Across the High Lonesome Review

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(More customer reviews)Molly Mendoza has just graduated from Cal Poly with her teaching certificate, ready for marriage to finance Scott Campbell and a life in the yuppie mainstream. That is, until she walks in on Scott with her best friend Shelly. Young and heartbroken, Molly has never really thought about any life outside the one she had planned.
During a job fair, Molly had casually filled out an application for Granite Creek Pack Station. Now, after a call from part-owner Don Davidson, Molly is surprised to find herself heading up the Owens valley for summer employment as a cook for Granite Creek, a far cry from settling in with a classroom filled with third-graders.
Don is one-third owner along with the curmudgeonly Ike Steel and his veterinarian daughter Joyce. Molly has no time to think about her decision as she is swept off the very next day on a weeklong packing trip along the Golden Trout Trail. And so her adventuresome summer begins.
'Across The High Lonesome' covers one summer with the Granite Creek Pack Station, and is full of adventure, laughs, tears, romance, scuffles, disputes, and ornery mules. Although this book is outside my normal genre of reading, I enjoyed this book every bit as much as I did 'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurty. Like 'Lonesome Dove', 'Across The High Lonesome' is a story about people and their capacity for growth, along with their eccentricities.
The activities of this closely knit group of folks, Molly, Don, Ike, Joyce, Dwight, Jake, Pete, Tad, Trina, Kate and Bill, Burt, Nancy, Joe, and the entire rest of the gang will keep you reading long into the night, wondering what they have in store for you next. There is almost a soap opera quality here, as there is within any small company that is not held by the restraints of the civilized world. The all-too-human crew blends in with the wild background and make for a lovely picture, and an intriguing tale.
Brumfield pulls no punches, this is life at its grittiest, wildest, and most serene. The characters are all too human, fully fleshed and irascible, down to the individual personalities of the animals. The reader can tell, though this is a work of fiction, that the author knows this wilderness and these trails quite well, the injection of realism is too poignant to miss.
Do yourself a favor and google images from some of the places mentioned in this book, such as Mono Creek, Summit Lake, Pioneer Basin, and Shepherd's Pass. Brumfield's descriptions of the surrounding landscapes only cement his ability to make the wilderness landscapes bloom through his written words. It's magnificent country!
Though there are some early instances of repetitiveness in Brumfield's prose, these are rapidly overlooked by the richness of the tale being told. I really cannot recommend this book highly enough, I wound out being so absorbed by it that I almost wanted to mount a mule and go riding myself. Definitely a 'buy'. Enjoy!


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Across the High Lonesome is a modern western odyssey that invites the reader to hitch a ride through the glacial carved vales and over the high lonesome passes of California's -Range of Light.+A journey of love, pain and adventure, brimming with unforgettable characters, salty humor, and recalcitrant mules.Brumfield has taken a lifetime of experience packing dudes into the mountains and distilled it into a delightful work of fiction.

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Jeff Davis's Own: Cavalry, Comanches, and the Battle for the Texas Frontier Review

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(More customer reviews)Arnold has a gift for military history that while informative of facts is also a good read. He makes history interesting even to the casual reader. This book fills what is usually a gap in US military history and a blank in most accounts of R.E. Lees life. Who knew that Lee was an Indian fighter as well as hero of the Mexican American war and great American strategist. His account of Lee's personnel hand to hand fight with an Apache warrior reveals his personnel determination, courage, and humor is an insightful read. This is the second of many American military experience with insurgent, unconventional, gorilla warfare, others being the Seminole war in Florida, for that fact all the Indian wars, the War in the Philippines {part of the Spanish American war} Vietnam war, and now Iraq/Afghanistan. We win as long as we have the political will to do so. Enough of that. This is a really good book, I highly recommend it. A lot of info for a little known period in American Military History.

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Excitingly told and meticulously researched, this is an intriguing and colorful saga of the commanders who united to fight an enemy on its native ground, then divided again to face each other across the battlefields of their own homeland.

