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Hundreds of outdoor knife-use tips & tricks. Knife handles are too small. Build yours up!Add a small flashlight that puts a beam on your knife’s tip.Make your knife sheathilluminate theforestat night. See survival-books.com
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No other book teaches the reader how to use a knife to tell time, learn where a tree might fall, find out how much rope is needed to rappell down a cliff safely, or cross a river without getting wet. Author shows how to build up a knife handle to make it practical and easy to grip.
This is the companion book to NEVER GET LOST, because it teaches you to use your knife to discover travel time after getting directions home. Author currently offers 11 other outdoor how-to books on survival, and this book about knives teaches what is published nowhere else.

Landmark book on new, outdoor knife uses. The #1 knife-use book in America! Outdoor Life Book Club Selection. American Survival Magazine said, “…16 of the most innovative and informative chapters on knives and knife uses ever written.”

Hundreds of outdoor knife-use tips & tricks. Knife handles are too small. Build yours up!Add a small flashlight that puts a beam on your knife’s tip.Make your knife sheathilluminate theforestat night. See survival-books.com
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Everybody’s Knife Bible

Everybody’s Outdoor Survival Guide: The Green Beret Team Concept Inside Information

Don Paul is the former Green Beret who became a writer after his parachute failed over Panamanian jungles in 1976. He’s the author of several outdoor survival books sold primarily in Army Navy and surplus stores.

More innovations. Teaches exclusive outdoor know-how found nowhere else. Long range and defensive platform accuracy shooting. Animals for survival. Hand to hand combat, water purification, plus a lot more.

Everybody’s Outdoor Survival Guide: The Green Beret Team Concept Inside Information

Having examined football from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries in Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle, Oriard (American literature and culture, Oregon State Univ.), a former player for Notre Dame and the Kansas City Chiefs, here looks at the game from the 1920s through the 1950s. During this period, Americans followed their favorite college or professional team in newspapers, magazines, and newsreels or by listening to the radio, and Oriard shows that the media were a powerful force in constructing the football culture we know today. He also shows how football culture reflects broader changes in U.S. society. The volume includes an exhaustive bibliography and notes, plus appendixes on football films and football cover images on the Saturday Evening Post/Collier magazines from 1920 to 1960. A book football enthusiasts will enjoy, this is recommended for all libraries where demand warrants. Larry R. Little, Penticton P.L., BC
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

A book football enthusiasts will enjoy, this is recommended for all libraries. (Library Journal)

When it comes to explaining why football–in partnership with complacent and compliant media–has become such a dominant cultural force in American society, Michael Oriard is unsurpassed. (Sandy Padwe, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University)

King Football is a wonderful book, essential reading for anyone interested in this uniquely American phenomenon. (Murray Sperber, author of Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education)

This landmark work explores the vibrant world of football from the 1920s through the 1950s, a period in which the game became deeply embedded in American life. Though millions experienced the thrills of college and professional football firsthand during these years, many more encountered the game through their daily newspapers or the weekly Saturday Evening Post, on radio broadcasts, and in the newsreels and feature films shown at their local movie theaters. Asking what football meant to these millions who followed it either casually or passionately, Michael Oriard reconstructs a media-created world of football and explores its deep entanglements with a modernizing American society.

Football, claims Oriard, served as an agent of “Americanization” for immigrant groups but resisted attempts at true integration and racial equality, while anxieties over the domestication and affluence of middle-class American life helped pave the way for the sport’s rise in popularity during the Cold War. Underlying these threads is the story of how the print and broadcast media, in ways specific to each medium, were powerful forces in constructing the football culture we know today.

A book football enthusiasts will enjoy, this is recommended for all libraries.

When it comes to explaining why football–in partnership with complacent and compliant media–has become such a dominant cultural force in American society, Michael Oriard is unsurpassed.

King Football is a wonderful book, essential reading for anyone interested in this uniquely American phenomenon.

King Football: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press

College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy

Since its rude beginnings in 1875, college football has become a vivid icon linking students, alumni, and the general public. Watterson (Thomas Burke, Restless Revolutionary ) painstakingly details the development from an overly rough, rugby-like battle to the highly organized, semi-professional game of today. (A disastrous 0-0 Yale-Princeton championship game in 1881 resulted in the first-down rule.) In the sport’s early years, Harvard president Charles Eliot wanted it banned, but it was defended by Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson. From the 1920s on, well-paid celebrity coaches like Knute Rockne made football big business. The years after World War II brought real integration, professional football’s impact, TV, and more scandals. This frank account is a good fit for most academic and large public libraries.DMorey Berger, St. Joseph’s Hosp. Lib., Tucson, AZ
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

