Homegrown: A Year in the Life of a Humboldt County Guerrilla Grower
Andrew Santos, 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy.
Andrew Santos, 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy.
The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, 2023. Hardcover. 'I am a newcomer to Wigi, having arrived nearly 50 years ago. Ever since, I have been fascinated with exploring and experiencing my adopted home. As an environmental planner, over decades, I have studied the historical development of Wigi and its adjacent.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 2008. Trade Paperback. 294 pages. Imagine climbing the world's tallest trees to study the web of life thriving hundreds of feet above the ground. This is the breathtaking story of the Humboldt State University professor and students who work and play among the moss, ferns.....
Chelsea Green Pub Co, October 1998. Trade Paperback. A paperback copy in very good condition. The oldest trees of the Headwaters Forest pre-date Jesus Christ. For generations they have provided refuge, inspiration, and livelihood for creatures large and small. Harvested sustainably for decades by Pacific Lumber, a family-owned business, it.....
Backcountry Press, May 2022. Trade Paperback. Illustrated with more than 400 color photo reproductions. 'The desert areas of California include the northwestern portion of the Sonoran Desert, the largest part of the Mojave Desert, and the western margin of the Great Basin. A key ecological feature of the remarkable California.....
Backcountry Press, May 2023. Trade Paperback. Built for use with kids, this book will inspire family adventures with authentic experiences in nature that develop wonder in children and adults alike. Research shows us that these shared experiences in early childhood have valuable and long-lasting positive effects on our health and.....
Georgie Press, 2011. Trade Paperback. 424 pages. A thorough survey of everything known about this Humboldt County pioneer, who was the first to pilot a boat of white settlers into what would soon be named Humboldt Bay. Buhne (pronounced “Booner”) stayed in the area, becoming a successful tug captain and.....
Illiana Ltd, 1996. Trade Paperback. A new copy.
Georgie Press, 2015. Trade Paperback. 184 pages. The first modern account of the money and fraud behind the large timber holdings in Humboldt County, California. In the 1870s and 1880s, corrupt land agents backed by Edinburgh investors paid sailors and other itinerant travelers to file claims for timberland and then.....
The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, October 2023. Trade Paperback. A new copy. She's the humanitarian compared to Mother Teresa, hailed as the "Hong Kong Angel," and beloved by her community in Humboldt County. She miraculously survived the worst of brutalities to become a beacon for humanity and an inspiration.....
PublicAffairs, 2023. Hardcover. 457 pages, with a 16-page section of photo reproductions in both color and black-and-white. By the Humboldt County author and activist who launched the fight to save Headwaters Forest. A new copy. 2nd edition. The definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, as.....
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.....
Retired Senior Volunteer Program, 1983. Trade Paperback. 183 pages. Short stories of Humboldt County history. Very good paperback copy.
TwoDot, July 1999. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Meet such lively and fascinating characters as Emperor Norton, Patty Reed, Ishi, Snowshoe Thompson, and Christo.
PublicAffairs, 2023. Hardcover. 457 pages, with a 16-page section of photo reproductions in both color and black-and-white. By the Humboldt County author and activist who launched the fight to save Headwaters Forest. First edition (first printing). A new copy. Signed by the author. The definitive story of the California redwoods.....
Naturegraph Publishers, October 1982. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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 had until.....
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2019. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A novel about people and their relationships with trees. Featuring fictionalized versions of real events from the Humboldt County “timber wars” when people fought in the courts, in the streets and in the trees.....
Moonstone Pub, 2011. Trade Paperback. 129 pages. Five accounts of near-disaster near the entrance to Humboldt Bay, which remains a treacherous journey over a shifting bar. Based on interviews and written narratives. A new copy. At night, a harbor entrance becomes a dark and unpredictable corridor. One of the most.....
Pioneer Graphics, 1983. Trade Paperback. 165 pages. A new copy. Nominated for the Forest History Award, Falk's Claim chronicles a California north coast redwood lumber community from it's bustling early days in the 1890's though it's decline to a ghost town in the 1950s. Told through personal histories, it is.....
The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, 2022. Hardcover. The third book in the History of Humboldt County People and Places series. Covering the years from 1850 to 1964, illustrated with over 200 full-color historical photographs and maps. Includes accounts of the oil “boom” in Petrolia, the building of the Redwood.....
The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, 2022. Hardcover. In 1850 the area east of Arcata Bay was a tapestry of wetlands and sloughs, fringed by conifer-clad hillsides. Canoe channels and trails connected a string of Wiyot villages that nearly encircled the bay. Then white settlers arrived, establishing towns at Eureka.....
Naturegraph Publishers, October 1982. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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 had until.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 2008. Trade Paperback. 294 pages. Imagine climbing the world's tallest trees to study the web of life thriving hundreds of feet above the ground. This is the breathtaking story of the Humboldt State University professor and students who work and play among the moss, ferns.....
Naturegraph Publishers, September 1991. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Among the mountains that flank the Klamath River, the home of the legendary Sasquatch, there still lives a people that anthropologists believe to be descendants of the original inhabitants of California. The Karuk, in this northernmost wilderness, developed a culture known.....
Lychgate Press, 2019. Trade Paperback. 322 pages. Imagine signing a 'loyalty oath' to a company that paid you 35 cents an hour for 10-hour days, 6 days per week. As timber workers organized for better pay, city workers escorted strikebreakers and threatened to call the National Guard. A showdown occured.....