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The Ungodly: A Novel of the Donner Party (Stanford General Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)As an introduction to the story of the Donner Party, this is a good choice. Unfortunately, that's because of some "wrong reasons." Rhodes takes huge liberties with the historical record in order to create a good novel. As one example, the terrific climax, which is foreshadowed by a number of details throughout the book is, like the details, total conjecture. (And rather perniciously, the conjecture is now turning up in subsequent books, giving it the weight of fact.)
Rhodes takes a peculiar route to telling the story, mimicking the style (and, in the Stanford reprint, even the typeface) of 19th-century travel literature. It is as if he is a participant, keeping a daily journal. In fact, when Patrick Breen begins keeping a journal, Rhodes includes that. Breen's journal is a model of tediousness, seldom offering more than "Snowed again. Sure hungry. Wind SSW," as the observations of a day. The quotations are more like illustrations than text that advances the story.
And of course Rhodes is not a participant; he's a modern American almost as distant from the realities of the event as he is from life on Mars. His Donner party is not just literate but far too modern in their sensibilities. The effect is subtle, like the wrong herb in a sauce.
The journalist's eye approach falls into difficulty almost immediately, when the action splits into two, then three, and eventually four or more venues. Even as well as I know the story (I've recently read a handful of Donner books), I was confused at times when a paragraph on the cabins was followed by one on the Forlorn Hope struggling westward, then one about Jim Reed recruiting rescuers in San Francisco, all without transition. This is a rather artificial confusion that does nothing, again, to advance the story. It leaves us reflecting on the author's skill rather than on the story.
So it's historically inaccurate and hard to follow. Uh, how does that make it a good place to start? Well, although more than 50% of the story is invented, and a good deal is invented in defiance of the historical record, the result of the invention is a solid, entertaining novel that gives you a grasp of what happened. Not all the facts are historical, and the motivations are subjective, and both these things are potential flaws in a historical novel.
As fiction, it works. Rhodes demonizes Lewis Keseberg, but as a literary invention, his Keseberg is a credible monster. He invents some demeaning things about Charles Stanton, but they could be true. He humanizes the cannibalism decided upon in three different locations independently; each group rationalizes its decision in a different way. If the narrative flow is a bit startling, once we accept it, the story unfolds cleanly.
Is this the best book on the Donner tragedy? Weighing its faults and merits, I have to say no. But "best" isn't just subjective, it's situational. If you want to get as clear as you can about what really happened, based on the most current evidence, then the best book without question is Rarick's new history, Desperate Passage. It strips the story down to the verifiable and gives you that is spare, readable prose. However, aside from Stewart's casual and complacent bigotry, Ordeal by Hunger is easier to read and more immediate.
If you want a sense of the event from inside, on the ground, as the people suffered and died, read Vardis Fisher's The Mothers, which I still consider the best fictional account. Written in 1943 by a man who grew up on the Idaho frontier and knew hunger first-hand, it's hard to beat. But I have to confess that I had to think a long time before choosing it over The Ungodly.

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In 1846 several hundred wagons set out from Independence, Missouri, to follow the California Trail nearly 2,000 miles across unpopulated prairies, up sluggish and seemingly endless rivers, and through the Rocky Mountains over the Continental Divide.There, where the water flowed west to the far Pacific, the more prudent emigrants swung north through present-day Idaho, though that was the longer way west.One group, the Donner Party, braver or more foolhardy than the rest, chose an untried route that would shorten the distance.It did.It also subjected them to obstacles so formidable that it cost many of them their lives.Yet it preserved their names and the story of their travail down through history-crowded years.No work of fiction has rendered this remarkable epic of ordeal with more vividness and power than Richard Rhodes's novel of the Donner Party, The Ungodly. Upon its initial printing in 1973, Rhodes's masterful tale was praised for its realistic and gripping depiction of the struggles faced by that ill-fated group of men, women, and children.Now, more than thirty years later, Stanford University Press has reissued this harrowing and haunting novel. The Ungodly is an unforgettable story of terrible hardship and awesome courage-a story that increases our understanding of what kind of people made this nation and what a full and immeasurable price they paid.

