Night Sky: A Folding Pocket Guide to the Moon, Stars, Planets and Other Celestial Objects
A laminated, glove compartment-ready answer to “what is that?”
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If You Can Only Pick One
The Weather of the Pacific Northwest
Nobody has written a book about the Olympic rainshadow. Mass's chapter on it is the closest thing that exists, and the rest of the book is just as specific to this place: why Port Angeles and Forks live in different climates an hour apart, what the Olympics do to a storm. The second edition adds wildfire and smoke, which in August is also weather here. If you live under this sky, this is the book we'd hand you first.
Find your Guide
Pick the line that sounds like you. The first book is where to start; the second is where to go when you want more.
Watching the Night Sky
In the Field
At Home 
NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe
Spiral-bound to lie flat in the dark, with charts good through 2035
At Port Book & NewsDecoding the Clouds
In the Field 
The Cloud Collector's Handbook
A spotting log with point values; identification as a game
At Port Book & News At Home 
The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds
Our best-selling sky book will ruin you for cloudless days
At Port Book & NewsReading the Weather
In the Field 
Mountain Weather Pocket Guide: A Field Reference
High-country weather to keep next to the trail map
At Port Book & News At Home At Port Book & News
The Weather of the Pacific Northwest
Nobody has written a book about the Olympic rainshadow. Mass's chapter on it is the closest thing that exists, and the rest of the book is just as specific to this place: why Port Angeles and Forks live in different climates an hour apart, what the Olympics do to a storm. The second edition adds wildfire and smoke, which in August is also weather here. If you live under this sky, this is the book we'd hand you first.
Getting Started
In the Field 
At Home 
Two ways in
Meteor-Night Pack
Night Sky: A Folding Pocket Guide to the Moon, Stars, Planets and Other Celestial Objects + NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe
Quick orientation for a night in the field, and the book for the other 364. No binoculars on purpose — for meteors, the best instrument is a camp chair that lets you lean all the way back.
Sky Appreciation Pack
The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds + The Stars: A New Way to See Them
Just these two can turn the sky into a source of endless wonder, day or night.
More Field Guides
Night Sky 40°–50° Star Finder
Our LatitudeA planisphere printed for where we are
Constellation Finder: Identifying Patterns in the Night Sky
KeyedNature Study Guild–style star learning
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Field Guide to the Weather: Learn to Identify Clouds and Storms, Forecast the Weather, and Stay Safe
Clouds, storms & forecasting basics
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Clouds: How to Identify Nature's Most Fleeting Forms
The rigorous cloud taxonomy
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Beyond the Field Guide
31 books in this guide, in 6 shelves.
Reading the Sky Like a Text 5 books
The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop
Read the coming weather from shadows, dew, and trees
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The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
Conditions observed from animal and plant signs
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Reading the Glass: A Captain's View of Weather, Water, and Life on Ships
A ship captain's weather, for the boaters on the Strait
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Cloud Warriors: Deadly Storms, Climate Chaos—and the Pioneers Creating a Revolution in Weather Forecasting
Why your ten-day forecast keeps getting better
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The Dark Shelf 4 books
The Wild Dark: Finding the Night Sky in the Age of Light
Hunting genuine darkness across the American West
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The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms That Sustain Life
A bat scientist's case for the night
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The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
The essential book on light pollution
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The Peninsula's darkness is an asset — DarkSky Olympic Peninsula works on keeping it that way.
Sky & Cosmos 4 books
Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
On this coast you live with the Moon already
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Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
A natural and cultural history of the wind
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The Starship and the Canoe
Sky and the coastal channels north of here in one book; nothing else like it
At Port Book & NewsStorm & Smoke 3 books
Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World
Fort McMurray fire as weather, a climate masterwork
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Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
Five hundred years of America's hurricanes
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Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weather
The stormy history of American weather
At Port Book & NewsThe Sky in Fiction 1 book
The sky runs through more novels than you'd think — ask us where to go next.
For Young Stargazers 2 books
The Stars: A New Way to See Them
Constellations drawn to look like their names. All ages.
At Port Book & News We sell these because we use them. Ask us what we'd bring up the hill.
The sky, unlike the store, is open all night. If you're looking for something specific — your campsite, your boat, your telescope, your patch of dark — just ask. That's what we're here for.