November 13, 2011
“Evison gleefully chews up the Northwest landscape from 1890—when dreamers, drifters, entrepreneurs, scoundrels and hardworking settlers dove in with unrestrained ambition
to harness the wilderness for profit and posterity—to 2006 when their descendants face the consequences of that wild enthusiasm. The Olympic Peninsula is some of the most beautiful country in the world, and Evison has paid tribute to it.” —PNBA Awards Committee. West of Here is on the shortlist for the 2012 PNBA Book Awards.
