Nonfiction: 'The Collector'

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The man who gave his name to the magnificent Douglas fir was in the second wave of white adventurers in the great Pacific Northwest, and you get the feeling, reading Jack Nisbet's fascinating new biography, "The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest," that he regretted his tardiness.

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