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Readers who want to see Mickey Mantle’s uniform from the 1968 season, Mark McGwire’s 70th home run ball from 1998, or a Satchel Paige autographed glove will find them among scores of treasures in this oversized book, vividly illustrated with color photographs of the most exceptional private baseball memorabilia collections, many of which contain items that have not been seen in public for decades. More than simple eye candy for the baseball fetishist, the book includes thoughtful essays that delve into collectors’ backgrounds, introducing the reader to an array of people, their quirks and their motivations for collecting. Some of the collectors are well known: one chapter is devoted to the collection of Todd McFarlane, creator of the comic book character Spawn; another displays the baseball folk art collection of Penny Marshall-Laverne of Laverne and Shirley and the director of the baseball movie, A League of Their Own. Others are more ordinary people who have been blessed with the dedication and means to take their passion for baseball to an extraordinary level. Wong, a lawyer and baseball historian, places the artifacts in social and historic context as he conveys the arcane but captivating knowledge gathered by these collectors, who are authorities on obscure details like the model numbers of bats. This book is fine companion for baseball enthusiasts looking for something to tide them over during those long winter days between the World Series and spring training.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

*Starred Review* This sumptuous volume offers an irresistible entree into what must be one of the richest private collections of baseball memorabilia in the world. Although the chapters are arranged by collector, they fall neatly into categories reflecting those collectors’ specific areas of interest, such as baseball cards, equipment, uniforms, advertisements, “pin-backs,” autographs, and stadium mementos. Many of the story lines are explicit, such as baseball’s evolution since the mid-1800s, or the game’s strong association with pop culture. Other story lines are less obvious but just as telling, such as baseball’s (and society’s) more careless tolerance of pain: nineteenth-century baseball played without helmets, rules that allowed teams to record outs by hitting the runner with the baseball (known as soaking), and mitts so unpadded as to pass for driving gloves. And there are nice little touches, like the close-up photos of nine World Series rings, or the sepia image of a touring, 1888-89 American baseball team standing at various points atop the Sphinx. The collections are beautifully photographed and laid out on the page, and the text and captions–once past Wong’s obligatory paean to his own youthful attachment to baseball–complement the illustrations well. A godsend for baseball geeks everywhere. Bill Ott
Copyright American Library Association. All rights reserved –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Among the national treasures you’ll find:

The only known photographic image of baseball’s first organized team, the New York Knickerbockers, circa 1846.

Original copy of the first written rules of modern baseball.

One of the earliest known color advertising posters promoting the very first set of baseball cards, released in 1887.

Scorecard from the inaugural World Series in 1903.

Shoeless Joe Jackson’s rookie-era game-used bat.

Game-worn jerseys of Ty Cobb, Dizzy Dean, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Lefty Grove, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, and Ted Williams.

Smithsonian Baseball: Inside the World’s Finest Private Collections

Bert Sugar’s Baseball Hall of Fame: A Living History of America’s Greatest Game

The Eddie Kranepool Society (blog), Pro Baseball Central (blog)
This book is a must for the baseball fan that loves the games history and loves the photographs of players and teams from the beginning of the game to the present. Give it a spot of honor on your coffee table.

Rocky Mountain Telegram, May 17, 2009
This is, in every regard, one beautiful book. A visit to Cooperstown lasts a day. Theyll have Sugars book for a lifetime.

Yogi Berra
What Bert Sugar doesnt know about baseball, nobody knows.

Bob Costas
To get a better sense of the Hall of Fame, you would have to be in Cooperstown.

New York Daily News, June 7th, 2009
Sugar comes up with a beautifully envisioned, designed and esecuted stroll through Cooperstown. Pops will love this one.

USA Today.com
The legendary author takes you through the National Baseball Hall of Fame literally in a 272-page odyssey that will leave you feeling like youre in Cooperstown even if youve never been there. Welcome to baseball heaven. Welcome to Cooperstown, New York.

