Overview
When a mining claim on a crumbling cliff of burnt-rose quartzite lured naturalist Jack Nisbet to the northeastern corner of Washington State in 1970, he began a search for an understanding of that open country through stories about the people who lived there and the everyday events he shared with them. Together, these vivid, engaging, and subtly humorous stories evoke the essence of this place. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwlNisTUyk
Full Product Details
Author: Jack Nisbet
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.295kg
ISBN: 9780295991214
ISBN 10: 0295991216
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 19 August 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""At once wry and compassionate, these crisply written vignettes impart a spirited, substantial nourishment as they describe a particular American landscape."" -Booklist ""A fine, gracefully written combination of bird-watching, people-watching, and regional history."" -Kirkus ""In Jack Nisbet, an unsung corner of the West has found its troubadour."" -Ivan Doig ""Purple Flat Top is everything a portrait of a place should be: intimately local yet completely universal, rich in the texture of people and other species, and spit-true."" -Robert Michael Pyle
At once wry and compassionate, these crisply written vignettes impart a spirited, substantial nourishment as they describe a particular American landscape. -Booklist A fine, gracefully written combination of bird-watching, people-watching, and regional history. -Kirkus In Jack Nisbet, an unsung corner of the West has found its troubadour. -Ivan Doig Purple Flat Top is everything a portrait of a place should be: intimately local yet completely universal, rich in the texture of people and other species, and spit-true. -Robert Michael Pyle
"""At once wry and compassionate, these crisply written vignettes impart a spirited, substantial nourishment as they describe a particular American landscape."" -Booklist ""A fine, gracefully written combination of bird-watching, people-watching, and regional history."" -Kirkus ""In Jack Nisbet, an unsung corner of the West has found its troubadour."" -Ivan Doig ""Purple Flat Top is everything a portrait of a place should be: intimately local yet completely universal, rich in the texture of people and other species, and spit-true."" -Robert Michael Pyle"
Author Information
Jack Nisbet is a writer, teacher, and naturalist. He is the author of several books, including The Collector and Sources of the River, the winner of the Washington Governor's Writers Award, the Murray Morgan Prize, and the Idaho Book of the Year. He lives in Spokane, Washington.
