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Voyage of a Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River

5 reviews
Robin Cody

Sasquatch Books, 2002

Classic adventuring, voyaging, sense of place, traveler
Of the hundreds of books I have on the Pacific Northwest, this is easily one of my favorites. Aside from Robin Cody simply being an excellent writer, enjoyable to read, easy to follow, this book specifically invokes a true sense of place of the Columbia. It has a flavor of the classic Farthest Frontier, adventure, outdoors, wide open Northwest in the spirit of David Thompson, Theodore Winthrop, ...

Ricochet River

20 reviews
Robin Cody

Knopf, 1992

New Edition Worth Waiting For
Robin Cody's award-winning RICOCHET RIVER is available in a new and improved 2005 edition. The author chose to revise his manuscript for high-school audiences, with the help of the editing students at Portland State University's student-run Ooligan Press. Re-reading his work after fourteen years, he found he could make distinct improvements. His legendary coming-of-age story, originally published ...

Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales

3 reviews
Cody Goodfellow

Agog! Press, 2006

DAIKAIJU - More than Giant Monsters
I confess, when I picked up this collection, I was expecting a whole bunch of stories of giant monsters trampling over humanity's engineering triumphs. You know, typical giant monster movie fare. What we got was an eclectic collection of stories and poems, which look more at the people and how having giant monsters in their world affect their lives. Some stories are tragic, others are ...

Willamette Landings: Ghost Towns of the River
Howard McKinley Corning

Oregon Historical Society Press, 2004

During the second half of the nineteenth century, the Willamette River served as the primary means of transportation for both people and goods in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Riverboats plied the river along a series of landings and small communities where much of the population clustered. Some of these settlements, such as Albany and Springfield, developed into the towns and metropolitan centers of present-day Oregon. Others, such as Lancaster, ...