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Impressions of the North Cascades was originally published in 1996 by Mountaineers Books, but eventually fell out-of-print. We are thrilled to bring the book back into print through our Espresso Book Machine®. Thanks to this new technology, we will be able to make hundreds of public domain, out-of-print, and self-published books available to you!

The North Cascades mountains are "a home for the spirits," "the biggest fence in the West," and a "landscape of potential" as some of the essays in Impressions of the North Cascades: Essays about a Northwest Landscape attest. The book, edited by John Miles, examines the past, present, and future of the North Cascades, backdrop and back yard to the Puget Sound lowlands. Editor John Miles, Professor of Environmental Studies at WWU, solicited contributions from friends versed in geology, archaeology, anthropology, history, natural history, and conservation to write about the past, present and future of this magnificent mountain region. The text is enhanced by the sketches of Dale Hamilton and "vignettes" from the field journal of artist/naturalist Libby Mills.