This book is very informative. It touches upon all aspects of survival in the woods. Starting with basics of shelter and the finer details including furniture and tools.

There are many diagrams with patterns and measurements to follow which are easy to duplicate. The techniques in this book would be excellent in teaching a survival class to youth or adults.

There are also many nature craft ideas coming from the Native American background. These ideas would do well in a cultural art class.

I have had the chance to see this book in a previous print which was very old. The newer version is quite like the old one and proves to be just as good.

This is the first book I took out of a library c.1952. It is still pivitol in the way I think and do things. Jaeger is most entertaining and inspiring. His illustrations are magic. This is the ultimate book on making things for the right reasons.

I think this book is a must have for anyone interested in the great out doors. For people who enjoy minimalist camping, this book has great ideas. The illustrations and directions for making stuff are easy to follow.

One of the best cookbooks in my collection.

What's really interesting to me is that almost every recipe in the book goes very well with a nice Oregon Pinot Noir.

Let me be clear - I have never laid eyes on this book. I bought it based on the description for a friend who lives in CA but is from the Northwest and is an avid cook. She absolutely loved it and continues to rave about it. Based on that, I give it a 5.

This beautiful book has been the source of wonderful meals, inspired by the deep, imaginative recipes, exploring the best of the Pacific Northwest. Schreiber puts his own interesting spin on classic flavor combinations. Recipes are complex, but are easily broken down into do-able steps. They are not overly chefy, and have been well tested for home kitchens. This was one of my favorite cookbooks of the year, and I own a lot of cookbooks.

This book explains all things about aromatherapy: from its history, to how essential oils are distilled, to good aromatherapy "recipes" for many common problems. It also contains many ideas about how to help the treatments, or adminster them. Ms. Wildwood is incredibly thorough, and respectable in her suggestions about integrating this with traditional and alternative medicine.

The Encyclopedia of Aromatherapy by Chrissie Wildwood is one of the most complete guides to Aromatherapy. If you can only buy one book on the subject this would be the one. It includes many easy-to-follow guides and pictures. A beautiful book for the beginner and advanced Aromatherapy student.

A great resource for studying the basic principles of Aromatherapy. This book covers the body systems and body-mind-soul. Wonderful photos on massage using Aromatherapy; and beauty care, home and gardening are covered. Excellent diagrams, draws and graphs and a very useful glossary of medical terms. Needed book for serious study and use of essential oils.

I agree with a previous reviewer, this book is perfect if you've ever lived in a closeted relationship. The story starts out on a classic plot line, two lovers are together at the beginning and then they run into problems. The ending is classic but I won't spoil it for you. What stars as two lovers moving to a small hick town so one of them can have a job turns into a warming novel of love, friendship, and what it's like when you feel like you're the only gay person in town. Simply perfect.

I had some trepidation when we were assigned this book for an Appalachian literature class. Naiad does not, after all, publish things for me, but this book is a southern classic. Its gentle mocking tone limns the characters in a small Kentucky town with love and shows us that through community one can find acceptance. I went out and bought all of her books after this one and think they are all brilliant.

It is time for everyone to discover this fine writer. Maybe think about her as Appalachian if the gay thing makes you queasy. In a class of 28 people everyone, male and female gay and straight, even people in their 60s, thought this book was the best we'd read. You should read it too.

Living in the "Boston Lesbian Ghetto" and having relationships that are similar to that of Bev and Andie makes this book even harder to put down. This book is perfect for anyone who has experienced the pressures of closeted relationships. The author has a way of bringing life to the page. This book is highly recomended.

So much of contemporary poetry is as prosy as your average obituary. And just about as engaging. A few poets, more than a few of them from the South, still know how to wield a line, a stanza, a whole poem. This poet does. The poems in this book, in the voice of a mountain woman named Alma, gather up the physical, emotional, erotic life of one woman into a texture of beauty and terror. "Abandoned to hoot owls and copperheads," Alma survives and sings her journey through the dark into luminous song. If you despair of what is happening to poetry, these days, don't. Read this book.

