The Press at Trinidad Art, 2011. Trade Paperback. 85 pages. Roberts (1906-1981), the son of white settlers on the Klamath River in far northern California, grew up among the Yurok people. He felt a particular kinship with Yurok spiritual leader Robert Spott and as an adult practiced Zen influenced by.....
Eureka Heritage Society, 1994. Trade Paperback. 270 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photograph reproductions. A survey of all the historic properties in Eureka (Humboldt County) California, organized by street address. Each entry includes dates of construction, original owners' names, and the architectural style of the building. More than 1,000 structures are.....
Grand Central Publishing, 2013. Hardcover. A look at Humboldt County's marijuana culture in the last gasps of prohibition. In the final few years before California voters legalized recreational cannabis in 2016, growers young and old grappled with the transition from being secretive black-market farmers to legit business owners – while.....
PublicAffairs, June 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. PRE-ORDER NOW FOR A SIGNED COPY. This book will be released on June 6, 2023. First edition (first printing). A new copy. Signed by the author. The definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, as told by an activist who.....
Arcadia Publishing, February 2013. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Tucked away behind the "redwood curtain" on the northwestern coast of California lies the historic city of Eureka. The location of the city directly alongside Humboldt Bay combined with the abundance of redwood attracted miners, loggers, and fishermen, and the city.....
Grand Central Publishing, 2013. Hardcover. A look at Humboldt County's marijuana culture in the last gasps of prohibition. In the final few years before California voters legalized recreational cannabis in 2016, growers young and old grappled with the transition from being secretive black-market farmers to legit business owners – while.....
Eaton & Co, Printers, 1911. Hardcover. Essays by the Methodist minister about his travels and public involvement in early California and Oregon, including an encounter with a grizzley bear in Humboldt County, relations with tribes of the Klamath, and the raising of the first American Flag in Santa Clara. Racist.....
Beacon Press, 1999. Trade Paperback. 228 pages. A new copy. "A grave and delightful book, both personal and cosmic." -Gary Snyder, author of The Practice of the Wild Part lyrical natural history, part social and philosophical manifesto, Totem Salmon tells the story of a determined band of locals who've worked.....
Pride of the River, 1994. Trade Paperback. 53 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. In 1917, the USS Milwaukee arrived off Humboldt Bay to pull a stranded submarine off of a sandbar. In the process, the Milwaukee itself ran aground. The crew was rescued, but the ship broke apart in a storm.....
Pantheon, April 2019. Hardcover. A new copy. A breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five-year expedition in South America--from the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist.....
Pioneer Graphics, 1983. Trade Paperback. 165 pages. Very good in wrappers (paperback). 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.....
MountainHome Books, 2003. Trade Paperback. 246 pages. Oblong, illustrated. Provides detailed information including road and area history, natural history, sights, short hikes, and walking tours of several of the historic towns along the National Scenic Byway of Highway 299 between Redding and Arcata, California. The road lies in Humboldt, Trinity.....
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.....
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.....
Backcountry Press, 2012. Trade Paperback. 208 pages. A guide to conifers, including the redwood and Douglas fir, paired with hikes to view every species described. The book includes the most accurate range maps ever created for conifers in northwest California and southwest Oregon, lively species descriptions, color plates to assist.....
Alaska Limestone Press, March 1992. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Creative Type Productions, 2022. Trade Paperback. 269 pages. Stories from the life of the 'Godfather' of the back-to-the-land movement in Southern Humboldt County, California. Bob McKee 'purchased failing ranches and logged-over forests, then settled some 900 families on parcels he developed' -- from the back cover. Historian Ray Raphael recorded.....
Eureka Heritage Society, 1994. Trade Paperback. 270 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photograph reproductions. A survey of all the historic properties in Eureka (Humboldt County) California, organized by street address. Each entry includes dates of construction, original owners' names, and the architectural style of the building. More than 1,000 structures are.....
Humboldt State University Press, 2015. Trade Paperback. 46 pages. Color throughout. 11 by 8-1/2 inches (oblong). Text in English and Japanese. A picture book for elementary-aged children about a boat lost in the great Japanese tsunami of 2011 that washed up in Crescent City, California. High school students in the.....
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.....
The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, 2022. Hardcover. 366 pages. The fourth book in the History of Humboldt County People and Places series. A history of southeast Humboldt County, California, covering the years from 1850 to 1964, illustrated with over 175 full-color historical photographs and maps. Includes stories about the.....
Sierra Club Books, 1997. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The Last Stand is a compelling American saga of greed gone wild and a small town divided over a precious natural resource. For three generations, the Murphy family ran the Pacific Lumber Company with a tradition of both sustainable.....
Creative Type Productions, 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy.
Arcadia Publishing, January 2008. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The cry of Eureka! in 1848 brought over 200,000 men to what would soon become the state of California. Some went north to the narrow strip of land along California's north coast and there they found red gold--that is, redwood timber.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2017. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. The Lost Coast is the undeveloped stretch of 80 miles of shoreline in Southern Humboldt and Northern Mendocino Counties, with little or no road access. Before 1930s, small fishing and timber settlements dotted the landscape, but most have been.....