The Butcher's Grand Ball provides that part of history which the public tends to ignore. It is the actual and raw account of those incidences that occurred during the African Slave Trade. It is also that part of history that connects the African-American with the African. A definite eye opener for those of interest in history and even archaeology.

3 books in one, for $10 less than each individual volume would cost alone! The Sagrada Familia section is OK, but leaves quite a bit to be desired. The Grand Central Terminal and Sydney Opera House sections are excellent. The history and photos are excellent, but the elevations and drawings make this book (and series) truly worthwhile.

I wrote this book one newspaper col. at a time 25 years ago. Next month my first book of poetry, "Wading South: Fishing the Twentieth Century, Part II" will be published by Atlantic Publishing Co., Tabor City, NC I hope it delights as many readers as my first one. The subjects are often related to angling.

I bought this book to help me cook when entertaining french friends and co-workers when we moved to France. Expatriates will know the difficulty of having to change measuring units and basic ingredients when adopting your recipes to life in another country.
What I wanted most was to have some basic recipes with everyday ingredients I could find in the store where I live. I'm not sure if one would easily find the French ingredients mentioned in the States (creme fraiche, lentillles du Puy).Still, this book was indispensable to me. I loved the stories behind the dishes AND the variations suggested. I mostly love the recipes in both metric and good ole' cups/tablespoons.

As are most of the Pooh tales, this story has the ability to touch a youngster with glee, anxiety, and an ending which reaffirms the value and over-riding nature of friendship. For adults, the book reminds us that misunderstandings evoke many pointless meanderings, but when taken with the right attitude, they should teach us something. The simple values of friendship and love are the lessons here.

This book will hurt to read. The Eliot Porter photos show what has been lost to our generation by the grossly irresponsible act of damning Glen Canyon. However the book also shows what has been saved in pictures of the Grand Canyon. May we know by our failure at Glen Canyon what to protect, and why, in the future.

Powell's own narrative, of course, forms the main written portion of the book, and its direct, yet eloquent, writings should remain a strong part of the story of what it is to be an American. Equal parts dry text and awed wonder, it is a must read.

A spiffy book, in the same vein as the acclaimed Sierra Club format series, of which I suspect this book may have been intended to be part. Enjoy this essential part of any Western library.

Ann Haymond Zwinger has contributed her scientific expertise to subsidized, multi-week inner-canyon environmental impact expeditions, has run each of the Canyon's rapids countless times (in nearly each month of the year), in every sort of water craft. What her scientific eye takes in, her pen transmutes into its own river of irresistible prose, carrying the reader, willing or not, from one chapter to the next. As a hiker, I expected the vision of a "boat person" to suffer from its constricted horizons. A bottom-up myopia. Instead, we find ourselves soaring with eagles. We climb cliffs, clawing our way through a darkness of thorns and pain. We crawl along brushy beaver tunnels. We ponder the local history and lore...and the primeval past. Our journey evokes visions of thousand foot-high lava dams filling the entire Canyon with water, as well as today's horror of a rapid at Lava Falls. While some of her snippets of local human history are rarely mentioned in other books about the Canyon, Zwinger's forte is in the natural sciences. In that arena, she has no peer among Grand Canyon authors. Since this is not a trail manual, it is not easy to restrict one's reading to a single, specific Canyon location. Rather, the chapters are organized by seasons of the year. No matter. If you start at the beginning, its 220 or so pages of narrative will sweep you into their main current and, well... I'll see you below the rapids.

Fly Fishing the Grand is a concise and accurate summary of the cold water sections of the Grand River. It is an interesting mix of anecdotes, entomology and flyfishing. I think that anyone in the eastern US or Canada could benefit from the wisdom in this book. Some small problems include a map on the back with no street names and a rather brief explanation of the fly patterns suggested in the book.

The trouble shooting of the motor

Thank you Mr. Anglin for a comprehensive review of an area often visited and seldom appreciated. Central Washington is shrub-steppe and lacks the beauty and lustre of the more spectacular pine forests of the Cascades or the Puget Sound with its rugged pioneers. However, major waterways. springs and bunch grass concentrations helped direct traffic in and around the arid wilderness of the Columbia Basin. Anglin has been thorough in his research and methodical in his presentation of the various phases of transit. His level of detail has made me reach for the gazeteer or road map many times to envision a herd of 2000 cattle fording some stream or fighting off some Yakama warrior party. My only complaint was the rather small number of maps compared to the wealth of narrative.