The mapmaker's eye: david thompson on the columbia plateau - jack nisbet

Nisbet, Jack: - Jack Nisbets award-winning books include Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson across Western North America , which won a Washington State Governors award, the Idaho Librarians Book of the Year, and the Murray Morgan History Prize.

His Visible Bones: Journeys across Time in the Columbia River Country , explores the melding of human and natural history in the Northwest.

In 2004 it garnered a Washington State Library Book Award.