Download or read book Eccentric Seattle written by J. Kingston Pierce and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of irreverent accounts provides a fascinating look at the sometimes troubled, tragic, and bawdy past of the Emerald City and surrounding region. The author portrays trendy fads and devastating events, and introduces some of the area's most notorious scoundrels and greatest benefactors. Whether about the great 1889 fire or the plague of 1918, brothel owners or rock musicians, Pierce's selections deliver captivating reading.
Download or read book Insiders Guide to Seattle written by Shelley Seale and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first edition, Insiders' Guide to Seattle is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to this thriving city in the Pacific Northwest. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Seattle and its surrounding environs.
Download or read book Before the Wind written by Jim Lynch and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following The Highest Tide, Border Songs, and Truth Like the Sun, Jim Lynch now gives us a grand and idiosyncratic family saga that will stand alongside Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion. Joshua Johannssen has spent all of his life surrounded by sailboats. His grandfather designed them, his father built and raced them, his Einstein-obsessed mother knows why and how they work (or not). For Josh and his two siblings, their backyard was the Puget Sound and sailing their DNA. But both his sister and brother fled many years ago: Ruby to Africa and elsewhere to do good works on land, and Bernard to god-knows-where at sea, a fugitive and pirate. Suddenly thirty-one, Josh—who repairs boats of all kinds in a Steinbeckian marina south of Seattle—is pained and confused by whatever the hell went wrong with his volatile family. His parents are barely speaking, his mystified grandfather is drinking harder, and he himself—despite an endless and comic flurry of online dates—hasn’t even come close to finding a girlfriend. But when the Johannssens unexpectedly reunite for the most important race in these waters—all of them together on a classic vessel they made decades ago—they will be carried to destinies both individual and collective, and to a heart-shattering revelation. Past and present merge seamlessly and collide surprisingly as Jim Lynch reveals a family unlike any other, with the grace and humor and magic of a master storyteller.
Download or read book Newcomer s Handbook for Moving to and Living in Seattle written by Maria Christensen and published by First Books. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seattle Mystic Alfred M Hubbard Inventor Bootlegger Psychedelic Pioneer written by Brad Holden and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seattle has a long tradition of being at the forefront of technological innovation. In 1919, an eager young inventor named Alfred M. Hubbard made his first newspaper appearance with the announcement of a perpetual motion machine that harnessed energy from Earth's atmosphere. From there, Hubbard transformed himself into a charlatan, bootlegger, radio pioneer, top-secret spy, millionaire and uranium entrepreneur. In 1953, after discovering the transformative effects of a little-known hallucinogenic compound, Hubbard would go on to become the "Johnny Appleseed of LSD," introducing the psychedelic to many of the era's vanguards and an entire generation. Join author and historian Brad Holden as he chronicles the fascinating life of one of Seattle's legendary figures.
Download or read book Monumental Seattle written by Robert Spalding and published by Washington State University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the 1899 installation of a stolen Tlingit totem pole at Pioneer Square and stretching to artist Lou Cella’s Ken Griffey Jr. sculpture erected at Safeco Field in 2017, Seattle offers an impressive abundance of public monuments, statues, busts, and plaques. Whether they evoke curiosity and deeper interaction or elicit only a fleeting glance, the stories behind them are worth preserving. Private donors and civic groups commissioned prominent national sculptors, as well as local artists like James A. Wehn (who sculpted multiple renderings of Chief Seattle) and Alonzo Victor Lewis, who produced a number of bas-reliefs and statues, including one of the city’s most controversial--a World War I soldier known as “The Doughboy.” The resulting creations represent diverse perspectives and celebrate a wide array of cultural heroes, dozens of firsts, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, aviation, and military and maritime service. Author Robert Spalding provides the history surrounding these works. Beyond the words chiseled into granite or emblazoned in bronze, he considers the deeper meaning of the heritage markers, exploring how and why people chose to commemorate the past, the selection of sites and artists, and the context of the time period. He also discusses how changing societal values affect public memorials, noting works that are missing or relocated, and how they have been maintained or neglected. An appendix lists the type, year, location, and artist for sixty monuments and statues, and whether each still exists. Another useful appendix offers maritime plaque inscriptions.
