A book for Fishing Guides and Fishing Instructors to teach the basics and master the hand, arm, foot positions, and body motions.
Applicable camping techniques for those who enjoy the Rocky Mountains and Eastern Coast states, and packtrain information.
Excellent guide reference book everyone will enjoy reading before entering the wilderness on opening fishing season and the summer months. Pier Techniques. Float Tubing Techniques for all experienced and beginners. Traveling techniques. Numerous Fly Casting Techniques that are applicable to stream and ocean fishing.
Hand Drawings are unique, very detailed and informative.

Detailed information for fishing and for horse back riding and packtrain trips in the mountains, detailed technical drawings by the author with expert advice on bait and fly casting techniques for all ages. An excellent guide reference book everyone will enjoy reading before entering the wilderness on opening fishing season and the summer months. A book for Fishing Guides and Fishing Instructors. Pier Ocean Fishing Techniques. Float Tubing. Traveling techniques. The Fly Casting Techniques are applicable to freshwater and Ocean Fishing!

Expert/Advanced/Basic Fly Casting Techniques, Bait Casting Techniques, Packtrain and Camping techniques for everyone to use before going into the mountains or on regular camping trips. Detailed drawings that will be useful for camping in wilderness areas. Special handling techniques of equipment in the Sierra Neveda Mountains and United States of America. Float tubing techniques.

Very interesting account of an Eurasian American college student's search for his ancestors in China. This book is a real page turner, even for those who have no interest or knowledge of China. Travelers will get a realistic overview of the Chinese history and culture. Very Funny! Well worth the price!

This book was so amazing I read it twice! It is a funny, witty, educational story which really makes you feel like a part of the author's journey. His story is honest and fullfilling. The reader does not even need know much about China to be greatly entertained. I would suggest this book to anyone. I hope the author writes again...Horray for Beadle Lu!

This book combines the funniest "travel stories" I have ever read with lots of useful information including history, very practical travel tips, and a wonderfully insightful analysis of how recent changes in China have affected her people. The author steadfastly avoids any and all "travelogue cliches"- his account is all the more hilarious (and informative) for its brutal honesty.

In addition to all of this, there is a delightful plot twist (related to the title) that is both touching and hysterically funny. (And good plot twists are sometimes hard to find in travel memoirs.) This is one of the most entertaining books I have ever read!

This book is one of my favorite birding books. I am reticent to call it a field guide because it is so much more than that. Incredible amounts of information on all the sparrows. Great range maps AND descriptions of migration and vagrancy (can I hope to see this bird in my area?), and all the other natural history and behavior information you'd expect. Beautiful plates showing ALL the different plumages, primary and basic, male, female and juvenal. And it's not just a wealth of information, it's a beautiful book, well written and a delight to own.

Sparrows. Yippee. But if you want to learn them, this is the book.

Lots of detail, as you'd expect, but very clearly presented. Terrific illustrations and range maps. And what I like, but some will hate, is the fairly detailed treatment of every field-identifiable subspecies. Some of these subspecies will become full species some day, if present trends continue, and you'll be way ahead of the game if you've already been working on telling them apart. Plus it's fun; just try to keep an open mind.

this book is really good, the author, arlene ferguson came to talk to us about it and she showed us a real junkanoo hat and everything. the pictures are really interesting and the history is brilliant (a word she used)!!

This book is a "true-true" part of Bahamian history. Very few books have been written about the history of this cultural festival and this one is phenomenal. Nash-Ferguson gives a first person account of the entire process and history of the festival and the reader truly feels a part of the experience. The graphics and layout of this book are also wonderful - from the scene displayed through a piece of ripped cardboard on the cover to the shots of the costumes throughout it is easy to see why Junkanoo is considered true Bahamian culture by many.

I have used previous editions of this book in my insurance classes for years. It just keeps getting better and better. If there is a better introductory text out there, I haven't found it! J. Edward Updyke, CLU Senior Vice President Settlers Life Insurance Compan

This book is the third level (not including ACS) in obtaining your FLMI designation. Of the LOMA books I have studied, this has been the easiest reading. The case studies in the book were easy to understand. This book is well written and very interesting. If studied/read all the way through, you will receive a vast knowledge of insurance and how federal/state laws play a part in the insurance world.

