Jack Nisbet Bringing New Book to Author Talk

Author, naturalist, and historian Jack Nisbet will discuss his book, “The Dreamer and the Doctor: A Forest Lover and a Physician on the Edge of the Frontier,” Thursday, Nov. 8, at 7 p.m. in the Community Room at the library.
A Spokane-based teacher and naturalist Nisbet is the author of several books that explore the human and natural history of the Intermountain West, including the story collection “Purple Flat Top and Singing Grass Burning Sage,” an illustrated exploration of the flora and fauna of the dry side of the Cascade Range. His essay book “Visible Bones” won awards from the Washington State Library Association and the Seattle Times.
Since 1994, Nisbet has worked extensively on Northwest fur agent and geographer David Thompson. He has also produced two books that detail Thompson’s travels and cartography west of the Continental Divide: “Sources of the River” and “The Mapmaker’s Eye.”
“The Dreamer and the Doctor” is about John and Carrie Leiberg, who lived in North Idaho in the 1880s and ’90s and passed through Coeur d’Alene many times. Carrie Leiberg is the doctor and John Leiberg was a Swedish-born naturalist.
This presentation is in partnership with The Well-Read Moose. The program is funded in part by the Friends of the Library.