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Free Download Ryan Boudinot, "Seattle City of Literature: Reflections from a Community of Writers"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1570619867 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 3.3 mb
This bookish history of Seattle includes essays, history and personal stories from such literary luminaries as Frances McCue, Tom Robbins, Garth Stein, Rebecca Brown, Jonathan Evison, Tree Swenson, Jim Lynch, and Sonora Jha among many others. Timed with Seattle’s bid to become the second US city to receive the UNESCO designation as a City of Literature, this deeply textured anthology pays homage to the literary riches of Seattle. Strongly grounded in place, funny, moving, and illuminating, it lends itself both to a close reading and to casual browsing, as it tells the story of books, reading, writing, and publishing in one of the nation’s most literary cities.

Free Download NFT, Not For Tourists Guide to Seattle By Not For Tourists
2014 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1626360561 | EPUB | 30 MB
The Not For Tourists Guide to Seattle divides Seattle and the Eastside into forty-nine mapped neighborhoods. Every map is dotted with user-friendly icons that Description the nearest essential services and entertainment locations while providing important information on Seattle’s art and theater scene, restaurants, bookstores, coffee shops, museums, and everything else you need to know about the Emerald City. The guide also features: · A foldout street and highway map · Over one hundred neighborhood maps · Details on parks and outdoor activities · Listings for music and performance venues · 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.

Free Download Steve Pomper, "It Happened in Seattle: Remarkable Events That Shaped History"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0762743689 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 0.5 mb
A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped the Emerald City, It Happened in Seattle describes everything from the battle of Seattle in 1856 to the Nisqually earthquake of 2001.

Free Download Megan Asaka, "Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City "
English | ISBN: 029575186X | 2022 | 272 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle’s urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal, extractive economy of the Pacific Northwest. Though the city benefitted from this mobile labor force―consisting largely of Indigenous peoples and Asian migrants―municipal authorities, elites, and reformers continually depicted these workers and the spaces they inhabited as troublesome and as impediments to urban progress. Today the physical landscape bears little evidence of their historical presence in the city.

Free Download Seattle’s Great Fire
by Jordan Kidd
English | 2022 | ASIN: B0BDBB9FW6 | 142 Pages | ePUB | 0.31 MB

Free Download Fodor’s Pacific Northwest: Portland, Seattle, Vancouver & the Best of Oregon and Washington (Full-color Travel Guide) by Fodor’s Travel Guides
English | September 19, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | 672 pages | MOBI | 72 Mb
Whether you want to visit a stunning national park, go wine-tasting in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, or experience the culture of Seattle, Portland, or Vancouver, the local Fodor’s travel experts in the Pacific Northwest are here to help! Fodor’s Pacific Northwest guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time.

Free Download Joy Keniston-Longrie, "Seattle’s Waterfront"
English | 2014 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 1467130524, 1531675301 | EPUB | 30,1 mb
Seattle’s waterfront has served as a central hub for people, transportation, and commerce since time immemorial. A low natural shoreline provided the Duwamish-Suquamish people with excellent canoe access to permanent villages and seasonal fishing camps. High bluffs served as a sacred place for tribal members’ final journey to the spirit world. When the first settlers arrived in the 1850s, Seattle’s shoreline began to change drastically. Emerald hills covered with dense forests were logged for timber to make way for the new city. As time passed, Seattle constructed a log seawall, wooden sidewalks, wharfs, buildings, streets, railroad trestles, and eventually, a massive concrete viaduct over the original aquatic lands, changing the natural environment to a built environment. Today, Seattle’s shoreline continues to change as the city demolishes the viaduct, rebuilds the seawall, and creates an inviting new waterfront that all will enjoy for generations to come.

Free Download Seattle’s Coal Legacy (Images of America) by John M. Goodfellow
English | October 28, 2019 | ISBN: 1467103993 | 128 pages | EPUB | 78 Mb
In the 1880s, Seattle became a major coal port in the United States. By 1908, Puget Sound was the third-largest coal port, after New York and Baltimore. For Seattle, the major coal mines were in Issaquah, New Castle, Renton, and Black Diamond, with many other smaller mines throughout King County. Until the petroleum revolution, Seattle exported most of its coal to San Francisco. Because of coal, Seattle became a center for skilled engineers, machinists, and miners for the maritime, manufacturing, mining, and railroad industries, differentiating itself from other lumber towns on Puget Sound. Seattle’s Coal Legacy is the story of a frontier town going through an industrial revolution in its own time. The skills and knowledge developed during the coal era-engineering, finance, transportation, manufacturing, etc.-made Seattle the major city it is today.

Free Download The New Seattle Cookbook: Discover Delicious West Coast Meals from the Heart of Seattle (2nd Edition) by BookSumo Press
English | February 4, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BTRWSNLR | 74 pages | PDF | 2.93 Mb
Come take a journey with us into the delights of easy cooking. The point of this cookbook and all our cookbooks is to exemplify the effortless nature of cooking simply.

Free Download Shelley Sang-Hee Lee, "Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America"
English | 2012 | pages: 273 | ISBN: 1439902143, 1439902135 | PDF | 1,7 mb
In Claiming the Oriental Gateway, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee explores the various intersections of urbanization, ethnic identity, and internationalism in the experience of Japanese Americans in early twentieth-century Seattle. She examines the development and self-image of the city by documenting how U.S. expansion, Asian trans-Pacific migration, and internationalism were manifested locally-and how these forces affected residents’ relationships with one another and their surroundings. Lee details the significant role Japanese Americans-both immigrants and U.S. born citizens-played in the social and civic life of the city as a means of becoming American. Seattle embraced the idea of cosmopolitanism and boosted its role as a cultural and commercial Gateway to the Orient at the same time as it limited the ways in which Asian Americans could participate in the public schools, local art production, civic celebrations, and sports. She also looks at how Japan encouraged the notion of the gateway in its participation in the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and International Potlach. Claiming the Oriental Gateway thus offers an illuminating study of the Pacific Era and trans-Pacific relations in the first four decades of the twentieth century.