Across Mongolian Plains is one of the classic accounts of early 20th Century Hunting in Central Asia. It is also an excellent account of Mongolia prior to the Communist takeover in 1923. I can find no faults with the book as written by Andrews. However, my personal opinion of this edition is that it is not worth the money asked for it. It is a poorly made paperback, and the publisher has not reproduced any of the original photographs with the one exception being the frontis, which in my copy looks like a cheesy Xerox. This book is still available in the 1920's Blue Ribbon reprint, in hardback with photos for less than this "new" paperback. I am VERY dissapointed with this edition. Save your money and search out an original copy, you will find it far more satisfying. The first edition D. Appleton & Co. edition is still available as well.

I found nothing wrong with either the book or the printing. This is a simply fabulous book, from either the viewpoint of a real-life adventure story, or for historical details for somebody studying the period.

I think this book would have been useful several years ago but this edition is almost 10 years old and the information contained is out of date. The elevation profiles provided for the roads in Alaska are also misleading and not detailed enough to be reliable.

I wouldn't recommend that you buy this book if you intend to tour Alaska. Buy a general guide book (Lonely Planet or Rough Guide) and get some decent maps instead.

The second edition is a useful book covering all the major roads in Alaska and the Alaska Highway as far as Whitehorse, YT. Information is organized by region and then by roads within those regions. An introductory section describes the background of the area and provides land management and emergency information. Any communities the cyclist will pass through are described and services relevant to cycle touring are listed. Roads are broken into approximately 80-mile segments with a small elevation profile provided for each. The terrain and road surface are described and the mile post locations of any junctions, water sources, camping, food, lodging, and roadside sights are tersely noted. No mile-by-mile description is provided. Unfortunately, the service information is dated as north-country businesses seem to pop up and shut down with alarming frequency. Coupled with the Milepost, this is a helpful book. Those used to hand-holding touring guides with detailed ride notes may be disappointed.

This title is woefully lacking in a few areas. While there are a few interesting and accurate tidbits in the narration, there is an obvious lack of info that would be *more important* to the budding naturalist/tracker. Also, the drawings are filled with inaccuracies (such as several canine charateristics in the bobcat prints) which would lead astray the untrained eye and make learning in the field much more difficult. Much more recommended are Lilliand and Donald Stokes' guide or that of Murie (Peterson Field Guides) or Paul Resendez. These authors have all made a more careful study and thus produce better literature and drawings.

On a recent vacation trip to the Pacific Northwest, I found this book at REI in Seattle. Me and my family enjoyed the book very much because of its unique characteristics: small, light, easy to carry into the field, cheap, the illustrations are mostly life-sized which makes it super easy to actually use by making direct comparisons in the field, and also the book contains ONLY the species we could expect to encounter in that region, which eliminates guessing about animals that don't even live there. We also liked the general tone of the book, friendly, knowledgeable.

This book is interesting, but not engrossing. The idea of using contemporary news stories as the way of telling about the various hauntings would be better if the stories were better written. Also, many of the stories describe an apparition, but make no attempt to tell who it is or why it is there. Ghost stories without background all sound the same, and are very dull.

Generally this book was a good read. It had stories (as the title shows) from around the country. My only gripe with this book is that it tends to ramble quite a bit and you lose the sense of the "true" story. They even included some of the old favorites that you told around the campfire when you were young!

NO PICTURES or even drawings of any kind make this book virtually useless (4 me anyway). Why anyone would put out a gardening book without pictures is beyond me. Especially when you are making specifing recommendations. printed 1987.

Also, another reviewer of another Lovejoy book "The Border in Bloom" says "Lovejoy gardens in the warmest part of the Puget Sound area, and her plant picks reflect that - it would be nice if she had included more information on hardiness zones, at least for the more marginal varieties."

I'm still looking for a list of hardy year round BRIGHT, LIGHT,,COLORFUL folilaged perennials for the Pacific NorthWest.

Right now I'm taking her suggestions and punching them into the computer, searching for pictures. So far her recommendations are very drab.

This is the first of Anne's books that I've read and loved and I have since ordered a few more and have met Anne at a class on borders I took at her new Sequoia Center on Bainbridge Island. While the book lacks pictures (still necessary for me) her writing is informative, fun, motivational and reflects a true love of gardening and plants that is infectious. Anne's gardens are casual and comfortable with an emphasis on shapes, colors and textures that go beyond flowers, are easy-care and are really beautiful ever-evolving works of art. She helps you learn that it's okay to get in there and take risks in the garden, and it works!

This author's research into the Poletown area of Detroit is completely misleading. It does not give an accurate account of the neighborhood during the GM "crisis", which displaced some businesses and a few long-time residents. Come on Serafino, the area was a ghetto long before GM moved in.

This book is an easy read by very well researched. Many of the topic in this book are through the eyes of the author and others who were raised in this city. Though small in size the city of Hamtramck shows that hard work and deturmination can overcome many opsticles such as the depression, over crowding, and the closing of the city's main source of tax income (Dodge Main). If you are from Hamtramck or know someone that is, this book will teel all they ever wanted to know about the city's history and more.

This book had a great title and came recommended to me by a professor at Utah State University. I whish I could say how educational it was or how it held my attention, but I had a hard time getting through just about ever page I read. You would need a list a mile long to keep up with the abbriviations used by the author. I know there are a lot of abbreviations used in the government and private sectors of natural resource managment, but having a degree in Natural Resources didn't prepare me to keep up with this one. Usually no matter how uninteresting a book is you can get by if you have to. I just couldn't keep going with it through the end.

Endangered species-- spotted owls and salmon are my backyard issues- I've also worked with community based resource management and environmental conflicts for the past 15 years . .Yaffe presents powerful arguments that we are facing not solely a biological crisis but also a crisis in how we as a society make public policy decisions and manage resources.He documents 25 years of failure in forest management, inability or unwillingness to overcome barriers of integrating natural systems management into agency bureaucracies. It's solid, good reading. I underlined sentences on every page. Recommend it strongly as a guide to the lessons we need to learn if we are to "reinvent" resource management. excellent!

The area reviewed is one of the most beautiful in Wisconsin. However the book had no pictures. Maps would help orient one to where they actually are in the area. Descriptions of places ommitted important information. An example was the description of Hotel Chequamagon - the book ommitted the fact that this hotel is located right on the shores of Lake Superior. Price ranges for all lodging, eateries, etc. would be a help. There were no website addresses. With some updating this would be a much better reference for this lovely place.

If you're looking for a book with all the stats on Alaska, this is the place to find it. A handy ready-reference book, this interesting read covers everything from the average rainfall in Ketchikan to the population of the smallest incorporated community in Alaska (Adak Station, pop. 7, if you're interested)

While it does contain a number of interesting facts and figures, don't look here for a Cruisers guide to the Inside Passage or an insiders look at Denali. The various sidenotes and facts by "Mr. Whitekeys" make for an interesting, entertaining addition to an otherwise vanilla statistics book (i.e. Alaskans are the second-highest per-capita consumers of S.P.A.M in the country), but other than a rare chuckle here and there based on Mr. Whitekey's comments, I found this book generally to be a bland compilation of stats, meaningful only to a seasonal traveller to the state, or a seasoned sourdough, passionate about Alaska.

Art of the Totem republishes archaelogical work done in the 1930's on Totem poles of the Northwest Coastal Indians. This short paperback is brief on text, but long on black and white and some color photos of Totem poles and other Native American art. Location maps of various totem pole sites are also included. This book contains many more photographs than equivalent length books on the subject, but does not contain much information on the various characters found in the Totem and their symbolism or history.