Download or read book Not For Tourists Guide to Seattle 2016 written by Not For Tourists and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With details on everything from Pioneer Square to Pike Place Market, this is the only guide a native or traveler needs. The Not For Tourists Guide to Seattle is the manual to the seaport city that no local, or tourist, should be without. This map-based guidebook divides Seattle and the Eastside into 49 mapped neighborhoods that are dotted with user-friendly icons plotting the nearest essential services and entertainment locations, while providing important information on Seattle’s restaurants, bookstores, coffee shops, and everything else you need to know about the Emerald City. Want to taste hand-crafted foods and drinks? NFT has you covered. How about strolling through Seattle’s green parks and millionaire neighborhoods? We’ve got that, too. The nearest Starbucks location, curiosity shops, art shows, or nightspots—whatever you need—NFT puts it at your fingertips. The guide also features: • A foldout highway map • Over 100 neighborhood maps • Listings for performance venues and outdoor activities • Essential Seattle movies and books For a little more than the cost of a ticket to the top of the Space Needle, you’ll have all of Seattle at your fingertips.
Download or read book Insight Guides Seattle City Guide written by Insight Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight City Guide Seattle is a comprehensive travel guide to this innovative and scenic city. Full-colour photos and maps throughout combine with authoritative text to inspire you to explore Seattle and its surrounding areas. Be inspired by the "Best Of Seattle" section, which highlights unmissable sights and experiences, while a comprehensive Travel Tips section gives you all the practical information and travel advice you need to plan what to do on your trip, including selective listings for hotel and restaurants. Lavish Photo Features offer a unique insight into topics such as northwestern Native American tribes, the EMP Museum and local volcanoes. Insight's trademark history and culture coverage provides a fascinating introduction to Seattle's enterprising and alternative culture, while features by local writers delve into everything from Bill Gates and Microsoft to writers' interest in the famous rain, local wines and totem poles. Nine Places chapters cover the city, from the National Historic District of Pioneer Square and the International District to the diverse neighborhoods of Ballard and Capitol Hill, while three further excursions chapters suggest trips to across Puget Sound, around the Olympic Peninsula and out to the San Juan Islands and Cascade Mountains.
Download or read book Before Seattle Rocked written by Kurt E. Armbruster and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seattle is a music town with rich, deep roots that have influenced the culture and identity of its civic life for decades. In a society that appreciates music but is ambivalent toward the profession of making it, the importance and contribution of Seattle's musicians have been routinely overlooked in historical accounts of the city. Kurt Armbruster fills that gap in this far-reaching and entertaining panorama of Seattle music from the 1890s to the 1960s, "before Seattle rocked." For this once-remote city, music forged links as real as those created by railroads and steamships. Classical music embodied the middle-class aspirations for gentility and cosmopolitan stature; jazz and blues gave Seattle's small African American community a vehicle for affirmation and economic advancement; ethnic music helped immigrants adjust to a new home; songs and drumming kept the memories of the Duwamish alive in a changing world. Before Seattle Rocked is enlivened by personal anecdotes and memories from many of Seattle's most beloved musicians and is enriched by historic photos of the changing music scene. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyo22tC6PkQ&feature=channel_video_title Before Seattle Rocked was made possible in part by a grant from 4Culture's Heritage Program.
Download or read book Not For Tourists Guide to Seattle 2017 written by Not For Tourists and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Not For Tourists Guide to Seattle is the manual to the seaport city that no local, or tourist, should be without. This map-based guidebook divides Seattle and the Eastside into 49 mapped neighborhoods that are dotted with user-friendly icons plotting the nearest essential services and entertainment locations, while providing important information on Seattle’s restaurants, bookstores, coffee shops, and everything else you need to know about the Emerald City. Want to taste hand-crafted foods and drinks? NFT has you covered. How about strolling through Seattle’s green parks and millionaire neighborhoods? We’ve got that, too. The nearest Starbucks location, curiosity shops, art shows, or nightspots—whatever you need—NFT puts it at your fingertips. The guide also features: • A foldout highway map • Over 100 neighborhood maps • Listings for performance venues and outdoor activities • Essential Seattle movies and books For a little more than the cost of a ticket to the top of the Space Needle, you’ll have all of Seattle at your fingertips.
Download or read book Seattle written by Martha Ellen Zenfell and published by Insight Guides. This book was released on 2007 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This a peotry book on My life, my love and my thoughts.
Download or read book Seattle written by J. Kingston Pierce and published by Westside Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the fascinating world of Seattle: one of America's most important and interesting cities. Full of nostalgic old and beautiful contemporary photographs that capture the essences of the Emerald City.
Download or read book The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists written by Mike Gastineau and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With loyal fans supporting their major sports teams in the Seahawks (NFL), Mariners (MLB) - plus a rabid fan base for University of Washington jocks - Seattle is a great place for a sports debate. Local sports-radio talker Mike Gastineau teams up with longtime sportswriters Steve Rudman and Art Thiel to bring Seattle sports history to life with this provocative and enjoyable - not to mention debatable - book of lists. They also enlist list contributions by famous players, coaches, and Seattle celebrities including Mike Holmgren, Matt Hasselbeck, Ichiro Suzuki, George Karl, Pearl Jam, Kevin Calabro, Sir Mix-a-Lot, and more.
