We checked out this book from a local library and were so impressed we are ordering it from Amazon. It is comprehensive on the subjects covered without getting technically boring. A must for bird lovers of the Pacific Northwest!

I enjoyed this book as it was concise and full of rich detail. A highlight is that it compares and contrasts the many salmon species. It is an excellent resource for a classroom!

Pretty good book. Gives a rather matter-of-fact account of MacKenzie's life. Not alot of detail or passion in either of his 2 great voyages. Interesting in all the other people brought into the story. Now I want to read about Peter Pond, MacKenzies' predecessor. Short and a quick read.

I very much enjoyed this book. Especially the photographs and the last chapter the epilogue. One of which you dont see in books anymore it made the book seem more real. As well as the painstaking hours one must consider. Even though most of the time we dont because we just read the thing.

Looking for a different kind of place to stay? Don't miss out on one of the most wonderful list of lodgings.

The title says it all - "The Pacific Northwest's Best Bed & Breakfasts: Delightful Places to Stay, Great Things to Do When You Get There."

The descriptions of each bed and breakfast, hotel and quaint make the reader want to go and try them out, whether they be a historic hotel in downtown Portland or a rustic home in the San Juan Islands.

The book is broken into regions and each section begins with historical information and description. The opening information also covers places to go, things to see and where a person can eat.

The paperback "Bed & Breakfasts" provides contact information as well as information about the number of rooms, price ranges and other pertinent information for each entry. It even reveals something about the menus and the decors.

Thank you Mr. Anglin for a comprehensive review of an area often visited and seldom appreciated. Central Washington is shrub-steppe and lacks the beauty and lustre of the more spectacular pine forests of the Cascades or the Puget Sound with its rugged pioneers. However, major waterways. springs and bunch grass concentrations helped direct traffic in and around the arid wilderness of the Columbia Basin. Anglin has been thorough in his research and methodical in his presentation of the various phases of transit. His level of detail has made me reach for the gazeteer or road map many times to envision a herd of 2000 cattle fording some stream or fighting off some Yakama warrior party. My only complaint was the rather small number of maps compared to the wealth of narrative.

This is a wonderful work; well written and well researched with superb insights into events of the American Revolution that are usually ignored or only given scant coverage. The only real weakness is the book's brevity which does not allow the full development of the author's ideas or enoough detail on important issues. The bibliographic essay is wonderful and provides an outstanding guide to the sources on this fascinating topic.

In this book the author describes his travels through ghost towns. In describing the areas, the author explains the directions and difficulties that were endured getting to the actual site. There is history about the towns and the author also notes the cause of a towns' demise. There are wonderful anecdotes from old-timers and some humorous tales of the author's travels. It is a book that makes for good reading, but not one that may be easily referred to during traveling, so reading and taking notes or marking pages is helpful. There are descriptions of the roads, but not all directions are clear whether some of these roads are accessible without a four-wheel drive vehicle. Many good photographs, but all pictures are in black and white. It does however make this reader want to get off the couch to travel and explore.

This "ultimate guide for traveling in the Pacific Northwest with kids" covers Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Each state/province is subdivided into metropolitan areas and geographical regions. Then each area or town has listings for places to stay, places to eat and things to see and do. While this volume is *not* exhaustive in terms of EVERYTHING you could see or do, it certainly covers the highlights of things you would enjoy seeing and doing with your children. We recently planned a trip to Oregon with a teenager using this guide as one of many resources. We were not disappointed, and as a matter of fact, we weren't able to cover everything suggested in this book in the time we had available. I would suggest that these guides for going places with children work just as well for adults who want to glean the highlights of locations they'll be visiting in the Pacific Northwest. Since we were traveling with a tent trailer, we did not make use of the "places to stay" feature, however in glancing through them, some seem to be a bit on the pricey side. Also, we discovered a great hamburger restaurant in Bend, Oregon (called "Pilot Butte") that was not listed in this guide. So, like I said, "Going Places" is not exhaustive, but it certainly is helpful.

When this first came out, it was an adequate guide to watering holes & beer producers of the Pacific NW. Now, it is a historical reference piece which will (possibly) bring a beery little tear to the eyes of those whole lived through the early '80's "microbrewery revolution". There are very few of the brewers named in this book still independent, owned by the founders, or even in business. Red Hook, Grants, Bridgeport, & others have had large chunks bought by giant beer factories or beverage combines. Horseshoe Bay, Mountain Ales, Cartwright, and Kufnerbrau have vanished into the mists of brewing history. Cartwright holds the distinction of being the first "boutique" brewer to go out of business. Kufnerbrau VERY deservedly vanished, to leave dusty pallets of yeasty swill still fermenting in the dark recesses of beer distributors who have also vanished from the scene. Kufnerbrau, like Chico's Saxon Brewery, brought us micro-fans down to Earth, hammering us over the head, screaming "Just because a brewery is small doesn't mean it's any good!". Regional brewers Rainier, Lucky, Heidelberg, & Blitz-Weinhard have been killed or emasculated by the "big" boys. Red Hook's original "banana" beer & Kemper's "blueberry" beer are but vague olfactory hints, like a whiff of Hai Karate or Jade East found on that old Nehru jacket. However, John Mitchell of BC's Horseshoe Bay Brewing begat Spinnakers, which begat Noggins, which begat Maritime Pacific, & indirectly begat Humboldt Brewery, Swan's Hotel Brewery, & Howe Sound Brewing. As I started this review, I was primed to stick one in Vinnie's beady brown eye, but I thought of all the beer that has gone under the bridge since this first came out, & as I wrote, I realized this actually was an important work at its time. If brewing history interests you, this is one to have, for the seminal days when the epicentre of the microbrewery movement was the Pacific Northwest.