Travel World guide

A very thorough introduction to travel in the outdoors. — The Cascadianbr /br /[This] book will still provide tips and suggestions for how to best venture into the wilds. –Idaho Falls Post Register

Editor Kristi Anderson completed the Wilderness Basics Course (WBC) in 1996 and discovered a passion for the outdoors. Since then, she has led camps for the WBC and other Sierra Club activities.

A classic handbook for the outdoor novice–extensively updated to reflect new trends in wilderness recreation. P*New chapters on mountain biking, Leave No Trace strategies, and avoiding dangerous encounters with wild animals *Wilderness instructors address the real questions of people heading into the backcountry for the first time PInstructors for the Wilderness Basics Course of the San Diego Chapter of the Sierra Club have taught tens of thousands of people how to enjoy the wilderness. Now they have updated their indispensable guide to backcountry adventure–from planning a trip and selecting gear to fitting a backpack and practicing first aid. Additional new material includes GPS use and sample menus utilizing the latest food products on the market.

A very thorough introduction to travel in the outdoors. — The Cascadianbr /br /[This] book will still provide tips and suggestions for how to best venture into the wilds. –Idaho Falls Post Register

Wilderness Basics: Hiking, Backpacking, Mountain Biking (Mountaineers Outdoor Basics)

Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter & Gps

An ideal book for those who aspire to travel with precision in the backcountry. — Lewiston Morning Tribune

An informative book on how to walk in the woods. — Reel News

Even if you’ve never held a compass or GPS, you’ll have an idea of how they work. — Sweat magazine

If you’re planning a wilderness excursion, swallow your pride and pick up Wilderness Navigation. — Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Required reading for anyone who spends time in the outdoors with a map and compass. — St. Paul Pioneer Press

[E]ssentials for using a map and a compass as well as easy and practical techniques for using global positioning devices. –Willoughby (OH) News-Herald

GPS chapter completely updated to reflect newer models and features of GPS receivers now available
Expanded to include a section on routefinding on glaciers, along with additional information on changing declination
Extensive illustrated examples of orientation and navigation

Proceed with confidence when heading off-road or off-trail with the second edition of Wilderness Navigation. Whether you are climbing a glacier, orienteering in the backcountry, or on an easy day hike, Mike and Bob Burns cover all the latest technology and time-tested methods to help you learn to navigate-from how to read a map to compasses and geomagnetism.

Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter & Gps (Mountaineers Outdoor Basics)

At long last, mountain bikers have a thoughtful, reliable, thorough guide to good routes in New York’s vast Adirondack Park. — Elizabeth Folwell, editor, Adirondack Life

The most comprehensive book on mountain biking in the Adirondack mountains…well written and knowledgeable, with extremely accurate and detailed trail descriptions…every mountain biker riding in the Adirondacks should have it. — Ted Christodaro, Adirondack Mountain Bike Association

With wit, humor, and an exemplary respect for the fragility of the backcountry, Peter Kick’s new book opens the wide and wonderful world of the lesser known wild forest areas of the Adirondacks to every mountain biker. Don’t leave home without it. — Richard Fenton, Supervising Forester, NYSDEC Bureau of Public Lands

Peter Kick is a New York State-licensed wilderness guide and an Adirondack Mountain Club trip leader. His previous books include 25 Mountain Bike Tours in the Hudson Valley and 25 Mountain Bike Tours in New Jersey. He lives in Highland, New York.

Six million-acre Adirondack Park is the largest wilderness east of the Mississippi-and an underappreciated destination for world-class mountain biking. Peter Kick has selected 25 of the Park’s best tours, ranging from 4 to 80 miles in length and including something for riders of every level. More importantly, he urges mountain bikers to ride each trail responsibly, respecting the Park’s unique and fragile ecology as well as the rights of other trail users. Each tour includes directions to the trail, up-to-date maps and regulations, surface conditions, trail highlights, nearby bike repair shops, and detailed mile-by-mile directions.

At long last, mountain bikers have a thoughtful, reliable, thorough guide to good routes in New York’s vast Adirondack Park. — Elizabeth Folwell, editor, Adirondack Life

The most comprehensive book on mountain biking in the Adirondack mountains…well written and knowledgeable, with extremely accurate and detailed trail descriptions…every mountain biker riding in the Adirondacks should have it. — Ted Christodaro, Adirondack Mountain Bike Association

With wit, humor, and an exemplary respect for the fragility of the backcountry, Peter Kick’s new book opens the wide and wonderful world of the lesser known wild forest areas of the Adirondacks to every mountain biker. Don’t leave home without it. — Richard Fenton, Supervising Forester, NYSDEC Bureau of Public Lands

25 Mountain Bike Tours in the Adirondacks (Bicycling)

25 Bicycle Tours in the Lake Champlain Region: Scenic Tours in Vermont, New York, and Quebec

Charles Hansen has been leading bicycle tours for many years. In 2000 he organized an “End to End” tour cycling over 1,200 miles across the length of Great Britain, from Land’s End in Cornwall to John O’Groats in Scotland. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

