The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest - Hardcover

Egan, Timothy

 
9780394577241: The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest

Synopsis

Retraces the 1853 journey of Theodore Winthrop through Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia, offering a narrative of a land caught between conservationists and development and its people

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About the Author

Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of eight books, including The Immortal Irishman, a New York Times Bestseller. His book on the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time, won a National Book Award for nonfiction and was named a New York Times Editors' Choice, a New York Times Notable Book, a Washington State Book Award winner, and a Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book. He writes a weekly opinion column for the New York Times.

From the Inside Flap

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.

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ISBN 10:  0679734856 ISBN 13:  9780679734857
Publisher: Vintage, 1991
Softcover