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As the first stop in the continental U.S. for birds migrating along the Pacific Flyway, Washington offers a wide range of birding opportunities and species, from the typical fall migrations of ducks and geese to the convergence of millions of shore birds in Grays Harbor each spring.

Heaven on two wheels. Smooth singletrack through Columbia Gorge old growth forest, steep climbs to amazing mountain views, and easy rambles past Pacific coastline vistas - northwest and central Oregon offers something for everyone. Local mountain biker and author Lizann Dunegan outlines more than forty-five of the best rides in and around Portland, Salem, southwest Washington, Hood River, Mount Hood, Eugene, Oakridge, and Bend.Visit the waterfalls of the Columbia Gorge, ride the surreal Plains of Abraham trail on the slopes of Mount St. Helens, or check out the imposing scenery of Smith Rock State Park, this guide will give you the inside track on everything from the best time to ride, to local events and attractions, to what bike to take for each route. Insider tidbits about each path's historic background make this more than just a trail guide.Also included: detailed ride descriptions; easy-to-read maps and elevation profiles; ratings for physical and technical difficulty; tips on riding and trip preparation.Wherever you ride and whatever your skill level, let Mountain Biking Oregon: Northwest and Central Oregon be your guide to this mountain biking paradise.

This small pocket guide is designed for those visiting Oregon's northern coastline who are interested in short, easy trails (1-7 miles) that explore northern Oregon's scenic coastal parks and beaches. Best Easy Day Hikes Oregon's North Coast contains twenty-three easy day hikes starting from Fort Canby State Park in southwest Washington and continuing south to Haceta Head Lighthouse in Oregon. Many of the hikes in this book are located in state parks and in the 630,000-acre Siuslaw National Forest.

A reprint of the classic 1864 title by Professor Thomas J. Dimsdale of Bannack, Montana. Foreword by R. E. Mather, a prominent Western historian.

Lewis and Clark's expedition was full of adventures, but few were as exhilarating as their moments with grizzly bears. The author has combed the journals to provide readers with Lewis and Clark's own words on the Ursus horribles and offers new insight into the role of the grizzly bear in this tale of Western exploration and discovery.

Despite being the third smallest state, Connecticut can claim more than its share of remarkable women who have made lasting social, political, and cultural contributions to both their own state and to their nation. From Prudence Crandall, Connecticut's official State Heroine, who braved imprisonment for opening a school for black girls, to Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose classic Uncle Tom's Cabin urged the nation on a path towards abolition of slavery, to Margaret Fogarty Rudkin, who changed the nation's eating habits with her healthful bread made at Pepperidge Farm, Connecticut women have broken the rules to make their own and in the process improved their world, and ultimately ours, forever.

This guide features sixty trails across the Green Mountain State.

Forty of the best road rides in Virginia, from the Eastern Shore to the mountainous west.

This easy-to-use guide identifies 300 common wildflower species from the Appalachians from West Virginia to Alabama. Full-color photographs and line drawings accompany the easy-to-use plant descriptions.

This guide features 52 walks on Long Island. Each walk includes an easy-to-follow map and directions for locating and following the trails.

Indian Handcrafts explains how each object evolved, how it was used, and what tools and materials you need to re-create it.

Dr. C. Keith Wilbur takes you on a detailed and fascinating tour through the medical history of this bloody and devastating war.

The 14 stories gathered together have been frightening people around campfires - and even in the safety of their own homes - for years.

Here are the struggles, the strategies, the odd treatments, and the theories the limited amount of physicians used when the Revolutionary War exploded.

Whether you just want to create a neutral, "business" partnership with the "other woman" in your life-or actually, gulp, become friends-they show you how to reach your goal through ten powerful steps.

From the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of Bar Harbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to pursue the simple life on a grand scale. Eighty-six vanished summer palaces are pictured in Lost Bar Harbor. Many never before published photographs from the Bar Harbor Historical Society are supplemented by lively text describing the estates and their colorful inhabitants. It is the most comprehensive collection of early Bar Harbor photographs ever assembled, providing an unparalleled glimpse of one of the world's great resort communities.

