Purple Flat Top: In Pursuit of a Place

Jack Nisbet

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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.

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Book Details

Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publish Date: Aug 19th, 2011
Pages: 208
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.52in - 5.58in - 0.58in - 0.66lb
EAN: 9780295991214
Categories: • Essays• Regional• Essays & Travelogues

About the Author

Nisbet, Jack: - Jack Nisbet is a writer, teacher, and naturalist. He is the author of nine award-winning books on natural history, including Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest (Sasquatch, 2016); Purple Flat Top: In Pursuit of a Place (University of Washington Press, 2011); Visible Bones: Journeys through Time in the Columbia River Country (Sasquatch, 2007); and The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau (Washington State University Press, 2005). He lives in Spokane, Washington.

Praise for this book

"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"

"Purple Flat Top may sharpen our sense of wonder and respect for the wide open spaces east of here and the people who inhabit them."

--Mike Dillon "City Living" (1/1/2012 12:00:00 AM)

"Nesbit writes in a simple and clear voice, but also with a powerful gift for observation and reflection. . . . Purple Flat Top is worth revisiting if it has been read before or experiencing fully anew if it has not."

--Roni K. Devlin "Shelf Awareness" (1/1/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"With humor and poignancy, Purple Flat Top is a fine assortment, very much recommended for any literary short fiction collection."

-- "Midwest Book Review"

"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

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