Pro Baseball Central, 5/11/09
Bert Randolph Sugar is THE sports historian of our time and he has a new book out that is a comprehensive look at the Baseball Hall of Fame called Bert Sugars Baseball Hall of Fame, A Living History of Americas Greatest Game. I have been to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, four times and each time Ive been there Ive seen an exhibit or artifact Ive missed in my previous trip and now with this outstanding book that is full of great pictures and of course the writing of Bert Sugar, it puts all the awe and beauty of the HOF in your hands.

Juiced Sports Blog, 5/20/09
Bert Sugars Baseball Hall of Fame: A Living History of Americas Greatest Game is more than just a book. Its an addiction, a twenty first century marvel, a book so perfect, its hard to say whats more impressive, the top notch writing or the first class photography. Its attention to detail is so impressive, that the only thing missing is some Yankee Stadium dirt, or a little wooden splinter from one of Reggie Jacksons bats. Never have I seen a baseball book that achieves perfection but Sugar and photographer Bruce Curtis compilation is almost as magnificent as the place they strive to document.

Sports, Crackle, Pop!, 5/14/09
Bert Sugar is out with a new book marking the 70th Anniversary of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. This book is the most thorough history of the Baseball Hall of Fame that Ive ever seen.

PressBox Online
For those who like to make the pilgrimage to the picturesque upper New York state village, this book contains everything you’ve seen at the Hall of Fame and perhaps some you’ve missed. For those who have never made the trip, Bob Costas’ description of the book sums it up best: To get a better sense of the Hall of Fame you would have to be in Cooperstown.

Baseball Guru.com, Travel.watch.com
Bert Sugars Baseball Hall of Fame: A Living History of Americas Greatest Game is the Mother of all books on the shrine in Cooperstown, NY. Page after page of items from the Halls collection intermingle with the text of Sugar, an old hand at the sports book game he has written more than 50 books. Recommended.

This striking volume takes readers deep into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum as never before. Since opening its doors in 1939, the Museum has welcomed more than 14 million wide-eyed baseball fans through its hallowed halls to experience the rich history of Americas Pastime. Now, with more than 500 color and black-and-white original and archival photographsalong with engaging and informative commentary by a celebrated sports raconteurBert Sugar’s Baseball Hall of Fame: A Living History of America’s Greatest Game offers a quintessential take-home of the timeless experience of baseballs spiritual home.

With sequential exhibit photographs complemented by dramatic close-up images of the most fascinating artifacts on display in the Hallincluding artifacts used by legends like Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, and many morethe Hall of Fame experience is captured in this 320-page commemorative work.

Bert Sugar’s Baseball Hall of Fame: A Living History of America’s Greatest Game

A labor of love…comprehensive…recommended. –Library Journal

Weiss’s deep familiarity with his chosen subject matter is an asset of the text, and as a writer he conveys information clearly and without pretension…Weiss’s reviews of obscure games make the book a treasure…impressive and fun book…valuable…the breadth of coverage here is astounding…a fun read and a nostalgic trip supreme…undeniably smart, historically valuable and wide-ranging in coverage. –GameCulture Journal

Freelance writer and former comic book store owner Brett Weiss lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

This thoroughly researched reference work provides a comprehensive guide to popular and obscure video games of the 1970s and early 1980s, covering virtually every official United States release for programmable home game consoles of the pre-Nintendo NES era. Included are the following systems: Adventure Vision, APF MP1000, Arcadia 2001, Astrocade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, ColecoVision, Fairchild Channel F, Intellivision, Microvision, Odyssey, Odyssey2, RCA Studio II, Telstar Arcade, and Vectrex.

Organized alphabetically by console brand, each chapter includes a history and description of the game system, followed by substantive, encyclopedia-style entries for every game released for that console, regardless of when the game was produced. Each video game entry includes publisher/developer information and the release year, along with a detailed description and, frequently, the author’s critique. A glossary provides a helpful guide to the classic video game genres and terms referenced throughout the work. An appendix lists a number of “homebrew” titles that have been created by fans and amateur programmers and are available for download or purchase.