This book offers rides over the entire Lake Champlain region, from the southern tip of the lake at the birthplace of the U.S. Navy in Whitehall, New York, to its northernmost bay in Quebec, west to Lake Placid and extending east to the charming college town of Middlebury. Charles Hansen, who has been riding and organizing bicycle tours in the area for two decades, has researched and ridden these routes to create a book that will serve all cyclists–from the hardcore roadie who wants the challenge of an 82-mile ride through the eastern Adirondacks, to the casual rider or family looking for a scenic and largely flat afternoon outing. Several multiple day-tours are described, including the Lake Placid Weekender that starts from Burlington and provides a highly scenic and satisfying two-day ride for touring cyclists. Route notes are provided for The Grand Tour, a nine-day circumnavigation of the entire lake with a rest day in Montreal, as well as shorter variations on this tour. From “25 Bicycle Tours in the Lake Champlain Region you’ll learn much about the rich history of the region as well as find out about tourism organizations, lodging, museums, and attractions along the way.

25 Bicycle Tours in the Lake Champlain Region: Scenic Tours in Vermont, New York, and Quebec

”One of the classiest series of travel books around.” – The Sunday Times

The Rough Guide to Scandinavia is the ultimate travel guide with clear maps and detailed coverage of all the best attractions Scandinavia has to offer. Discover the varied and exciting countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.Whether witnessing the unforgettable sight of the Aurora borealis, riding a husky sleigh through Laplands silent snow covered forests experiencing a night in the Icehotel in Sweden or scoffing Danish pastries in their home territory, the Rough Guide to Scandinavia makes sure you make the most out of this incredible collection of countries. Packed with detailed, practical advice on what to see and do in Scandinavia this guide provides reliable, up-to-date descriptions of the best hotels in Scandinavia, recommended Scandinavian restaurants, and tips on everything from shopping to festivals for all budgets. Featuring detailed coverage on a full range of attractions; from whale watching in Norway and saunas in Finland, to riding the Inlandsbanan Railway in Sweden and experiencing the Argus nightlife in Denmark, youll find expert tips on exploring Scandinavias amazing attractions with authoritative background on Scandinavias rich culture and history.

Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Scandinavia.

”One of the classiest series of travel books around.” – The Sunday Times

The Rough Guide to Scandinavia 8 (Rough Guides)

Rick Steves’ Scandinavia

Today’s tourists are as likely to be toting Rick Steves as Giorgio Armani, tasting the good life without burning through the Kids’ college fund. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

With this guide, travelers set sail to Europe’s most prosperous corner a smrgsbord of Viking ships, deep green fjords, stave churches, brooding castles, and colorful farmhouses. Rick explores the sleek, modern cities of Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, and Tallinn.

Rick Steves’ Scandinavia

Kira Salak was born in Illinois in 1971. She has a PhD in English and Creative Writing form the University of Missouri at Columbia, and frequently travels to the world’s furthest-flung places on assignment for National Geographic. She also writes for National Geographic Adventure, New York Times Magazine and a host of literary travel journals. Her first book, Four Corners: A Journey to the Heart of Papua New Guinea, was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Travel Book of the Year. In 2004 she was awarded the PEN Literary Award in Journalism, and her work has appeared in Best New American Voices and Best American Travel Writing 2002, 2003, and 2004. Kira Salak lives in Montana.

‘In the beginning, my journeys feel at best ludicrous, at worst insane. This one is no exception.’ Kira Salak recently became the first person to successfully canoe 600 miles down the River Niger from Old Segou to Timbuktu – the golden city of the Middle Ages, and, legend has it, the doorway to the end of the world – in Mali, West Africa. Enduring tropical storms, hippos, rapids, the unrelenting heat of the Sahara desert and the mercurial moods of this notorious river, she travelled alone through one of the most desolate regions in Africa where little had changed since British explorer Mungo Park was taken captive by Moors in 1797. Dependent on local people for food and shelter, each night she came ashore to stay in remote mud-hut villages on the Niger’s banks, meeting Dogon sorceresses and tribes who were alternately welcoming and hostlle, so remarkable was the sight of an unaccompanied white woman paddling all the way to Timbuktu. In one instance she barely escaped from men who chased after her in wooden canoes, but she finally arrived, weak but triumphant, at her fabled destination. There, she fulfilled her ultimate goal by buying the freedom of two Bella slaves with gold. THE CRUELLEST JOURNEY is a compelling memoir and a meditation on self-will by a young adventurer without equal, whose writing is as thrilling as her life.