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Old Spanish Trail North Branch and Its Travelers: Stories of the Exploration of the American Southwest Review

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(More customer reviews)As an avid Spanish Trail fan I found this book linked a lot Of loose areas. I live and study the Trail where it courses thru Utah & Nevada.

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INDIAN WAR VETERANS: Memories of Army Life and Campaigns in the West, 1864-1898 Review

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(More customer reviews)Christmas at Fort Robinson, 1882 as experienced by Martin J. Weber, 1st sergeant, Troop H, Fifth U.S. Cavalry:
"Little children of the army were just as anxious for the advent of Santa Claus as the somewhat more highly favored little ones in the midst of the civilized East[...]We got safely down the Breakneck [...]arriving at the fort about 2 o'clock the afternoon of the 24th. When I passed the officers quarters the kiddies were all out running up and down the walks[...]When they saw me they began to shout, "The Christmas Wagon has come." The officers and men hearing them came out and asked if it was true. They could hardly believe it until the teamster drove his six weary mules up and we began to unload the Christmas goods. Even the officers were willing to help."
Jerome Greene has researched far and wide to bring us fascinating stories from the many Indian War veterans, like Martin Weber's, and the respective Indian War Veterans organizations with his most recent book, Indian War Veterans: Memories of Army Life and Campaigns in the West, 1864-1898 (IWV). It's amazing to learn that the last veteran of the Indian Wars died in 1971. Reginald A. Bradley enlisted in Troop C, Fourth Cavalry, at Fort Bowie in 1889. The majority of IWV presents a plethora of first-hand accounts from the campaigns and battles as told by the veterans themselves. In addition, we learn what life was like in the frontier army; it was all long days conducting mundane tasks or spending long hours marching or riding the horse going nowhere, it seemed.

Mr. Greene provides a lengthy introduction which details the many IWV organizations including their beginnings, purpose, and demise. Although the main purpose of these organizations was to lobby (mostly unsuccessfully) for legislation to ensure proper pensions for the veterans, they evolved into preserving the historical record of the countless officers and soldiers who served their country on the front lines of the various Indian Wars. These accounts were published in the group's annual publication "Winners of the West". Mr. Greene has corrected any errors which are minimal in most cases; however, these veterans remembered their experiences and grasped the issues surrounding them very well. The "politically incorrect" language is retained in these accounts, which were written in the early 20th century, so the reader's experience is so personal that one has the sense of hearing them directly from the veteran as he sits in his favorite chair.

Mr. Greene's focus is from campaigns across the American West divided into two parts: 1) Army life in the West, and 2) battles and campaigns from the northern plains, central and southern plains, mountain west, west coast, and southwest.

Humor and warmth grace these accounts but there is also brutality. Descriptions from Wounded Knee are filled with terror and heartache, as remembered by army medic Andrew M. Flynn, Troop A, Seventh U.S. Cavalry:
"As we did not have much room, we had to load up the dead and put the wounded on top of them. Just as I was looking over the field, I came across a dead squaw and a little papoose who was sucking on a piece of hardtack. I picked up the little papoose and carried it in my arms. A little way farther on, I found another dead squaw and another papoose. I picked it up, too, and brought them over near the hospital tent, where there were a number of Indian women.

As I came over to where they were, I met a big, husky sergeant who said, "Why didn't you smash them up against a tree and kill them? Some day they'll be fighting us?"

