This huge volume is an excellent resource for teachers and students of Asian history. It contains dozens of essays on Asia and the west, Asia and the world, and themes in Asian history, written by some of our finest historians. The information on Asian history, culture, and religions is fascinating and accessible. For high school AP World History teachers like me, it is an invaluable reference because it provides both great scholarship and intriguing little "hooks" we can use to keep the students interested. I keep this book in my classroom at all times.

This book should be a required read for anyone studying to teach early childhood education, but anyone interested Reggio Emilia or young children will find this an excellent resource. Through the lens of the Reggio Emilia philosophy, the book looks at "the image of the child", "the role of the teacher", environment, documentation, relationships, curriculum, aesthetics, and finally "the Hundred Languages of Children". It is a highly enjoyable read, rich with real life examples of Reggio in practice, as well as the reality of the challenges faced by teachers. Wonderful!!

With more than 50 women missing from Vancouver, you'd think there would be a lot of books and writings on this unbelievable story. However, Trevor Greene appears to be the only one with guts to tackle this horrific story.

Reminiscent of the Green River killings, but more prolific, these missing women are out there somewhere. Trevor does a great job of keeping objective as he talks about a tradegy that is beyond most of our understanding.

A Vancouver group of friends decided to start walking and hiking for pesonal challenge and a chance to enjoy the beautiful place they lived in. For a few months they limped along with few, outdated, and poorly described hiking guides. One of them read about Dawn Hanna's new book on the internet, purchased it, and I'd like to thank Dawn for providing the kind of guide we've been looking for.

This easy-to-use, fits-your-pocket gem provides well-described directions and levels of challenge, along with maps and climatic information, as well as wonderful legends & history; Dawn's passion for hiking the area is inspiring. This book is a got-to-take item for your hikes, only preceded by your water bottle.

I've had the older edition of this book for years and brought it on every road trip we've ever taken. Certainly it doesn't have every wonderful place you've ever stayed at -- but it has so many that are good it would be foolish not to follow the recommendations it provides.

My only complaint is that some of the wonderful places (which, granted, we never would have found had it not been for this book) have become so difficult to get reservations at that we find this book sometimes does not help for those last minute weekend trips out of town.

That said, if you live in the Northwest, consider this your bible -- from Portland to Vancouver, the Islands, and everywhere in between -- you will always find a reliable recommendation for a good table and a warm bed in the pages of this book.

This collection is not only beautiful but hugely significant in the marking of a totally unique Black Experience. Congratulations to Mr.Compton for bringing this to light! The history of the western most province in Canada is unusual in that it is one of very few places that does not, or rather, no longer, has a centralised black Community.A positive aspect of this is that it is not a ghettoised community. The difficult part is that one can have the sense that this still significant and growing community is permanently fractured. What Compton does so well is bring this unique history together.This beautiful blues people pioneering history appears alongside the children of hiphop now. One gets an overview that stretches and eases into that phat orange Pacific sunset.

The book is an inspired Rocky Mountain solid collection of historical document and contemporary prose and poetry .

Recline and read.

It's the only book on the Bowron Canoe Circuit I've found that gives a reader a true photographic picture of the rewards he/she will experience when traveling this circuit. Short on the historic value of this area and short on preparing visitors on what's required to travel in a true wilderness setting.

Sorry to see it was out of print - was looking it up so I could buy another copy.
Lightweight, so travels well, has very good info on most everything u could want to see, including Banff/Jasper Nat'l parks, (even though they are in Alberta Province).
Reasonably well arranged.

Get this book, and if you want to know everything there is to know about Canadian Rocky Mountain flora and fauna, add Ben Gadd's book "Handbook of the Canadian Rockies" (a considerably heavier book, due to color plates) and you won't need anything else but a map.

The following came from reader Rita J. Martin recently:

Good Afternoon.

Say I just wanted to say, we loved your "Off the Beaten Path" British Columbia. Recently, my husband and I celebrated our 30th Anniversary and took a trip to British Columbia. And we used your book every step of the way and found there to be no errors within the contents (except a few increases in admission - and we called that life!). We even loved eating Halibut and Chips at Mad Trapper Neighborhood Pub. It's also thought it was funny we had taken several trips throughout the years and have never stopped at Marble Canyon wow I mean shout it out! That place is wonderful and will remain on our stopping list forever. I could go on and on about the material we found within the pages of your book. I've recommended it to several of our friends.

Without saying before I end this note; any chance you've written other books using that same guideline?

Sincerely,
Rita J. Martin

Mr. Garden has done his homework here , the book is quite a masterpiece . The images shown are all classics. All areas of this hard to railfan line are covered, either by the author or other diligent photographers. The line history is likewise documented, from its beginnings to to present day. After reading this work, I am ready to pack my cameras and hike into some of the locations illustrated for a go at it. This book will be a cult classic in my opinion, well worth the money, even if you have never set foot in British Columbia, Canada.