Taylor Vance

2023 edition, brand new. 50 easy Thanksgiving recipes for friends and family. Gift condition.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Georgia

50 Recipes for Hosting, Roasting, and Celebrating with Friends

The Friendsgiving Cookbook includes all the tips, advice, and yummy recipes you need to throw the best bash of the season, minus the tension and stress that typically accompany big family gatherings.

The Friendsgiving Cookbook

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Cecilia Nibeck

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Alaska

Salmon Recipes from Alaska

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#fiction #animals #mythical #hardcover #salmon #alaska #nature

New York

A Fable of Salmon, Northern Lights, and an Old Promise Kept

The Lake of the Beginning is a timeless and beautiful fable about nothing less than storytelling itself. The tale interweaves the natural history of sockeye salmon returning upstream to their home lake, tribal tales of an ancient Inuit man, and a young college professor who has brought her two children to Alaska to spread their grandmother's ashes on the mystic lake. With beginnings and endings, truth and meaning, science and magic, and a promise honored, The Lake of the Beginning is a story you'd wish would never end, and, in a sense, never does. Superbly illustrated by noted wildlife photographer Jeff Foott, whose dramatic photographs of sockeye salmon on their journey home are appropriately sequenced throughout the book.

The Lake of the Beginning

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Cover has light shelf wear. Pages are clean, unmarked and the binding is tight. 
We live in Alaska. A lot of funny stuff happens here, but it’s not for the faint of heart!  Alaska is kind of like the Australia of America. There’s a lot of stuff that will try to kill you!  But thankfully no snakes and no dangerous spiders. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Amusing stories and observations from Alaska’s Outdoors

Alaska Happens

Tucker Malarkey

"Stronghold lets us tag along on the unpredictable adventure that is loving nature, and spares us neither its sacrifices nor its rewards. It's a book for everyone who has wished for a place where life is defended and upheld-for a place on earth that will make us whole." -HOPE JAHREN, author of Lab Girl

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon

"Tells the story of Guido Rahr, a passionate and eccentric environmentalist who has single-mindedly dedicated his life to saving the environment, working to preserve the world's last pristine stronghold (habitat) for salmon in Russia's Far East--a landscape of ecological richness and diversity that is rapidly being developed for oil, gas, minerals, and timber in the Putin era"--

Stronghold

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Nevada

The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish

A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and a former private investigator dive deep into the murky waters of the international salmon farming industry, exposing the unappetizing truth about a fish that is not as good for you as you have been told.

A decade ago, farmed Atlantic salmon replaced tuna as the most popular fish on North America's dinner tables. We are told salmon is healthy and environmentally friendly. The reality is disturbingly different.

In Salmon Wars, investigative journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins bring readers to massive ocean feedlots where millions of salmon are crammed into parasite-plagued cages and fed a chemical-laced diet. The authors reveal the conditions inside hatcheries, where young salmon are treated like garbage, and at the farms that threaten our fragile coasts. They draw colorful portraits of characters, such as the big salmon farmer who poisoned his own backyard, the fly-fishing activist who risked everything to ban salmon farms in Puget Sound, and the American researcher driven out of Norway for raising the alarm about dangerous contaminants in the fish. Frantz and Collins document how the industrialization of Atlantic salmon threatens this keystone species, endangers our health and environment, and lines the pockets of our generation's version of Big Tobacco. And they show how it doesn't need to be this way.

Just as Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation forced a reckoning with the Big Mac, the vivid stories, scientific research, and high-stakes finance at the heart of Salmon Wars will inspire readers to make choices that protect our health and our planet.

Salmon Wars

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Iowa

Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table

Upstream is an in-depth and timely look at salmon-one of the last wild foods on our table-for readers of Susan Orlean, Mark Kurlansky and John McPhee. As the author travels to meet a variety of colorful people associated with this unique species, from Alaskan anglers to fish farm owners to four-star chefs, he reports on its remarkable place at the intersection of nature, commerce, cuisine, and human history.

Upstream

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Pete Fromm

North Carolina

A Winter Alone in the Wilderness

The author relates his experiences when he took a job with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game to watch millions of salmon eggs one winter in an isolated area of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Indian Creek Chronicles

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Sunset Books Staff

Washington

Washington Travel Guide

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Edward C. Wolf

2003, 95 pages, Like New, published bu Ecotrust in Portland OR

Oregon

People, Fish, and Our Common Home: Second Edition

Salmon Nation

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#paperback #cooking #recipes #Alaska #fishing #seafood #storytelling #storytellers #chuckluck #salmon 

This GEM of "recipes and memories of Meyers Chuck, Alaska" is in excellent, like new condition with 30 recipes, including Joey's Swimmin' Chicken and Sea Cucumbers and Porpoise Steak!

Recipes and Memories of Meyer's Chuck (Alaska)

Panhandle Pat's 50 Years

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Molly Cone

Sidnee Wheelwright

Former library book. Some wear on spine. 