I told him I would rather smash him than those little innocent children. The Indian women were so glad that I saved the papooses that they almost kissed me. But I told them I didn't have time for that."
Veterans experienced hardships on the trail. During the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, William Foster Norris wrote about the suffering for lack of water as they approached a body of water so alkalized it was undrinkable: "It was pathetic to hear the animals eagerly give voice in their different ways as they saw the pool of water ahead where we were to camp, but it was still more pathetic to hear them express their disappointment when upon plunging their heads into it, they were unable to drink."
There are moments of wonder and panic as William D. Nugent witnessed a buffalo stampede during the Northern Pacific survey expedition of 1873:
"Every second increased the volume of sound. Some thought it was an earthquake, others that it was the end of the world, and still others that it was Sitting Bull and his twenty thousand warriors[...]We now had the solution and all understood what this awful menace was: buffalos by the millions were coming[...]as far as the eye could see.
It looked like sure death[...]Our worn horses could not outdistance this onrushing death for even one mile[...]I never told any of my comrades how scared I was[...]
I saw Colonel Custer with some twenty men advance to possibly one hundred yards in the direction of the oncoming menace[...]When the buffalos had approached within one hundred yards of this small bunch of men, the soldiers shot one volley after another into the herd[...]The buffalos split, part passing to the right and the rest to the left[...]"
The fascinating stories Mr. Greene covers are countless: the Cheyenne and Arapaho War of 1867-69 (Beecher's Island and Washita), Red River War 1874-75 (Battle of Palo Duro Canyon), Nez Perce War 1877, Modoc War, the Geronimo Campaign 1885-86, the search for the Apache Kid, and much more.
Most readers have never read issues of "Winners of the West" so I'm confident you'll experience these accounts for the first time. Anyone interested in the Plains Indian Wars, the old frontier army, or Indian War veteran's organizations will value Mr. Greene's work.


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Their Eyes Were Watching God Literature Guide (Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned Teaching Guide) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is very useful as support material for reading the book. It has everything one would need to support the teaching/reading of TEWWG. It has many activities such as vocabulary lessons, character analysis, quizzes and exams, worksheet with background information to aid in understanding the book. It makes it possible to give students the information needed to follow the story without the teacher having to create them. It also has answers for all of the quizzes and activities. I really like this book and find it very useful.

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Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit: The Culture of Festivals in the American South Review

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(More customer reviews)Roger Lyle Brown has successfully penetrated the mass psyche of the Southern festival culture. At first glance, one might not consider "festivals" to be an engaging topic, but Brown explores this subject like a psychoanalyst, providing real insight into the southern mind via one of its most cherished traditions - the festival. A unique piece of work.

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Guitar Pickers Fakebook: The Ultimate Sourcebook for the Traditional Guitar Player, Contains over 250 Jigs, Reels, Rags, Hornpipes & Breakdowns from All the Major Traditional Instrumental Styles Review

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(More customer reviews)This excellent (and scarce!) book is good for all playing situations. It is unquestionably the ultimate source for traditional guitar players.
Invaluable for new, practicing, working, and intermediate players. The addition of the discography, indexed by tune title, lets you locate a recorded source for any tune in the whole book. Brilliant!
The author taught for several years at the School of Fretted Instruments in New York City.
Highly recommended!

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Contains nearly 250 jigs, reels, rags, and hornpipes from all the major guitar traditions. Special introductory materials on regional styles, picking, and ornamentation. Includes an extensive discography.

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Rebel Private: Front and Rear--Memoirs of a Confederate Soldier Review

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(More customer reviews)Just as compelling as "Co.Aych", this would make an incredible movie. That is certainly one of the reasons it is found on so many bookstore shelves. It does not receive the attention it deserves because, like every other book of its kind written as a participant, it deflates slavery aa a possible motive for fighting. This is the adventure if one tough, daring, funny young rebel whose brawn, wits and insticts got him through the WBTS alive. The business of jumping off a POW train seemed more like something out of an Indiana Jones adventure. If he'd worn the "blue" he'd be in every textbook. Tired of other writers interpretations and want to go to the well for yourself? This is a great place to start.

