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Bound to Be Read
By MARCIA HILL
Member of the Oregon State Library
Alaska. There are 182 full-page photo
Staff
graphic illustrations in black and white.
As the year rolls toward vacation A bit of human interest is added to the
time there is restlessness in the air. The appreciation of this volume by the
optimistic feel that the old tires will author’s tribute to his wife. He says,
do a few more miles and the hopeful "If I, by courtesy, may be called a bo
examine the family bus with an eye to tanist, she is that better thing, a flower
load and mileage. For those who love lover. Not only is she responsible for
the out-of-doors, here are some books the best pictures, but she has patiently
to read before setting out on a long trip carried heavy floral loads for me on
or just a week-end exploration.
many a steep trail—never down, she
Some people will wish to own titles insists—her husband being the only per
such as Oregon, End of the Trail, which son ingenious enough to leave camp and
was compiled by the Federal Writers’ return in the evening, having gone up
Program a number of years ago. Those hill the whole day, both coming and
interested in geology will treasure going!”
Thomas Condon’s Oregon Geology
Gilkey and Powell’s Handbook of
since it is now reported out of print. Northwest Flowering Plants is now
The Scenic Treasure House of Oregon out of print. The choice of plants in
by Warren D. Smith is a good book for cluded has been based on two condi
the beginner. It is easy reading, nicely tions; whether the plants are suffici
illustrated with photographs, and in ently conspicuous, and whether distri
cludes a surprising amount of informa bution is general enough to attract the
tion for so slender a volume.
amateur.
On the subject of flora there are
If we are seeking handy pocket size
titles which not only include Oregon, books on birds there are two which are
but all of the Pacific Northwest, for too bulky to carry on the trail or
plants and trees make their own geo through the meadówland. One is Birds
graphic divisions. One of the most beau of the Pacific Coast by the same Mr.
tifully illustrated is Forest Trees of the Eliot who gave us the "Trees” book.
Pacific Coast. The author, Willard One hundred and eighteen birds are in
Ayres Eliot, says the book "has been cluded. There are many colored pic
written to meet the increasing demand tures and both common and Latin
for a popular field book on trees of the names are given. The arrangement of
coast. It is primarily for the amateur, the text follows the author’s idea that
for outdoor clubs, and as an introduc the average person is interested first in
tory textbook for beginning forestry the smaller birds which are found about
students, and as a convenient manual home. The other book is Field Guide to
for nature teachers, forest rangers, park Western Birds by Roger T. Peterson.
naturalists and lumbermen.” It is cer The description of bird "voices” were
tain- that all of these people hav.e used checked against phonograph records
it with pleasure and profit.
made by Cornell University professors
As a companion volume Wild Flow on trips to the west. Either of these
ers of the Pacific Coast by Haskin is books will delight the amateur Audu
suggested. It describes 332 flowers and bon.
shrubs of Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Northwest Nature Trails by H. S.
Central and Northern California and Lampman is a natural history of Ore-