A great comprehensive book with thousands of celebrity birthdays. The best I've found. Cross referenced by date and alphabetically.

This reference book without a doubt is the final word in researching artwork history and sales records. When you've exhauseted research efforts in all other reference guides, Davanport's takes over. I feel much safer going to auctions with the knowledge gained from the information found in Davenports. Awesome tool!!

The cookbook is as good or better than any other of its genre, but the illustrations by Ted De Grazia make it a book to be cherished. The recipes are well presented and tasty, but the artwork is magnificent!

You can tell this author knows what he is talking about. The skiing scenes are execellent. I felt like I could hear the ski edges chattering over the mogals. The plot holds together well through out the entire book as well as the interesting character development. A great story about competative skiing, romance and intrigue.

It's a very good book it starts a little slow but then it gets very exiting and entretainig. I think the ending was very good, I couldn't have predicted what happend there, this is a book I really recomend and it's not even too long so if you like suspense and accion this is your book.

An eminently readable, thoroughly researched recounting of Fanny Burney's years as Second Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, consort of George III of England. Davenport carefully explores Burney's relationships with others at the court, most particularly her dealings with Colonel Stephen Digby. Of interest to Burney scholars for its interesting minor insights and scraps of information and to general readers for its fascinating portrayal of daily life at the royal court.

I hadn't heard of Desmond Bagley when I came across this book. What had attracted me to this book was a comment by a critic that this book puts Bagley into Alistair Maclean's category. Personally I think this book far exceeds anything that Maclean ever wrote. An amazing plot that stays with you forever !

Whether it's criticism, social commentary or his amazing historical fiction, Davenport has that knack for plunging an arm into the stream of time and pulling up luminous pebbles, then arranging them brilliantly.

This is mostly a colection of writings about writers, but don't let that deter you. When Davenport writes about writers, the result has the quality of a madman's mosaic, a Watts tower of literary observation.

"The Geography of the Imagination," which lends its title to this collection, relates the Dogon trickster legends of West Africa to Brer Rabbit, to an essay on furniture by Poe, to Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West" (seen in terms of World War I and the first three stories in Joyce's "The Dubliners"), to the Persephone myth (and its realization in a bit of O. Henry sentiment). It ends with a close analysis of classical imagery in Grant Wood's painting, "American Gothic." Along the way, Davenport introduces, in cameo appearances, John Philip Sousa, Heraclitus, Amerigo Vespucci, the sack of Eleusis by the Visigoths, the idea of Germany, Thomas Jefferson's dinners, the discovery of binary stars, and the industrial revolution. The essay itself is not quite 12 pages long.

it was a great book if you like this book you'll like Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson! Was a great book i fell in love with Lila punch's sister it was a great book enjoy

I grew up coloring this book over and over. We kept extras in the back cupboards for my sister and I to repeatedly decorate. I come from a family of artists-we were visually and creativily stimulated by the thick black line drawings and Americana charm of this (almost too-cute) coloring book. It is outstanding.