Nebraska

How a Group of Dedicicated Kids Adopted Pigeon Creek and Brought It Back to Life

Describes the efforts of the Jackson Elementary School in Everett, Washington, to clean up a nearby stream, stock it with salmon, and preserve it as an unpolluted place where the salmon could return to spawn.

Come Back Salmon (pb)

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James McNair

Patricia Brabant

This bounty of mouth-watering recipes includes salmon prepared by poaching, steaming, simmering, baking, roasting, sauteing, grilling, barbecuing, broiling, smoking, and curing. There are also dishes that use up leftover cooked fish. A wide range of hot and cold sauces round out the book. Mix and match them with various salmon preparations according to whim.

James McNair's Salmon Cookbook

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Peter Budryk

Autographed copy of fishing guidebook with maps, photos, illustrations, and logs to complete.  

Connecticut

And How to Fish Them

Trout and Salmon Lakes of Connecticut

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Texas

Everyday Cooking Seafood 

Lissa K. Wadewitz

Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea

Winner of the 2014 Albert Corey Prize from the American Historical Association
Winner of the 2013 Hal Rothman Award from the Western History Association
Winner of the 2013 John Lyman Book Award in the Naval and Maritime Science and Technology category from the North American Society for Oceanic History

For centuries, borders have been central to salmon management customs on the Salish Sea, but how those borders were drawn has had very different effects on the Northwest salmon fishery. Native peoples who fished the Salish Sea--which includes Puget Sound in Washington State, the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca--drew social and cultural borders around salmon fishing locations and found ways to administer the resource in a sustainable way. Nineteenth-century Euro-Americans, who drew the Anglo-American border along the forty-ninth parallel, took a very different approach and ignored the salmon's patterns and life cycle. As the canned salmon industry grew and more people moved into the region, class and ethnic relations changed. Soon illegal fishing, broken contracts, and fish piracy were endemic--conditions that contributed to rampant overfishing, social tensions, and international mistrust. The Nature of Borders is about the ecological effects of imposing cultural and political borders on this critical West Coast salmon fishery.

This transnational history provides an understanding of the modern Pacific salmon crisis and is particularly instructive as salmon conservation practices increasingly approximate those of the pre-contact Native past. The Nature of Borders reorients borderlands studies toward the Canada-U.S. border and also provides a new view of how borders influenced fishing practices and related management efforts over time.

Watch the book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffLPgtCYHA&feature=channel_video_title

The Nature of Borders

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Freeman House

Slight fading around edges on inside of dust jacket. Top pages spotted. 

Life Lessons from Another Species

House tells the story of the annual fishing rituals of the indigenous peoples of the Klamath River in northern California, one that relies on little-known early ethnographic studies and on indigenous voices - a remarkable story of self-regulation that unites people and place. And his riffs on the colorful early history of American hatcheries, on property rights, and on the "happiness of the state" show precisely why he's considered a West Coast visionary.

Totem Salmon

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Simply salmon

Constantina Linardakis

Nikos M. Linardakis

Recipes Sworn to Secrecy

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Blaine Harden

The Life and Death of the Columbia

After a two-decade absence, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West's most thoroughly conquered river.

Harden's hometown, Moses Lake, Washington, could not have existed without massive irrigation schemes. His father, a Depression migrant trained as a welder, helped build dams and later worked at the secret Hanford plutonium plant. Now he and his neighbors, once considered patriots, stand accused of killing the river.

As Blaine Harden traveled the Columbia-by barge, car, and sometimes on foot-his past seemed both foreign and familiar. A personal narrative of rediscovery joined a narrative of exploitation: of Native Americans, of endangered salmon, of nuclear waste, and of a once-wild river now tamed to puddled remains.

Part history, part memoir, part lament, "this is a brave and precise book," according to the New York Times Book Review. "It must not have been easy for Blaine Harden to find himself turning his journalistic weapons against his own heritage, but he has done the conscience of his homeland a great service."

River Lost

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#hardcover #fiction #alaska #michener #peterthegreat #historical #yukon #tribes #goldrush #salmon

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

South Carolina

The high points in the story of Alaska since the American acquisition are brought vividly to life through more than 100 characters, real and fictional.

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Jane Bamforth

Maryland

Salmon is indisputably the king of fish: endlessly versatile, full of taste and with many nutritional benefits, it is the ultimate ingredient for both the taste-conscious and the health-conscious cook. The introduction looks at the different types of salmon and offers advice on the best way to prepare and cook this delicious fish. There then follows over 70 varied recipes, ranging from soups and appetizers to main meals and barbecue and party food. Classic dishes such as Salmon Fish Cakes and Grilled Butterflied Salmon are accompanied by more unusual recipes such as spicy Mongolian Firepot, and fresh Sushi. Or why not indulge yourself with decadent Lox with Bagels and Cream Cheese? Perfect results are guaranteed with step-by-step instructions and over 300 stunning photographs.

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Totem Salmon

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Recipes Sworn to Secrecy

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