Jack Nisbet is a teacher, naturalist, and writer who lives in

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with his wife and two children. He grew up in

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, graduated from

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, and moved to

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, in 1971 where he wrote a column for The Chewelah Independent.

Works

* ''Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Through the Inland Northwest'' (

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, 1994).
''Visible Bones: The Natural and Human Forces that Transformed the West''
(Sasquatch Books, 2004). * ''The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau'' (

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, 2005). * ''The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest'' (Sasquatch Books, 2009). * ''Ancient Places'' (Sasquatch Books, 2015),

External links

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