Cruellest Journey

The White Mary: A Novel

A young reporter embarks on a dangerous adventure in Salak’s gripping debut novel, a blend of Heart of Darkness and Tomb Raider. Like her protagonist, Marika Vecera, award-winning journalist Salak has traveled soloand narrowly escaped deathin the world’s most remote and terrifying places, including war-torn Congo and the interior of Papua New Guinea. Marika, an ambitious journalist, travels to discover the truth about war correspondent Robert Lewis, who has observed some of the modern world’s greatest atrocities. He is believed to have committed suicide, but a letter from a missionary leaves Marika thinking he may still be alive in the wilds of Papua New Guinea. She sets off on her quest, and eventually malaria, ritual murder and arduous trekking through the wilderness lead Marika to some startling discoveries and a pathway out of her own past trauma. While the book can be harrowing (the graphic descriptions of torture are sobering and hard to put out of mind), it offers Marika a redemptive optimism in the face of the worst humanity has to offer. (Aug.)
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Marika Vecera is a young war reporter, recently back from the Congo and venturing into the first serious relationship of her life, when she hears the news that Robert Lewis has committed suicide. Lewis was a famous war correspondent and a hero to Marika, and as she begins working on his biography she gets word from a missionary who claims to have seen Lewis alive. Astounded, Marika uproots her life in Boston and heads to Papua New Guinea–the world’s least explored frontier–to uncover the truth. Encountering all the dangers of jungle travel and the haunting mythology of native tribes, Marika’s search for Lewis becomes an unforgettable journey into the depths of the human soul.
The White Mary: A Novel

This extraordinary book, written by one of the Wests greatest living masters, offers nothing less than a course in the miracle of our own energy field. Bruce Frantzis has translated ancient Taoist practices into a modern program that manages to be both highly accessible and transformational, affording us all the opportunity to experience the wonder of the Tao firsthand. Lynne McTaggart, author of The Field and What Doctors Dont Tell YouA must for those who are new to chi gung, those who are already practitioners, and anyone interested in complementary medicine or self-help. Angela Hicks, Co-founder of the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading, England, and author of The Acupuncture HandbookThis remarkable book has become a classic. Mr. Frantzis biography alone is worth the price of admission. Stephen E. Langer M.D., Berkeley, California, President of the American Nutritional Medical Association and author of Solved: The Riddle of Illness

Bruce Frantzis is reputed to be the first Westerner to hold authentic lineages in Taoist energy arts. He studied healing, martial arts and meditation with renowned teachers in Asia for 16 yearsincluding training in China for more than a decade. Since 1987, Frantzis has taught chi gung, martial arts, TAO yoga, TAO meditation, and energetic-healing therapies to over 15,000 students in the United States and Europe. His teaching methods are spread by a growing number of certified instructors that he has trained in the United States and Europe.Frantzis is the author of several widely praised books about the power of chi including: Tai Chi: Health for Life; the chi gung books, Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body and the Dragon and Tiger Medical Chi Gung Instruction Manual; and two volumes on the water method of TAO meditation, Relaxing Into Your Being and The Great Stillness. Two CDs, The Tao of Letting Go and Ancient Songs of the Tao, shed valuable insights into the power of TAO Meditation in helping people let go of their deepest emotional blockages and move closer to becoming truly alive, balanced and joyful.When Frantzis moved to China to follow the Taoist path of warrior/healer/priest, he was extensively trained in the chi principles and practices that are the basis of Chinese medicine. From 1974 to 1979, he trained with high-level chi gung tui na (therapeutic energy work) doctors and apprenticed under their tutelage in Chinese medical clinics. He learned to use chi to help heal a wide range of conditions including broken bones, nerve and organ damage, and cancer. He also gained an advanced acupuncture degree. Frantzis used these chi principles and practices to dramatically heal himself: first from a life-threatening form of hepatitis in India and more dramatically from massive spine injuries that he received in a car accident in 1981.Frantzis experiences have made him a teacher with a mission: teaching people how the ancient and proven self-healing chi practices can help them achieve health, relaxation, inner peace and longevity. He aims to help avert a major health crisis that threatens to engulf the Western world.

Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body explains the practice of chi gung (qigong), the 3000-year-old self-healing exercise system from China. Originally published in 1993, this book has become a classic that has inspired tens of thousands of Westerners to learn to activate their chilife-force energyto improve their health, reduce stress and reverse the effects of aging. This fully revised edition has more than 100 pages of new material, including Longevity Breathing methods; how cross-training in chi gung can enhance other exercises such as yoga, golf and weight training; and nei gung techniques for advanced practitioners. Chi gung exercises utilize a system of energy channels in the body that are similar to an electrical circuit. Frantzis thorough knowledge of energy arts and the Chinese language allow him to peel away the secrecy and metaphors. He presents this 300-page edition in easy to understand terms to suit beginners, with enough meaty detail and depth for the advanced martial artist, healer or meditator. Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body includes a comprehensive guide to chi gung theory and a systematic lesson plan with more than 100 illustrations. These low-impact exercises are suitable for almost any age or fitness level. They provide the foundation for learning any other chi practice, such as tai chi, martial arts, meditation or TAO Yoga. Frantzis explains not only how these inner aerobics are done, but why. Going beyond mere body movement, he teaches from the inside out, linking the biomechanics and anatomy of the physical body with the subtleties of chi. This book provides practical methods to help people become balanced, relaxed and joyful. Frantzis trained for more than a decade in China, became a Taoist Lineage Masterquite a rare occurrenceand came back to the West to teach. My hope is that chi gung and tai chi can become mainstream exercises in the West, says Frantzis. We have a major health crisis looming; practicing chi gung or tai chi is one of the most effective ways people can reclaim control of their health and well-being.