Download or read book Reading Seattle written by Peter Donahue and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seattle, with its spectacular natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology spans seven decades and includes fiction, memoirs, histories, and journalism that define the city or use it as a setting, imparting the flavor of the city through a literary prism. Reading Seattle features classics by Horace R. Cayton, Richard Hugo, Betty MacDonald, Mary McCarthy, Murray Morgan, and John Okada as well as more recent works by Sherman Alexie, Lynda Barry, David Guterson, J. A. Jance, Jonathan Raban, and others. It includes cutting-edge work by emerging talents and reintroduces works by important Seattle writers who may have been overlooked in recent years. The writers featured in this volume explore a variety of neighborhoods and districts within the city, delineating urban spaces and painting memorable portraits of characters both historical and fictional.
Download or read book Grassroots written by Phil Campbell and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This offbeat true story is a comedy and a tragedy about politics, from anti-globalist protest to domestic turmoil. It's about idealism, obsession and failure in Seattle, a progressive city on the fringe of America's continent and consciousness. Grant Cogswell is a poet, a punk rock-fan, an anarchist, a grassroots activist, and one very temperamental character. He loves Seattle so much he has the city logo tattooed on his arm. In the summer of 2001 he decides to run for city council. He's so determined to win that he'll even wear a polar-bear suit to a city hall meeting. Phil Campbell, the author, is a burnt-out recently fired alt-weekly reporter, a manic depressive who sees few reasons to live. Inspired by his friend Grant's passion, and without anything better to do, he agrees to manage Grant's campaign. For eighteen weeks, Phil devotes himself to Grant's grassroots challenge -- all the while fending an overzealous roommate challenging him for his position as manager of their shared house. Overshadowing the story is the tale of U.S. Rep. Marion Anthony Zioncheck, a legendary boozer and forgotten lefty radical from the 1930s. As Grant's campaign unfolds, so does the story of Zioncheck's tragedy -- his rise and fall from an energetic young politico to a madman who is sent to the insane asylum. The question: Is Zioncheck's tale a lesson already learned, or a prophecy waiting to be repeated?
Download or read book Fodor s Seattle written by Fodor's Travel Guides and published by Fodor's Travel. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a limited time, receive a free Fodor's Guide to Safe and Healthy Travel e-book with the purchase of this guidebook! Go to fodors.com for details.Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for more than 80 years. Seattle is a city of many personalities: eclectic, urban, outdoorsy, artsy, gritty, down-to-earth, or posh--it's all here, from the quirky character of the Seattle Waterfront, to the eccentric "Republic of Fremont," to hipsters walking baby carriages past aging mansions on Capitol Hill. There's something for just about everyone within this vibrant Emerald City. Outside of Seattle, the San Juan Islands offer a respite from city life, while Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, and Olympic National Park beckon adventure travelers. This travel guide includes: · Dozens of full-color maps · Hundreds of hotel and restaurant recommendations, with Fodor's Choice designating our top picks · Multiple itineraries to explore the top attractions and what’s off the beaten path · Coverage of Pike Place Market, the Space Needle, Chihuly Garden and Glass, Ballard's restaurants and bars, Olympic Sculpture Park, the Puget Sound Islands, Mt. Rainier, Olympic National Park, and the San Juan Islands. Planning to visit more of the Pacific Northwest? Check out Fodor's travel guide to the Pacific Northwest with Oregon, Washington & Vancouver.
Download or read book Market Ghost Stories written by Mercedes Yaeger and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-04-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pike Place Market has been called the "Soul" of Seattle, now meet the "Souls" of Seattle. __________________________________________________ The Market in Seattle is a community unlike any other, with over 400 residents, social services, governing bodies, farmers, craftspeople and restaurants. Fish fly, buskers sing, and ghosts haunt the Arcades. Market Ghost Stories is a collection of oral ghost stories in the Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington. It is a narrative book written by tour guide, Mercedes Yaeger, who has grown up in the Pike Place Market. She owns a night time tour company that explores that ghost stories of the community and the eccentric history of the city. Market Ghost Stories includes stories of those people who lived on the land before 1907, when the Pike Place Market opened, such as Princess Angeline; daughter of Chief Seattle. It also includes stories about more recent souls who have departed and still remain in the Market's Arcades. In the Pike Place Market, Seattle's first mortuary stands, the remnants of a community graveyard have been unearthed, and an old brothel still has a red glow cast on its side. Michael Yaeger, the Market's honorary Mayor of the Market and father to the author writes: "Mercedes has anchored her stories in the history, legends and lore of this grand and colorful city and its native people in a truly interesting, compassionate and entertaining way."