“In March [1892] Stanford and California had played the first college football game on the Pacific Coast in San Francisco… The pregame activities included a noisy parade down streets bedecked with school colors. Tickets sold so fast that the Stanford student manager, future president Herbert Hoover, and his California counterpart, could not keep count of the gold and silver coins. When they finally totaled up the proceeds, they found that the revenues amounted to $30,000a fair haul for a game that had to be temporarily postponed because no one had thought to bring a ball!”from College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy, Chapter Three

In this comprehensive history of America’s popular pastime, John Sayle Watterson shows how college football in more than one hundred years has evolved from a simple game played by college students into a lucrative, semiprofessional enterprise. With a historian’s grasp of the context and a novelist’s eye for the telling detail, Watterson presents a compelling portrait rich in anecdotes, colorful personalities, and troubling patterns.

He tells how the infamous Yale-Princeton “fiasco” of 1881, in which Yale forced a 0-0 tie in a championship game by retaining possession of the ball for the entire game, eventually led to the first-down rule that would begin to transform Americanized rugby into American football. He describes the kicks and punches, gouged eyes, broken collarbones, and flagrant rule violations that nearly led to the sport’s demise . And he explains the reforms of 1910, which gave official approval to a radical new tactic traditionalists were sure would doom the game as they knew itthe forward pass.

As college football grew in the booming economy of the 1920s, Watterson explains, the flow of cash added fuel to an already explosive mix. Coaches like Knute Rockne became celebrities in their own right, with highly paid speaking engagements and product endorsements. At the same time, the emergence of the first professional teams led to inevitable scandals involving recruitment and subsidies for student-athletes. Revelations of illicit aid to athletes in the 1930s led to failed attempts at reform by the fledgling NCAA in the postwar “Sanity Code,” intended to control abuses by permitting limited subsidies to college players but which actually paved the way for the “free ride” many players receive today.

Watterson also explains how the growth of TV revenue led to college football programs’ unprecedented prosperity, just as the rise of professional football seemed to relegate college teams to “minor league” status. He explores issues of gender and race, from the shocked reactions of spectators to the first female cheerleaders in the 1930s to their successful exploitation by Roone Arledge three decades later. He describes the role of African-American players, from the days when Southern schools demanded all-white teams ; through the black armbands and protests of the 60s; to one of the game’s few successful, if limited, reforms, as black athletes dominate the playing field while often being shortchanged in the classroom.

Today, Watterson observes, colleges’ insatiable hunger for revenues has led to an abuse-filled game nearly indistinguishable from the professional model of the NFL. After examining the standard solutions for reform, he offers proposals of his own, including greater involvement by faculty, trustees, and college presidents. Ultimately, however, Watterson concludes that the history of college football is one in which the rules of the game have changed, but those of human nature have not.

College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy

The Scuba Snobs live in Lakewood, Colorado and have been married almost 30 years. Debbie has been diving since 1992. Dennis had been diving since 1998, and earned his professional divemaster credential in 2000. Dennis practices law and teaches part time at a private University. Debbie is a former high school teacher who now works as a legal assistant in and manages Dennis’ law practice. They have been diving throughout the Pacific and the Caribbean. They really are nice people. Ok, Debbie is a nice person. Dennis is kind of nice. Sometimes.

The Scuba Snobs’ Guide to Diving Etiquette is filled with humorous to hilarious stories illustrating the need for “rules” of etiquette for scuba divers, above and below the water. The tips for divers are spot on, the stories entertaining, and the net result is a delightful little read that anyone, not only divers, can enjoy. From packing to puking, swim wear to story telling, boats to buoyancy, the authors’ stories and rules illuminate every facet of diving and dive travel. This book is fresh, insightful, entertaining and not too long. And it is, in fact “Seriously Funny! and Mostly True” just like the cover says.

The Scuba Snobs’ Guide to Diving Etiquette

Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die: Diving Experts Share the World’s Greatest Destinations

Chris Santella is a freelance writer and marketing consultant based in Portland, Oregon. A regular contributor to the New York Times and Forbes.com, he has also contributed to the New Yorker, Travel & Leisure, Golf, American Lawyer, and Delta Sky. Santella is the author of four other titles in the Fifty Places series, as well as Fifty Favorite Fly-Fishing Tales (all STC).

The earths oceans hold many wondrous surprisesbe they the small, colorful critters off the coast of Papua New Guinea, opportunistic red demon squids in the Sea of Cortes, or naval wrecks in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll. In Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die Chris Santella has invited diving experts from around the world to share some of their favorite destinations, so ardent divers can experience these underwater wonders for themselveseither on location in their SCUBA gear, or at home in their armchair.

