Seattle Public Library Presents: Lynda V. Mapes discussing "The Trees Are Speaking" with Rena Priest
Join us for the launch of The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests. Author Lynda V. Mapes will be in conversation with Rena Priest.
This event is presented as part of Seattle Reads You Are Here. Find out more about Seattle Reads.
Ancient and carbon-rich, old-growth forests play an irreplaceable role in the environment. Their complex ecosystems clean the air, purify the water, cool the planet, and teem with life. In a time of climate catastrophe, old-growth and other natural forests face existential threats caused by humans—and their survival is crucial to ours. With vibrant storytelling supported by science and traditional ecological knowledge, Mapes invites readers to understand the world where trees are kin, not commodities.
About the Speakers, Lynda V. Mapes covers environmental and Indigenous issues for the Seattle Times. She is author of six books, including Witness Tree: Seasons of Change with a Century-Old Oak and, most recently, Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home, winner of the…
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Thursday, May 8, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM.
Seattle Public Library Central Library.
For more info visit www.spl.org. Friends of the San Juans Presents: Lynda V. Mapes discussing "The Trees Are Speaking"
Join Friends of the San Juans and Griffin Bay Bookstore for an event with Lynda V. Mapes, author of The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests.
In a bicoastal journey, environmental journalist Lynda V. Mapes connects the present and future of Pacific Northwest forests to the hard-logged legacy forests of the northeastern US. With vibrant storytelling supported by science and traditional ecological knowledge, Mapes invites readers to understand the world where trees are kin, not commodities. The Trees Are Speaking is essential reading for those with a deep interest in environmental stewardship, Indigenous land rights, and the urgent challenges posed by climate change.
Lynda V. Mapes covers environmental and Indigenous issues for the Seattle Times. She is author of six books, including most recently Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home, winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award and the 2021 Washington State Book Award for nonfiction. She is also an associate of the Harvard Forest of Harvard…
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 5:00 PM.
Brickworks, Friday Harbor.
For more info visit griffinbaybook.com. Lopez Library Presents: Lynda V. Mapes discussing "The Trees Are Speaking"
Join Lopez Library and Lopez Bookshop for a presentation by Lynda V. Mapes on her new book, The Trees are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests.
Ancient and carbon-rich, old-growth forests play an irreplaceable role in the environment. Their complex ecosystems clean the air, purify the water, cool the planet, and teem with life. In a time of climate catastrophe, old-growth and other natural forests face existential threats caused by humans—and their survival is crucial to ours.
With vibrant storytelling supported by science and traditional ecological knowledge, Mapes invites readers to understand the world where trees are kin, not commodities. The Trees Are Speaking is essential reading for those with a deep interest in environmental stewardship, Indigenous land rights, and the urgent challenges posed by climate change.
Lynda V. Mapes covers environmental and Indigenous issues for the Seattle Times. She is author of six books, including most recently Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home, winner of the…
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Lopez Library.
For more info visit lopezlibrary.org. Town Hall Seattle and Cascade Bicycle Club Present: Building a Bikeable Seattle with Tom Fucoloro, author of "Biking Uphill in the Rain"
Is Seattle on the cusp of a biking Renaissance? From Beacon Hill to SODO to the Waterfront and Downtown, the next few years will bring major improvements to Seattle’s growing network of connected and separated bike lanes and bike paths. That’s good news for people who want a safer, healthier, more equitable and climate-friendly city.
Join Cascade Bicycle Club on Bike Everywhere Day for a conversation with climate journalist and bike advocate Paul Tolme, Biking Uphill in the Rain author and Seattle Bike Blog founder Tom Fucoloro, and Cascade Bicycle Club Policy Manager Tyler Vasquez. Learn about the history of Seattle’s bike advocacy movement, how the passage of Proposition 1 last November is a gamechanger for biking, and how building a Bikeable Seattle is an act of love and compassion.
Presented by Town Hall Seattle and Cascade Bicycle Club.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: access@townhallseattle.org. Event Types: Special Events.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 7:30 PM.
Town Hall Seattle.
For more info visit townhallseattle.org. SeaDoc Society Presents: Lynda V. Mapes discussing "The Trees Are Speaking"
Lynda V. Mapes reports on environmental and Indigenous issues for the Seattle Times. She is an award-winning author of six books, including Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home—winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and the Washington State Book Award for nonfiction.
Her latest book, The Trees are Speaking, connects the present and future of Pacific Northwest forests to the hard-logged legacy forests of the Northeastern US.
With vibrant storytelling supported by science and traditional ecological knowledge, Mapes invites readers to understand the world where trees are kin, not commodities. The Trees Are Speaking is essential reading for those with a deep interest in environmental stewardship, Indigenous land rights, and the urgent challenges posed by climate change.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: jcox@ucdavis.edu. Event Types: Special Events.
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 6:00 PM.
Emmanuel Parish Hall.
For more info visit darvillsbookstore.com. Village Books and North Cascades Institute Present: Lynda V. Mapes discussing "The Trees Are Speaking"
Join Village Books and North Cascades Institute in welcoming Seattle and four-time awarded nature author Lynda V. Mapes to the Readings Gallery for her newest book, The Trees are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests!