A labor of love…comprehensive…recommended. –Library Journal

Weiss’s deep familiarity with his chosen subject matter is an asset of the text, and as a writer he conveys information clearly and without pretension…Weiss’s reviews of obscure games make the book a treasure…impressive and fun book…valuable…the breadth of coverage here is astounding…a fun read and a nostalgic trip supreme…undeniably smart, historically valuable and wide-ranging in coverage. –GameCulture Journal

Classic Home Video Games, 1972-1984: A Complete Reference Guide

The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon–The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World

In this rollicking, mammoth history of video games from pinball to Pong to Playstation II Kent, a technology journalist and self-professed video game addict, covers almost every conceivable aspect of the industry, from the technological leaps that made the games possible to the corporate power struggles that won (and lost) billions of dollars. Anecdotes are legion. Readers learn that early Atari, for example, had the corporate climate of a dot-com startup, with rampant drug use and meetings staged in outdoor hot tubs. The original name for Pac-Man turns out to be Puck-Man; its creators changed the name after worrying that vandals in arcades would replace the P with an F. In 1978, there were so many people playing Space Invaders in Japan that the game caused a national coin shortage. Kent meticulously documents the rise of home video games and the console wars of the past decade, when Sega, Nintendo, Sony and others raced to produce the fastest, most powerful game system. Also addressed is the public backlash of the ’80s, when video games were thought to distract students from homework, and the ’90s, when Doom and other violent games were linked to the massacre at Columbine High School. Along the way, Kent interviews virtually every key player in the industry. At times, Kent’s comprehensiveness is exhausting 500-plus pages on video games may be a bit much, even for their most ardent admirers. But most often Kent’s infectious enthusiasm is enough to carry the reader along. Equal parts oral history, engineering study, business memoir, game catalogue and Gen-X nostalgia trip, Kent’s book is a loving tribute to one of the most dynamic (and profitable) industries in the world today.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Inside the Games You Grew Up with but Never Forgot
With all the whiz, bang, pop, and shimmer of a glowing arcade. The Ultimate History of Video Games reveals everything you ever wanted to know and more about the unforgettable games that changed the world, the visionaries who made them, and the fanatics who played them. From the arcade to television and from the PC to the handheld device, video games have entraced kids at heart for nearly 30 years. And author and gaming historian Steven L. Kent has been there to record the craze from the very beginning.
This engrossing book tells the incredible tale of how this backroom novelty transformed into a cultural phenomenon. Through meticulous research and personal interviews with hundreds of industry luminaries, you’ll read firsthand accounts of how yesterday’s games like Space Invaders, Centipede, and Pac-Man helped create an arcade culture that defined a generation, and how today’s empires like Sony, Nintendo, and Electronic Arts have galvanized a multibillion-dollar industry and a new generation of games. Inside, you’ll discover:
The video game that saved Nintendo from bankruptcy
The serendipitous story of Pac-Man’s design
The misstep that helped topple Atari’s $2 billion-a-year empire
The coin shortage caused by Space Invaders
The fascinating reasons behind the rise, fall, and rebirth of Sega
And much more!
Entertaining, addictive, and as mesmerizing as the games it chronicles, this book is a must-have for anyone who’s ever touched a joystick.

The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon–The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World

It’s game day and the parking lot surrounding Green Bay’s Lambeau Field is awash in a bouquet of beer-soaked bratwursts sizzling over flames. Outside Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, it’s burgers and dogs, and in New Orleans, fragrant blasts of shrimp gumbo bounce off the Superdome. Whichever stadium you visit, you’ll find that tailgating is alive, well, and cooking in America. John Madden, an adamant fan of this age-old tradition, helps the cause with his new cookbook, John Madden’s Ultimate Tailgating. But be warned: Madden isn’t into fancy, white-linen cuisine. These are smash-mouth meals, meant for those willing to drip sauce on their shirts and deal with the heartburn that follows. He starts simple, with recipes like Smoked Prime Rib and Salt-Cured Spit-Roasted Leg of Lamb. Then he ups the ante with Metrodome Horseradish Burgers, Brew Crew Venison Stew, Tabasco Sesame Noodles, and Pork to Taste Like Wild Boar. Each of the 80 stomach-grumbling recipes was subjected to taste tests by hundreds of tailgaters. And if it’s good enough for these discerning taste buds, it’s good enough for the All-Madden Culinary Team. –Ben Tiffany

