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Northwest Explorations

by Gordon Speck

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At long intervals a disturbingly great book appears. Northwest Explorations is such a book. Distilled in its more than 400 pages are 500 fabulous years of sea and land discovery in the Pacific Northwest.

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Genres: Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Travel
DDC/MDS: 979 — History & geography History of North America Great Basin and Pacific Slope region of United States
LCC: F851 .S78 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history Cascade Range

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Languages: English
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Published: 1970
Genres: Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Travel
DDC/MDS: 979
LCC: F851 .S78

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