This extraordinary book, written by one of the Wests greatest living masters, offers nothing less than a course in the miracle of our own energy field. Bruce Frantzis has translated ancient Taoist practices into a modern program that manages to be both highly accessible and transformational, affording us all the opportunity to experience the wonder of the Tao firsthand. Lynne McTaggart, author of The Field and What Doctors Dont Tell YouA must for those who are new to chi gung, those who are already practitioners, and anyone interested in complementary medicine or self-help. Angela Hicks, Co-founder of the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading, England, and author of The Acupuncture HandbookThis remarkable book has become a classic. Mr. Frantzis biography alone is worth the price of admission. Stephen E. Langer M.D., Berkeley, California, President of the American Nutritional Medical Association and author of Solved: The Riddle of Illness

Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body: Chi Gung for Lifelong Health (Tao of Energy Enhancement)

Dragon and Tiger Medical Qigong: A Miracle Health System for Developing Chi

Dragon and Tiger Medical Qigong gives people a powerful way to take charge of their health and well-being.
Kenneth Lossing, DO, Member of the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Osteopathy

In this book, Bruce Frantzis maps out vital self-healing practices, with over 650 illustrations, showing you how to boost your immune system and cultivate your bodys capacity to heal.
Michael Reed Gach, PhD, founder of the Acupressure Institute and the author of Acupressures Potent Points

Because Dragon and Tiger is a simple and effective qigong practice, it is taught to students at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine. Tracing the meridian lines helps our students to become more sensitive to both their own and their patients chi and enables them to become better acupuncturists.
John and Angela Hicks, Joint Principals, College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading, England, and coauthors of Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture

Practiced by millions in China to release stress and maintain robust health, Dragon and Tiger qigong is also used to help prevent and heal cancer and to mitigate the effects of radiation and chemotherapy. Frantzis chose Dragon and Tiger from among several hundred sets he researched because its seven simple movements are easy to learn and offer about 80 percent of the health benefits found in the more complex sets of 50100 movements.

Dragon and Tiger qigong uses simple body movements to accomplish the same chi balancing as acupuncture. Each movement is designed to stimulate not just a single meridian but groups of meridians. In Chinese medicine, the tiger is a metaphor for a strong, healthy liver and powerful muscles, and the dragon is a metaphor for healthy and strong lungs. The Dragon and Tiger form accomplishes three major changes in the body necessary for healing: it releases stagnant chi energy; increases the speed, strength, and evenness of the circulation of chi, blood, and other fluids; and quickly raises the bodys energy levels to boost its natural healing capacities. With over 150 illustrations accompanying clear, thorough instructions, Dragon and Tiger Medical Qigong offers an accessible and effective path to health and healing.

Dragon and Tiger Medical Qigong: A Miracle Health System for Developing Chi

Despite legendary golfer Ben Hogan’s reported gruffness, reluctance to give interviews and inability to make polite small talk, people liked him. Especially first-time author Vasquez, who, at the age of 17, got a job shagging practice balls at Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth, Tex., for the four-time U.S. Open champion, whom many still consider the greatest golfer in history. This slender volume, penned 36 years later, contains enlightening personal anecdotes and astounding golf tips that will thrill any enthusiast, including the secret to Hogan’s legendary golf swing (hint” it’s in the stance). “The Secret” was not revealed in Hogan’s enormously popular book Five Lessons, or, apparently, to any other person than Vasquez before or since Hogan’s death in 1997 (with once exception: Vasquez secretly shared it with golfer Nick Faldo in 1989), but it is revealed to all here with the blessing of Hogan’s widow, Valerie. Outstanding chapters include the meeting between Faldo and Hogan, with the latter intimidating the “out-of-town guy,” and a poignant explanation of why Hogan was such a bad putter later in life. Hogan was “[d]riven to excellence, focused on winning, relentlessly hardworking, bent on improving, intensely competitive, intimidating and aloof to opponents, analytical, consumed by detail and equally dependent on skill and power.” He was also quietly generous, intensely loyal and brimming with personal integrity. Vasquez’s unique position and 20-year relationship with the champion allowed him access to all of Ben Hogan. In an easygoing, conversational writing style, the stories Vasquez relates here are the rich fruits of that relationship and should not be missed.
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The notoriously tight-lipped Ben Hogan said two things that have intrigued golfers for more than 50 years. One was that he’d discovered the secret of the golf swing; the other was that, to find it yourself, you’d have to dig it out of the dirt. You can stop digging. As a teenager in the 1960s, Vasquez shagged balls for Hogan at a Fort Worth country club; Hogan didn’t talk much, but Vasquez now reveals that his boss did tell him the secret (turn your right knee in at address, and cup your left wrist at the top of the backswing). It worked for Hogan, but it sounds like just another confusing tip to the rest of us (better keep digging). If the secret proves less than earth-shattering, though, the rare personal view that Vasquez provides of the foreboding Hogan makes this little memoir something special. Swinging a golf club may be a small thing, but Vasquez shows us how, for one determined man, it led to a lifelong search for a kind of mind-body perfection. Bill Ott
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Ben Hogans former ball shagger recounts firsthand stories of the golf legendand reveals, for the first time, Hogans Swing Secret, a source of mystery to golfers for more than fifty years.

