The Last Wilderness (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Washington Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2019
First published:	2020
Authors:	Murray Morgan
Introduction by:	Tim McNulty
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-295-74533-6
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-295-74533-9
Barcode:	9780295745336

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