Where are all those great fishing holes? Where do you take visitors when they want to go Steelhead in early November? This is the book you. Find those holes, just around your block, ( really!!!), or just a few miles away. Thanks Terry.....

If you're planning a visit to Yosemite, Sequoia, the Redwoods, Joshua Tree, Death Valley, Lassen, or any of California's great national parks, and if you love to hike, this book is perfect. We spent a week in Yosemite last year, picking and choosing from this book's great trails. We did a long day-hike (8-12 miles) every day. Each one of the recommended trails was exactly as the author described. Without this book, we never could have decided which trails to hike in the park. We just came back from Death Valley and we used the book again. It's great! You really get your money's worth here.

Been to Malaysia and miss the food? Can't go but wonder what it tastes like? This book is for you. The recepies are authentic, easy to follow, and represent everything from "haute cuisine" to hawker food sold from street stalls. For those unfamiliar with this spicy, peppery cooking, the book includes beautiful pictures and a glossery {with photographs) of all unusual ingrediants. It was originally reccomended to me by a Malaysian friend, and I strongly support her suggestion

Nancy Turner's coverage of food plants in her area is amazing. In this new edition, the photos are splendid and really aid in identifying the plants. She has found out about the plants from the people who have used them extensively. One of my favorite wild edible plant books!

John Haines has often quoted the novelist Hermann Broch: "Political indifference is ethical indifference." Haines adds that soon it becomes esthetic indifference as well. "For the Century's End," Haines's latest book, contains poems that are exemplary of political, ethical and esthetic commitment. Poems such as "Blood," "Politics and the Dead," and "Kent State, 1970" show a meticulous attention to craft, a deep, melancholy sense of history, and an abiding sympathy and outrage on behalf of history's victims. In poems such as "In the House of Wax," he creates grim historic panoramas in the sparest of words: "Crowned heads and axes fall,/thugs and jailors rise/and displace each other/in this long, uneasy walk/we have littered/with claims and captions." Not many contemporary poems can claim to be "important"--i.e. to combine excellence of phrase and image with urgency of message. These are, and these do.

This is an awesome book of personal accounts, illustrations, and photographs of magnificent individuals of Pacific coast conifers. Van Pelt knows these trees like no one else, having journied to, measured, and stood in awe at each of the giants depicted. His writes with witty reverence and from a deep understanding of the ecology of giant trees. Featured in the book are the author's beautiful line drawings of the trees, which capture the amazing structural complexity of their crowns in a way not possible with photographs. This book is a must for all tree lovers and those interested in coffee table adventuring into the last great forests of the Pacific coast.

Though this book was first published in 1908, it remains as absolutely one of the all-time great classics in identifying and learning about the trees of the Pacific region of the United States and Canada. The detailed descriptions of the trees, their leaves, their bark, and so on are very clear. The book is unexcelled in giving precise locations of where a particular species of tree can be found, and is also unexcelled in describing the kind of climate, habitat, and soil a particular tree likes. Almost unique among books is an attempt to give an approximate longevity of each tree. True, some of the longevity figures would now be considered inaccurate today, but Sudworth truly did his best to secure the best available information of his times. Sudworth's practical experiences in his tree identification skills truly show in his writings. He allows for variations to be expected, as well as mentioning rules of thumbs and practical ways to help learn to identify the trees. The line drawings of the leaves, fruits or cones, and seeds of the trees are among the very, very best I've ever seen---such exquisite details are to be seen in the drawings! This book has been so useful for me that I'm going to have to find a new---or at least a used copy in good shape---to replace my present but worn copy. For the serious or beginning or advanced dendrologist, this book is an abslolute must in his or her personal library. It's such a great book that it really could use a six-star rating. Sudworth would be bursting with pride to know how useful his book has been for not just me, but for many others as well. It's truly one of the most scholarly and greatest of any tree books ever published, and I highly recommend it.

In 1943, Cleveland writer and journalist Dan Levin joined the Marine Corps to become a Combat Correspondent. From the Battlefield -- published by the Naval Institute Press fifty years after the Battle of Iwo Jima -- is his extraordinary personal account of World War II campaigns in the Pacific. He landed on Saipan on D+9, on Tarawa on D+2, and on Iwo Jima on D-Day.

The book is the memoir of a combat journalist, from boot camp at Parris Island, to Lejeune and Pendleton, through training in Hawaii, and on to the islands of battle and death. Levin weaves his own story with those of the young Marines he accompanied into battle -- all told in a spare, direct, manly style. The writing is matched by the Naval Institute Press's inspired layout of the book, using a typewriter font to convey both journalism and the period of the war.

From the Battlefield more than a memoir, however. It is also an anthology of some of Sergeant Levin's best war writing. His dispatches -- written on a portable typewriter under fire, carried by runner back to the ships offshore, sent by radio to the U.S. for distribution to newspapers and radio stations -- are as gripping today as they were in 1944 and 1945.

Levin's dispatches deserve re-reading, fifty years later, for the spirit of democracy they convey. Most of the Marines he fought with were young, products of the hard times of the Depression, who had known few advantages in life. He drew out their democratic inner nobility. He salutes in particular two men -- Frank Krywicki, who led the assault platoon (demolition satchels and flame-throwers) that Levin accompanied onto the beach, and Joe Berger, whose "different kind of heroism," work with captured and wounded Japanese, enlarged Levin's sense of humanity. He stopped using "Japs" in his dispatches as a result. He honors too the uplifting eulogy delivered after the Iwo Jima battle by Navy Chaplain Roland Gittelsohn, a rabbi.

He shares his journalistic techniques -- keeping a journal, writing "Joe Blow" stori! es, using literary references in his articles, and painting a mental picture of the battlefield for the distant American reader. At Gettysburg there were the "Devil's Den" and the "Peach Orchard." In Levin's corner of Iwo Jima there were "the Amphitheatre," "the Wilderness," and the "Brimstone Pit."

In addition to the articles and dispatches, From the Battlefield includes some of Levin's letters home and entries from his notebook, unpublished during the war because they could not pass the censors or were too grave. His battle muse also drove him to write poetry. "We Clasp Our Fallen" -- an agonized tribute to the Marines that fell in the thirty-one day battle of Iwo Jima -- combines GI experiences and emotions with a feeling for America and for the dignity of sacrifice matched in few other American memorial poems.

In one of the book's most poignant moments, Levin relates how his dispatch from the beach at Iwo Jima was heard on America's radios the next day. His wife, at work in a Washington war office, burst into tears -- knowing that he had lived at least a few hours on the battlefield, knowing at the same time that her husband was square in the middle of one of America's most awful days of blood.

From the Battlefield has the lingo and emotions of the '40s and the '90s in one volume. Fifty years after the battles, Levin's life as a journalist, businessman, and professor have aged and matured his memories. The integrated presentation of contemporary journalism and retrospective memoir gives this book rare power, and rarer wisdom.

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Great ariel photography book, part of a series on each of the main islands. I can't get enough Hawaii photos, so this book and the others are all part of my collection.

We will be there in 1 1/2 months. the book was so helpful. I so looking forward to our trip. we have gotten a few books so far for our trips. we were in Ireland last year. please email us back and let us know about the back page.