Ben Hogans pro-golf record is legendary. A four-time PGA Player of the Year, he celebrated sixty-three tournament wins and became known as a man of few words and fewer close friends. Most of what we know about Hogan has been based on myth and speculation. Until now.

In the 1960s, though Hogans competitive career was over, he kept the practice habits that had made him famous and remade modern competitive golf. He hired fifteen-year-old Jody Vasquez to help. Each day, after driving to a remote part of the course at the Shady Oaks Country Club, Hogan would spend hours hitting balls, and Vasquez would retrieve them. There, and over the course of their twenty-year friendship, Hogan taught Jody the mechanics of his famous swing and shared his thoughts on playing, practicing, and course managementunknowingly revealing much about his character, values, and beliefs, and the events that shaped them.

In Afternoons with Mr. Hogan, Jody Vasquez shares dozens of stories about Hogan, from the way he practiced, selected his clubs, and interacted with other star players to his little-known humor and generosity. Combining the gentle insight of Tom Kites A Fairway to Heaven (which recalls Kites golf education under Harvey Penick) with the sage perspective of Penicks own Little Red Book, Vasquezs tribute is funny, poignant, and full of advice for golfers of all levels.

Afternoons With Mr. Hogan: A Boy, a Golf Legend, and the Lessons of a Lifetime

So Long, Insecurity: You’ve Been a Bad Friend to Us

Prolific Bible teacher and women’s ministry leader Moore (Get Out of That Pit) moves away from her characteristic dead-on expositions of scriptural principles in her newest; the topic is insecurity, and the content, she admits, is close to an autobiography. Moore, always transparent with her own personal struggles, is refreshingly so throughout this text. Readers will be chortling in laughter one moment and sucking air the next as Moore exposes the many faces of female insecurity. The author names and claims each one, then defuses every bit of power these nonsensical inner voices possess by countering their lies with God’s truth. Women, no matter what their age, battle against advertising’s siren call for unattainable physical perfection; the habit of making a man’s love the ultimate validation; and the worldly definition of success as money, power, and status. Moore uses personal essays, women’s true confessions, expressive prayers, and lots of commonsense suggestions to jar women out of their insecure rut. Readers will delve into this work and find themselves comfortably uncomfortable, and this is a very good thing. (Feb.)
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Perhaps one of the biggest issues all women face is their own insecurity. Beth Moore, one of todays most admired and trusted Christian writers, wants women to be free from the insecurity trap. So Long, Insecurity will strike a chord with women everywhere, as Beth speaks truth into the lives of readers, showing them how to deal with their innermost fears, rediscover their God-given dignity, and develop a whole new perspectivea stronger sense of self. Women of all ages and backgrounds will resonate with this message of security and discover truths that will free them emotionally and spiritually and lead them to a better life as they walk with God.

So Long, Insecurity: You’ve Been a Bad Friend to Us

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Borch, a cartographic publishing company in Germany, makes tough, long-lasting maps with non-toxic, environmentally responsible lamination material.

Folded laminated road and travel map, in color. Scale 1:80,000. Legend includes sights, museums, churches, synagogues, archaeological sites, castles, ruins, windmills, towers, caves, beaches, yachting, windsurfing, snorkelling, scuba diving, hospitals, golf courses, parking, petrol stations, international/regional airports, national parks, national monuments, nature reserves, camping sites, viewpoints, hotels, markets, cliffs, reefs. Includes inset map of St. Croix (1:80,000), Charlotte Amalie (1:15,000), Charlotte Amalie Historic District (1:7,500), Cruz bay (1:15,000), Christiansted (1:15,000), Frederiksted (1:15,000), Anegada (1:80,000), Road Town (1:15,000), The Valley (Spanish Town), Lesser Antilles (1:7,000,000). Climate charts show the average daily temperatures, humidity, hours of sunshine and precipitation for each month. Extensive index.

Laminated Virgin Islands (U.S. & British) Map by Borch (English Edition)

Cruising Guide to the Virgin Islands

Simon and Nancy Scott met while cruising in the British Virgin Islands during the mid 70s where some years later, they were married at St. Georges church in Road Town. Simon, a native of the UK, spent time in New Zealand as a teenager, where he raced dinghies and fell in love with sailing and the cruising lifestyle. A career in international marketing took him back and forth between London and New York before a sabbatical to the Virgin Islands aboard the classic John Alden cutter Tomorrow introduced him to the charms of the islands. He later returned to manage a major charter fleet where he was ideally positioned to listen to the needs and concerns of sailors from around the world discovering the delights and challenges of Caribbean cruising.

