Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain Washington's Olympic Peninsula

Art / Photobook

By: Tim McNulty(Author), David Guterson(Introduction By), Fawn R Sharp(Foreword By)

208 pages, colour photos

Publisher: Mountaineers Books

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ISBN: 9781680515299 Hardback Sep 2023 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 2-4 weeks
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In the Pacific Northwest, many of us delight in Olympic National Park, a unique and magical UNESCO natural World Heritage Site, located right in our own backyard. Yet the famed park is just the centre of a much larger ecosystem, a wild circle of rivers that encompasses ancient old-growth forests, pristine coastal expanses, and jagged alpine peaks, all possessed of a rich biodiversity. For tens of thousands of years, humans have thrived and strived alongside this natural world.

In Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain, Tim McNulty explores the Olympic Peninsula's complex – and ongoing – story of development, conservation, restoration, and cultural heritage, while writers from the Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S'Klallam, Port Gamble S'Klallam, Makah Tribe, and Quinault Indian Nation share some of their own history, stories, and perspectives.

Perhaps no other region in the Northwest offers a history of such depth, nor a future ripe with so much potential. Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain is a rich and vivid exploration of both Olympic National Park and its surrounding peninsula.

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Biography

Tim McNulty is a poet, essayist, and nature writer and recipient of the Washington State Book Award and National Outdoor Book Award.

David Guterson is a novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for his award-winning debut novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, which won both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award. It has sold more than four million copies and was adapted as a major motion picture. He lives on Bainbridge Island near Seattle with his wife Robin. They have five children.

Fawn R. Sharp serves as the 23rd president of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and is also the current vice president of the Quinault Indian Nation in Taholah, Washington.

Art / Photobook

By: Tim McNulty(Author), David Guterson(Introduction By), Fawn R Sharp(Foreword By)

208 pages, colour photos

Publisher: Mountaineers Books

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– 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Silver Medal in Ecology & Environment
– 2024 Nautilus Book Silver Award Winner in Ecology & Environment
– 2025 Pacific Northwest Book Awards finalist

"Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain is pictures, prose, facts and love."
– Diane Urbani De La Paz, Peninsula Daily News

"Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain: Washington's Olympic Peninsula by Tim McNulty, showcases the natural beauty and wonder of this diverse corner of our state as well as conservation efforts to maintain it [...] This is a gorgeous book that anyone can benefit from and learn."
– Rachel Fowler, Yakima Herald-Republic

"The storms of autumn are a signal for the return of salmon to spawn in rivers of the Olympic Peninsula, and they mark a season to examine and celebrate this furthest Northwest corner of the lower 48 states. The job is gloriously done in Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain: Washington's Olympic Peninsula [...] With stunning photography, the book lays out life experiences of the Olympics, two-legged and four-legged creatures as well as creatures of the sea."
– Joel Connelly, Post Alley

"This book seems to rise organically out of the natural roots of the Olympic Peninsula, and from the heart and soul of its people. Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain will become the definitive book on this unique place – a world heritage site and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. I don't see how anything could surpass it."
– Alan Turner, Port Book and News

"An invitation to explore a land of natural wonders, but it is also a cautionary tale about a precarious and precious ecosystem whose future integrity hangs in the balance."
– Laurence Marschall, Natural History

"Highly recommended."
– Midwest Book Review

"The chorus of Indigenous voices from different tribes that have inhabited and stewarded the lands of the Olympic Peninsula since time immemorial – generously sharing their people's histories, stories and time-wizened perspectives – add immeasurable value to the book's initiative. So too do the abundance of vivid, captivating photographs by John Gussman, Pat O'Hara, Gemina Garland-Lewis, Larry Workman, Art Wolfe and others. All these voices blend together to create a celebratory portrait of a diverse landscape we are lucky to have in our backyard."
– Christian Martin, Cascadia Daily News

"A visually mesmerizing and environmentally conscious profile of the Olympic Peninsula."
– Kirkus Reviews

"The hardcover book need not be read immediately from cover to cover, but savored in sections as time allows. The photography alone encourages time spent with it [...] McNulty's narrative, and the supporting essays, open windows and perspectives into the peninsula's ecosystems."
– Kurt Repanshek, National Parks Traveler