Posts by jnisbet
Interview with Jack about The Dreamer and the Doctor from the Spokesman-Review
Read an interview with Jack about The Dreamer and the Doctor from the Spokesman-Review http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/oct/27/spokane-author-jack-nisbet-turns-his-focus-to-john/
Read MoreColumbia Conversations interview with Felix Banel of the Washington State Historical Society
Listen to a Columbia Conversations interview with Felix Banel of the Washington State Historical Society that touches on Jack’s approach to writing about a regional landscape, his recent award of the Robert Gray medal, and his books from Sources of the River to The Dreamer and the Doctor.
Read MoreThe Washington State Historical Society has awarded the Gray Medal, its highest honor, to Jack Nisbet.
The presentation will take place at the society’s annual luncheon on September 22nd. View Event Details
Read MoreThe Dreamer and the Doctor
Jack’s latest effort, The Dreamer and the Doctor, will be released on October 23 from Sasquatch Books. It traces the unlikely saga of John and Carrie Leiberg through the Inland Northwest and around the world. “Jack Nisbet continues to educate, entertain, and mesmerize with this meticulously written and researched story of two people-of-destiny whose intelligence and passion transformed our awareness and understanding of the Northwest. Part history, part adventure tale, part love story, part futuristic foreshadowing, this book fascinated me from beginning to end with its eloquence, urgency, and quiet intensity.” – Kim Barnes, Author of In the Wilderness: Coming of...
Read MoreSteptoe Butte Bus Trip
Join Jack Nisbet for a journey back in time to the iconic lookout of Steptoe Butte. We will visit the site of the Coplen Brothers’ 1876 mammoth find, talk about the flora and fauna that lived here during the last Ice Age, and walk the flower-strewn slopes of Steptoe on a spring afternoon. View Event Details
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