As Nancy s father was a U.S. naval officer, they lived in many places. Japan was where he taught her to sail dinghies and several moves later they lived in Hawaii where sailing became a major focus in her life. Nancy cruised extensively in the Bahamas in an old, wooden Tahiti Ketch, Ichiban, before sailing into the British Virgin Islands where she met Simon. They moved aboard Zephyrine, their Saxon class sloop, and began what would become their lifetime commitment to the sailing industry.

The first Cruising Guide to the Virgin Islands was published in 1982 and since that time Nancy and Simon, along with their daughters, have continued annual surveys of the cruising area. Nancy continues to oversee the daily operations of publishing guides at the offices of Cruising Guide Publications with her team in Dunedin, Florida.

From the authors:

We thank our readers for their loyalty, suggestions and criticism. It is for you that we write the books, and it is because of you that we are encouraged to improve.

We look forward to seeing you in Virgin waters.

Nancy & Simon Scott

Completely re-designed and updated style, with more Virgin Island photography and full color detailed anchorage charts, these guides have been indispensable companions for sailors and visitors to these islands since 1982. Includes a free newly designed 17 x 27 color planning chart, with aerial photos of some of the anchorages. Covers the Virgin Islands including all the U.S. and British Virgin Islands! Anchoring and mooring information and fees
Customs, immigration and National Parks regulations
Particulars on marina facilities and the amenities they offer
Water sports – where to go and where to rent equipment
Shore-side facilities, restaurants, beach bars, shops, provisions, Internet connections
Directory of goods and services after every island section
Everything you will need to help make your vacation an enjoyable and memorable experience in a concise easy-to-use format.

Cruising Guide to the Virgin Islands

Readers of Morris’s Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Travelling Alone will also be delighted with her new travel memoir, in which the author, with a superb command of language, imaginatively recreates a world few have ventured to. Embarking on a search in 1986 for her Russian ancestors, she found herself in the midst of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and observing the last vestiges of the Cold War. Her details are interesting both on the public scale–such as when she visits the Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky–and on the private, as when she meets an unnamed former fighter in the Bolshevik revolution wandering the streets of Leningrad. She describes the histories of each city she visited on her extensive train journey: Moscow, Leningrad, the Forbidden Imperial Citysic of China. With eloquence, Morris characterizes the people she meets, making each real. She has the rare touch of the true travel writer: readers will feel they’ve walked along the Great Wall of China with her, tasted sand from the Gobi Desert as it flew in a Trans-Siberian Express window, glimpsed the Berlin Wall from the Eastern side. And perhaps most intriguing are the intimations of changes to come–the beginnings of endings that were just around the corner.
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The further travels of Morris, short-story writer and novelist (The Bus of Dreams, 1985, etc.) and author of Nothing to Declare, which documented her adventures as a woman alone on the road in Central America. Morris’s brand of travelogue is again unique, never a simple summoning up of pretty landscapes, but rather an intensely personal portrait of self in foreign climes, carrying a full load of emotional baggage. Beijing is her jumping-off point for a journey on the Trans- Siberian Railroad, taking her through Mongolia, over the Urals to Moscow, Leningrad, and at last to the Ukraine–birthplace of her Russian Jewish grandmother. Alas, ten days before she leaves, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster puts the later part of her itinerary in jeopardy. But she perseveres, finding China frustrating since her train tickets aren’t forthcoming and she’s separated from her “companion,” a somewhat ambivalent significant other from back in New York. Her long days on the train across Siberia are a wash of listlessness and garrulous fellow passengers. It isn’t until she reaches Moscow that she realizes the Ukraine is too dangerous to attempt, particularly when she discovers she’s pregnant. In Leningrad she meets refuseniks and a gentleman who wants to buy her underwear from her, since his girlfriend likes American lingerie. And finally in Berlin she accepts that she’ll never reclaim her childhood by visiting her grandmother’s homeland–a sorrow tempered by her decision to keep her baby, whether her companion marries her or not. This pre-glasnost travelogue is decidedly grim, solitary, and internal, hardly so high-stepping as Morris’s account of her wanderings in Central America. Still, it’s an interesting installment in the story of how she changes as she moves over the earth, raising expectations for a third volume documenting future journeys, perhaps with a baby on board. — Copyright 1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Morris present an unforgettable account of her 1986 trip through China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. As in Nothing to Declare, her celebrated travelogue of South America, Morris combines vivid portrayals of people and historical portraits of Soviet events with a more personal journey–her search for roots, family, and her ancestral home in the Ukraine. Reading tour.

Wall to Wall: From Beijing to Berlin by Rail

A Mother’s Love

Mary Morris is best known for her travel writing such as Nothing to Declare in which an interior landscape is better explored than the local geography. Now she turns that trick to fiction and the result is this novel of a mother’s struggle to raise a baby son alone in a hostile city, and her search for her own mother, who abandoned her many years before.

This compassionate novel–published in paperback in time for Mother’s Day–explores how women learn to be mothers and celebrates the resilience of all those who raise children. Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Ivy is a new single mother who must cope with financial difficulties and a demanding infant.

