Heyday, August 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. Five writers capture the majesty and grandeur of California's famed redwoods Originally published in celebration of Save the Redwoods League's 100th anniversary, and here newly adapted for a trade audience, The Once and Future Forest explores the grandeur of the redwood ecosystems that.....
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.....
Ingomar Club, 2007. Trade Paperback. 22 pages. This is the only publication with color images from inside Eureka's most magnificent Victorian mansion. Built by Humboldt County's first lumber baron, it is now home to a private club. No public tours are available, so this is your best chance for a......
Arcadia Publishing, August 2008. Trade Paperback. Founded in 1858 as the town of Union, the city of Arcata is the cultural capital of Humboldt County. Historically known for its logging, fishing and dairy traditions, modern-day Arcata has evolved into a place where the artistic, the politically and environmentally active and.....
Arcadia Publishing, October 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The impenetrable coast of Humboldt County has been a historic navigational conundrum for sea captains since the 16th century. The Humboldt bar crossing, the lack of safe harbors, the storms, the unpredictable seas, and the rocky shores caused tragic shipwrecks, drownings.....
Arcadia Publishing, February 2013. Trade Paperback. A new copy.
MountainHome Publishing, 2014. Hardcover. 400 pages. Extensively illustrated. Both Sides of the Bluff is a place-based history of the lower Eel and Van Duzen rivers, Table Bluff, and south Humboldt Bay (central Humboldt County, California). In addition to an opening chapter on the area's Indian tribes, 31 separate places are.....
Humboldt State University Press, February 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Inscribed by the author on the title page.
America Through Time, July 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Timber has always been one of the principle industries in the United States. The tasks and technologies associated with logging trees, hauling them to sawmills and other forest product plants, processing them into useable products, and then moving those to.....
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.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2015. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. A photo history of the historic redwood logging towns in Humboldt County, California. Scotia was a company town for Pacific Lumber (Palco). Rio Dell, a small, incorporated city directly across the Eel River from Scotia, provided the vice--saloons, as.....
The History Press, April 2013. Trade Paperback. It's the same Willow Creek that flows into Bass Lake and moves through five powerhouses generating twenty-seven kilowatts of electricity for California. It's the same Willow Creek that rises at eight thousand feet in the Sierra Forest, crashes through narrow granite canyons and.....
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.....
Stauffer & Associates PLLC, 2011. First Edition. School & Library Binding. 59 pages. Detailed report of the Tribe's financial condition. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Arcadia Publishing, July 2014. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. IImages of America series. A new copy. Yankee whaling, shore whaling, and modern whaling were sometimes occurring simultaneously. Each type of whaling went through periods of discovery, stability, and then a gradual decrease as the products lost their markets or the number.....
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 real events from the Humboldt County “timber wars” when people put their bodies between ancient redwoods and the greedy bankers who wanted to cut.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2014. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Images of America series. Over Christmas 1964, a major flood struck Northwestern California, wiping away entire towns and devastating many others. This collection of more than 200 photographs, taken by Rudy Gillard at the time, remained unpublished until this book, issued for the.....
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.....
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.....
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, 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.....
Northland Press, 1974. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 91 pages. Illustrations in color and B/W. First edition (first printing). Very good in wappers (paperback).
Trade Paperback. Very good in wappers (paperback).
Times Publishing Company, 1912. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated, 48 pages. Promotional brochure extolling the redwoods and the opportunities of Humboldt County. Dairying, shipbuilding, fishing, bulb and flower nurseries, wool production, banking, transportation, highways, and buildings are discussed. Numerous black-and-white illustrations. 12.5 x 9.5 inches. First edition (first printing). A......
Arcadia Publishing, July 2013. Trade Paperback. Very good in wappers (paperback). Perched on a hilly clearing between the Pacific Ocean and a rainforest along California s coastal highway, Arcata occupies a special niche behind the Redwood Curtain. A cultural and geographic crossroads, Arcata s story is told in the faces.....