The fifth in Santellas bestselling Fifty Places series, the book takes divers from hot-spot destinations like Raja Ampat to old Caribbean favorites like Grand Cayman Isles. Readers will swim among whale sharks off Myanmar, befriend wolf eels off the coast of Maine, and marvel at the giant mola mola of Lembognan, Indonesia. These wonderful creaturesplus the brilliant coral reefs that often provide their backdropare captured in 40 gorgeous color photos from the worlds greatest underwater photographers. And for readers who want to travel to these breathtaking locales, Santella provides complete If You Go suggestions to help you plan your trip.

Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die: Diving Experts Share the World’s Greatest Destinations

It’s a terrific narrative of the ebb and flow of a football season through the eyes of a general manager, Ernie Accorsi of the Giants. Accorsi, in his final season before retiring, gave Callahan access to everything he saw with the Giants last year, including the raw emotion that flowed from GM to coach. In so doing, Accorsi illustrated the real tension that exists in front offices, the kind you so rarely read about In the mainstream press. So don’t think this is just a Giants book. It’s not. It’s an NFL book, and a book that helps you understand some of the complex relationships that define the game today.
Peter King, Sports Illustrated

A vivid, focused account of a New York Giants season filled with hope but ultimately tainted by disappointmentCallahan also paints a wonderful portrait of Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi, [filling] the book with wit, wisdom and great stories.
Miami Herald

Callahans book about the last year of Ernie Accorsis reign as general manager gives unusual insight into how a football organization is run.
Chicago Tribune

A fascinating look at an NFL season by a true insider. Great tidbits abound.
Dallas Morning News

The most interesting and topical [of the recently published Giants books] by far. The author was given extensive behind the scenes access and emerges with many juicy tidbitsCallahan deftly handles a poignant chapter on trainer Ronnie Barnes role in Wellington Maras final days.
Newsday

Many surprising revelationsshocking.
New York Daily News

The G.M. is perhaps the best book ever written about a pro football executiveAccorsi is a terrific subject.
Allen Barra, Washington Post Book World

THE GM is one of the great sports books to come along in recent years, and that’s not just a tribute to Tom Callahan, who wrote it, but also to Ernie Accorsi, the book’s subject. It says a lot about someone when they have the confidence and self-esteem to open their lives that completely for published consumption. Good for Ernie. Better for us.
Mike Vaccaro, New York Post

“A compelling chronicle of Accorsi’s career written adroitly by Tom Callahan, who was allowed to be a fly on the wall of the Giants’ inner sanctums during their tempestuous 2006 season.”
Dave Anderson, The New York Times

From the Hardcover edition.

TOM CALLAHAN, a former senior writer at Time magazine and sports columnist at the Washington Post, is the author of Johnny U, In Search of Tiger, and The Bases Were Loaded (and So Was I).

A LOOK AT THE NFLS TOUGHEST JOB, A MAN WHO MASTERED IT, AND THE ART OF WINNING CHAMPIONSHIPS

With a New Chapter on the Giants Super Bowl Triumph

The GM is a chronicle of the NFL spanning the last three and a half decades, told through the eyes of legendary general manager Ernie Accorsi, a man who has dedicated his life to footballand whose unshakable faith in controversial quarterback Eli Manning was vindicated in the Giants dramatic come-from-behind victory in the 2008 Super Bowl. Filled with vivid anecdotes and storytelling that show how the pro game (and the league that showcases it) really works, The GM doesnt just illuminate, it inspires with its portrait of a consummate football-personnel strategist who, over the course of decades, gave everything to the game he loved.

It’s a terrific narrative of the ebb and flow of a football season through the eyes of a general manager, Ernie Accorsi of the Giants. Accorsi, in his final season before retiring, gave Callahan access to everything he saw with the Giants last year, including the raw emotion that flowed from GM to coach. In so doing, Accorsi illustrated the real tension that exists in front offices, the kind you so rarely read about In the mainstream press. So don’t think this is just a Giants book. It’s not. It’s an NFL book, and a book that helps you understand some of the complex relationships that define the game today.
Peter King, Sports Illustrated

A vivid, focused account of a New York Giants season filled with hope but ultimately tainted by disappointmentCallahan also paints a wonderful portrait of Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi, [filling] the book with wit, wisdom and great stories.
Miami Herald

Callahans book about the last year of Ernie Accorsis reign as general manager gives unusual insight into how a football organization is run.
Chicago Tribune

A fascinating look at an NFL season by a true insider. Great tidbits abound.
Dallas Morning News

The most interesting and topical [of the recently published Giants books] by far. The author was given extensive behind the scenes access and emerges with many juicy tidbitsCallahan deftly handles a poignant chapter on trainer Ronnie Barnes role in Wellington Maras final days.
Newsday

