After spending time over a period of 20 years wandering over Denali's magnificent landscape, Kennan Ward has published a collection of stunning photographs. The peak of Mt. McKinley is a focal point in many of his photographs, however caribou, Dall sheep, moose, wolf, bear, eagles, moose, marmot, and pikas give us an idea of a landscape teeming with wildlife. Kennan's pictures capture the essence of Denali. To him, this place is sacred.

"I've returned here again and again over the past 20-some years to drink in the vastness of its wilderness, the remarkable variety of the flora and fauna, and a certain elemental force that's almost indescribable. The land itself is almost like an entity, powerful and without peer." --Kennan Ward

You will enjoy the changing seasons of Denali. There are magnificent landscapes of fall, snow capped mountains and rolling fields of greenery. Some of the most striking photographs are the close up shots. If you enter Kennan's world of sprawling landscapes and migrating herds, you will be rewarded with pictures from a keen observer of wildlife and nature.

This is the book the Park Service doesn't want you to read. It has all the secret trails in Denali National Park complete with detailed maps. I really enjoyed the geological facts and history to better help you understand why Denali is so unique and so beautiful. The author also has a nice website. [...]

What a great book! Best I can tell, this is the only history of Denali available. This book is full of the history of not only Denali, but also early Alaska and the Park Service. There are page after page of vintage photographs and maps. The text reads smoothly and quickly and amazes at every page. I thought that Denali might be our most special National Park--now I know that it is.

Erwin and Peggy Bauer's Denali provides a stunningly beautiful portrait of the park by two wildlife photographers. An essay describes the park's history but it's the photos which captivate in this small but powerful offering.

I have two five year old nephews who loved this book. It is about dinosaurs without all the blood and gore normally associated with other dinosaur books. It is a 'sound' book which keeps the interest of little listeners. The illustrations are bright and colorful. The story teaches a valuable lesson, but in a fun rhymic way. It is something to be read again and again, for years to come. The book is sturdy and the cover has a nice finish which can be wiped off if necessary!

"The dinosaurs of Jurassic Park" is a wonderful book, full of images of the incredible dinosaurs created by Stan Winston for the best film ever! The book itself is very well-written. One of the most interesting part is the comparison between the JP dinos and the real animals, as they were 65 million years ago. For all Jurassic Park buffs, this album is a must! I definatly recommend it.

I've never been one to enjoy reading historical writings very much, but I loved this book. Ruth searched and found many great writings, along with photos to go with them, that tell the stories of early settlers, the "cottagers" and the year round residents of Bar Harbor. Bar Harbor/Acadia is my favorite spot in New England and we will return their again this summer. I will have a better appreciation of the life these people lived in the late 1800s and will better appreciate how fortunate we are to have Acadia as protected natural lands.

Texas redneck pursues love interest into feminist Tantric Buddhist sex commune. Undergoes changes. A commentary and companion to the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Contains graphic language, poetry, and explication du texte.

Dolores park uses the situation of the intentional commune to reflect robust experiments with religion, sexual generosity and lifestyle. We follow the main character, Walker, and watch as his mind grows in psychological depth and sophistication while his western ego crumbles under relentless onslaught of sexual ecstasy and group confrontation and spiritual insights.

The books develops from personal romance between Walker and Dahlia, to group psychology and then to exploring the profound effects of the psyche of group marriage.

We follow Walker Underwood just in from Texas exploring the strangeness of California lifestyle in San Francisco as he falls in love with a beautiful woman who belonged to a Tantric Buddhist commune. The story of this romance is one of the most well-written to ever flow through a human observer capturing man's longing for the grace and the lively loveliness of woman's mortal essence. We become involved with him as he attempts to write poetry and as the couple struggle against great odds to be together.

Following in romantic pursuit, we are brought through shifting points of view into the lives and struggles of the people of the commune and the Group Mind at the center of Tantric Buddhist spiritual practices. Eventually Walker finds a terrific sense of self-acceptance as he finally comes home to himself.

Dolores Park records the poignant year that began in the fall of 1982, when the nuclear freeze initiative was gaining momentum, and the AIDS epidemic was just starting to surface. A precious time of inner renewal and sexual self-discovery.

With humor, Walker describes how the experiences changed his attitudes, salvaged his sexual life and enriched his spiritual life.

Rich in psychological insight, flowing with lyrical beauty, and depicting the sadness at the heart of all attempts to live an authentic feeling life, Dolores Park invites the reader to join this hapless southern writer on his journey to a deeper understanding of the divine and the human community.

The book teaches the reader how to read itself gradually, as it develops the literary convention of Point Of View shift into a perfect vehicle to reflect the subject matter of the book --group processing. This simple principle generates a wholeness that at once hides, reveals and contain the energies of an ordinary man's unconscious.

What emerges is the picture of a modern mind imbued in, trusting and enriched by the penetrating abstraction in our world view especially that reflected in the description of how the laws of space and energy are invariants derived from group theoretical principles governing the transformations of symmetry. This perspective is born out in Piaget's account of human consciousness growing in stages from the inter-figural, intra-figural, and trans-figural relations as well as of transpersonal psychology in its maturation of object relations, self-psychology, and group psychology. This is the structure of the book and the story it tells.

Michael Lyons is a freelance writer of fiction, technical manuals and theatre performance in San Francisco. He received his B.A.in Natural Philosophy from the University of Texas, Austin. Dolores Park is the thrid novel in a projected series. It is followed by Zenobia and A Blue Moon in August. He is author of several novels including two in his little house on the prairie trilogy --they are The Secret of the Cicadas' Song, and Knight of 1000 eyes, also published by HiT MoteL Press. The third novel in this series, Knight of 1000 eyes will come out in August 2001

...I am very much involved in locating free and low cost camping opportunities. Don Wright's Guide to Free Campgrounds, both the Western and Eastern edtions, are by far the most comprehensive guides to where to find free and low-cost campgrounds, whether the camper is traveling with an RV or pitching a tent. These days, a campsite in a commercial campground will typically run from about $20 to $35 a night (and even higher in popular tourist areas), which can severely impact a camper's wallet. So finding low-cost and even free places to stay is often important to keeping the cost of camping to a minimum. Anyone who camps more than two-to three weeks a year and is on a budget should easily save the price of this book in campsite fees. Campers who camp a lot will benefit even more.