SC without Myrtle Beach? NC without Ocracoke or Hatteras? VA and MD, but no Washington DC? This book is useless! There are Area Attactions, but no indication how far they are from the airport. There is a Transporation section, but it leaves out important mass transit options. Most of what is in this book is in my A/FD (and it covers EVERY airport). My (free) AOPA Airport Directory does a better job. I'm sending my copy back for a refund.

poor information, for instance only 6 airports in AZ (GCN,PHX(2x!),DVD,IWA,TUS,RYN). baja not covered at all. CO, KA, OK, TX are not really in the southwest, a current A/FD is a better buy,

Two problems exist with this book. First, the title misrepresents the content as no information exists in the book on Baja. Second, the information on Southwestern airports is sketchy and incomplete. The book is a dud.

I am the native of the area described, I climbed for some time there and I live in the USA now. First of all it's a joke to try to try compressing the North Caucasus' climbs in 200 or so pages. The book contains astonishing number of errors in places' names, misspellings and incorrect captions, that ruin any confidence. The most terrible mistake is in the very name of the book where author calls the Balkar portion of the Range "The Svanetian Range". That is a huge misnomer because the real Svanetian Range separates Upper Svanetia from Lower Svanetia with Mt. Laila being its highest point. Author probably used very old, perhaps the World War II maps of the area used by the German "Edelweiss" division when fighting the Russians there. One of few color photographs clearly shows the Adyl-su valley while the caption states "Nakra valley" or something like that. The book is poorly translated from German, with some puzzling phrases for example, the Split Glacier is called Abgezweigert Glacier, the name that doesn't even distantly resemble the local tongue.
Actual route descriptions are VERY OUT OF DATE! For example if you follow the advise and climb Mt. Ortokara, you will be probably killed by a rockfall, since nobody climbs that side of the Bezingi valley for many years, due to the Global Warming and glacier melting. Route schemes are very detailless and shabby! The routes numbering is a mess! Grades are simply stated in Russian system where a 250-meter rock climb in Crimea and The Russian route on Mt. Everest have the same 5 A grade! There is absolutely no useful practical information in this brochure. On the contrary the book is often misleading even in safety issues. For instance it doesn't even mention the dangers of crossing into or even getting close to the southern slopes of the Range (Shkhelda valley in summer) , lest being robbed or murdered by the Svans, whose land descended into a complete lawlessness in the recent years.
Feel free to reach me with any questions on DETAILS of REAL, CURRENT CONDITIONS of climbing in the North Caucasus at potap75@hotmail.com

I am the native of the area described, I climbed for some time there and I live in the USA now. First of all it's a joke to try to try compressing the North Caucasus' climbs in 200 or so pages. The book contains astonishing number of errors in places' names, misspellings and incorrect captions, that ruin any confidence. The most terrible mistake is in the very name of the book where author calls the Balkar portion of the Range "The Svanetian Range". That is a huge misnomer because the real Svanetian Range separates Upper Svanetia from Lower Svanetia with Mt. Laila being its highest point. Author probably used very old, perhaps the World War II maps of the area used by the German "Edelweiss" division when fighting the Russians there. One of few color photographs clearly shows the Adyl-su valley while the caption states "Nakra valley" or something like that. The book is poorly translated from German, with some puzzling phrases for example, the Split Glacier is called Abgezweigert Glacier, the name that doesn't even distantly resemble the local tongue.
Actual route descriptions are VERY OUT OF DATE! For example if you follow the advise and climb Mt. Ortokara, you will be probably killed by a rockfall, since nobody climbs that side of the Bezingi valley for many years, due to the Global Warming and glacier melting. Route schemes are very detailless and shabby! The routes numbering is a mess! Grades are simply stated in Russian system where a 250-meter rock climb in Crimea and The Russian route on Mt. Everest have the same 5 A grade! There is absolutely no useful practical information in this brochure. On the contrary the book is often misleading even in safety issues. For instance it doesn't even mention the dangers of crossing into or even getting close to the southern slopes of the Range (Shkhelda valley in summer) , lest being robbed or murdered by the Svans, whose land descended into a complete lawlessness in the recent years...

These stories are full of cliched characters, cliched dialogue, and second-rate description. Try Paris, Texas instead.

I was very disappointed in this book due to the fact that the first 155 pages are devoted to a negative discourse on why amature, as well as professional rock art enthusiasts, are foolish and wrong in their attempts to make sense of, and understand what these ancients were trying to tell.

The second half of the book contains a very nice, brief description of the most well known rock art sites throughout the greater four corners area. The short descriptions are accompanied by well presented black and white photos representing type examples of petroglyphs in each area.

The book contains some useful information if one can glean it from the negative dialogue.

Don't waste your time and money on this book. The directions stink, the maps are awful, it's waaaaaay overworded, and it has all the personality of a flat tire. Buy Timm Muth's book instead. Or anything for that matter.

In another horrible work bythis third-rate historian, Daniel probes another trite labor issue. This work is a terrible read. Calling it murky and incoherent is a compliment. Thank you Cletus, for again adding nothing to our knowledge of the labor movement.

Despite being so cheap, I found this overpriced ... it is merely a thin pamphlet comprised of 12 recipes for Christmas. That would have been fine, and I would have been delighted even at many times the price *IF* it had told anything about the recipes, how the family/friends enjoyed them, where the recipes came from, or even if the author had ever tasted them. But just a terse printing of 12 recipes w/o descriptions seems to be a complete waste of space. I was very disappointed; I had really been looking forward to this, mistakingly thinking that it would include brief descriptions and/or recollections. Instead, it didn't include either.

This book isn't really about native literacy, it's a postmodern ethnography (ugh) which is about what it's like being an anthropologist wandering around Navajoland looking for the occasional scrap of paper with written Navajo on it. It's like Derrida doing a travel magazine article, except with more jargon.

Since this is an ethnography, you occasionally learn a fact or two, like the fact that there's more things written in English than in Navajo -- which the reader could possibly have predicted from the facts that Navajoland is surrounded by the US, and that most Navajos were not taught to read and write Navajo in school. But because this book is from the bad old days of 1980s postmodern anthro, the facts are few and far between, and the book's 200-odd pages are filled with navel-gazing about how challenging it is to write about this subject which the author would be writing about (i.e., Navajos and literacy) if he weren't instead writing ABOUT writing about it.

If this were exactly the only book ever written about Native Americans and/or literacy, it might be worth reading. Lucking, there are other books, which makes it hard for me to imagine there ever being a reason to spend time reading this empty and uninformative book. Instead, consider these, just to name a few:
Margaret Bender's /Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life/
Deborah House's /Language shift among the Navajos: Identity Politics and Cultural Continuity/
Ross Woodruff's /The Development of the Navajo Orthography and the Translation of the Navajo New Testament/
Bernard Spolsky's /Linguistics in Practice: the Navajo Reading Study/