Bringing the Mountain Home by SueEllen Campbell is a book to treat both your emotions and your senses. The book of essays is largely about the Colorado Rocky Mountains but also has some gems about an Africa sojourn. The essays are visceral, intelligent, personal, and universal. As she eloquently says in the book: "In fact, I realized I was taking two walks at once. One was intensely personal and immediate, my body, sense, memories moving through a specific and extraordinary place and moment. The other was shared, my own experience formed by my culture, by other, earlier visitors to wild places, by circumstances, attitudes, assumptions, words, even emotions I had no part in creating but had somehow absorbed into myself" (x).

I love the gentle humor (such as the time she finds her friends all enjoying a backpacking trip while she somehow ends up as cook and camp-person) and the keen observations. I grew up in this area, but Campbell has looked at it with such wonder and detail, I can hardly wait to open my eyes and look around me more carefully. She knows every wildflower, every animal, every path and the reader is inspired to hike with eyes and ears wide open. With chapters titled with elements such as desire, pristine, trudging, grandeur, and misery, she captures so much of the wilderness experience in its many facets. I feel the misery of paddling a canoe when those muscles ache as well as the glory of seeing wildflowers in full profusion in a mountain valley. Campbell perfectly describes the sudden urges to get out in the wilderness, and then fearlessly describes both the glories and glooms of those trips.

Campbell's writing is lyrical, enthusiastic, honest, sensory. She is a master of words and of wilderness. I relish reading and rereading this book of essays and will never go on an Alaskan backpacking trip without it.

This book is the perfect gift for a hiking friend or a city-bound person who is far from the wilds. I recommend it to Amazon readers without hesitation. You're in for a treat, and so are your friends.

This is a sweet little book with an adorible little bunny. The little bunny rides in his stroller as he and his mommy walk to the bakery. Baby bunny waves "bye-bye" to Daddy as they go and says "hi", to everyone they meet along the way. So if you have a little one that loves to wave and say "hi", and "bye-bye" this is the perfect book! My 18 month old loves it. = )

First published in 1927, this text gives a historical perspective on the development and major families that influenced the birth and early growth of the County. Lots of detail on early small towns, villages, churches, crops and schools. Many pictures are included as well.

Even if you consider yourself an excellent cook, this book is wonderful. The recipes are simple, but with that "home cooked" taste! LOTS of pictures. I especially like the section "Make It Hearty", which has suggestions for simply adding a couple of additional ingredients to a can of soup to make a meal.

This is a great gift for busy families! Well worth every penny!

I am such a fan of the Campbell's Cookbooks. All of the recipes include easy-to-find ingredients (most ingredients are regulars in most households anyway) and are fast to cook. I am a calorie-counter, and while many recipes are not light, they are easily lightened using the "Reduced Fat" or "Healthy Request" versions of the products in the recipes.

My single favorite recipe is the one for Garlic Shrimp Pasta - it's amazing that a recipe that starts with Campbell's soup can almost seem like a gourmet meal. Many recipes that you may already clip from the back of soup cans can be found in one neat and organized place here.

I highly recommend this book - especially if you are looking for dinner in a flash!

This book is almost exactly what it says it is -- it is an amazing compilation of interesting and significant information. It is perfect for Quiz/College Bowlers who want a reference or just some interesting reading. The information included is nearly comprehensive, Quiz/College Bowl-wise, except for a few notable omissions (perhaps most glaringly non-American literature; the book as a whole is American-centered). Even with these slight drawbacks, the book is still an amazing resource for the academic contestant.

This is an early, early Hammond Innes & one of his best!

A pale & wasted clerk in sooty old London trudges back to his colorless digs after being told he's going to die soon. It seems he's going to simply give up the ghost without a whimper.

Then he receives an airmail letter advising him that an uncle has died & left him his land, high in the Rocky Mountains in the wilds of Western Canada.

With nothing to lose, Bruce quits his job & sets out to see for himself what lies beyond the ocean & across a continent.

There he tumbles into an old feud, rarified mountain air & an isolated community split asunder by the discovery of black gold.

This is a hopeful tale of how a hopeless fellow regains his courage, his tenacity &, incidentally, his health.

Years ago it was made into a rivetting movie with a cast of English stars & I relish both!

This is such a great book!!! It has so many easy and quick recipes and the best part is they are all low fat. I love it, my husband loves the food and guess what so do the kids.

This book really helps you if your in anacdemic team of some sort/or even reading it for fun!!

I use the Lightning Rounds series as class starters for my high school gifted students; students crave these games. The quizzes function in a Jeopardy-like format, with topics ranging from letters of the alphabet (all the answers to today's quiz begin with the letter B, for example) to Women Writers of the Twentieth Century to Famous Quotations. The topics include a variety great enough so that they will appeal to virtually any student--as long as the person is fairly knowledgeable in some field. Personally, I enjoy the quizzes myself, but the book is much more interesting if used in a social context with one person asking the questions and others volunteering answers.