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A DIFFERENT WAY OF SEEING our world in words
This work is astonishing. The variety of moods and nuances Debby evokes in simple black and white — delicacy writ with a knife and gouge — testifies to her craftsmanship and to her love for her subjects. Adding haiku to these dramatic images pins them in moments and memories and heightens our attention and interest. We’re proud to present Debby’s Words and Wood to the people of the Pacific Northwest and to lovers of art and the natural world everywhere.
M I C H A E L O. P E R R Y
dispatches
– The Editors
from the Discovery Trail with HAL CALBOM
woodcut art by DEBBY NEELY
A LAYMAN’S LEWIS & CLARK
Photo by hal Calbom
I sign my name with the red chops. The top chop is my name in Chinese. The bottom chop says, “I draw birds and animals.”
words and wood • debby neely
Debby Neely is a Northwest artist and poet. This is her first book combining words and woodcuts.
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pacific northwest woodcuts and haiku
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A MASTER WOODCUTTER IN HER OWN WORDS Words and Wood: Pacific Northwest Woodcuts and Haiku by Debby Neely
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An astonishing book debut. The variety of moods and nuances Debby evokes in simple black and white — delicacy writ with a knife and gouge — testifies to her craftsmanship and to her love for her subjects. Adding haiku to these dramatic images pins them in moments and memories and heightens our attention and interest.
AMERICA’S PLANNED CITY AND THE LAST FRONTIER Empire of Trees by Hal Calbom
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owever isolated Longview was, thanks to its huge ambitions and aggressive promotion, the whole world
would watch its birth and development.
In 1920 the nation’s largest lumber company rolled the dice. They would build the world’s largest sawmills, and a planned city to house them, in the far Pacific Northwest. From a reclaimed swamp on the Columbia River, they produced a million board feet a day, shipped their lumber around the world, and built a model city called Longview. • 220 historic photographs • Journalistic format, Then and Now • Author interview • Gift-boxed and signed: $50 WINTER 2024 • Columbia River Reader Press 2 / Columbia River Reader / Nov-Dec Holiday 2023
This is history not just of a region, but of a daring spirit, relentless idealism, and colossal ambition. By the midthirties, the Depression had broken their empire. But the model city they built still stood, and stands today.
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A LAYMAN’S LEWIS AND CLARK Dispatches from the Discovery Trail by Michael Perry Lewis and Clark for the rest of us. Author Michael Perry takes a fresh look at the Expedition from the layman’s point of view, adding new notes and commentary to this third edition of the popular book based on the 33-part series debuted — and still featured — in Columbia River Reader. Dispatches adds to the Expedition lore the insights and observations of a gifted amateur historian.
• Month-by-month following the Expedition • Author commentary and illustrations • Gift-boxed, tasseled bookmark: $50 M I C H A E L O. P E R R Y
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from the Discovery Trail with HAL CALBOM
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A LAYMAN’S LEWIS & CLARK
FIELD GUIDE TO THE LOWER COLUMBIA RIVER IN POEMS AND PICTURES The Tidewater Reach by Robert Michael Pyle and Judy VanderMaten
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The Northwest’s premier naturalist and writer turns his eyes and art to verse, picturing the tidewater reach — where the salt water and fresh water meet in the Columbia — in beautifully crafted, whimsical and profound stanzas. More than your conventional field guide — a different way of seeing. Columbia River Reader Press • WINTER 2024
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What really — truly — happened during those final wind-blown, rain-soaked thirty days of the Lewis and Clark Expedition’s trek to the Pacific? Southwest Washington author and explorer Rex Ziak revolutionized historical scholarship by providing the answers: day by day and week by week.
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IN FULL VIEW Rex Ziak $29.95 A true and accurate account of Lewis and Clark’s arrival at the Pacific Ocean, and their search for a winter camp along the lower Columbia River.
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EYEWITNESS TO ASTORIA Gabriel Franchére $21.95 The newly edited and annotated by Rex Ziak version of Franchére’s 1820 journal, Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813 and 1814, or The First American Settlement on the Pacific.
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This work is astonishing. The variety of moods and nuances Debby evokes in simple black and white — delicacy writ with a knife and gouge — testifies to her craftsmanship and to her love for her subjects.
WORDS AND WOOD
Adding haiku to these dramatic images pins them in moments and memories and heightens our attention and interest.
Pacific Northwest Woodcuts and Haiku by Debby Neely •Boxed, Gift Edition with tasseled bookmark $35 We’re proud to present Debby’s Words and Wood to the people of the Pacific Northwest and to lovers of art and the natural world everywhere. – The Editors
words and wood
I sign my name with the red chops. The top chop is my name in Chinese. The bottom chop says, “I draw birds and animals.”
Photo by hal Calbom
pacific northwest woodcuts and haiku
Debby Neely From Words and Wood
THE TIDEWATER REACH Field Guide to the Lower Columbia River in Poems and Pictures By Robert Michael Pyle and Judy VanderMaten. The
Tidewater Reach Field Guide
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MIchael o. Perry is a retired environmental technician, avid collector and conservator, and student of Pacific Northwest history. He lives in Kelso, Washington.
“Michael Perry gets it right! Good storytelling is key to meaningful learning for all ages, and ‘Dispatches’ informs us in a relaxed, enjoyable way, perfect for anyone wishing to explore with the explorers.”
“‘Dispatches’ is a great read, well researched and documented, and presented in an appealing format. The perfect place to start learning more about the Corps of Discovery.” — ALLEN BENNETT President, Lower Columbia Chapter Traditional Small Craft Association
— DANIELLE ROBBINS Education & Public Programs Coordinator, Cowlitz County Historical Museum
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Michael Perry has a collector’s eye, a scientist’s curiosity, and the Pacific Northwest in his heart. In thIs engagIng new book author Michael Perry takes a fresh look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition — what they set out to do, what they experienced, and where they failed and succeeded — from the layman’s point of view. Compiled from a popular monthly magazine series, and adding new notes and commentary, Perry’s Dispatches adds to the lore and legacy of the famous Expedition the insights, quirks, and wry observations of a gifted amateur historian.
Featuring the work of
woodcut artist Debby Neely “Meadowlark” On the cover: “Whispering”
DISPATCHES FROM THE DISCOVERY TRAIL
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