I am enamoured with this book! I am planning my first trip to New England in August and this book makes usually dull trip preparations exciting.

Jensen sets out 5 separate road trips through New England, including a coastal route, several mountain routes, the Cape Cod trip, and an Appalachian trail route. We are planning to take the coastal route 1 and then route 3 through the White Mountains in New Hampshire.

So far, all of Jensen's advice has been excellent. Her lodging suggestions are affordable and up to date. She makes a point to highlight historic and unusual places that are representative of New England. I can't wait to go on the trip and report back!

It was a pleasure adding this book to my Roadside Geology Collection. It is appropriate that Mountain Press had Dr. Caldwell do this book. His vast field experience and knowledge highly qualify him as an Maine geology expert. I fell in love with geology and work as a geologist having been a student of Caldwell's 25 years ago. The book continues his legacy on the Geology of Maine.

Let's get this straight, "Rock Climbing New England" is one of those select guidebooks. Author Stewart Green picks out 15 areas in all of New England and only describes certain climbs in each. That said, there are almost 750 climbs detailed, not at all an insignificant number, and from what I can tell most are done quite well.

In some cases Green repeats information already available in Webster or other guides. Still, it does have some of the new climbs on Cathedral and Whitehorse, like George Hurley's great 10c addition to the Cathedral Ledge North End, Bailsafe. The coolest thing is that Green includes information on areas that to my knowledge have never been included in any guidebook, like Rose Ledge in central Mass and Owl's Head in New Hampshire.

Sure there are those who will find fault, there always are. But in spite of having set a very lofty goal, "Rock Climbing New England" succeeds. If you can only afford one, or just want the only available info on one of those obscure places that you have only heard about through the grapevine, this guide will be well worth the investment.

The Boston-by-itinerary approach of this book makes it easy for a visitor to become acquainted with this diverse city in small, logical doses. Harris and Lyon write with the conviction, and attention to detail, of those who know their territory well. Not just for romantic travelers but for anyone seeking entree to one of the country's most fascinating cities.

THE ROSE THIEVES is the first humorous book written since the 1940's that is actually fun and funny . Written by Heidi jon Schmidt, who can take her seat at the table with Benchly, Parker, Cerf, and Thurber, the ROSE THIEVES is a bittersweet tale about growing up in the 1960's amid a family beset by bankruptcy, divorce, and insanity. The level of desperation is so great it is almost farcial. Schmidt knows how to tell a good yarn and time a joke. The ROSE THIEVES is one of the last great American novels written by someone not influenced by the television age

This is an excellent book with which to discover the colorful history of the city of Saco, Maine. The Images of America series by Arcadia Publishing is one of the finest series of books chronicling the photographic history of thousands of communities in America. I found this book to be very intertaining as well as informative. There are a lot of photos that depict the flavor of the City of Saco (Maine) and explain how this oceanside community came to be the way it is today.

Csordas (pronounced CHOR-das) is an anthropologist who has followed the development of the Christian 'Charismatic Renewal' for 20 years, and draws on his study of this movement and its notions of healing for this book. He seeks to understand how religious healing might work, and to this end he presents a philosophical investigation of the self, how it is perceived, constituted, reshaped. Along with the central issue of religious healing, he deals with a host of fascinating topics such as the mind-body relationship, ritual, demonic possession, religious experience, the rhetoric and semiotics of religious language, psychiatry, and mental and physical illness.

Csordas's method, which he calls 'cross-cultural phenomenology' is both philosophical and anthropological. He includes theoretical discussions as well as ethnography and evidence. Moreover, he is intelligent, broad-minded, and strives to be fair in his analyses. For this reason, readers with diverse interests are bound to find this an intriguing and useful read. This is an important book for several fields and deserves to be read widely. At the same time, it is a well-written and enjoyably readable book. The chapters are titled as follows: 1: Introduction, 2: Ritual Healing, 3: Therapeutic Process and Experience, 4: Emboied Imagery and Divine Revelation, 5: Imaginal Performance and Healing of Memories, 6: Image, Memory and Efficacy, 7: Demons and Deliverance, 8: Encounters with Evil, 9: The Raging and the Healing, 10: Envoi: The Sacred Self.

A photographic chronical of Saltbox and Cape Cod houses from Colonial times to the present day. A good idea book for anyone intending to build either style house.

Samson Occom And The Christian Indians Of New England is a classic scholarly biography written at turn of the century by a Congregational minister. This reissued paperback is introduced by Margaret Connell Szasz, professor of history at University of New Mexico and author of Indian Education in American Colonies 1607-1783, and editor of Between Indian and White Worlds: The Cultural Broker. She correctly categorizes Love's biography of Samson Occom as "fin de siecle, a work of its time," and she describes Occom as an intellectual giant, a "cultural intermediary (who) strode across the cultures of his time and place (p.xv)."

Both Mohegan and Christian, Occom dazzled Euramerican contemporaries with his intellectual sermons, calm demeanor, and impassioned requests for educational support for Indian students. Crucially instrumental to the founding of Dartmouth College, which was to be "Fro the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing, and all parts of Learning which shall appear necessary and expedient for civilizing and christianizing children of pagans as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences; and also for English Youth and any Others," he nevertheless became disillusioned when his fundraising efforts were used by his partner Mr. Wheelock to be subverted for a college that served English rather than Indian students. This was to be but one of many betrayals in the life of Samson Occom.

Szasz concludes that Love, in his biography of Samson Occom "in some instances...belied his times by demonstrating a degree of understanding about Occom's world view that moved beyond mainstream attitudes toward American Indians (p. xxv)." The biography contains a valuable impetus to contrast to the present day ethnographic biographer who would theoretically present Occam more from a native viewpoint for analysis. An example would be Occam's conflicted role in 18th century Modegan society. In this and other areas, Love's Samson Occom highlights further truths to be mined for. It is a mirror of our Western emergence from Eurocentrism.

There is much to be gained from further study of Samson Occom. One additional resource suggested is The Sprit Of The New England Tribes (1986) by William Simmons. The search for cultural continuity is a valuable theme for today's ethno-historian/biographer. Samson Occom And The Christian Indians Of New England is a challenge and a piece of the puzzle that remains tantalizingly uncompleted. May it teach us to examine, question, or perhaps recraft entirely our cultural assumptions today as well.

Nancy Lorraine, Reviewer

Samuel Huntington played a major role, but has been relegated to a minor part, in the American Revolution. This book gives a detailed account of day to day activity in the Continental Congress during the years 1779-1781, the years of Samuel Huntington's Presidency. In this way we see the actions of all the prinicpal players of the time, feeling the treacherous path of the American Revolution in 1779 only to gain hope in the events of 1781 which led to the victory at Yorktown. Also detailed is the uprising colonial spirit, revealed in the subversive pamphlets of the time, authored and circulated by members of Huntington's family. This book could be sumarized as the "Best of C-Span" from 1779-1781, two years of immense importance in the birth of our nation.