Jack Nisbet
Autore di The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest
Sull'Autore
Jack Nisbet is the author of Sources of the River fox which he was awarded the Murray Morgan Prize by the Washington State Historical Society. His biography of David Douglas, The Collector, won a PNBA Book Award.
Fonte dell'immagine: http://www.northcolumbiamonthly.com/boundaries/boundaries.shtml
Opere di Jack Nisbet
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Nisbet, Jack
- Data di nascita
- 1949-05-16
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- USA
- Attività lavorative
- author
naturalist
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 10
- Utenti
- 463
- Popolarità
- #53,109
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 25
Nisbet draws from his own experiences, field work, and explorations. He often writes himself into the investigations for first-hand perspectives. Each essay is told in a loosely meandering narrative style similar to oral storytelling. Nisbet often gives no clear indication at the start where his tale will lead and does not necessarily arrive at any particular conclusions. Along the way, however, he manages to steer his way through interesting material about our interesting region. The essays are more about the journey than the destination.
Shelf Appeal: This book will appeal to amateur naturalists and anyone interested in the natural history of the Northwest. It also makes a fine companion to Nisbet’s earlier book Visible Bones: Journeys Across Time in the Columbia River Country (Sasquatch Books, 2003).
-- I wrote this review for the Books section of the Washington state website: http://www.WA-List.com… (altro)