Oregon Books

This is yet another wonderful collection of even more wonderful short stories by Don Webb. These stories range from fantasy to cut-up to sci-fi to daily life/slipstream to other things ect. all with an overwhelming sense of wonder that I ve hitherto never encountered. But, these "tales of wonder and fantasy and such" these titles are no good! For this book is filled with a personal element that underlies every story. To me reading this felt like finding some secret treasure with each tale. Like some hidden toy long forgotten. Anyhoot these stories will not only set your spirit aflame with 'wonder' but with merriment too! As each story(almost) has something that made 'me lips smile and 'me eyes brighten. You'll probablly learn some new words too, like widdershins(rotating counter clockwise) and thyros(a staff/stick topped with a pinecone or grapes). So smile if you like but, you don't have to take my word for it ... buy this and read it fer yourself!

An excellent all purpose guide to the Oregon wilderness. Contains detailed maps with landmarks and trials. Covers history, geology, climate, plants & wildlife, hiking, climbing, and other sports.

I own and use numerous guides to creatures of the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia. Dr. Snively's book is clearly among the best of the genre. Her considerable skill as an educator and her extensive experience along local seashores have combined to create an excellent guide to the marine critters in this part of the world.

Exploring the Tualatin River Basin is an unimaginably good example of the kind of guide that should be available for all parts of the world. Living in Beaverton, Oregon, we only recently (2008) re-discovered this gem and have used it to plan short rainy-weekend excursions. The descriptions, directions and photographs are outstanding. The book has inspired us to explore our home environs as we never have done before. Our compliments to the authors and photographers who have created a motivating guide to our own home river basin.

No lover of the old west and its art could call his collection complete without this book. And no one was better qualified to write it than author and curator Dean Knudsen. It's given our family hours of pleasure.

The journey to a strange land must be one of the oldest plots in literature, but it has flourished through millennia because of the infinite variations in travelers and destinations. In "Eyes of the Mirror," Margaret Emerson stakes out a route-and ultimately a destination-distinctly her own.

At a desperate, midlife juncture she embarks on a two-year stint teaching English in a public school in a remote region of South Korea. With rudimentary Korean language skills and little access to other native speakers of English, she is on her own in a culture in which everything is unfamiliar, unclear, uncertain, and often incomprehensible. She sets about her work teaching middle school girls and establishing a life for herself-furnishing and settling into an apartment; shopping for food and clothing; dealing with strangely different institutions, customs, mind-sets, all meticulously detailed in spare, clear prose. We end by experiencing with her the stripping of an individual of almost everything familiar and immersion in a context where we never know for sure what our words or actions mean to others or what they mean by their behavior toward us.

Her return to the United States turns out to be an intensification of this experience as she develops diabetes with devastating, life-threatening effects when the disease is misdiagnosed and mistreated. Now her own body becomes alien territory to her in a deepening journey into the core of her being.

This is a powerful, memorable, and ultimately inspiring book. Reading it is a journey not soon forgotten.

This is a well researched, written and illustrated history of Oregon's North Santiam River canyon through biographies of former residents buried in the community cemetery. The book is a must for local genealogists and holds fascinating stories of life in this historic mining and timber area of western Oregon. Ms. Copeland received a Marion County Historical Society award for her work.

A great book for anyone with kids in Oregon. It will keep us busy for years. It has details about local city parks to large well-known attractions like Crater Lake. Plus there are extra tips on lodging and kid-friendly restaurants. We found a park with an old train engine in our own city I didn't even know was there.

The Dalles has been the center of commerce for over 10,000 years. Native Americans converged in this area for centuries to trade. Lewis and Clark camped at "Rock Fort", the Hudson's Bay Company established a post there in 1829, a Methodist Mission was begun in 1838, and the US Government built a US Mint in The Dalles in 1861. This town has a rich and diverse history to explore. The book will guide you to the most significant homes and structures and treat you to a glimpse of the past through the eyes of the present. Come explore history!

I bought this book for a history class on immigration and migration, and it made the subject come alive for me. In the midst of political upheaval and confusion about immigration and migration of Mexican and Hispanic people in the U.S., I would recommend this book for better understanding of the lives of our neighbors. It might help us become better neighbors ourselves.