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Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle
$19.95 Add to cartSkid Road tells the story of Seattle “from the bottom up,” offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City’s first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most colorful citiz
- Author: Morgan, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0295743492
- Language: English
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Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City
$24.95 Read moreFrom the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle’s urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal, extractive
- Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
- Author: Asaka, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 029575186X
- Language: English
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Portland in Three Centuries: The Place and the People
$22.95 Add to cartA compact and comprehensive history of Portland from first European contact to the twenty-first century, Portland in Three Centuries introduces the women and men who have shaped Oregon’s largest city…. [more below]
- Author: Abbott, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0870712071
- Language: English
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It’s Always Uphill from the Dock
$24.95 Add to cartHere is a look at the Puget Sound islands throughout history-the San Juan Islands, Whidbey Island, Bainbridge and Vashon Islands, and many others. Featured are the people who have come to the islands:
- Author: Irish, Ann B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1684920736
- Language: English
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Too High and Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle’s Topography
$19.95 Add to cartResidents and visitors in today’s Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As the city grew, its leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered its topo
- Author: Williams, David B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0295999403
- Language: English
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Shipwrecks of the Pacific Northwest: Tragedies and Legacies of a Perilous Coast
$42.67 Add to cartSUBMERGED STORIES FROM THE GRAVEYARD OF THE PACIFIC Over the past 350 years, an untold number of ships have met their end along the northern Oregon and southern Washington coasts. Shipwrecks of the Pa… [more below]
- Author: Kozik, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493044532
- Language: English
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The Last Wilderness: A History of the Olympic Peninsula
$24.95 Add to cartMurray Morgan’s classic history of the Olympic Peninsula, originally published in 1955, evokes a remote American wilderness “as large as the state of Massachusetts, more rugged than the Rockies, its l
- Author: Morgan, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0295745339
- Language: English
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Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound
$19.95 Add to cartNot far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish commun
- Author: Williams, David B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0295751002
- Language: English
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Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress
$29.95 Add to cartTo cities, sports have never been just entertainment. Progressive urbanites across the United States have used athletics to address persistent problems in city life: the fights for racial justice, wor
- Author: Scott, Shaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0295751991
- Language: English
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Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from Behind the Handlebars
$29.95 Add to cartSeattle was recently named the best bike city in the United States by Bicycling magazine. How did this notoriously hilly and rainy city become so inviting to bicyclists? And what challenges lie ahead
- Author: Fucoloro, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0295751584
- Language: English