Popular sports broadcaster Madden blends two of America’s favorite subjects?sports and food?in this lighthearted look at feasting off the tailgate.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Sports announcer John Madden has put together over 80 terrific recipes that are perfect for tailgating. Whether it’s a college event or an NFL game of the week, you’ll find the recipes plus complete information on the ballpark where you plan to dine!

It’s game day and the parking lot surrounding Green Bay’s Lambeau Field is awash in a bouquet of beer-soaked bratwursts sizzling over flames. Outside Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, it’s burgers and dogs, and in New Orleans, fragrant blasts of shrimp gumbo bounce off the Superdome. Whichever stadium you visit, you’ll find that tailgating is alive, well, and cooking in America. John Madden, an adamant fan of this age-old tradition, helps the cause with his new cookbook, John Madden’s Ultimate Tailgating. But be warned: Madden isn’t into fancy, white-linen cuisine. These are smash-mouth meals, meant for those willing to drip sauce on their shirts and deal with the heartburn that follows. He starts simple, with recipes like Smoked Prime Rib and Salt-Cured Spit-Roasted Leg of Lamb. Then he ups the ante with Metrodome Horseradish Burgers, Brew Crew Venison Stew, Tabasco Sesame Noodles, and Pork to Taste Like Wild Boar. Each of the 80 stomach-grumbling recipes was subjected to taste tests by hundreds of tailgaters. And if it’s good enough for these discerning taste buds, it’s good enough for the All-Madden Culinary Team. –Ben Tiffany

John Madden’s Ultimate Tailgating

The Tailgating Cookbook: Recipes for the Big Game

Bob Sloan is the celebrated author of Great Burgers (0-8118-4293-2). Based in New York, Bob is a busy guy who teaches and writes mysteries and other books on a variety of topics. He is an equal opportunity tailgater, firing up his grill at soccer, baseball

The only thing that compares with America’s obsession with sports is our passion for eating. No wonder tailgating is a national pastime. Whether it’s football, baseball, NASCAR, or the kid’s soccer gameone thing is certain: have parking lot, will cook. Hungry spectators need look no further than The Tailgating Cookbook for sizzling recipes guaranteed to please. Packed with burgers and brats, chili and stew, tasty kabobs, ideal side dishes, desserts, and drinks to go with them, anyone can turn their simple hot-dog-and-beer party into a gastronomical glutton-fest of tasty delights. With expert tips on equipment, prep-ahead, timing, food storage, tailgating etiquette , and scoring the perfect spot to hunker down, this part cookbook/part handbook will get the party started, whether it’s just two guys chomping hoagies or a multigenerational group of fans with a setup worthy of a professional kitchen. Two, Four, Six, Eight, We Love to Tailgate!

The Tailgating Cookbook: Recipes for the Big Game

There may be a new publisher, hundreds of new photos and drawings, and new sections on survival, watersports, and all-terrain vehicles, but this book retains its basic format and its editor, which have served it well for three previous editions. Sparano’s long experience as an outdoor writer and as editor of Outdoor Life magazine is especially evident in the detailed hunting and fishing chapters. Besides these, the 11 chapters include game animals and birds, game fish, camping, survival, boating, archery, dogs, first aid, and outdoor information sources. Obviously, there are many books on each of these topics, but for a broad introduction to them all at once, with numerous clear illustrations, this continues to be a fine choice. Recommended for smaller collections as a stand-alone work, this would also serve most libraries well as an introduction and stimulus to further reading in more specialized outdoor sources.?Roland C. Person, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

“Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia is like a vintage wine, it has gotten better with age and subsequent editions.”–Nick Karas, NY Newsday