Many surprising revelationsshocking.
New York Daily News

The G.M. is perhaps the best book ever written about a pro football executiveAccorsi is a terrific subject.
Allen Barra, Washington Post Book World

THE GM is one of the great sports books to come along in recent years, and that’s not just a tribute to Tom Callahan, who wrote it, but also to Ernie Accorsi, the book’s subject. It says a lot about someone when they have the confidence and self-esteem to open their lives that completely for published consumption. Good for Ernie. Better for us.
Mike Vaccaro, New York Post

“A compelling chronicle of Accorsi’s career written adroitly by Tom Callahan, who was allowed to be a fly on the wall of the Giants’ inner sanctums during their tempestuous 2006 season.”
Dave Anderson, The New York Times

From the Hardcover edition.

The GM: A Football life, a Final Season, and a Last Laugh

Take Your Eye Off the Ball: How to Watch Football by Knowing Where to Look

To have coached at the highest level and then moved into the administrative and management realm and know what you’re talking about in both is relatively unique. Pat can ‘talk the talk’ to players but still speak the language of contracts and deals. Pat boils even the most complicated nuances of football down to the base elements so that everyone can understand it

Brad Childress –Head coach, Minnesota Vikings

I wish I had been coached as a player the way I’ve been coached by Pat as an analyst. He’s expanded my knowledge and understanding of the big picture of the game. He’s schooled at every position on both sides of the ball, and not just in terms of how to play the position; he also explains to you why things need to be done a certain way

Tim Ryan –Co-host, Movin’ the Chains, Sirius NFL Radio

I wish I had been coached as a player the way I’ve been coached by Pat as an analyst. He’s expanded my knowledge and understanding of the big picture of the game. He’s schooled at every position on both sides of the ball, and not just in terms of how to play the position; he also explains to you why things need to be done a certain way

Tim Ryan –Co-host, Movin’ the Chains, Sirius NFL Radio

Today’s NFL fans have more viewing options than ever before. Each and every week, football addicts plant themselves in front of big-screen, high-definition TVs and watch the game they love unfold via slow-motion replays and multiple camera angles, pausing and fast-forwarding the action on their DVRs as they please.

Yet while more and more football fans are watching the NFL each week, many of them don’t know exactly what they should be watching. What does the offense’s formation tell you about the play that’s about to be run? When a quarterback throws a pass toward the sideline and the wide receiver cuts inside, which player is to blame? Why does a defensive end look like a Hall of Famer one week and a candidate for the practice squad the next?

These are the questions football fans ask during every game they watch, and for too long, they’ve lacked the kind of insight and information that courses through coaches’ offices, locker rooms, and meetings throughout the NFL. Football fans are starving to learn more about the game they love, to appreciate the intricacies of their sport the way baseball fans do theirs. Now Pat Kirwan, popular analyst for NFL.com and Sirius NFL Radio and a veteran front office executive, and co-author David Seigerman present Take Your Eye Off the Ball, a book that takes you inside a coach’s mind as he builds a roster or constructs a game plan, to the line of scrimmage with the quarterback, and deep into the perpetual chess match between offense and defense.

Take Your Eye Off the Ball is not a beginner’s introduction to football, nor is it a technical manual for only the most studious of fans. Instead, it clearly and simply explains the intricacies and nuances that affect the outcomes of every NFL game. No more passively watching the action unfold with only the TV analyst’s clichs to guide you, no more wondering why one player is on the field and not another. Take Your Eye Off the Ball:

* Explains the pros and cons of different personnel groups

* Tells you what to look for when projecting a college quarterback’s success in the NFL

* Gives fans a simple, easy-to-remember checklist to help them understand the action on the field

Baseball claims to be America’s national pastime, but football is its passion. Take Your Eye Off the Ball will make fans feel like they’ve got their own personal head coach by their side each and every Sunday, enhancing the fan experience by making football more accessible, colorful, and compelling than ever before.

Take Your Eye Off the Ball: How to Watch Football by Knowing Where to Look

‘another excellent volume in the Travellers’ Companion series’ – Times; ‘a brilliant historical anthology… which I read from cover to cover, relishing the author’s witty selection of writings’ – Harriet Crawley, Spectator –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

John Julius Norwich has known and loved Venice since he first visited it with his parents at the age of 16. He is the author of A History of Venice, a work first published in two volumes but now available in one, which has become the standard history of the Venetian Republic. He lectures regularly on the art and architecture of Venice and the problems of its preservation.

Bringing to life Florence’s glorious history in first-hand accounts.

Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. Henry James wrote passionately: “You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it…” whereas Mark Twain found St. Mark’s “so ugly…Propped on its long row of thick-legged columns, its back knobbed with domes, it seem like a vast, warty bug taking a medieval walk.” In this dazzling anthology, James and Twain along with the writings of Byron, Goethe, Wagner, Casanova, Jan Morris, Robert Browning, and Horace Walpole, among many others, are all featured. Ranging from the days of the sixth century, when the early lagoon-dwellers lived “like sea-birds, in huts built on heaps of osiers” to the exquisite city of eighteenth-century revelers and nineteenth-century art lovers-the city’s many different guises are revealed as its inhabitants and visitors saw them.

This favorite volume from the Traveller’s Companion series also contains maps, engravings, and notes on history, art and architecture, and everyday city life. Highly entertaining and informative.

‘another excellent volume in the Travellers’ Companion series’ – Times; ‘a brilliant historical anthology… which I read from cover to cover, relishing the author’s witty selection of writings’ – Harriet Crawley, Spectator –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A Traveller’s Companion to Venice (The Traveller’s Companion Series)

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Venice: Prince of the Adriatic, Queen of romantics, King of canals and palaces. Venice is pure Italian opera.

Like the famous Fenice Theatre, twice resurrected after devastating fires, Venice continues to flirt with disaster. The Venetian Lagoon which swells and floods Venice each year during the acque alta threatens to do so permanently unless a solution is found. But Venice continues to hold her head above water like a bejeweled diva swooning in the sea. Masked revelers during carnival seem like theatrical extras to a city that is always center stage. For the first time visitor, the pageantry of Venice is intoxicating. For the return visitor, it is addicting.

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Travel the world in five months, see 80 “treasures.” This is the conceit behind a recent BBC TV series hosted by architect Cruickshank, who is also the guide in this companion book. He visits, in rapid-fire fashion, fantastic, if not entirely unexpected, places (Egypt’s pyramids, the ruins of Peru, the Parthenon), documenting each with sometimes transcendent pictures, but much of the narration is bogged down by Cruickshank’s complaints about speeding through the ruins and getting up for early flights to dash from one continent to the next. Cruickshank’s descriptions vary in quality, sometimes reading like brochures. (A product, perhaps, of brief visits that don’t allow him to absorb anything before he’s off to the next destination.) Though some of the destinations seem absurd for a top-80 list (firing a Colt pistol in Durango, Colorado?), Cruickshank is a witty travel agent and his architectural background enriches the best sections. Anyone seriously interested in these marvels will be frustrated by the slight treatment each receives; Cruickshank is too busy traveling to provide much depth. However, fans of the series will appreciate how Cruickshank crams the entire world into one journey and one book.
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The author is a British television journalist and authority on historic buildings, which stood him in good stead as he did a whirlwind–four months–tour of 40 countries on six continents, all for a television series, of which this book is a companion. He ended up visiting 80 historic monuments–human built, not natural wonders. He went to look for big, one-of-a-kind structures, but his definition of historic monuments extended to uniquely regional crafts with an appeal that has endured through the ages. Consequently, his profiles, each one gorgeously illustrated and accompanied by diary entries (in which he not only describes what he saw but also reflects on its importance in a world-heritage context), range from Angkor Watt in Cambodia to the Seagram Building in New York City; from classic Chinese porcelain to Persian carpets; and from Mostar Bridge in Bosnia to Ethiopian illuminated manuscripts. Ready-made for vicarious living by the armchair traveler. Brad Hooper
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One of Britain’s leading authorities on historic architecture takes readers on a tour of mankind’s greatest monuments in this companion volume to the BBC television series. Documenting his extraordinary four and a half month journey to eighty historic sites around the world, Dan Cruickshank’s new book is lavishly illustrated with majestic images of international treasures like the Great Wall of China and the Parthenon in Athens, as well as American wonders such as the Statue of Liberty. Accompanying these breathtaking sights is Cruickshank’s daily diary, in which he describes the challenges and joys of life on the road, shares stories of the people he meets along the way, and offers illuminating insights on some of the greatest achievements in human history.

Around the World in 80 Treasures

Adventures in Architecture

“A keen sense of irony and social injustice accompanies each journey as he notes how the igloo is under threat and the Quakers’ idea of prison didn’t quite work out for the best.” BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH

Architecture is an art, a science, and a craft. But buildings also have to fulfill a function, cater to human use, withstand the forces of nature, and be built to a budget. Following his popular Around the World in 80 Treasures, Dan Cruickshank presents a compelling, maverick history of architecture. This handsomely photographed guide navigates eager readers on a tour of the buildings Dan believes have changed the world, such as the Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg and the Hanging Temple in Shanxi, China.

Memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War by Mark Twain, published in 1883. The book begins with a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541. Chapters 4-22 describe Twain’s career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood dream. The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain’s return, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to New Orleans. By then the competition from railroads had made steamboats passe, in spite of improvements in navigation and boat construction. Twain sees new, large cities on the river, and records his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture. — The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The spirit of the Mississippi flows through all Mark Twain’s best work and here the romantic heyday of the steamboat is recalled in a characteristically nostalgic mixture of journalism and autobiography. He describes people and places with affection and humour, but of the Mississippi itself, on which he was once a cub pilot travelling between New Orleans and St Louis, he writes with repect and loving devotion.

Memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War by Mark Twain, published in 1883. The book begins with a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541. Chapters 4-22 describe Twain’s career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood dream. The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain’s return, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to New Orleans. By then the competition from railroads had made steamboats passe, in spite of improvements in navigation and boat construction. Twain sees new, large cities on the river, and records his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture. — The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Life on the Mississippi (Oxford World’s Classics)

Roughing It

There is no nicer surprise for a reader than to discover that an acknowledged classic really does deliver the goods. Mark Twain’s Roughing It is just such a book. The adventure tale is a delight from start to finish and is just as engrossing today as it was 125 years ago when it first appeared.

Roughing It tells the true-ish escapades of Twain in the American West. Although he clearly "speaks with forked tongue," Roughing It is informative as well as humorous. From stagecoach travel to the etiquette of prospecting, the modern reader gains considerable insight into that much-fictionalized time and place. Do you know about sagebrush, for example?

Sage-brush is very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child, the mule. But their testimony to its nutritiousness is worth nothing, for they will eat pine knots, or anthracite coal, or brass filings, or lead pipe, or old bottles, or anything that comes handy, and then go off looking as grateful as if they had had oysters for dinner.

Roughing It is informally structured around the narrator’s attempts to strike it rich. He meets a motley, colorful crew in the process; many mishaps occur, and it shouldn’t surprise you that Twain does not emerge a man of means. But he withstands it all in such a relentless good humor that his misfortune inspires laughter. Roughing It is wonderful entertainment and reminds you how funny the world can be–even its grimmer districts–when you’re traveling with the right writer. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain’s fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting for gold, speculating in timber, and writing for a succession of small Western newspapers during the 1860s.

Roughing It (The Penguin American Library)

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A Celtic cross stands against the evening sky on the Hebridean island of Iona. The monastery at Iona has long been a draw for pilgrims, past and present.
Photography by Jim Richardson The image of Westminster Abbey reflects in the windshield of a London taxi. Experts on the capitals road network, cabbies must all pass the Knowledge of London Examination System, commonly known as the Knowledge.
Photography by Annie Griffiths The English countryside holds many pleasures. Horse and hounds were once a more common sight than they are now. Since the Hunting Act of 2004, fox hunting with dogs has been banned in England and Wales. The issue continues to be an extremely divisive one among the British public.
Photograph by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images For nearly a millennium, visitors have been traveling to Windsor Castle, which is the largest inhabited castle in the world. Although parts of it are usually open to the public, the castle may be closed for state visits and other occasions.
Photograph by James L. Stanfield

Book at the ready, an Oxford man lights up his pipe in one of the citys pubs. Among the most famous of Oxford watering holes is the Eagle and Child, where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien often met.
Photograph by Mark Harris/Getty Images Saint Govans Chapel hugs the coast of southern Pembrokeshire. The tiny, 13th-century chapel can only be accessed by climbing down 52 steps from the cliff top.
Photograph by Jim Richardson The weather is never far away in the Scottish Highlands. Storm clouds gather over the Old Man of Storr, a basalt rock formation on the Isle of Skye. Sightseers can reach the spectacular landscape after a mile-long walk along a well-constructed path.
Photograph by Adam Burton/Photolibrary Surf crashes against the Giants Causeway on the north Antrim coast. A tourist draw since Victorian times, the Causeway is one of the top attractions of Northern Ireland.
Photograph by Jim Richardson

Robin Currie co-authored National Geographic’s Concise History of the World and has edited National Geographic Traveler guides on New York, Hawaii, South Africa, and Greece. His writing has been published by the Smithsonian, McGraw-Hill, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and America Online, where he was senior editor of the AOL homepage. His most recent book, The Letter and the Scroll: What Archaeology Tells Us About the Bible, co-authored with Stephen Hyslop, was published by National Geographic in 2009.

In 11 chapters, each geographic area comes alive through brisk historical narrative and lavish color photography, art, and maps.

