, is considered one of the most distinguished writers of literary nonfiction. Coming into McPhee Country is the first comprehensive anthology to address his significant body of work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Susan Naramore Maher (editor) and O. Alan Weltzien (editor)
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9780874807462 | Univ of Utah Pr, January 23, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: John McPhee, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for Annals of the Former World, is considered one of the most distinguished writers of literary nonfiction.

The Literary Art and Activism of Rick Bass
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By O. Alan Weltzien (editor)
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9780874806977 | Univ of Utah Pr, September 11, 2001, cover price $15.95

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