“Vin T. Sparano’s lifetime as an outdoorsman is reflected in every chapter of this comprehensive reference. Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia is one of the most complete guides I’ve ever seen. Everything you need to know from fishing knots to survival skills is covered in detail.”–Todd Smith, editor-in-chief, Outdoor Life

“In this world of tunnel-vision specialists, Vin Sparano pursued a refreshingly different mission with his Complete Outdoor Encyclopedia…the essential core of every inquisitive sportsman’s library, one we will reach for time and again, whether we’ve been at this for years or just started yesterday.”–James R. Babb, editor, Gray’s Sporting Journal

Recipient of the Library Association’s Outstanding Reference Work Award, this complete and comprehensive guide is the ultimate one-volume library for anyone interested in the outdoors. This monumental work features extensive coverage of:

Fishing * Hunting * Firearms and shooting sports * Camping * Boating * First Aid * Archery and bowhunting * Sporting dogs * Fish species * Big game * Small game * Upland game and waterfowl * A complete listing of private organizations * Government information sources

To broaden the scope of this established reference work, Vin T. Sparano, Editor Emeritus and Senior Field Editor of Outdoor Life, has compiled brand-new chapters and sections on survival, all-terrain vehicles, and watersports (including kayaking, water skiing, and personal watercraft). He also included new information on GPS (Global Positioning System) and increased focus on such sections as fly fishing, sporting clays, backpacking, nutrition, and new first-aid breakthroughs in outdoor emergencies. With nearly 400 new photographs and 100 drawings added to the already more than 1,300 illustrations, The Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia illustrates the newest technology and the latest trends in the outdoors.

Representing decades of research and authoritative writing by Vin T. Sparano, this is the definitive guide that bridges all aspects of the outdoors today. It is a must-buy for anyone and everyone venturing outdoors.

“Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia is like a vintage wine, it has gotten better with age and subsequent editions.”–Nick Karas, NY Newsday

“Vin T. Sparano’s lifetime as an outdoorsman is reflected in every chapter of this comprehensive reference. Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia is one of the most complete guides I’ve ever seen. Everything you need to know from fishing knots to survival skills is covered in detail.”–Todd Smith, editor-in-chief, Outdoor Life

“In this world of tunnel-vision specialists, Vin Sparano pursued a refreshingly different mission with his Complete Outdoor Encyclopedia…the essential core of every inquisitive sportsman’s library, one we will reach for time and again, whether we’ve been at this for years or just started yesterday.”–James R. Babb, editor, Gray’s Sporting Journal

The Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia

The Complete Sportsman’s Encyclopedia

Francis H. Buzzacott’s comprehensive guidebook for those turn-of-the-last-century hearties intent on venturing into the wilderness for fishing, hunting, and camping has the aura of an archeological curiosity. It’s so oddly engaging at times that it’s hard to put down once you’ve picked it up.

Originally published in 1913 and designed to be taken along on any outdoor excursion, The Sportsman’s Encyclopedia–a collection, really, of several individual manuals and commercial catalogues that Buzzacott issued over time–offers a fascinating window onto a preconservation era when adventurers approached nature as an adversary fit to exploit and trample. Pack light? This is a concept Buzzacott never heard of; the great tent he created resembles a prefab that needs trucking in. The modern notion of leaving no trace of your presence behind? Buzzacott prefers chopping down a tree and turning its stump into a table. This is a real piece of Americana, issued in facsimile form; what makes it such an appealing artifact is its very political incorrectness and how far we’ve hiked from some of its less enlightened corners.

Yet, for all that’s dated about it, the Encyclopedia remains a spirited and remarkably useful instructional for anglers and hunters. It’s filled with practical pointers–”open the stomach of your first fish and see what they are feeding on and follow the ‘tip’”–and detailed advice on equipment, reading weather, cleaning guns, tying knots, setting decoys, selecting flies, and choosing bait that has stood the test of time. In the end, though, it’s the oddities that dazzle as they raise your eyebrows, like this pre-Heimlich maneuver should someone in your party be choking: “If possible force water down the throat or push down substance with spoon handle. Hearty slapping on the back is also effective. Getting on all-fours will help matters.” It’s not easy finding advice like that anymore. –Jeff Silverman –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The original sportsman’s bible, originally published in 1913, now available.