Author Robin Currie details captivating legacies and guides us to sites where their mysteries can still be experienced: Hadrian’s Wall, testament to why the Romans didn’t occupy Scotland; the Arthurian legends found in medieval Welsh literature; Queen Elizabeth I and her rival Mary Stuart; centuries-old Kilkenny castle in Ireland; the Bronts, Daphne du Maurier, and the rich landscapes that inspired them. Meet the modern citizens of Britain and Ireland as well, and discover what life is like in the islands today. Throughout the book, quick travel tips and fun lists provide intriguing details about language origins, customs, and little-known lore. A complete index rounds out this ultimate reference. There’s nothing like it on the market today.

Wide-ranging travel author Robin Currie begins with the rich history of the Enchanted Isles, discussing such topics as the compelling saga of London, the Viking roots of 1,000-year-old Dublin, and the shipbuilding heritage of Belfast, from whence the Titanic steamed into history. We take in the emerald vistas of Ireland, dappled with the passage tombs and ritual sites of the ancient Celts. The rugged hills of Scotland, where the Romans disparaged the inhabitants as Picts (“painted men”) for the pigments they wore in battle. And the coasts and castles of Wales, where the ancient language is still very much alive.

These islands have seen much coming and going of peoples over the centuries, and that is no less true today. Get to know the modern inhabitants of the nations, whose faces speak louder than words about diversity of modern Britain and Ireland. Throughout the book, the photography has a special feel, going beyond the expected to bring out the real character of the lands and people.For readers inspired to visit these irresistible lands, Britain and Ireland delivers little-known secrets and insights that the practical travel guides don’t, to help us experience the countries more richly and appreciate them more deeply. Quotations from a wide range of individuals describe their favorite sites or landmarks, and lists of superlatives within a particular region (best vistas, oldest pubs, most fascinating ruins) point out spots that the average tourist would never know existed.

Whether to learn, to visit, or simply to dream–National Geographic’s Britain and Ireland provides readers with an incomparable tour.

From Britain & Ireland
Click on the photos below to open larger images.

A Celtic cross stands against the evening sky on the Hebridean island of Iona. The monastery at Iona has long been a draw for pilgrims, past and present.
Photography by Jim Richardson The image of Westminster Abbey reflects in the windshield of a London taxi. Experts on the capitals road network, cabbies must all pass the Knowledge of London Examination System, commonly known as the Knowledge.
Photography by Annie Griffiths The English countryside holds many pleasures. Horse and hounds were once a more common sight than they are now. Since the Hunting Act of 2004, fox hunting with dogs has been banned in England and Wales. The issue continues to be an extremely divisive one among the British public.
Photograph by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images For nearly a millennium, visitors have been traveling to Windsor Castle, which is the largest inhabited castle in the world. Although parts of it are usually open to the public, the castle may be closed for state visits and other occasions.
Photograph by James L. Stanfield

Book at the ready, an Oxford man lights up his pipe in one of the citys pubs. Among the most famous of Oxford watering holes is the Eagle and Child, where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien often met.
Photograph by Mark Harris/Getty Images Saint Govans Chapel hugs the coast of southern Pembrokeshire. The tiny, 13th-century chapel can only be accessed by climbing down 52 steps from the cliff top.
Photograph by Jim Richardson The weather is never far away in the Scottish Highlands. Storm clouds gather over the Old Man of Storr, a basalt rock formation on the Isle of Skye. Sightseers can reach the spectacular landscape after a mile-long walk along a well-constructed path.
Photograph by Adam Burton/Photolibrary Surf crashes against the Giants Causeway on the north Antrim coast. A tourist draw since Victorian times, the Causeway is one of the top attractions of Northern Ireland.
Photograph by Jim Richardson

Britain and Ireland: A Visual Tour of the Enchanted Isles

The Most Beautiful Villages of Ireland

Quaint, charming and predictably green. . . . The pages echo with tranquility in this composite masterfully photographed by Hugh Palmer. — Veranda, Deborah Merck Sanders, December 2000 –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A visual trip through the Emerald Isle: an unparalleled portrayal of the rural beauty and charm of Ireland.

Clusters of white cottages huddled between hills of an unbelievably rich green, villages of a single street, dazzling in their array of color washes and picturesque shop-frontssuch are the villages of Ireland, which to this day are living working communities.

