Astragal Press, 2004. Trade Paperback. 224 pages. For forty years, the Blue Ox Millworks has made Victorian house parts for restoration projects, almost entirely relying on period machinery and techniques. This book provides a brief history of the mill and describes its methods. It includes formulas for homemade paints, varnishes.....

Arcadia Publishing, April 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. More commonly known as Pacific Coast Highway, State Route 1 ribbons along or near the Pacific Ocean from Northern California at Leggett in Mendocino down to Southern California at San Juan Capistrano in Orange County. Its construction began in 1913 and.....

Arcadia Publishing, November 2013. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. A new copy. The year 2014 marks the centennial of the completion of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP), celebrated by driving a golden spike at Cain Rock in October 1914. This achievement was the culmination of a massive, six-year engineering effort to.....

Arcadia Publishing, June 2004. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The enchanting "Victorian Village" of Ferndale in the Eel River Valley is designated a "Distinctive Destination" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is a California Historical Landmark. Named by its founders, the Shaw brothers, to honor the six-foot-tall ferns.....

Arcadia Publishing, 2011. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. A short history of Fortuna and the Eel River Valley in Humboldt County, California, illustrated with 230 vintage photographs. The Fortuna Depot Museum, located in a former railroad station, serves as the history museum for the area and it.....

Arcadia Publishing, December 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Between the years 1884 and 1937, the company mill and lumber town of Falk thrived in what is now the Headwaters Forest Reserve. In the late 1800s, Noah Falk and two other stakeholders became partners in the Elk River Mill and.....

Arcadia Publishing, 2001. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. A useful survey of Humboldt County history, illustrated with more than 200 images from the museum's collection. A new copy. The cry amongst the redwoods-Eureka!-was the shout heard from early pioneers in 1850 as they came to settle in.....

Arcadia Publishing, 2006. Trade Paperback. 143 pages. 9-3/4 by 9 inches. Oblong. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Updated. A new copy. The Northwestern Pacific Railroad--the Redwood Empire Route--once stretched its shining track from Humboldt Bay to San Francisco Bay. Created by the amalgamation of 42 different companies, the North Coast railroad.....

Backcountry Press, 2013. Trade Paperback. 144 pages. A guide to all the conifer species on the West Coast, including color plates for identifying 65 species, current range maps for each species, and color photographs of conifers in their native habitat from Baja California to British Columbia. A new copy.

Naturegraph Publishers, October 1982. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Dear Mad'm is the autobiographical story of Stella Walthall Patterson of her experience living alone, after age 80, with her dog Vicki on her mining claim on the Klamath River in the Siskiyou Mountains, near Happy Camp, California. She.....

HarperCollins, November 2002. Hardcover. Boxed Set of Hardcover edition. NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES A Warning from the Publisher: Imagine you are wearing a bandage that needs to be removed. Are you the sort of person who tears the bandage right off, causing an enormous amount of pain in a......

Pantheon, April 2019. Hardcover. A new copy. A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, comes a breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five year expedition in South America. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was.....