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"Rebel Private," William A. Fletcher's account of service in all the major theaters of the Civil War, is one of the most compelling books written about service in the War Between the States. WilliamFletcher's recollection of life as a Confederate soldier are vivid, and his so great is his ability to command the imagination and give the reader a real you-are-there experience. Fletcher was a very practical soldier, and "Rebel Private" reflects this, exposing readers to the everyday concerns of a Confederate soldier, from the plight of the wounded to taking food from women and children in Union territory and scavenging the dying. William Fletcher even expresses regret that he had refrained from shooting an enemy soldier because he appeared very young and he wonders if it hurt his nation's cause. "Rebel Private" also contains exciting stories about being captured and escaping from a moving prison train. After the war, he heard a North Carolina soldier ask Fletcher's Texas cavalry unit if they had any bacon. When one answered yes, the man said "Grease and slide back into the Union." After thinking about it a while, Fletcher saw the wisdom in that advice and did just that. He became a very successful lumber entrepreneur as well as the author of "Rebel Private," which is highly recommend for students of military or Southern history or anyone who likes true adventure.

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Labradoodle-Do Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is reminiscent of the "Little Duck," "Little Lamb," "Little Bunny" series of young children's books from the late '70's/early '80's, complete with action packed photographs of a day in the life of a labradoodle. Esme, the star of this book, looks like a real life teddy-bear!The only danger is that your kids might fall so deeply in love with labradoodles, you may just have to give in and get one for the family (my kids have already asked!) Highly recommended!

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A colorful photo-picture book for very young children featuring the daily activities of Esme, a miniature Labradoodle.

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Muletrain to Maggody: An Arly Hanks Mystery (Arly Hanks Mysteries) Review

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(More customer reviews)Three days before the Battle of Farbersville in Arkansas during the Civil War, there was a skirmish in the small town of Maggody. The Stump County Historical Society has obtained funding to do a documentary on the battle thanks to the donation of the diary of one of the men who fought in that encounter. The diary goes on to say that the confederate troops were carrying gold to pay the soldiers, but when they concluded that they were going to lose, the soldiers hid it in a nearby cove.
The townsfolk go crazy looking for the gold and Chief of Police Arly Hanks has her hands full keeping track of everybody. The treasurer of the historical society Wendell thinks he has a clue where the gold was hidden but he is more interested in his genealogical studies than a treasure hunt. Matters turn very serious when someone kills Wendell. Arly investigates the homicide with plethora of suspects available. A second killing occurs. Once Arly realizes the two homicides are linked, it is only a matter of time before she tracks down the killer.
An Arly Hanks mystery is always a hoot and a holler and MULETRAIN TO MAGGODY is no different. Despite the seriousness of the murders, the storyline focuses on the gold hunt. The characters are funny as they try to outdo each other in searching for the gold while Arly has her hands full keeping everyone in line Joan Hess is in fine form as she produces another extra fine rural police procedural.
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Big Game Hunter's Guide to Montana (Big Game Hunting Guide Series) (Big Game Hunting Guide Series) (Wilderness Adventures Big Game Guidebooks) Review

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(More customer reviews)The Big Game Hunter's Guide to Montana, in my opinion, is an absolute necessity for any hunting trip to Montana. It contains a great deal of information on each type of game animal in Montana. It also gives regional game population and harvest information. There are several cities listed with everything from hotels to meat processors addresses and phone numbers. In short, everything one would need to know before planning a hunting trip to Montana.

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Silver Mountain Slaughter (The Trailsman, No. 326) Review

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(More customer reviews)This episode finds our friend Fargo in Arizona and mixed up in some situations that even he wonders how he ever got so involved.Fargo,who longs to keep his freedom and wander the West,does something he would never have believe he would do.He buys a young girl to get her away from someone who is making a slave out of her.
That is only the beginning of a series of events that leads to fights with outlaws,episodes in a silver mines,getting shot,killing and piling up the bodies,tackling a 15 foot Grissly,saving a friend who has been attacked by a cougar and having to resort to surgery to save his life.Attacks by snakes,having to resort to Apache warriors to help him deal with a bunch of Confederate sympathizers;killing and burying an owlhoot,only to find hib needing rekilling and re burying,all put together to making this one of the best episodes in this long running series of the Old West.

