This is an excellent book for quick reference of your trip. I use it alot in the cockpit, but find more detail would be better. The layout is good for going north to south, but I find the backwards reading (South to North) a little difficult to follow. I recommend this as a companion book along with others, but not as a stand alone book unless you are the casual boater (weekender)

When Margaret and I took our trip from Cleveland, Ohio to the Florida Keys and back we took and used a large collection of charts and guides, including this book. Of all the resources we had available on board, this book was the one we used constantly. It is arranged mile-by-mile as you proceed down or up the Waterway and tells you what to expect as you go. It is an excellent planning tool. We wouldn't do the Waterway without it!...

I think the book shows a lot about antiques and good price guides.

This book is a must for any N&W/NS fan! It has many good photos of many rare diesels, including Alcos and U-Boats. Shows several post-merger shots of units, and shows all the different schemes that N&W went through. It is definately worth the money.

This book contains numerous photos, informative text, a complete roster (as of 1995) in addition to specific notes regarding details on particular locomotives (such as which ones had a plow on both ends vs. one end). I have used this book for years in my modeling efforts of NS and can't thank the author enough. The only way I can see to improve this book is to add more color photos. However, with the advent of the internet, any number of sources may be found to augment the photos in this book as well as current roster information. That said, this book covers exactly what was happening on the NS in 1995 and does it well.

This book is a very informative on locomotives owned by Norfolk Southern past and present.

This is the first time I have read an MC Beaton book and I am
very disappointed. It looked like a good mystery, and as far as the mystery part it was good till you find out that the fairies
are just christmas lites some kids ages 4,5,7,8 setup and the kids were the ones who stole stuff from the house. Oh please,
kids at that age are going to be smart enough and able enough to setup christmas lites and pull this off. This right here totally turned me off. Don't think I will be reading anymore of the MC Beaton books.

I love Agatha Raisin, and in this book she is especially funny. Agatha follows a fortune teller's advice that her future is in Norfolk, so she rents a cottage in Fryfam (a villiage she picked by sticking a pin in a map). As usual she gets caught up in village life and sooner or later we know that there will be a murder for her to solve. This book has the "manor-lord" murdered in his home (why is Agatha's book that she's writing called "Murder at the Manor"?) Her and Sir Charles set out to unlock the mystery, and discover more shenanigans in this pokey little town than they ever expected to. There's a stunner at the end of the book, that makes me excited to read the next one.

In this 10th adventure of Agatha Raisin, we see our heroine gloomy over the loss of romance with love-interest, James Lacey. To cheer herself up, Agatha sticks a pin in a map, and sets out for holiday in the village of Fryfam. She rents a cottage, and soon meets a group of ladies from the local women's club that she immediately tries to impress by saying she is writing a novel. However, she soon becomes embroiled in another murder investigation, when the title character of her "novel" dies in real life and she is implicated in his death. Add to this the "lights" she sees at the edge of her garden, a stolen painting, another murder, and the theft of Agatha's two cats and the reader finds themselves in the middle of a perfect case for Agatha! Will Agatha triumph in a village so far away (in distance and in culture) from her own?

I have cherished every book in the Agatha Raisin series and this book was a delight. Although some of the other characters were noticeably absent (not much was heard from Mrs. Bloxsby or Roy Silver), I still enjoyed reading about the zany adventures of Agatha Raisin. Once again, this plucky sleuth sticks her nose in where most people would not, and in the process she finds courage to always catch the killer!

The first book in this series is "Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death". Enjoy!

This book is a complete waste of money. It looks nice and glittering, but in reality it is devoid of information. I had hoped for some specific information on Norfolk terriers, as Im the happy owner of a Norfolk puppy. It is difficult to convey the extend of my disappointment with this book. Its gives me an impression like: get a lot of pictures, make an "change all" in a standardtekst from xx to Norfolk and you have a book on Norfolks. It doesnt even have a race-standard, let alone an explanation of the race-standard. Or specified instruktions on stripping or trimming or..... Besides I find it extremely irritating, that there is a lot of advertizing, disguized as information. Avoid this book if you are serious about your Norfolk. What you can try to do is get hold of the old book on Norfolk by Joan R. Read. It looks a bit oldfacioned, but it is full of information. and it is much, much better.

This book is pawsome! It covers all you need to know about Norfolk Terrier care,trimming,special needs,sicknesses prone to the breed,as well as some very interesting facts about Norfolk Terrier history as well as to how the breed came about. I feel that this book is wonderful and I rate it 10 paws up! If you love Norfolk Terriers I feel you will enjoy this book as much as I did!

There isn't a huge selection of books about Norfolk Terriers, but this book does a great job covering much of what you need to know. The history of the Norfolk terrier was very interesting. This also gives good information on proper grooming.

I brought this book with me to read while I waited for my daughter. Since I had nothing else to do, I managed to slog through the first part of the book until I finally had the characters straight. Someone had told me they thought the book was funny so I kept reading in hopes of finding that spark, but it just wasn't there for me.

