This author gives you the real insight to being 80, it was a fast moving book that held your interest all the way through, I could not put the book down. It is interesting that the author is not the age of the main character but yet understands the life of this character extremely well. On a serious note, is there anyway to stop the aging and not be part of the result. However, we know what that means and the alternative is not what I want to I guess I'll be part of the result. Thanks to this author for such a warm, humorous, loving depiction of old age. I strongly recomment this book to any and all. --Joseph Ostraw

I've never seen a campguide that is more informative. Would recommend this to anyone who loves to camp.

We have used Wheelers RV Resort and Campground Guide for years and have never found another guide as comprehensive, reliable and easy to use. If you are looking for the ideal companion to your camping or RVing adventure, this is the book to own. Plus, you can make reservations via a toll-free number at any of the RV resorts or campgrounds who advertise in the book. But don't think this is just a book of advertised parks. Virtually every campground in North America is here, even small county or state parks. With clear directions on how to find them. And if you ever find a campground not listed there is a form in the back to send in. You can even help the publishers rate the campgrounds one to four stars using the same form. It is the only guide which asks its users to help keep the ratings accurate.

Highly recommended for anyone who likes to take to the road. Whether you have an RV or a tent, this is a great resource.

My seven-year-old daughter and I read together almost every night. In the past two years, no book (besides the Old Testament) has been her selection more than When the Whippoorwill Calls. The Blue Ridge family it depicts finds out the federal government is buying up their mountain to make way for the Blue Ridge Parkway. In the process, the seven-year-old protagonist learns a lesson of hope from the example of her father, who struggles with, but in the end adapts to, their move to the flatlands. The beauty of the story, though, is in its language. Like the mountain people she writes about, Ms. Ransom has a gift for expressing complicated sentiment in simple and concrete ways. After a number of readings, it dawned on me that I was reading good poetry. I should mention that the lllustrations are lovely and the layout of the pages is attractive and interesting.

A simple story of a girl and her grandfather and what they saw & did on the way to the park. Hughes' illustrations, as usual, are wonderful. My daughter just loves the interaction of the girl and her grandad. A great little treasure!

In Where The Mountains Meet The Prairies, Graham MacDonald surveys the history of one of the most popular and beautiful national parks of western Canada. The park was named in honor of British naturalist Charles Waterton. MacDonald examines the conservation and ecology of the park; Native American traditions and treaties, townsite development, and the current challenges related to the development, use and preservation of the Canadian national parks. Highly recommended reading for students of nature and ecology, the Canadian park system in general, and the Waterton Lakes National Park and Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park in particular, MacDonald's informative and engaging text is enhanced for the reader with a great number of photos and maps.

Wild Edens. Africa's Premier Game Parks and Their Wildlife, by Joseph James Shomon

It was our pleasant experience to read an extraordinary book! Although lacking in graphics, we do consider this one much richer in content than the more familiar, photo-laden publications covering this subject.

Wild Edens has a very well written, interesting and varied text. The author combines skill with expert knowledge in different areas, i.e., ecology, geography, history and zoology, giving the reader a complete picture of these most important African National Parks. In Appendix 1, a short essay about David Livingstone and his pioneering disclosure of central Africa, is well worth reading.

Appendix 2, with its complete list of the parks, gives very useful information to readers planning to be visitors.

An outstanding description of the killing of a buffalo by a pack of hyenas in Aberdares Park is most impressive (Chapter 3). The reader feels strong sensations while witnessing the "cruelty" of the natural world and the tense relations between hunters and the hunted, in nature's domain.

Because this is a book of major interest and value, we find it unusual to discover a gross mistake...The legend of the colour photograph depicting a zebra and two baboons at Jane Goodall's camp near Lake Tanganika (see colour photographs next to pg. 80, with a similar photo on the back cover). It reads: "Zebra and chimpanzees"... It is clear that the photographed monkeys are not chimps (Pan Troglodites), but baboons (Papio Cynocephalus). Zebras and baboons have the same habitat, ' savanna', while, typically, chimpanzees live in a forest. It would be rare for the two breeds, zebra and chimp, to meet in the wild ... their habitats being so positively different. How an error such as this could have been overlooked by such a competent author is disconcerting. However, this oversight certainly does not, in any other way, jeopardize the special value of a "different" book on wild life.

José Xavier de Basto Coimbra, Portugal with Jacqueline Martin Texas, USA

THE definitive introduction to America's 'Parks Under the Sea'.

Beautifully illustrated with photographs from a virtual who's who of underwater/nature photography -- Wolcott Henry, David Doubilet, Frans Lanting, Gary Ellis, Stephen Frink, Norbert Wu ...

From the slow-moving Manatee in the caribbean waters off Florida to playful sea lions in the Channel Islands off the California coast, this book takes you on a whirlwind journey through what may be America's last and greatest wild places. Sylvia Earle's unique perspective as America's foremost underwater explorer makes her the ideal tour guide for this sweeping journey.

There's something here for everyone -- armchair travelers, experienced divers, nature lovers, adventurous spirits. The one book you really ought to own if you have an interest in exploring the vast wealth and staggering diversity of our national underwater heritage. More mysterious, more alluring, even more diverse than our National Park System, the National Marine Sanctuary System is the adventureland of tomorrow.

I thoroughly enjoyed every page and often find myself reaching to the bookshelf to "go back" to places that one day I hope I'll have a chance to visit. This book gets my highest recommendation.

The Siamese Tiger, The Temple Terrapin, The Goral, etc. These are rare animals not ubiquitous in even the best series of National Geographic or other tantamount nature programs. Gerald Cubitt takes you into the mysterious world of Thailand's inner jungles, while Belinda Stewart-Cox does a marvelous job in supporting each photograph with relevant descriptive information. As a Thai, I was not even cognizant of much of the pictorial information provided by this book. It is definitely a must for anyone interested in endangered species, exotic landscapes, or the rare and exotic in general.

Mr. Seymour's descriptions and pictures of the wildflowers of the cave area are clear and easily used. His comments add an extra dimension to the usual guide book.