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Review by Renee E. D’Aoust, Idaho Master Forest Steward
In The Collector, an earlier book about botanist David Douglas, Jack Nisbet artfully traces Douglas’s 19th century expeditions to the Pacific Northwest to collect and to study native flora and fauna. As I wrote in a review in these pages, Nisbet excels at this kind of integrated writing that combines historical knowledge with entries directly from Douglas’s own journals. In his current book, David Douglas: A Naturalist at Work – An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest, Jack Nisbet again returns to Scottish naturalist David Douglas. Nisbet explains why: “I realized I had only begun to touch the dynamic worlds [Douglas] saw.” Nisbet writes...
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Reviewed by Eileen Pearkes Jack Nisbet, Time Traveler Hidden in the beautiful landscape of the inland northwest are countless stories of those who have walked here before us, delighting in the region’s natural riches. Jack Nisbet’s new book allows us to lift the cover on some of these stories and peer into the deeper past while at the same time remaining firmly rooted in the present. David Douglas, A Naturalist at Work is in part a companion volume to the wonderful exhibit about Douglas currently running at the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture. It is also a larger celebration of the way plants and people can move across time. In the era of Internet research and...
Read MoreDavid Douglas: A Naturalist at Work
My new book, David Douglas: A Naturalist at Work was introduced this past weekend at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association annual meeting in Tacoma. It will be available in bookstores November 6. See the calendar for readings and presentations around the region this...
Read MoreDavid Douglas: A Naturalist at Work
The exhibit David Douglas: A Naturalist at Work is now open and is scheduled to run through August 2013, when it will travel to the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma. For school or group tours, contact Cara Spink at www.northwestmuseum.org/index.cfm/education To arrange a tour of the exhibit with Jack, contact him separately at jacknisbet@me.com
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David Douglas: A Naturalist at Work, an exhibit that explores Douglas’s adventures in the Northwest between 1825 and 1834 will open at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane on September 22, 2012. Jack’s latest book, a collection of essays with the same title, will be in bookstores in early November, 2012. See calendar for upcoming events related to both the book and the exhibit.
Read MoreA Remarkable Garden
“A Remarkable Garden: David Douglas and the Shrub-Steppe of the Columbia Plateau” The summer 2012 issue of Rock Garden Quarterly has an article about dryland plants collected by David Douglas on the Columbia Plateau and the tribal uses that he observed. For an online view, visit www.nargs.org
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