David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work: An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest

Nisbet's method of interpreting regional history isn't the usual staid recitation of dates and facts. In pursuit of bringing stories nearly 200 years old to life, he walks trails, visits reservations and tribal elders, charters pilot boats, climbs trees and wild-harvests food." - Cascadia Weekly "A text of beauty fit for a carved cedar coffee table. Nisbet opens the lens of history, as the text becomes a parallel experience where the reader visits places both in historical and contemporary time, effortlessly traveling between the two." - Renée E. D'Aoust, author of Body of a Dancer "Nisbet's ability to move back and forth across time, from the present-day to the deeper past is the best part of this book. Engaged and engaging, the author becomes his subject--David Douglas the curious traveler and Jack Nisbet the time traveling naturalist." - Eileen Pearkes, author of The Geography of Memory "David Douglas, A Naturalist at Work makes perceptive connections between people and place, and tantalizing connections across time." - Barbara Lloyd McMichael, Bellingham Herald