Oregon Books

Whether you are a Native or a Newcomer, this book will give you a taste of the eccentricities and origins of Oregonian culture.

Many Americans think that Oregonians live "way out in left field." The truth is: They do! And, this book helps explain why.

The Great Towns of Oregon: The Guide to the Best Getaways for a Vacation or a Lifetime is a vacation and relocation guide to the most scenic and civilized Oregon locales, including 1,000+ descriptions of the best restaurants, attractions, and lodgings. The eighteen Oregon towns covered at length are Ashland, Astoria, Baker City, Bandon, Bend, Brookings, Cannon Beach, Florence, Gold Beach, Grants Pass, Hood River, Jacksonville, Joseph, Lincoln City, McMinnville, Newport, Seaside, and Sisters. Full chapters on each of the towns, towns, along with weather and livability ratings, allow for a level of depth ideal for individuals searching for the perfect Oregon home.

This is a very different kind of travel book--and it happens to be one we enjoyed immensely on a week-long trip to eastern Oregon. Instead of a straight listing of sights to see, the author has selected her favorite areas and they come with plenty of recommended things to do and places to stay. It's rather like having a chance to sit down and ask a well-known travel writer to give the inside scoop on the very best locations. We hiked the high Wallowas and drove through Leslie Gulch, discovering fascinating places we never knew existed. We found this book to be inspiring and well-researched. The author has obviously spent time in these locations and this is a refreshing change from ordinary travel books that simply offer a list of attractions without help in putting together a vacation that is filled with a variety of great adventures.

This book is perfect for anyone interested in gardens in the northwest. It not only provides a complete guide with directions to each of the many gardens, but it also provides a review of the gardens and what you will find during each season. A perfect gift for a green thumb, this book will assist you in your touring of all of the northwest's finest gardens.

This is an absolutely excellent book for the area it covers, but the title is misleading. It purports to cover the entire Northwest, when in fact it only covers a few counties in Oregon and Washington west of the Cascade Mountains. I'll keep the book because one of the counties covered is where I was born, and I'm already fairly familiar with the plants there, but I was looking for a book that would cover the whole Pacific Northwest, so I'm pretty disappointed. If I'd known before I bought it that the coverage was so limited, I wouldn't have bought it. Still, I gave it five stars, because for the area it covers (Lane County, Oregon, to just north of Seattle) it is probably the best book you can buy.

Author: University of Oregon. Center for the Advanced Study of Educational Administration.
Title: Handbook of organization development in schools, by Richard A. Schmuck [and others.
Publisher: Palo Alto] National Press Books [1972]
Edition Date: 1972
Language: English
Notes: Second ed. (c1977) by the Center for Educational Policy and Management, published under title: The second handbook of organization development in schools.
Physical Details: xvii, 436 p. illus. 24 cm.
Other Authors: Schmuck, Richard A.
Subjects: School management and organization--United States.

This novel about a pioneer in Oregon is very well written. I was intrigued by the struggles encountered and the relationships formed. I don't know how else i could possible describe this novel without giving the magic of its discovery completely away. It was well written and quite a page turner. I highly reccomend it to those who enjoy stories of struggle and motivation.

This book is an interesting and humorous look at early pioneer life in Oregon and the plants they brought with them for both medicinal and decorative purposes. Even if you don't intend to plant the gardens designed in the book, read it anyway for a neat slice of Oregon's history.

Review

High Desert Roses,
Significant Stories from Central Oregon
by Melany Tupper

In her second book, High Desert Roses, Significant Stories from Central Oregon, Melany Tupper has created a collection of her recent non-fiction works that cater to the curious, featuring interviews with local people, and scientists and experts from several disciplines. She reveals a fascinating palette of wonders from a region that, on the surface, appears stark and joyless.

"In my Christmas Valley home, the primroses are like the untold stories, the unresearched histories, and the wonderful surprises that are found just beyond the next sand dune of my once desolate existence here."
-Melany Tupper

High Desert Roses highlights local attractions, like Pine Mountain Observatory, the Backscatter radar facility, Sunstone Gem Area, Crack in the Ground, and the Lost Forest. We find that half of the men who explored the lunar surface also explored north Lake County, that Christmas Valley has a real, functioning Santa Claus, and the best pleistocene-age paleo site since the La Brea Tar Pits. There are stories of heroism, too, like the utter selflessness of Lucinda Schroder who saved the lives of over 100 people in the Silver Lake fire, and rancher Buck Church, who was a great grandfather when he undertook the Iditarod Trail for the first time. She uncovers the truth behind the legend of the Lost Crystal Cave, and assists biologists performing field surgery to insert tiny radio transmitters into day-old sage grouse chicks.

Melany Tupper began writing in 1994 with a book called, Trip, Nomadic in America, in which she shared her real-life experience of a life on the road in a Volkswagen bus. After moving to the high desert of central Oregon in 1999, Tupper began writing short features for newspapers and magazines around the region, with a focus on science and nature, and local history. High Desert Roses reveals a serious researcher with an intimate knowledge of libraries and archives of Oregon, and Tupper's writing comes out of a rare form of consciousness, the end product of which is keenly insightful and anything but superficial.

The guide provides excellent trail information for novice and experienced hikers embarking on a day trip or longdistance excursion. The book rates each hike, offers a trail map, and gives directions for getting there. Seventy-four trails are listed, grouped by geographic location. Includes hiker's checklist, glossary, rules for low-impact wilderness recreation. I recommend both the book and the trails.