Selected Books
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Eldridge, Les, and John W. Hough. Maritime Olympia and South Puget Sound. Arcadia Publishing, 2017.
A pictorial maritime history of Olympia and the South Puget Sound region, tracing the evolution of the shoreline from Indigenous homelands and early industry to a modern port city and state capital.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing – Maritime Olympia and South Puget Sound
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Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society. Maritime Seattle. Arcadia Publishing, 2002.
An Images of America volume focused on Seattle’s waterfront and working harbor, covering Mosquito Fleet passenger steamers, shipyards, ferries, fishing fleets, and the modern Port of Seattle.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing – Maritime Seattle
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Williams, David B. Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound. University of Washington Press, 2022.
A narrative blend of cultural and environmental history that follows Puget Sound from its glacial origins through Coast Salish homelands, industrialization, and today’s ecological challenges, with particular attention to the area south of Port Townsend.
Publisher: University of Washington Press – Homewaters
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Workman, David, et al. We Are Puget Sound: Discovering and Recovering the Salish Sea. Braided River, 2019.
Richly illustrated stories, essays, and photo-essays that connect the human and natural history of the Salish Sea—from South Puget Sound into British Columbia— with contemporary efforts to protect these waters and shorelines.
Publisher: Braided River / Mountaineers Books – We Are Puget Sound
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National Museum of the American Indian. Listening to Our Ancestors: The Art of Native Life Along the North Pacific Coast. National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, 2005.
Exhibition catalogue and community history volume presenting the art and lifeways of Northwest Coast Nations from Puget Sound to Southeast Alaska, with essays and community-authored narratives that place objects in historical and cultural context.
Publisher: National Museum of the American Indian – Books & Publications (search within for Listening to Our Ancestors)
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Deur, Douglas E., and Nancy J. Turner, editors. Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America. University of Washington Press, 2005.
A landmark ethnobotanical and historical study showing how Indigenous communities from the Oregon coast to Southeast Alaska actively shaped coastal ecosystems through selective harvest, burning, cultivation, and the creation of features such as clam gardens.
Publisher: University of Washington Press – Keeping It Living
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Alaska Geographic Society. British Columbia's Coast: The Canadian Inside Passage. Alaska Geographic Society, 1986.
A large-format Alaska Geographic volume that surveys the geography, communities, industries, and natural history of the British Columbia coast and Canadian Inside Passage, richly illustrated with photographs and maps.
Publisher: Alaska Geographic Society (original publisher of British Columbia's Coast: The Canadian Inside Passage)
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Graham, Donald. Lights of the Inside Passage: A History of British Columbia's Lighthouses and Their Keepers. Harbour Publishing, 1986.
The classic history of British Columbia’s Inside Passage lighthouses and lightkeepers, linking aids to navigation with shipwrecks, gold rush traffic, fishing fleets, and coastal settlement from Vancouver Island north toward Alaska.
Publisher: Harbour Publishing – Lights of the Inside Passage
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Pihlman, Dale. Alaska's Inside Passage: Nature, History, Native Culture, Industries. Dale Pihlman, 2018.
A compact traveler’s guide and historical overview of Alaska’s Inside Passage, combining shoreline geology, wildlife, Native cultures, and the development of contemporary industries such as fishing, logging, and tourism.
Publisher: Alaska’s Inside Passage (official book site)
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Anderson, Hugo. The Inside Passage to Alaska: A Short History. Anderson Publishing, 1998.
A concise narrative history of the Inside Passage route from Puget Sound through British Columbia to Southeast Alaska, focusing on early exploration, steamship and ferry travel, and the coastal communities that depend on this sheltered marine corridor.
Publisher information (no current dedicated publisher page located): AbeBooks listing for the Anderson Publishing edition