A survey of recent titles that explore native art and culture, local birds and resident Whales, mountaineering and the mycorrhizosphere, and other topics both relevant and esoteric. Reviews by Christian Martin In the pages of Douglas H. Chadwick's The Grandest of Lives: Eye to Eye with Whales (Sierra Club Books), the Whitefish, MT-based author of *True Grizz* turns his attention to the coast