The Complete Sportsman’s Encyclopedia

Born of American parents, English writer, naturalist and ornithologist Hudson is chiefly famous for his exotic romances. Besides highly entertaining fiction, he also wrote engrossing and informative non-fictional works. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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In a remarkable and flowery language, Hudson has captured the essence of the natural beauty of England. A highly satisfying work that depicts a country through the eyes of a naturalist. His experiences and observations inspire and touch the soul. Captivating!

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Afoot in England

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read guidebook than the Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain. Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, you’ll find three-dimensional drawings, floor plans, and detailed neighborhood maps, as well as timelines, charts, and even popular bus routes. Broken into several sections–”Introducing Great Britain,” “Region by Region” (including London and environs, Scotland, and Wales), “Traveler’s Needs,” and “Survival Guide”–the guide paints a complete picture of the country. Readers will especially appreciate the hundreds of color photos of everything from London’s double-decker buses to the ancient formations at Stonehenge. You’ll also find street-by-street illustrated city walks (Covent Garden, Westminster), as well as scenic hikes in the Scottish highlands and the Lake District, with plenty of listings for inns and fish-and-chip taverns along the way. –Jill Fergus –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

DK Eyewitness Travel’s full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled photography, 3-D mapping, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations. DK Eyewitness Travel Guides are the only guides that work equally well for inspiration, as a planning tool, a practical resource while traveling, and a keepsake following any trip.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain

Sara Cedar Miller has been the official photographer and historian for the Central Park Conservancy since the 1980s. She is the author of Abrams’ Central Park: An American Masterpiece. She lives in New York.

For more than 150 years, Central Park has been the centerpiece of New York City, drawing more than 25 million visitors each year. In Seeing Central Park, Sara Cedar Miller, the official historian and photographer of the Central Park Conservancy, takes readers through America’s most popular and celebrated park, where natural and manmade features are interwoven into a spectacular work of public art. Combining superb research and writing with breathtaking photographs, Seeing Central Park is not only a gorgeous gift book, but also a guide through every significant design feature in the park, from the largest, such as the Reservoir, to the smallest, such as the intricate carvings in the stonework surrounding Bethesda Terrace.Seeing Central Park: The Official Guide to the World’s Greatest Urban Park

Central Park, An American Masterpiece: A Comprehensive History of the Nation’s First Urban Park

Miller is the park’s official historian and photographer, and her authority shows, revealing some new facets to this most overexposed of urban spaces. Original plans and drawings (many published for the first time) sit alongside modern-day photographs among the more than 200 color illustrations, creating a sense of the history that underlies this man-made urban landscape. Frederick Law Olmsted, one of the park’s designers (the other was Calvert Vaux), saw his plan as a balm to soothe the roiling city’s ills. Miller finds him remarking that the park “exercises a distinctly harmonizing and refining influence upon the most lawless classes of the city-an influence favorable to courtesy, self-control, and temperance.” Bethesda Terrace was Vaux’s ideological baby and, according to Miller, was influenced by the work of John Ruskin, Alexander von Humboldt and Thomas Cole. Kenneth T. Jackson, president of the New-York Historical Society, writes in his preface that Central Park is not the oldest public open space in either the world or the United States, nor is it the largest, nor even the most beautiful, yet it has the most contrast to its surroundings, an expression of a city’s life and exuberance, and is properly celebrated as such by Miller.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

To mark Central Park’s 150th anniversary, this is a history of America’s first urban park, a masterpiece of 19th-century landscape design. Sara Cedar Miller, official historian and photographer for the Central Park Conservancy, draws on extensive research to tell the story of the park’s creation, placing it in the context of 19th-century American art and social history and illuminating the roles of its designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and their associate Jacob Wrey Mould. Period photographs, plans and drawings combine with an authoritative text and contemporary photographs, which show the restored park’s glory.