The most beautiful of these villages are captured here in Christopher Fitz-Simons sensitive commentaries and Hugh Palmers evocative photographs. This is a journey full of rural gems, some famous, others less so. Here are the colored coastal villages of Cork, their vibrant houses sloping down to a sea that so many Irish people crossed to found other communities in America. Here too are the stunning medieval churches of Roscommon and Galway; and the villages of Antrim, standing ruggedly in defiance of the northern seas. 285 full-color photographs

The Most Beautiful Villages of Ireland (The Most Beautiful Villages)

Whether you want to be dazzled by butterflies at Westminster’s Butterfly Pavilion, don your waders for some fabulous fly fishing on the Frying Pan River, fly down the slopes at the best ski area, or find the best small-town dining in Southwest Colorado, Colorado’s Best will share these highlights and much more!

A fourth-generation Coloradan, Bruce Caughey has had a lifelong interest in the state. These days, he can be found hiking, fishing, skiing, and biking in the mountains of Colorado or spending time at his family’s cabin near Deckers. Doug Whitehead is the writer and producer of the award-winning program Colorado Getaways, for KCNC-TV Channel 4 in Denver. Both he and co-author Bruce Caughey have two young daughters, the four of whom have helped their fathers explore, recreate, and rate many of the Colorado adventures in this book.

From the bestselling co-author of The Colorado Guide and the writer/producer of the award-winning TV show Colorado Getaways (KCNC-TV) comes a must-have collection of recommended places to go and experiences to have in Colorado. Bruce Caughey and Doug Whitehead have teamed up to create a guide filled with nothing but Colorado’s Best. Visitors and residents alike will appreciate this essential guide, with its personal, authoritative selections. As the authors declare, this guide is shaped by their prejudices and interests. While you won’t find information on the state’s best snowmobile trails or duck hunting blinds, you will find a motherlode of activities and cultural adventures for every region of the state. The riches within include: plenty of family-friendly outings, all carefully identified throughout the book; an easy-to- follow organization–by region or by activity; hidden gems and out-of-the-way places, together with some of the better-known choices in the state; interesting, descriptive writing, combined with photographs, to help you chart your course and pick your pleasure.

Colorado’s Best

Colorado Guide, 5th Edition Updated: The Best-Selling Guide to the Centennial State

“The most complete guide to Colorado in existence … Not just an invaluable guidebook, this also makes for entertaining reading, with its breezy style and snippets of colorful historical anecdotes … Recommended for all travel collections.” -Library Journal

“This definitive, up-to-date sourcebook covers all recreational activities.” -Backpacker magazine

“The Colorado Guide is the most extensive escort to our glorious state since the WPA Guide to 1930′s Colorado.” -Rocky Mountain News

“An information book – a bible if you will – compiled with knowledge and affection.” -The Denver Post

The ultimate travel guide to Colorado! Whether you’re discovering the Centennial State for the first time or rediscovering its best-kept secrets, The Colorado Guide is your most reliable companion. For more than fifteen years The Colorado Guide has successfully accompanied both residents and visitors as they explore the state’s rich history and its many attractions, including local festivals, cultural highlights, historic sites, museums, outdoor activities, accommodations, nightlife, shipping, and restaurants. In these pages you’ll find everything you’ll need to plan the vacation or a lifetime or an unforgettable afternoon.

Newly updated, this comprehensive guidebook presents more than 1,500 things to see and do throughout Colorado. Authors Bruce Caughey and Dean Winstanley, both fourth-generation Coloradans, provide The Colorado Guide its personable insider’s perspective and all-encompassing scope. The Colorado Guide provides detailed information on:

Outdoor activities such as hiking, backpacking, biking, fishing, boating and skiing
Scenic drives, including four-wheel-drive and motorcycle trips
Nightlife, shopping and restaurants
Choice accomodations to fit every budget, from hotels and bed-and-breakfasts to campgrounds and RV parks
Regional history and attractions, as well as local festivals, cultural highlights, historic sites, and museums – from Front Range cities and small mountain towns to national parks and monuments and remote wilderness areas
Valuable resources including up-to-date Web sites and further reading

Colorado Guide, 5th Edition Updated: The Best-Selling Guide to the Centennial State

Nelles Verlag have been producing accurate and detilaed maps of all the world since 1982. Their reliability and clarity have made them the first chocie for travelers everywhere. –This text refers to the Map edition.

Featuring a new style cover and easy fold system, this map has been revised with the help of local correspondents. It is marked with tourist attractions and public transport systems, and includes inset maps of major cities.

Central Asia Nelles Map (Nelles Maps)

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan Map

Text: English, French, German, Russian

This folded tourist and road map of Kazakhstan also includes the surrounding countries of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The map features shaded-relief and elevation tinting. Major and minor roads are depicted along with railways, distance in kilometers, state boundaries , airports, historical sites, point of interest, and natural features. Index of placenames is on reverse side of map. Legend in 5 languages: English, German, French, Russian, and Kazakh. Scale is 1:3 million.

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan Map (English, German and Hungarian Edition)