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Foxfire Light: Foxfire Light Review

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(More customer reviews)I READ THIS BOOK WHEN JANET FIRST PUT IT OUT .I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN .JANET HAS WROTE A LOT OF GREAT BOOKS BUT THIS ONE IS THE ONE THAT I LOVEED THE BEST .THE PEOPLE ARE SO REAL THAT YOU CAN'T HELP FALLING LOVE WITH THEM ,AND WHEN SHE TELLS ABOUT PLACES AND THE FOXFIRE LIGHT YOU CAN ALMOST SEE IT.

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Black Folktales Review

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(More customer reviews)The book I am reviewing is called Black Folktales, it is by Julius Lester and illustrated by Tom Feelings. This book falls under the category folktales and fairytales. Before I tell you more about the book let me say that the illustrations were amazing. Anyways, the book consisted of short stories about blacks in the south. There were stories about blacks on plantations and about god and how he created the world. Most of the stories were very good and interesting and most of them I enjoyed reading although there were a few mediocre stories mixed in too. The writers writing style I thought was very good. It definitely kept me entertained through out the whole book. There were some very funny stories in the book. there was one about a black man that was feared through out the land, and was supposed to die a couple of times but he kept escaping death, until St. Peter told god that this black man was supposed to have died thirty years ago. God immediately called the grim reaper who started complaining cause he hadn't gotten more the five minutes of sleep in the last two days. He started telling god that he needed some assistants, or else. Anyways I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.

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Twelve remarkable folktales, culled from the black experience in Africa and America, are freshly retold in the thoroughly original voice of Julius Lester. Arranged by topic - Origins, Love, Heroes, and People - the tales combine universal themes and uncanny wisdom. Though some of these stories have been around for centuries and many were passed down by slaves, Julius Lester's urban expressiveness and Tom Feeling's spirited illustrations give them continued resonance for today's audience.

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The Companion Guide to Venice (Companion Guides) Review

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(More customer reviews)I received this guidebook as a gift in 1992, and wandered all over Venice, reading it for 10 days. It's one of the finest guidebooks I've ever read, with helpful maps, organized by neighborhoods, and much, much information that will make your trip to Venice, even richer than you expected it would be.
Venice is about mystery, it's about people, and it's about finding yourself. You'll do that with this book.

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There are few pleasanter ways of passing a summer's evening than sitting over a cup of coffee, and perhaps a glass of Aurum, in the Piazza San Marco. It is especially agreeable on those nights when the Venetian city band thunders away at some throbbingly romantic piece... And all the while the younger inhabitants parade around the square, chattering, flirting, quarrelling and staring at their visitors with that same unwinking gaze that Venetians have turned on their guests for the past five centuries. The facade of San Marco closes the scene in a glitter of golden mosaic and a bubbling of cupolas, while the great thick red campanile stretches up into the warm mothy darkness of the summer sky. Hugh Honour, it is clear, knows Venice exceptionally well and catches the rhythms of the city's life with unerring skill. His guide, with its winning blend of evocative detail and precise information, spurs the reader to investigate Venice's wonders: Piazza San Marco is only the beginning of a journey into the heart of Venice and its history.

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Aconcagua: A Climbing Guide, Second Edition Review

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(More customer reviews)A useful primer for those considering climbing Aconcagua. Describes routes of many different difficulty levels. If you are planning on doing the normal route, most of the book will be irrelevant since it describes more difficult and technical approaches. However, even the introduction and normal route description are valuable references. Especially the sections on health and safety concerns. Hopefully there will be a new edition for 1999 since I understand that in 1999-2000, Argentine regulations will require permits to purchased in Mendoza IN PERSON by those climbing -- a change from the current practice.

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