This is a beautifully illustrated book about the fish, tackle and tactics for catching the fish. I would recommend this book for the person wanting to start hunting these monsters. I gives the beginner musky hunter good insight into the tackle needed, proven presentations, and behaviours of the fish. Although there are more detailed references available, I believe this is an excellent starting point for the person serious about (or seriously considering) fishing for musky.

This book is an excellent book full of valueable information that is helpful both to beginners and veteran fisherman. The pictures are great and the presentation is excellent.

This book is best read while sitting someplace really warm! The author has done an excellent job of writing about the snowy north, makes me really feel like I'm there. Brr. The book has a unique voice too. Apparently she loves old movies, and you can really tell. She's got a quirky way of looking at things. Makes for a nice change.

There's a new amateur detective in town, and she's not only a role model for middle-agers but a pip. Belle Palmer is a likable, adventurous, teacher turned real estate agent turned unofficial private eye. She lives with her German Shepherd in a lovely, if not primitive area of Canada known as the nickle capital of the world. It reminds me of the bustling blue-collar cities reduced to seasonal resorts that dot America's coasts. Author Lou Allin creates a picture of a town and countryside that we know by heart toward the end of the book. Sudbury struggles against a seven month winter, and Allin's descriptions of the landscapes, storms, snowmobiling, and cars sliding on the ice into snow banks are so real that the reader thinks she's there. I needed a comforter and hot chocolate to finish this chilling read. And murder happens here too. But Belle keeps dressing up and asking questions until she finds out who did it, and this almost costs her life. I think the ending is the best part of this book-twists, turns, chases, and lots of Palmer ingenuity. Don't miss this one!

A very intresting book regarding a extraordinary journey. A travelers tale of a difference.

With the world seemingly becoming smaller each day, with less room for new adventures and discoveries, David Cowper's journey will invigorate those who have a yearning for the olden days of the explorers. The Northwest Passage still has a romantic mystic attached to it, and the difficulties of crossing it are well described in this book. Enough detail and description is included to give the reader a genuine feel for the Passage and the scope of the trip. Even if a reader has no interest in the North, the book offers a glimpse into the human spirit's desire for adventure and challenge. Yet, and perhaps the nicest thing about it, Mr. Cowper retains humility and never self-aggrandizes.

Mr. Guscin brings two things to this subject which remains relatively unknown outside Spain. First, he presents a reasonably believable discussion on what the Pañolon is and why such an article should be in Spain at all, and second he offers a thoroughly believable explanation of the fluid stains and what they mean.

At that point, he disgresses off into yet another argument about the Shroud of Turin. There is little middle ground about the Shroud: either you believe it's authentic or you don't. Hauling all that baggage into this discussion serves little purpose. For that reason, I give this book four instead of five stars. People who are interested in the Shroud, the Pañolon itself, or Spanish history will find it very interesting.

For the record, there are three times a year that you can actually see the Pañolon in Oviedo's Cathedral: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and for reasons that are obscure to me, December 13th. Other times you can see the box that holds it, and a big photo of the article.

Guscin's book is clearly written and understandable. It is arranged in good sequence. The information is credible. I accept that no matter how many facts are found out about the sudarium and or the shroud, there will always be persons who cannot and will not accept anything that indicates a supernatural act/ intervention. Yet, in this case, science is being used by many persons and groups to support the belief that both cloths are a testament to a historical fact - the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. Guscin's book is a valuable addition to the large amount of work being done to further demonstrate the truth, the historical facts, and yes-the divine intervention of our natural laws of physics. Science is supporting these claims. I highly recommend this book to those who trust the carbon dating process as being an infallible scientific test - which has been proven - scientifically - that it is not. I thank Mr. Guscion for his labors in bringing this information to us= Louis VElasquez

Cookston tells her sad story about a young girl who follows her mother's wishes and goes against her father's, to have what she believes is true love. The readers follow Nancy Ann from husband to husband as she searches for true love, which she finds in the end. I thought this novel was wonderful! I felt the pain that Nancy Ann felt with her first husband who mistreated her and I felt her happiness when she found at last her true love. I recommend this novel to anyone who will suffer along with the characters in the novel because they love a happy endings.

Thi book is absoutely gripping. Once you start to warm toward it you don't want to put it down.

Nancy Ann Hazel, the 'heroine' in this novel is a tomboy. Due to her elder brothers' training she does most of the things boys do in that time like fencing and a bit of wrestling. When she turns thirteen, her parents decide to send her to dame school to learn the ways of a young lady. After two or three years there, her mother becomes gravely ill and she returns home to stay with her mum until her death or recovery. During this period, the man from The House, a rich, notorious womanizer and gambler pays calls and helps the family to get through their difficult time by providing food and a doctor to attend to the mother. His intentions are to act as a suitor to this wonderful young girl, athough he is old enough to be her father. The only one oblivious to his motives is Nancy Ann herself. The mother wants to see her lovable tomboy settle down before she dies and suggests that she allow the man from The House to court her because he would be ale to provide for her without much effort. This is the exact opposite idea of the Parson, Nancy's father, because the man from The House is known to have many mistresses and he is a man of the world. He pleads with his wife to change her mind but her opinion can't be changed. Nancy Ann marries the man against her father's wishes to please her mother. After this she goes through trials where she shows incredible strength of character and mind and is able to come out on top, finally happy, with the love she was avoiding.

I recommend this book to anyone who loves a bit of comedy wrapped up in the joy and sorrows of life in the 19th century. This is the first novel by Catherine Cookson that I have read and it has encouraged me to purchase more of her writings.