Seminal, descriptive account of the vegetation of the Australian continent. Ecological notes and insights accompany exhaustive accounts of the major associations and alliances.

This quirky, charming little thriller features as its protagonist a most unlikely sleuth for a pop novel - Gordon McKenzie, mathematical genius, diminutive and unattractive, with a especial penchant for London "rent boys" (i.e., male prostitutes). During one of his frequent forays into a sleazy SoHo gay bar, Gordon accidently stumbles upon the murder of a brewery inspector in progress. He recognizes one of the assailants as a "rent boy" who often hits him up for cash. And the rent boy knows Gordon knows and proceeds to attempt to silence him for good. Gordon is on the run, aided by a handsome male prostitute with whom he has fallen in love. In the meantime Gordon is convinced the murder is part of a conspiracy involving drugs and that one of his social-climbing friends is the mastermind behind it. But just which one? And will Gordon live to find out?

Well, of course he will, since he narrates the thing. And it is his narrative voice which makes DOING BUSINESS a delight to read. Gordon is an erudite but witty and self-deprecating bloke who is also very funny and endearing. (I love his many well-placed allusions both to pop and high culture.) You hope he will win his Aidan in the end (although the odds are against it) and have the happy ending he deserves. (He does, but you must read to find out how.)

The novel's two drawbacks are its chattiness and comparatively large cast of characters. After a while one loses track of which "rent boy" is which (except the terrifying Gray, who is indelible). Still the varying British accents are cleverly rendered and often very funny.

What I also like about the novel is the way Beadle is able to take several well-aimed barbs at the Decade of Greed, the 1980's, and chronicle how disasterous it was on the morale of both the United Kingdom and the United States. In this time everyone has a price, and everything, even love and sex, is a commodity. Everybody's "doing business", except Gordon, of course, who just wants the attention of a handsome young man. Beadle neatly works in his message in the context of the mystery - not an easy feat and one that could easily have failed.

Apparently Beadle wrote a preceding mystery, DEATH SCENE, which I look forward to finding and reading. Unfortunately there will be no more Jeremy Beadle mysteries. The author was claimed by the AIDS plague in 1992 at the very young age of 36. Yet another talented victim of that insidious scourge.

The year was 1857, three years after passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act that created a struggle that culminated in the Civil War. Erastus F. Beadle was a successful businessman having made his mark first as a printer and subsequently as a publisher. He is best remembered for creating the Dime Novel format in publishing that ultimately made him a millionaire. Sometime in 1856 this New Yorker succumbed to the myth and lure of the West. He left his profitable printing and publishing business and on March 9, 1857, he departed New York for Omaha, Nebraska. This Diary is his impressions and experiences on the frontier from March 9 to October 1, 1857. It is a remarkable peek into a way of life in the American West that is rich in history and, as always in the West, myth.
It took Beadle some three months to traverse from New York to Omaha and his descriptions of the conditions encountered on the "Big Muddy" river boats as well as trains, stagecoach, and wagons is both entertaining and instructive of the hardships facing travelers seeking fame and fortune in the West. His experiences in and around Omaha include this description of law and justice:"There is no law here except club laws and vigilance committee to enforce them. A man gets a fair hearing and justice done him but it is quick done and no heavy expence saddled on the County." As to the Indian situation he notes "The Indians have been greatly wronged, and as a general thing when there is Indian depredations the Whites are the first aggressors." His diary also includes detailed descriptions of the landscape, including his fascination with a night prairie fire, as well as the ever-present wind and rain in the spring to the summer heat. The apprehension of the inhabitants over the so-called "slavery stronghold" in Kansas along with the politics of the times is noted as well as a daily description of his workday and evening pleasures. His "self-help" medical care and treatment is ample evidence of the dangerous conditions existing on the frontier and a testament to the tenacity and courage of the settlers.
This is a wonderful first person account that is both entertaining and informative. It provides an intimate record of a period in American history that is gone and almost forgotten. Beadle's impressions, anecdotes, details, and descriptions of characters he met and the rigors of the times are indispensable in understanding the mostly mythical West.

I first borrowed this book from my local library in 1985, and continued to do so, always returning it late, then suddenly it was gone, no explanation from the librarian, just a stony face. Now in 1998, I got it from Amazon.com, and it's just as brilliant!!!