A Mother’s Love

Ron Strickland is the founder of the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail. He is the author of seven oral histories and guidebooks, including The Pacific Northwest Trail Guide, River Pigs and Cayuses: Oral Histories from the Pacific Northwest, and Whistlepunks and Geoducks: Oral Histories from the Pacific Northwest. He is the recipient of numerous conservation honors, including the L.L. Bean Outdoor Heroes Award. ronstrickland.com

In the early 1970s, a young, novice hiker had an audacious idea. Ron Strickland decided to create a 1,200-mile footpath across three national parks and seven national forests to link Glacier National Park’s alpine meadows with Olympic National Park’s wilderness coast. Enchanted by all that magnificent backcountry, he enlisted volunteers, lobbied landowners, and dug dirt. Four decades later in 2009, President Obama made the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail an official part of our national heritage. In this book Ron reveals how he and the volunteers bucked both brush and bureaucracy to establish one of the world’s most beautiful trails.

Ron Strickland is a master storyteller whose seven previous oral histories and guidebooks showcase some of our most fascinating regions and people. In Pathfinder he intersperses colorful portraits of memorable trail characters, insider’s tips about favorite hikes, and news about the coming Renaissance of hiking. “The adventure,” he says, “is just beginning.”

Pathfinder: Blazing a New Wilderness Trail in Modern America

AWOL on the Appalachian Trail

Book Description: In 2003, software engineer David Miller left his job, family, and friends to fulfill a dream and hike the Appalachian Trail. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail is Miller’s account of this thru-hike along the entire 2,172 miles from Georgia to Maine. On page after page, readers are treated to rich descriptions of the valleys and mountains, the isolation and reverie, the inspiration that fueled his quest, and the life-changing moments that can only be experienced when dreams are pursued. While this book abounds with introspection and perseverance, it also provides useful passages about safety and proper gear, with a view into a professional hiker’s preparations and tenacity. This is not merely a travel guide, but a beautifully written and highly personal view into one man’s adventure and what it means to make a lifelong vision come true.

David Miller’s Top Five Items You Might Not Think to Pack for a Long-Distance Trek (But Will Wish You Did)

Scissors: Scissors are better than a knife for common tasks like opening food packaging, cutting moleskin, or trimming your mustache. I carry the Leatherman Micra, which has a very functional pair of scissors and a knife blade.

Suntan Lotion: The AT is known for rain, cold and for long walks through the “green tunnel.” Yet every year, especially before the trees regain their leaves, hikers will get sunburned.

Chafing powder: Hikers disagree about whether hiking uphill or downhill is more demanding, but they all agree that hiking with chaffed, burning skin is less tolerable than the ups and downs. Body Glide is another popular treatment.

Trash Bag: Pack it in; pack it out… and remember to have something to pack it out in. A gallon-sized zippered bag usually suffices.

Belt pouch: Backpack manufacturers have caught on, and many now offer packs with accessible pouches sewn onto the straps on their packs. If your pack doesnt have belt pouches, buy add-ons. Keep your camera in your belt pouch, and youll take many more pictures than you would if your camera was in your pack. Also keep your spoon at the ready; you never know when your hiking partner might leave his food unattended.

Photos from the Appalachian Trail
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–This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Makes you feel the pain and joy of an Appalachian Trail thru-hike . . . In vivid colors, David paints a picture of his memorable journey.Larry Luxenberg, president of the Appalachian Trail Museum Society

In 2003, David Miller left his job, family, and friends to fulfill a dream and hike the Appalachian Trail. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail is Millers account of this thru-hike along the entire 2,172 miles from Georgia to Maine. On page after page, readers are treated to rich descriptions of the valleys and mountains, the isolation and reverie, the inspiration that fueled his quest, and the life-changing moments that can only be experienced when dreams are pursued. While this book abounds with introspection and perseverance, it also provides useful passages about safety and proper gear, showing a professional hikers preparations and tenacity. This is not merely a travel guide, but a beautifully written and highly personal view into one mans adventure and what it means to make a lifelong vision come true.

AWOL on the Appalachian Trail

[A] heck of a lot of fun to readfull of photographs that arent the usual suspects you see when you pick up a book abut Oregon history.

(The Register-Guard )

Native Oregonians and new web foots alike will find fascinating facts about their state.

(Bloom )

The rare photographs alone make this book worth the purchase price and I found myself learning more about Oregon in one sitting than I can ever remember.

(Powell’s Books Blog )

“More than just a coffee-table trophy, The Oregon Companion opens a window onto a distinctly Oregonian version of the past, one that leads (however unexpectedly) into our uncanny Oregonian present.”

