David Douglas, a Naturalist at Work: An Illustrated Exploration Across Two Centuries in the Pacific Northwest

Jack Nisbet is a teacher, naturalist, and award-winning nonfiction writer who focuses on the intersection of human and natural history in the Pacific Northwest. His award-winning books include Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson across Western North America, which won a Washington State Governor's award, the Idaho Librarians Book of the Year, and the Murray Morgan History Prize. His book, Visible Bones: Journeys across Time in the Columbia River Country, explores the melding of human and natural history in the Northwest. In 2004 it garnered a Washington State Library Book Award.