Byer is quoted as saying of the Blue Ridge Mts. "...these mountains are a crazy-quilt of trails haunted by women's voices," and what Byer is successful in doing is bringing those voices to life. Each poem connects the reader with the lives of women who have lived in the mountians, the isolation of their daily lives and how they sink into or break the isolation by communicating with each other through their songs. The poems are sometimes joyful and sometimes haunting as the boundary between domestic space and nature overlap. I couldn't stop reading and usually with poetry I only read one or two poems at a time and then let it settle. But with this book I got caught up Byer's crazy-quilt and read untill the end. It is a rich book.

Aromatherapy Massage with Essential Oils provided a wealth of information regarding massaging of various parts of the body. It was very informative about different oils to use and in what way they should be applied. The book explained in detail numberous techniques for relaxing. By far my favorite part of the book was the chapter explaining why and how aromatherapy is effective it goes along way to helping understand how effective it can be. I would definately recommand this book to anyone searching for ways to alleviate stress in themselves or a loved one. Two-thumbs up !

I needed to reread this to refresh my memorie

This is an extremly funny collection of stories. I personally enjoyed reading how he takes normal everyday situations in modern day middle class civilization and turns them into a hillarious account of his life!

One of the most definitive books ever written on this GREAT summer resort. I grew up in Cape May, and frequented Wildwood all of the time. What I didn't learn from my visits, I learned from this book. It is very detailed and very nostalgic. A very enjoyable read.

I have been going to Wildwood every summer since I was a young kid, and it is one of my favorite places in the world (since I was born in Jersey). Recently, I realized that I knew very little about the history of the resort I love so much, and so I decided to buy this book and find out the details. This book is expensive, but I highly recommend it. It thoroughly details Wildwood's history, from its 1890's beginnings through the present day. Now, some people might think 'Oh, it's a historical book, so it must be boring,' but this book holds your attention. It was written in an incredibly good way, and has plently of picutes and illustrations in it, so that you know exactly what the author is talking about. None of it is boring, it has great details about everything you could ever want to know about the Wildwoods, and it covers everything from the beach to the Boardwalk. So, if you love Wildwood and want to know a little more about its history, read this book. It is expensive, but is worth every penny!

BOOK IS EXCELLENT, GOOD HISTORICALL

Wildwood was one of those books you can get into and really identify with the characters. I especially enjoyed Hannah and her fight to bond with Angel. All characters were brought to life and you felt like you really knew them.

I met Drusilla Campbell recently in California and purchased a signed copy of Wildwood. I was surprised after I read her book, that, by her own admission, she experienced difficulty getting published in the literary genre, since her characterization of three very different women is amazing! Apparently publishers didn't want her to jump from the romance market to the literary genre. I, for one, am glad she persevered and found the right agent to market her book. As a struggling novelist myself, I will study her book further, to improve my own mastery of the literary devices she's used, such as metaphor and simile, as well as her original, lyrical descriptive settings of northern California. She's accomplished many tasks masterfully in Wildwood. She moves the plot at a wonderful clip and manages to write from three different characters' points of view, each woman unique in experiencing her own growth and ephiphany.
I read this novel in two days and was sooooo reluctant to leave the three friends, Hannah, Liz, and Jeanne, when the book ended. It's my hope that Drusilla has other quality literary novels like this in the works!

In her dashing novel *Wildwood* Drucilla Campbell weaves an alluring, highly complex tale of three still-young women who find release from a horrible event shared some 30 years past. During the intervening years they've all lived quite different lives--two have remained close to home, the third has lived abroad--and it is she who returns for a visit and provides the ultimate catalyst for dramatic resolutions.

There are many aspects in Ms. Campbell's novel to intrigue us: a curious private school and a tenebrous nature-place of crime are provocative old hometown venues; the maddeningly relentless drought--a seemingly "judgmental" withholding of rain--serves as a puissant metaphor; and then there is the ever-surfacing mystery of a missing piece of intimate clothing, which is a key to their life-changing mystery. And of course there are the relationships between the women themselves--and their men--all inextricably wound together like tangled roots of old trees. These relationships are charged, and psychodynamically layered (especially interesting to me, a NYC psychotherapist), and all are portrayed with marked originality and truly extraordinary perspicacity.

On the way, there are delightful tidbits and dividends: a wonderful run through Paris; an engaging ear for the patois of the youth involved; and loads of good southern California.

Read *Wildwood*. Read it because it's immensely entertaining; read it because it's incredibly edifying.