$19.95, soft cover, 280 pages with 21 maps,
57 historic and contemporary photos
Buy the book at Timber Press, or at Portland-area independent book stores and national chain booksellers.
Contact: Laura O. Foster, author: Email
Portland HILL WALKS
Twenty Explorations in Parks and Neighborhoods
By Laura O. FosterWith Portland Hill Walks, you'll take twenty meandering, view-studded strolls from the city's forested canyons to its cityscape peaks, as you explore Portland's streets, stairs, trails, and hidden passageways.
Each hill walk focuses on the city’s history, geology, and built environment, with anecdotes sprinkled throughout about colorful past residents like Oswald West, Maurine Neuberger, or Lilla Leach. Each route also provides offbeat horticultural information, even delving into the uses American Indians made of native Northwest plants. Some walks reveal the secrets held within the city’s public art; others reveal the secrets of our much-altered landscape: which mountainside was terraced in stairsteps, which lake was buried under tons of muck, and which prominent rock shuddered in the onslaught of the earth’s most catastrophic floods.
Come discover the stories, spirit, and beauty of a town rated among the nation's most livable places.
About Laura Foster
After walking the front range of Colorado's Rockies and the foothills of the Smokies in Tennessee, Laura O. Foster found pedestrian nirvana in Portland, Oregon. She is coauthor of the award-winning children's book Boys Who Rocked the World and has edited many nonfiction titles, and written successful grants for Portland Public Schools.
Coming in Fall 2008
Portland City Walks: Twenty Explorations In and Around Town. This book covers historic neighborhoods such as South Portland, Laurelhurst, Irvington, and Slabtown, as well as five historic nearby towns such as Vancouver, Oregon City, and Forest Grove.
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