He was bound determined not to paint people reading and women knitting, but instead to show people who breathed emotions into his darkly suggestive prints. "Death in the sickroom" showed family members at the ages when they were painted, not when his sister Sophie died; it expressed unity in grief as one of death's longlasting effects by seemingly overlapping planes flowing together across bleakly empty areas, starkly B&W contrasts, and stiffly posed mourners frozen in misery. "The mirror" heads of a disembodied man and woman was his first woodcut to give up the Japanese method of printing each color with a separate woodblock; instead, he jigsawed blocks into pieces according to compositional design, linked each piece with a different color, and put everything back together into a multicolored print. He considered his "Sick child II" his most important print: his first color lithograph, it focused on the diseased upper chest and the head in profile facing right against a large pillow in order to gaze with tragically meditative resignation into the flatly patterned looming void on the far right. However, his "Scream" became the most compelling image for the late twentieth century: it expressed terror before the universe by powerfully decorative lines reverberating through the starkly opposed black lines and bleakly white voids of pulsing land and sky. Elizabeth Prelinger and Michael Parke-Taylor have applied reader-friendly illustrations and text to their catalog of the Vivian and David Campbell exhibition. Their SYMBOLIST PRINTS OF EDVARD MUNCH goes down good with PROGRESSIVE PRINTMAKERS by Warrington Colescott and Arthur Hove, PRINTS AND PRINTMAKING by Antony Griffiths, EDVARD MUNCH by Josef Paul Hodin, and THE PRINT IN THE WESTERN WORLD by Linda C Hults.

I've used this guide on every leg described in the book and it was dead on (1988 - 1996). The summit creek area description was helpful since that section wasn't well marked. Is much better than USGS maps. Definitely recommend. 259 Top of the line.

In the Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad,a civilized man goes native and aboriginal in the heart of the Congo jungle.Is it possible the same thing can happen to an upright man of the law in the democratic confines of Prospect Park? In this entertaining and edifying novel the author explores the shared theme imaginatively and very inventively illustrates a decision facing the law man who lives as an outcast in an abandoned den of the park zoo. Would he be able to feel the languishing, redemptive power of the once beautiful park dedicated to the bioethic of a tamed Nature?The author evokes the once civic innocence of the park and its present parlous state to evoke scenes of idyllic beauty,wanton vandalism and crime.Between these antagonists lies the fate of the law man. Will he live by the letter of the law,or will he succumb,like Marlowe,to the credo of the Talion Law. ? An urban man,or urban savage?AS I describe the read it seems a bit"heavy". On the contrary,it is fast moving and gripping ,and worth your readership

Route finding in the Tetons can be difficult. Richards topo + text book of the classic climbs is a great, concise and compact guide that will get you there and on route, and back down. Has most of the routes most technical climbers will do. Past that - you're copying topos out of the brag book so....

A large-format (8.5x11", oblong) color photo book of Big Bend National Park and vicinity. Includes shots of canyons, deserts, ghost towns, local flora and fauna, park map. 60% photos, 40% text.

"This Blue Hollow" is a tremendous gift for residents and visitors of Estes Park. Pickering's account of the area's early history is told with the warmth and intimacy of a campfire tale and a myriad of details that substantiate his story. As a casual student of history, a former part-time resident and frequent visitor of Estes Park, and an avid hiker, "This Blue Hollow" has given me a fresh and exhilarating perspective on the crown jewel of the Rockies.

"This Blue Hollow" is an important historical resource and a wonderful story about adventure, Rocky Mountain pioneers, and the celebration of human spirit.

This is a great book in the This Little Baby...series. What little baby doesn't get excited thinking about going out? Tell a baby we are going out and see what happens. When a child is read this book he imagines going out too and lives the tale. What baby isn't excited about the park and swinging, seeing a puppy dog and feeding the ducks? The walk home with Mom includes apples to buy and enjoying a snack with all the baby's favorite toy animal friends back at home. This is a very satisfying book for a liitle baby. This one will soon become a favorite!~

This was one of the few titles I lacked of MRR. I ordered, and it was back-ordered for so long that at one point I didn't think I'd get it at all. But I did and I'm really happy to have it. This book tells of many of the real-life adventures Mary Roberts Rinehart and her family had--back when the great Northwest really was only becoming known. She brought the cowboys, the trail drives, the friendships--and the dangers--to life wonderfully.

George W. Wingate was a man in full for his time. With his Civil War compatriot Col. William C. Church, Wingate published the first manual on rifle marksmanship in 1870. The following year the pair established the National Rifle Association.

In 1885, Wingate's concern for the health of his 17-year old daughter and his sense of adventure led him, his wife and their eldest daughter, May, to plan a horseback trip through Yellowstone National Park. Doctors believed the trip would improve May's health. It did.

The Wingates rode 460 miles in just 26 days, returning to New York City bedazzled by the park and in fine spirits.

Wingate's book, Through the Yellowstone Park on Horseback, provides a faithful and fascinating account of early tourist travel. The University of Idaho Press provides a service by republishing the book and reminding us of Yellowstone's marvelous history.

Wingate was also a faithful observer. He provided fine sketches of Western culture, from an Army fort past its prime, to profiles of those he hired to guide his family through the park. Hunters and anglers will enjoy his accounts of adventures during the journey.

The book offers a valuable perspective for those who have visited the park. It also may spur readers who love historical books to visit Yellowstone.