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One hundred years ago two Cubans introduced baseball to the Dominican Republic, where it became the national pastime. But the game has evolved into something other than a carbon copy of the U.S. sport, and Klein, a professor of sociology and anthropology at Northeastern University, shows how the two differ. After a jargon-laden introduction, he presents an excellent short history of Dominica, the development of teams sponsored by the large sugar refineries (hence the book’s title), and an absorbing analysis of how the Dominican national persona affects players and fans today.

Copyright 1991 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

In the Dominican Republic baseball is not only a game but a national obsession. Exported from the United States and still controlled by it, the game is also an arena of intercultural relations. “Sugarball” describes how Dominican baseball fosters national pride and competition with the United States while at the same time promoting acceptance of the North American presence in the country. Alam M.Klein traces the introduction and development of baseball in the Dominican Republic, provides sketches of fans, stadiums, and players, and discusses such issues as the origin of the Dominican baseball academies and the international competition for Dominican players. Throughout, he evokes the enthusiam that Dominicans have for the game and shows how it mirrors the conflict they feel between allowing and resisting American hegemony in their country. Klein relates the efforts of major league teams to seek talent in the Dominican Republic and shape the game to suit their own purposes – efforts that resemble other exploitative enterprises in the Third World. These activities evoke little resentment, because for many Dominican young men baseball is the only way out of a life of unemployment or of hard labour in cities or cane fields. At the same time, their prowess at baseball encourages the Dominicans to oppose further interference from the Americans.

Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican Dream

The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris

Kurlansky offers an intriguing look at the history of the Dominican Republic and the role American baseball has played in the impoverished and destitute sugar-growing town of San Pedro de Macoris. Kurlansky’s approach and style make this story accessible even to nonsports fans. Ed Sala’s deep and slightly throaty voice is enjoyable to listen to, though at times he can be a bit halting in his rhythm. Sentences end and begin with some abruptness, and there are mild inconsistencies with Spanish pronunciation. Despite this, Kurlansky’s prose and Salas’s overall performance combine to keep listeners tuned in till the end. A Riverhead hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 25).
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. –This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

The intriguing, inspiring history of one small, impoverished area in the Dominican Republic that has produced a staggering number of Major League Baseball talent, from an award-winning, bestselling author.

In the town of San Pedro in the Dominican Republic, baseball is not just a way of life. It’s the way of life. By the year 2008, seventy-nine boys and men from San Pedro have gone on to play in the Major Leagues-that means one in six Dominican Republicans who have played in the Majors have come from one tiny, impoverished region. Manny Alexander, Sammy Sosa, Tony Fernandez, and legions of other San Pedro players who came up in the sugar mill teams flocked to the United States, looking for opportunity, wealth, and a better life.

Because of the sugar industry, and the influxes of migrant workers from across the Caribbean to work in the cane fields and factories, San Pedro is one of the most ethnically diverse areas of the Dominican Republic. A multitude of languages are spoken there, and a variety of skin colors populate the community; but the one constant is sugar and baseball. The history of players from San Pedro is also a chronicle of racism in baseball, changing social mores in sports and in the Dominican Republic, and the personal stories of the many men who sought freedom from poverty through playing ball. The story of baseball in San Pedro is also that of the Caribbean in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and on a broader level opens a window into our country’s history.

As with Kurlansky’s Cod and Salt, this small story, rich with anecdote and detail, becomes much larger than ever imagined. Kurlansky reveals two countries’ love affair with a sport and the remarkable journey of San Pedro and its baseball players. In his distinctive style, he follows common threads and discovers wider meanings about place, identity, and, above all, baseball.

The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris

The first and second editions of this authoritative guide to Colorado’s hiking paradise has been a best-seller among seasoned and beginning hikers for years.

This completely revised third edition includes: seventy trips of varying length, with corresponding maps, directions to conquer six of Colorado’s fourteeners, and sixteen new maps providing alternative trail access and updated routes.

Whether you enjoy afternoon excursions around the city trails of Durango or exploring the Colorado Trail, this third edition remains the most comprehensive guide to world-renown hiking. –This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Paul Pixler is a retired professor of philosophy at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, and a former chairman of the San Juan Chapter of the Colorado Mountain Club. He divides his time between Durango and southern Arizona and is an avid hiker.

The first three editions of this authoritative guide to Colorado’s hiking paradise have been bestsellers amoung seasoned and beginning hikers for years.

This completely rewritten and revised fourth edition includes: 70 trips of varying length with corresponding maps; directions to conquer 7 of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks, 24 new maps providing alternative trail access and updated routes. Whether you enjoy afternoon excursions around the city trails of Durango or exploring the Colorado Trail, this fourth edition remains the most comprehensive guide to world-renown hiking.

Hiking Trails of Southwestern Colorado

Telluride, Silverton, Ouray & Lake City, Colorado – