Above Seattle. This book has captured Seattle and the places around it, the raw threatening beauty of the Cascade Range and that of the Olympics, the great expanses of water, open fields, the great buildings, the almost blinding greenness (from the air), the tiny ships below, the virgin forests, the lights at night; a city that has fought to preserve itself, a city that has, over the years, paid the price to maintain its own beauty, cleanliness and dignity, a city of which it was once said, "lies well in the arms of the land." Robert Cameron's aerial photographs and text by Emmett Watson makes this a book you'll never want to put down.

Above Seattle

Arts & Photography

Watson, Emmett

Cameron, Robert

Photography & Video

Cameron + Company

Here is a book about Seattle written by a native with his own special view of a city he deeply loves. It is not a history. It has no chronological order. It is alternately sad, funny, indignant and detached. Emmet Watson has been chronicling events in Seattle for more than 30 years. Digressions of a Native Son captures those people and events and institutions that have highlighted Watson's years in the city. Young readers will be enchanted by the stories he tells; older readers will be caught up by the book's frequent moods of nostalgia, and newcomers to Seattle will gain a valuable insight into the fabric of a city they now call home.

Digressions of a Native Son

Pacific Institute

Digressions of a Native Son is a 1982 memoir by Emmett Watson (1918-2001), a Seattle journalist whose columns appeared in Seattle newspapers for more than 50 years.

A collection of Emmett Watson's tales about his beloved city of Seattle.

Once Upon a Time in Seattle

Lesser Seattle Publishing

Once upon a time in Seattle

Lesser Seattle Pub

ASIN: 0963410229ISBN-10: 0963410229ISBN-13: 978-0963410221This journalist gives the story of his life and career, giving an intimate portrait.

My life in print

Luckily for him, and for us, Emmett Watson's beat as a columnist for The Seattle Times required him to stay in touch with his beloved native city. In his daily meanderings, usually accompanied by his miniature poodle, Tiger, Watson saw much that is invisible to the rest of us. Of course, he was around longer than most of us, too--over eight decades, five of them as a newspaperman whose happy fate it had been to assay the crooked timber of humanity and reassure us of its worth.
As he looked at Seattle, Watson discerned, with a geologist's eye, human fossils buried in layers of history here, there and everywhere.
In this volume, a companion to his Digressions of a Native Son, published almost four decades ago, Watson brings to life some of the citizens Seattle should not forget, and, along the way, reminds us that a city is a human habitat whose history can properly be told only in the tale of its people.

History

Americas

Northwest Corner Books

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Above Seattle

Digressions of a Native Son

Digressions of a Native Son

Once Upon a Time in Seattle

Once upon a time in Seattle

My life in print

My life in print

Once Upon a Time in Seattle