| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly 32.2

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Book Review

Last Stands: A Journey through North America's Vanishing Ancient Rainforests. By Larry Pynn. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2000. xi + 212 pp. Map, index. $17.95, paper.)

At first reading, Last Stands by Larry Pynn is a work of environmental journalism intensified and colored by a keen sense of human history and an almost poetic interest in the earth sciences. It takes us into the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest on a series of field investigations and wanderings--the quietly spoken witness of ancient Western red cedars and California redwoods, encounters with elusive, combative wolverines and other megafauna, deep woods archaeology in a limestone cave on Prince of Wales Island and documentary accounts of helicopter logging and the bitter, proud struggles of the indigenous Tlingits. . . .

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