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The Last Wilderness: A History of the Olympic Peninsula

The Last Wilderness: A History of the Olympic Peninsula

McNulty, Tim
Morgan, Murray

Paperback

Travel GeneralEnvironmental StudiesRegional: Pacific Northwest

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0295745339
ISBN13: 9780295745336
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: Jun 3 2019
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Murray 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 lowlands blanketed by a cool jungle of fir and pine and cedar, its peaks bearing hundreds of miles of living ice that gave rise to swift rivers alive with giant salmon.

Drawing on historical research and personal tales collected from docks, forest trails, and waterways, Morgan recounts vivid adventures of the area's settlers--loggers, hunters, prospectors, homesteaders, utopianists, murderers, profit-seekers, conservationists, Wobblies, and bureaucrats--alongside stories of coastal first peoples and striking descriptions of the peninsula's wildlife and land.

Freshly redesigned and with a new introduction by poet and environmentalist Tim McNulty, this humor-filled saga and landmark love story of one of the most formidably beautiful regions of the Pacific Northwest will inform and engage a new generation of readers.

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