Central Park, An American Masterpiece: A Comprehensive History of the Nation’s First Urban Park

For anyone hankering to spend serious time in this wilderness, these books are valuable resources. –Arizona Republic

The most complete and up-to-date resource for Sandia Mountain hikers. –Artesia Daily Press, NM

The Hiking Guide will take you places that you’ve never seen before. –Voices from the Earth –This text refers to the Spiral-bound edition.

A full-color map of the Sandia mountain printed on water-resistant paper

A full-color map of the Sandia mountain printed on water-resistant paper

For anyone hankering to spend serious time in this wilderness, these books are valuable resources. –Arizona Republic

The most complete and up-to-date resource for Sandia Mountain hikers. –Artesia Daily Press, NM

The Hiking Guide will take you places that you’ve never seen before. –Voices from the Earth –This text refers to the Spiral-bound edition.

Map to Sandia Mountain Hiking

Best Easy Day Hikes Albuquerque

Best Easy Day Hikes Albuquerque includes concise descriptions and detailed maps for twenty easy-to-follow hikes in and around Albuquerque, New Mexico. Discover a region of diverse scenery and natural splendorsincluding the beautiful mixed forest of the Hudsonian Life Zone; Mina del Tiro, one of the New Worlds oldest galena mines; and the Fourth of July Trail, with its lovely meadows and stunning bigtooth maples.Look inside for:
One-hour strolls to full-day adventures
Hikes for everyone, including families
Mile-by-mile directions and clear trail maps
Trail Finder for best hikes with children, dogs, or great views
GPS coordinates

Best Easy Day Hikes Albuquerque includes concise descriptions of the best short hikes in the area, with detailed maps of the routes. The 20 hikes in this guide are generally short, easy to follow, and guaranteed to please.
Best Easy Day Hikes Albuquerque (Best Easy Day Hikes Series)

Some of the best sport fishing in and around Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho is found in Yellowstone National Park. Cutthroat trout, browns, rainbows, brookies, lake trout, and grayling are among the premier game fish found in the park’s pristine lakes, powerful rivers, and meandering streams. Fishing Yellowstone National Park describes all the waters and their fishes, so anglers will know exactly when and where to fish, how to get there, and what kind of fly, lure, or other gear to use.

Montana angler, fishing guide, and author Richard Parks has fished these waters for more than fifty years. He shares his intimate knowledge of 106 top fishing spots, including in-depth site descriptions, the species present, and the best times to fish; tips on lures, flies, bait, and tackle; and information about trails, distances, terrain, availability of campgrounds, river access, and regulations. Detailed site maps and an illustrated section describing the habits and habitats of Yellowstone’s game fish round out this angler’s companion.

Richard Parks owns and operates the fly shop his father established in 1953 and is active in professional and conservation associations. He lives in Gardiner, Montana.

Fishing Yellowstone National Park is the definitive access guide for the Park’s angling opportunities
Fishing Yellowstone National Park, 3rd: An Angler’s Complete Guide to More than 100 Streams, Rivers, and Lakes (Regional Fishing Series)

Ranger’s Guide to Yellowstone Day Hikes, A

This is my favorite book of day hikes. The authors, husband and wife rangers, don’t just tell you where to go, they help you understand what you are seeing. —from Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park by Tim Cahill, founding editor of Outside magazine

After 25 years of directing tourists and explaining the wonders of Yellowstone National Park, Roger and Carol Shively Anderson have learned a few things about the world’s first national park. Now they’re sharing a big portion of that knowledge in a new guidebook, one that will help even seasoned park visitors enjoy and appreciate the place. The book is compact enough to slip inside a pocket of a daypack. Doing so could add a lot of entertainment and education to a day in the park. –-Scott McMillion, Bozeman Daily Chronicle

A Ranger’s Guide to Yellowstone Day Hikes is a handy tool for those considering a walk in the woods. This guide describes each hike concisely, with information about length, difficulty, and what you’ll be seeing. –-Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul

After 25 years of directing tourists and explaining the wonders of Yellowstone National Park, Roger and Carol Shively Anderson have learned a few things about the world’s first national park. Now they’re sharing a big portion of that knowledge in a new guidebook, one that will help even seasoned park visitors enjoy and appreciate the place. The book is compact enough to slip inside a pocket of a daypack. Doing so could add a lot of entertainment and education to a day in the park. –-Scott McMillion, Bozeman Daily Chronicle

A Ranger’s Guide to Yellowstone Day Hikes is a handy tool for those considering a walk in the woods. This guide describes each hike concisely, with information about length, difficulty, and what you’ll be seeing. –-Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul

Two park rangers invite you off the beaten path and into the heart of Yellowstone in this highly popular guidebook for hikers of all levels and interests.

A Ranger’s Guide to Yellowstone Day Hikes features 29 day hikes of different lengths and levels of difficulty. Each hike in the book has a GPS-compatible map, color photograph, narrative about natural and human history, botany, geology, and other highlights along the trail.

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Ranger’s Guide to Yellowstone Day Hikes, A

“Baker has produced an admirably concise and clearly written survey of the major conceptual and methodological developments in British (largely English) and American historical geography–together with those in France–since the inception of this enterprise in the early twentieth century.” – Lindsay Proudfoot, Reader in Historical Geography

History and Geography is the first book for over a century to examine the full range of the relations of history and geography. The distinguished scholar Alan Baker considers in turn locational geographies and spatial histories, environmental geographies and environmental histories, landscape geographies and landscape histories, and regional geographies and regional histories. He explores the territories of historical geography and and geographical history, focusing mainly on the work of North American, British and French historians and geographers, but also considers scholarly contributions from throughout the world, and from cognate disciplines.

Alan Baker considers locational geographies and spatial histories, environmental geographies and environmental histories, landscape geographies and landscape histories, and regional geographies and regional histories. Seeking to bridge the “Great Divide” between history and geography, Baker identifies basic principles relating historical geography not only to history but also to geography, a reworking which signifies a “new beginning” for this scholarly hybrid.

“Baker has produced an admirably concise and clearly written survey of the major conceptual and methodological developments in British and American historical geography–together with those in France–since the inception of this enterprise in the early twentieth century.” – Lindsay Proudfoot, Reader in Historical Geography

Geography and History: Bridging the Divide (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)

Historical GIS: Technologies, Methodologies, and Scholarship

Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses Geographical Information Systems to research the geographies of the past. Gregory and Ell present the first study comprehensively to define this emerging field, exploring all aspects of using GIS in historical research and providing a clear agenda for its future development.

Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses Geographical Information Systems to research the geographies of the past. Ian Gregory and Paul Ell present the first study comprehensively to define this emerging field, exploring all aspects of using GIS in historical research. A GIS is a form of database in which every item of data is linked to a spatial location. This technology offers unparalleled opportunities to add insight and rejuvenate historical research through the ability to identify and use the geographical characteristics of data. Historical GIS introduces the basic concepts and tools underpinning GIS technology, describing and critically assessing the visualisation, analytical and e-science methodologies that it enables and examining key scholarship where GIS has been used to enhance research debates. The result is a clear agenda charting how GIS will develop as one of the most important approaches to scholarship in historical geography.

Historical GIS: Technologies, Methodologies, and Scholarship (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)

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Settle the reed sea sight-seeing area and lie in Tongyu with sending the pasture in the strongly fragrant ocean, according to comparing, the strongly fragrant ocean has settled and far exceeded the well-known one no matter from the appreciative value on the surface of water, reed area and output and natural landscape, sensibility of the primitive conditions and customs ” Baiyang Lake ” . There is strongly fragrant ocean that settles the residential district of Mongolia in the sight-seeing area, the south of residential district is the endless plain and open prairie; There are lakes that glistening light of waves surged Zhyuan in the west; In the north is ten thousand qings the sea reed of Pu is swung, it is the paradise of fish, frog, wild duck and large duck,etc.; In the east is the ancient tree of mountain forest, it is the paradises of pheasant, hare, fox, cat, racoon dog,etc. too.