It was nice to see how opportunities for women have changed over the years, but I have to agree with a number of other reviewers that most of the characters were not well developed. While the storyline of Huntington's disease seemed to be resolved, I felt letdown by the way a number of relationships (especially between sisters) were unresolved. I guess that's the way it often is in real life, but I wanted more.

One last item to add to the list of things I wish the editor had caught - the author has the main protagonist, Peggy, and her daughter spending time at the mall in 1952 (as well as noting that Peggy's "water busted in the mall in Topperwein" years earlier). The first indoor shopping mall didn't come along until 1956 in Edina, MN. Small thing maybe but if you are going to set your story in another time period I think you should strive to get the details right.

This book truly did have a slow start - had to force myself through the first 40-50 pages. After that, the characters began to come to life and grow. As American military wives during the early 1950's in rural England, the five women are left to fend for themselves while their macho husbands train. As a working mother in 2002, their narrow minded devotion to and acceptance of their situation within the military seemed almost overblown. They were known as "DW's", dependent wives, and they lived up to their acronym. It was fun to watch as they grew up and out of the military cradle, learned to function without the safety net and deal with the turmoil around them. The setting of current (for that time) events in the US grounds the story in a more realistic vein as the book progresses. It was also interesting to see that as flyers, friends and co-workers, the men had brought the women into the situation where they became friends, yet after they left the military, the men drifted completely apart and the women stayed in touch. As I got to know the women, I laughed at Betty, worried about Gayle, wanted to thump Lois, and figured that Audrey would get what was coming to her. This book is a great read once it gets going.

This was a wonderful story about 6 women, mostly military wives, who form great friendships that last through four decades of change. It's a great book about friendship in general, but I found it especially enjoyable because I am an Air Force wife and I found myself laughing out loud at how much has - and hasn't- changed in 50 years! Unlike some of the other reviewers, I found it gripping from the start. I had a hard time putting it down and can't wait to read it again. Ms. Graham tells the story of military wives (their friendships and adventures) so accurately, I can't help but wonder if this is somewhat biographical. I bought 5 copies to give to my closest friends here at - yep - an overseas Air Force base.

The opening pages which take the reader through the centuries of the ice age were indicative of what was to follow. The prose was compelling but very descriptive and I felt this was at the expense of narrative drive. I did not emerge from the book with a much clearer idea about what drove Niklot/Salvestro, or indeed many of the other characters in the book. While true life is often confusing, I would have welcomed a bit more "glue" holding the many different episodes together. Full marks to an earlier reviewer's dissection of the plot, much of which I missed---I don't think I'm particularly slow, and I like to be kept guessing, but not to the point where I forget which country I'm in. I skimmed the last hundred or so pages, feeling that I'd not taken adequate notes as I read it. I began to flounder in a welter of details quite early on in the process, so I'm not the best qualified judge, but the ending seemed anticlimactic. Plenty of brilliant scenes throughout the book, which was populated with a gallery of fantastic grotesques and others, and many of the scenes would have made great short stories. But ultimately the lack of narrative and construction made the book unwieldy. A pity, since the characters and their time were anyway so fascinating, and not covered so frequently these days.

Lawrence Norfolk is one of the only modern masters of language and storytelling we have, and I believe that we should not only appreciate it but praise it as well. As with his first novel "Lepmpriere's Dictionary", which was a story of strange twisting plots and a great reservoir for historical mystery, "The Pope's Rhinoceros" is only the best book to follow. It of course has its strange tangents that we, as an audience, are learning to be the style of the great author, and minor plots that boggle the mind even after the last page has been read. There are things too reminiscent of Lempriere's such as the character of Septimus whom we are so intrigued by but so uninformed about, we get a new view on this angelic character and only find that we are closer to understanding without even a new hint as to what it means. His, Norfolk's, ability to write so detailed on certain things as the way of life of a fish in the sea, a colony of rats, or the history of a river or strange occurrences on remote islands, is impeccable. To achieve through writing alone, an enchantment that will devour your reader, without even the elements of a story is not an easy task and yet Norfolk produces it in the blink of an eye, and makes it appear all too natural. I think anyone would terribly enjoy this book, and those who would not are just those who become aggrivated when a piece of work forces them to think a little. The only negative of the book that I can even fathom is that he has so few books under his belt that when you finish Lempriere's and the Pope's who will be left waiting impatienly, clawing at and climbing the walls, for his next work to be published.

Lawrence Norfolk's vivid imagination goes amok in this, his second novel. The characters are fantastic and utterly believable. His knowledge of early 16th century Europe and the religious and political strife therein make for a lovely canvas upon which this hefty tome is created.

Simple and small line drawings complement this very extensive description of tours through East Anglia. Each place visited is listed with in-depth information on market days, facilities and a little history. It is most unfortunate, however, that the tours covering the city of Norwich and King's Lynn are not really supported by a proper map, but rather by a dot on the county map. But then this may the limitation of a pocket-size guide book for the foreign visitor.