(Willamette Week )

“Engeman has proved his mettle as a Pacific Northwest historian and archivist in this tremendous undertaking to coincide with Oregon’s sesquicentennial.” (News-Review )

“If the Smithsonian Institution is America’s attic, Engeman dusts off for us a cubbyhole of diversions and souvenirs that, taken together and viewed from a certain angle, create a pointillist portrait rather like a Chuck Close painting If it will appear different to every reader who picks up The Oregon Companionthat’s no flaw. It’s just life in a random state.” (Oregonian )

“The book is a handy guide to keep in the car while traveling because of the enticing information of the different sights in Oregon.” (Southeast Examiner )

“With its succinct entries and well-restored photographs, The Oregon Companion reads more like a riveting narrativetales of bankers sneaking into Japan on dinghies to teach English to Samurai warriors in the 1800s.” (Portland Monthly )

“Once I started leafing through the chapters, I just couldn’t put it down Engeman’s accessible writing style makes this book an engaging read for young and old alike.”

(East Oregonian )

“This engaging, fact-filled reference book is useful both for newcomers and for forgetful natives.”

(The Bee )

Pacific Northwest historian and archivist Richard H. Engeman graduated from Reed College and holds graduate degrees from the University of Oregon and from the University of Washington. Formerly public historian of the Oregon Historical Society, he serves on the Portland Landmarks Commission and on the board of the Oregon Museums Association and the Oregon Century Farm & Ranch Program and is the principal of Oregon Rediviva LLC, a historical writing and consulting firm.

What’s the connection between Ken Kesey and Nancy’s Yogurt? How about the difference between a hoedad and a webfoot? What became of the Pixie Kitchen and the vanished Lambert Gardens?
The Oregon Companion is an A-Z handbook of over 1000 people, places, and things. From Abernethy and beaver money to houseboats, railroads, and the Zigzag River, an intrepid public historian separates fact from fiction — with his sense of humor intact. Entries include towns and cities, counties, rivers, lakes, and mountains; people who have left a mark on Oregon; industries, products, crops, and natural resources. Includes more than 160 historical black and white photos. This entertaining and delightfully meticulous compendium is an essential reference for anyone curious about Oregon.

[A] heck of a lot of fun to readfull of photographs that arent the usual suspects you see when you pick up a book abut Oregon history.

Native Oregonians and new web foots alike will find fascinating facts about their state.

The rare photographs alone make this book worth the purchase price and I found myself learning more about Oregon in one sitting than I can ever remember.

“More than just a coffee-table trophy, The Oregon Companion opens a window onto a distinctly Oregonian version of the past, one that leads into our uncanny Oregonian present.”

“Engeman has proved his mettle as a Pacific Northwest historian and archivist in this tremendous undertaking to coincide with Oregon’s sesquicentennial.”

“If the Smithsonian Institution is America’s attic, Engeman dusts off for us a cubbyhole of diversions and souvenirs that, taken together and viewed from a certain angle, create a pointillist portrait rather like a Chuck Close painting If it will appear different to every reader who picks up The Oregon Companionthat’s no flaw. It’s just life in a random state.”

“The book is a handy guide to keep in the car while traveling because of the enticing information of the different sights in Oregon.”

“With its succinct entries and well-restored photographs, The Oregon Companion reads more like a riveting narrativetales of bankers sneaking into Japan on dinghies to teach English to Samurai warriors in the 1800s.”

“Once I started leafing through the chapters, I just couldn’t put it down Engeman’s accessible writing style makes this book an engaging read for young and old alike.”

“This engaging, fact-filled reference book is useful both for newcomers and for forgetful natives.”

The Oregon Companion: An Historical Gazetteer of the Useful, the Curious, and the Arcane

Oregon’s Dry Side: Exploring East of the Cascade Crest

“Oregon’s Dry Side is neither an insider’s travel guide, nor an informative natural history, nor an engaging portrait of the contemporary culture and economic landscape in cetral and eastern Oregon: It’s all of the above. From a primer on plate tectonics to tips on family-friendly hikes in the central Cascades, this book covers everything you need to know to go native in what is colloquially referred to as Oregon’s “high desert” (and you’ll even learn why this label is technically innacurate).”
Camela Raymond, Portland Monthly (Portland Monthly )

“Oregon’s Dry Side is a labor of Stetson spirit and tumbleweed love…it captures the sage-scented lifestyle, the granite and ice, the tule dingles, the pine-scented paradises, and sense of spaciousness so many of us treasure.”
Jeff Petersen, La Grande Observer (La Grande Observer )

The book is beautifully illustrated with striking photographs and historical reproductions, and St. Johns description of Oregons dry landscapes is fascinating. (Keith R. Benson Pacific Northwest Quarterly )

Come explore the sights, sounds, scents, and stories of Oregon’s dry side, the stunning, vast, arid East, which is the state’s true West. Here are the volcanic mountains and mysterious fossils, vanilla-scented ponderosa pines, painted desert colors, wild creatures large and small, rugged wildflowers, remote outposts, and rich history reaching back to prehistoric times. Your expert guide is Alan D. St. John, naturalist, photographer, native Oregonian, and lifetime dry-side explorer who shares it all, including and this is generous indeed some of his own little-known favorite places. Also a broad field guide to eastern Oregon, this treasure of a book shows the region’s flora and fauna and dramatic geology in gorgeous photographs.

Oregon’s Dry Side: Exploring East of the Cascade Crest