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New York: Knopf, 1990. First edition. hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Briefly inscribed on the title page by the author. A mesmerizing ode to the Pacific Northwest, convincing us that the wilderness is a source of "renewal"--if we will only stop treating "paradise" like a "vacant lot." "To see what a century can produce from scratch," Egan retraces a journey made in 1853 by young New Englander Theodore Winthrop through wilderness that is now Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. In a book about his trip, The Canoe and the Saddle, Winthrop predicted that this "strong, savage and majestic" land would produce a "full growth of the American Idea." Egan's riveting travelogue (which includes maps, not seen) surveys what civilization (in places like Seattle and rose-filled Victoria) has brought about since the time of the "prophetic" Winthrop, while taking in the incredibly varied drama of this landscape (from the "incorrigible breakers" of the Columbia River Bar to the primeval…
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Pp. 254. Bound in half violet cloth over black paper-covered boards, silver lettering stamped on spine, author's initials on front board. In the dust jacket that shows original price of $19.95 intact on front flap. A well preserved copy, with no detracting qualities. First printing of the first edition. A harbinger of the massive population growth of Seattle and the greater Northwest that culminated in the grunge, Starbucks, Chihuly, Microsoft and other cultural business phenoms becoming household names.
Egan documented all as the local correspondent for the New York Times. Includes a chapter devoted to finding Seattle climbing luminary Fred Beckey in the North Cascades. Dust jacket is now preserved within a clear, removable archival sleeve.
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THE GOOD RAIN. Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
de Egan, Timothy
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