Growing up in remote Cameroon, Richard Afuma could not expect to live much past the age of 40, and his chances of any sort of education were slim. But at the age of eight, Afuma found his way to a school run by Baptist missionaries. When he was ten, he saw his first white person who, from his education, he took to be Jesus Christ. He was told that the Land Rovers he saw were made by these same people-Jesuses with supernatural powers-who were uniformly called Americans. In The Python Trail, Afuma portrays the kind of journey that many immigrants have made, but few have described.

This classic story, based on the Gastonia textile strike of 1929, follows a family of Appalachian mountaineers who find themselves drawn to a mill town near their family plot after suffering great economic adversity. Originally published in 1932, the tale provides keen insights on a pivotal moment of American history.

Charles L. Mee Jr., the author of Meeting at Potsdam, writes sharply and engagingly of the Kennedy-Johnson years and the "collapse of politics" after Vietnam and Watergate.

Jefferson Square is the story of the making of a major urban culture center. It goes behind the scenes into the private lives and private battles of those whose talents, genius and ambitions make a cultural center come alive.

This tale of a bitter feud between cattle barons and the small outfits, recounts the closing off of Wyoming's range with barbed-wire, imperiling the livelihood of the free-rangers and altering the future of cattle ranching forever. Bliss Lomax brings to life the harsh days and nights of wild violence on the range in this thrilling, moving story.

What if NFL teams went back to power offenses like the late-80s Parcellsian Giants? Are running backs over 220 pounds more effective and less likely to get hurt? Can a running quarterback survive if he's deployed more like a running back? And why are there whole groups of people out there this obsessed with the past? Author Ted Kluck found, online, a community of computer nerds and football enthusiasts so rooted in the past and so uninterested in the future that they have created algorithms and computer software that can accurately simulate football games, seasons, and careers using fields of data that already exist on the thousands of players who have suited up in the National Football League. In this book, part memoir and part Bill-Jamesian exploration into football nerdery, The Odyssey Online Football league takes the author-a jaded journalist, a lifelong football player, and a burned-out coach-through a year immersed in the late 1970s, in hopes of rekindling his love for the game. Past Time is an homage to football's past, and a meditation on its present and future.

Disasters strike every day, but despite the best laid plans you may find yourself in one with only the clothes on your back and without a well packed first-aid kit. In Essential Survival Gear, J. Morgan Ayres explains in detail what you need to have when a dire emergency occurs, wherever you are, whoever you are. Ayres¿a former Green Beret, martial arts master, and wilderness and urban survivalist¿explains his four-layer concept (clothing, day bag, backpack, basic equipment and luxuries) and profiles and provides photos of a broad range of gear, with recommendations on what works best in what scenario¿from cityscapes to wilderness and everywhere in between¿and how to use it.

Matthew Hoch and Linda Lister examine all aspects of singing, including nontechnical matters, such as auditioning, performance anxiety, score preparation, practice performance tips, business etiquette, and many other important topics for the advanced singer.

This handbook provides step-by-step instructions on how to master the Renaissance craft of paper quilling.

Georgia's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History recognizes the women who helped to shape the Peach State. Female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies and archival photographs and paintings.

In an exceptionally stirring and exciting saga of life in the Old West, Barry Weston exposes a ruthless gang of outlaws with a six-shooter as his only ally.

Sheriff Bob Lee, out to make the country safe for the cattlemen, treats you to a swell streak of gunfighting. He breaks up the hitch between the outlaws and the law, he forfeits his job for friendship and loyalty, and he wins a reward as handsome as his victory.

Paced like a mustang and charged with strong human interest, this yarn will click with those who like Westerns high, wide, and handsome. It is the story of a fight for cattle land and water, for wire fence, and for the lives of man and beast.