With regard to Tables of Houses for Northern Latitudes from the Equator to 50 Degrees N. 0' -Also for Leningrad 59 Degrees N. 56', I am unable to understand why the publisher namely W. Foulsham & Company, has discontinued the publication of this valuable book effective 1986.

I wish to advise that this book is of great help to Astrology students and publication should be revived immediately, or else have it for sale in the newer version - i.e. on CD.

Please let me know whether it is already available on CD and if so where it is available for purchase by Credit Card.

its a very important book and with very accurate data

As a strong reader with a great interest in the "Troubles", I've read many books, by T. P. Coogan, P. Taylor, M. Dillon and others. I found most of them very interesting, but I was amazed by the overwhelming "shattering silence" about women. For instance, in 519 pages of Coogan's "The Troubles", one of the most important IRA women, Mairead Farrell, well known far beyond the Irish borders, gets only 11 lines.

While I was reading these books I wondered why the writers seemed so little interested in highlighting the actual women's role in the "war". In their researches women are seen and interviewed (when they are interviewed)just as mothers, wives, sisters, never as women with their own life, stories, experiences, dreams, their own struggle or political involvement.

Begona Aretxaga gives us a convincing answer about the roots and the meaning of this silence. She fills the gap between the Myth of Mother Ireland and the real life of the real women in the North, and, in so doing, she offers an excellent contribution in women studies in Ireland, beyond the stereotypes that sometimes affect mainstreaming feminism. But she also offers a helpful key to understand the "Truobles" as a whole. Her arguing about "the parallel between the struggle of republican women for recognition and voice within the republican movement, and the struggle of republican movement for recognition and voice within the arena of Northern Ireland politics", as well as about the issue of decommissioning, helped me in understanding the full, underlying meaning of what was going on along the difficoult months following the Good Friday Agreement.

In Aretxaga's words, "this book is an ethnography of unrecognised and misrecognized nationalist working-class women" as political subjects, and it's very useful to people who wish to know more about gender and violence in Northern Ireland thruogh the last 30 years. But because of its analysis of the interlocking systems of inequality of colonialism, class and gender, I recommend it to everyone interested in getting a better comprehension of the complexities of the Troubles and of the ongoing, difficoult, sometimes disheartening, peace process.

When discussing the troubles in Northern Ireland, women are seldom mentioned at all. And when they are mentioned, mostly they are depicted as passive victims of a male-dominated war waged in a male-dominated society. This is often the case, but not a reason in itself to deny or underestimate women's contribution to political and social development in Ulster. Begona Aretxaga's book, born from the author's "prima facie" experience during a 15 months stay in West Belfast (plus several other visits in loco), is a successful attempt to analyse the role of women in Nationalist/Republican struggle. The author makes excellent use of anthropological and ethnographic categories in order to stress the importance of West Belfast women in contributing to the strategies of Irish Republicanism and the creation of Irish Nationalist identity. Although cast in an environment which tends to limit their participation to social life according to traditional values, Nationalist women often succeeded in breaking socially determined barriers. In doing so they contributed to Irish history more than is generally recognized. Moreover, the author's feminist approach, far from being a limit to her analysis, is an effective intellectual tool and succeeds in bringing to the fore a perspective on Irish troubles too often overlooked by many.

The main audience for this book is Britons looking for interesting short breaks close to home. It serves its purpose admirably, in the usual high quality Cadogan way. It covers in good detail places which are mere footnotes in other guides which detail much vaster areas. There are whole chapters, for example, on Bayeux, the D-Day beaches, Montreuil, Boulogne, the western Cotentin peninsula, to name a few (complete list below).

BE WARNED HOWEVER: If you are looking for information on World War One battlefields, sites and memorials, this is not a subject covered in this book.

List of places covered (each includes getting there, tourist info, eating, staying, shopping, touring around)

Calais, Boulogn, St Omer, Cassel and the Monts de Flandre, Lille, Arras, Montreuil, Hesdin and the Sept vallees, Baie de la Somme, Amiens, Eu, Dieppe and the Caux Maritime, Fecamp and Etretat, the Pays de Bray, Rouen, Ry and the Foret de Lyons, Giverny and the Seine Valley, Honfleur, Trouville and Deauville, Northern Pays d'Auge, Southern Pays d'Auge and Falaise, Normandy Beaches, Bayeux, Balleroy and the Pre-Bocage, Barfleur, Cap de la Hague, Western Cotentin coast, The Cotentin Bocage, Mon St-Michel and its bay, St-Malo.

Although this book might seem to be written for British travelers planning to pop over to Normandy for a few days, it can also be a great guide of any traveler planning to spend some time in Normandy by piecing together the different areas featured here. Because of the title I almost didn't buy this book but my preference for the Cadogan series finally won out, and my husband and I found it to be invaluable. There is excellent, detailed information here not found in any of the several other guides we have on Normandy, and we especially approve of the restaurant recommendations. A big thumbs up on this one

As unlikely as the link may seem, Cairan Carson is to Belfast and traditional Irish music what Nathanial Mackey is to California and jazz.

Carson's memoire of life as an adolescent in Belfast is ripe ground for etymological meanderings in an out of English and Irish. He dally's with Catholic dogma and sources whose only connective thread is his passing interest in them.

The Star Factory is an internal play of language, image and memory that gives spunk to the genre and good craic to the reader.

I was led to this book via Partickane's list of contemporary Irish literature on .... Partially a memoir, partially a meditation on language and history, and not quite like anything I have ever read before. Carson's prose style is lyrical, melodic and absolutely engaging without being in the least showy.