Bear Hunting is a real page turner. You don't need to know anything about Russia to like this book. Gripping stuff, and I think the jacket blurbs by Pete Gent and Hunter Thompson say it all.

This book identifies, by ethnicity and by political/religious/military affiliation each perpetrator and victim of the 3,285 killings, whether in Ireland, Britain or the Continent. They are listed chronologically. All other such listings, though less comprehensive, verify this book. The infamous Royal Ulster Constabulary disputes only one of its entries. This book enables the reader to become a one-person Truth Squad, a demolisher of Britain's Big Lie re terrorism. It proves that, militarily, the IRA out-fought British armed forces by 1,091 kills to 169; while, as to terrorism, British armed forces murdered 907 noncombatants compared to the IRA/IPLO/INLA's 151 of such. It reveals that British spooks and armed forces perpetrated the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th deadliest terrorist bombings and shootings; all of which our news media blamed on the IRA. It does omit, however, one murder; the (according to the CIA) SAS's 1984 "disappearance" of John McIntyre in Boston. "An Index..." details the consequences of a State policy of murder and is complete unto itself. How the murders were planned and covered up is revealed in McPhilemy's "The Committee" and Stalker's "The Stalker Affair." Ditto Don Mullan's "Eye-Witness Bloody Sunday. Sutton's "An Index of Deaths..." is, by far, the most important book on this post-1968 phase of the Anglo-Irish conflict.

I love this calendar! It is bright and colorful and is perfect in my 3 yr old son's room. I have been searching for a couple of years for a bear calendar- and now they have finally made one! A beautiful calendar that will make both you and your child happy!

Rhymes and great illustrations make this a great book for toddlers. Characters from "Bear in the Big Blue House" guide through the collorful pages.

Winnipesaukee history made entertaining. Charming local folklore and local sights, as well as maps and drawings that contribute so much to the book. This book is great for leasure reading as well as a textbook for Island History.

I've just started incorporating a night time read into my eight month old son's bed-time routine and Bear is a big part of this. He loves the bright colours, the warm characters (he waves to Bear and Tutter on the cover every night), and I love the scope the pictures give me to make my own additions to a story.

This is a great series of books. I know I'm buying more of them!

"Bear Man of Admiralty Island" is an extremely interesting and detailed study of a true American character, Allen Hasselborg. The stark, simple life Hassleborg lived for many years, in a remote, beautiful, wild, and dangerous place, makes the likes of Thoreau, Burroughs, Dillard, and the many other part-time shack dwelling, nature praising authors seem like commonplace pretenders in comparison. Where they wrote about life in the woods, he really lived it, and the details are fascinating. Were it not for Howe's research, I'm sure we'd never know about Hasselborg's life, and were Hasselborg alive today, I'm sure he wouldn't give a gall-dang anyway!

This book is basically a collection of interesting Texas Hill Country stories, told by several Texas old timers. They were all country people, and they know alot about Texas history and legends and folklore. Several had parents or grandparents who were Texas pioneers, and they tell about Spanish explorers, lost treasure, Indian battles, and ranch life in the late 19th and early 20th century. The book has photos of these people, and lots if neat drawings.

A bear of My Own is an excellent guide to the craft of bearmaking. The language is easy to understand for the less experienced. Rotraud Illisch's guide for pattern design is excellent and easy to understand. The whole bear is taken into prospective from design to placement. This is a wonderful book for bear designers.

Anyone standing at the Fishermen's Memorial along Gloucester Harbor in Massachusetts will be struck by two things. First, visitors always gravitate to the names at the very end--the familiar names of Capt. Billy Tyne and his five crewmates from the Andrea Gail, lost in The Perfect Storm in 1991. But those who linger are always astonished by the fact that there are more than five thousand other names here--sometimes hundreds of them lost during a single year in the 1800's, often from the same families. This book brings those 19th century years to life, providing a lively glimpse of the Gloucester fishing industry during its height, and a fitting memorial to all those "who go down to the sea in ships."

Joseph Garland reveals this history through the tale of one man--Giant Jim Pattillo, probably the most colorful and independent captain ever to command a Gloucester fishing vessel. A Novie who became a "whitewashed Yankee" when he became a U.S. citizen, Pattillo sailed between Georges Bank, Nova Scotia, and Cape Ann, Massachusetts, during the glory years of 1820 - 1870. Huge in size, immensely strong, and willing to take on anyone when he'd had enough to drink, Pattillo was a brawler who feared nothing and no one, a man who was willing to break the rules and even smuggle when it suited his purpose. Defying storms and all manner of danger, he also defied the restrictions the Crown placed on fishing around Nova Scotia--along with all the Crown's officers and enforcers.

Owner and master of his first fishing vessel in 1820, when he was just fourteen, Pattillo later fished for halibut, mackerel, herring, and cod in pinkeys, smacks, barks, sharpshooters, and schooners, all sailing vessels operating without any supplementary power. Navigation was challenging, to say the least, especially during ferocious storms at night, and the long list of names on the Gloucester memorial attests to the difficulty of keeping these vessels intact during the terrible Atlantic winters. Communication was almost non-existent, and on one occasion, when Pattillo and his crew returned to Gloucester in May, the town was stunned--it had already mourned their deaths, thinking they, like dozens of others, had perished in February.

Garland's impeccably researched tale is a can't-put-it-downer which deserves much more publicity! It's not an exaggeration to say that the insights you gain here about fishing and fishermen will forever change your perceptions of this heroic profession. Through Jim Pattillo, whose career spanned fifty tumultuous years, Garland provides a comprehensive historical account of the Gloucester - Nova Scotia fishing fleet, giving a context to more modern stories, such as The Perfect Storm, often thought to be unique. As a result, these modern accounts may now rightly assume their place as part of Gloucester's centuries-old, seafaring history, their crews members of the more than 5300-man fraternity of those "who go down to the sea in ships."