With vibrant storytelling supported by science and traditional ecological knowledge, Lynda V. Mapes invites readers to understand the world where trees are kin, not commodities. The Trees Are Speaking is essential reading for those with a deep interest in environmental stewardship, Indigenous land rights, and the urgent challenges posed by climate change.
Lynda V. Mapes is a journalist, nature writer, and author based in Seattle. She is the author of six books of natural and cultural history of the Pacific Northwest. Lynda has been awarded the Washington State Book Award, the National Outdoor Book Award, and twice been honored with the international Kavli Gold Award for Science Writing by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world's most prestigious…
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Friday, May 16, 2025, 6:00 PM.
Village Books and Paper Dreams.
For more info visit www.eventbrite.com. Eagle Harbor Book Co. Presents: Lynda V. Mapes discussing "The Trees Are Speaking"
Journalist and author Lynda V. Mapes comes to Eagle Harbor Book Co. to discuss her new book The Trees are Speaking, essential reading for those with a deep interest in environmental stewardship, Indigenous land rights, and the urgent challenges posed by climate change.
In a bicoastal journey, Mapes connects the present and future of Pacific Northwest forests to the hard-logged legacy forests of the northeastern United States. Beginning in Oregon and Washington, where old growth supports, and is supported by, the region’s salmon, she details the efforts scientists are making to recognize and study the distinctiveness of these majestic spaces, then to Vancouver Island, where Indigenous activists and scientists strive to preserve the health of Nuu-chah-nulth traditional homelands amid continued clear cutting, a tour of east coast logging operations that have left industrial carnage along formerly life-filled waterways, and interviews with Penobscot elders and scientists whose new practices are restoring the…
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Eagle Harbor Book Co.
For more info visit www.eagleharborbooks.com. Town Hall Seattle Presents: Coll Thrush discussing "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific" with Joshua L. Reid
A fur-trading schooner beached in 1811. A passenger liner lost in 1906. An almost-empty tanker broken on the shore in 1999. These shipwrecks, and thousands more, are why the northwest coast of North America is sometimes called the “Graveyard of the Pacific.” Drawing from his book, Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific, history professor and author Coll Thrush tells the stories of many vessels that met their fate along this rugged coast and how they open up conversations about colonialism, Indigenous persistence, and place-based history.
Coll Thrush is a professor of history at the University of British Columbia and founding co-editor of the Indigenous Confluences book series at the University of Washington Press. He is the author previously of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place and Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire.
Joshua L. Reid (citizen of the Snohomish Indian Nation) is an associate professor of American Indian Studies and the John…
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Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 7:30 PM.
Town Hall Seattle.
For more info visit townhallseattle.org. King's Books Presents: Coll Thrush discussing "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific"
Join King's Books to welcome Coll Thrush with his new book Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific, a provocative retelling of shipwreck tales from the Northwest Coast.
A treacherous place with unforgiving coastlines, powerful currents, unpredictable weather, and features such as the notorious Columbia River bar have resulted in more than two thousand shipwrecks, earning the coastal areas of Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver Island the moniker "Graveyard of the Pacific." Wrecked includes stories of many vessels that met their fate along the rugged coast and the meanings made of these events by both Indigenous and settler survivors and observers.
The shipwrecks on the Northwest Coast opens up conversations about colonialism and Indigenous persistence. Thrush's retelling of shipwreck tales highlights the ways in which the three central myths of settler colonialism—the disappearance of Indigenous people, the control of an endlessly abundant nature, and the idea that the past would stay…
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025, 6:00 PM.
King's Books.
For more info visit www.kingsbookstore.com. Browsers Bookshop Presents: Coll Thrush discussing "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific"
Please join us upstairs at Browsers as we welcome Coll Thrush to talk about his latest book Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific.
Unforgiving coastlines, powerful currents, unpredictable weather, and features such as the notorious Columbia River bar have resulted in more than two thousand shipwrecks, earning the coastal areas of Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver Island the moniker “Graveyard of the Pacific.” Beginning with a Spanish galleon that came ashore in northern Oregon in 1693 and continuing into the recent past, Wrecked includes stories of many vessels that met their fate along the rugged coast and the meanings made of these events by both Indigenous and settler survivors and observers.
Coll Thrush is professor of history at the University of British Columbia. He is author of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place and Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: browsersbooksolympia@gmail.com. Event Types: Special Events.
Thursday, June 5, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Browsers Bookshop Olympia.
Village Books Presents: Coll Thrush discussing "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific"
A provocative retelling of shipwreck tales from the Northwest Coast, Wrecked includes stories of vessels that met their fate in the "Graveyard of the Pacific" and the meanings made of these events by both Indigenous and settler survivors and observers. This lively history highlights the ways in which the three central myths of settler colonialism—the disappearance of Indigenous people, the control of an endlessly abundant nature, and the idea that the past would stay past—proved to be untrue.
Coll Thrush is the author previously of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place and Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire. He is professor of history at the University of British Columbia and founding co-editor of the Indigenous Confluences book series at the University of Washington Press.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: events@villagebooks.com. Event Types: Special Events.
Thursday, June 12, 2025, 6:00 PM.
Village Books and Paper Dreams.
For more info visit www.villagebooks.com.