BANQUET

 
Friday, March 16, 2007

Gladish Community and Cultural Center

Banquet Speaker: Jack Nisbet

JACK grew up in North Carolina, graduated from Stanford University before moving to eastern Washington some 30 years ago.  Nisbet is a teacher, naturalist, and writer who lives in Spokane with his wife and two children. In 1994 he published Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America, which received the Murray Morgan Prize. Since then, Nisbet has written Purple Flat Top (1997), Singing Grass, Burning Sage: Discovering Washington's Shrub-Steppe (1999), Visible Bones (2003), and The Mapmakers Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau (2005), all of which explore human and natural history in the greater Northwest. Visible Bones was awarded a Washington State Library Book Award, and the American Library Association named The Mapmaker's Eye as one of the year's "Best of the Best" University Press publications.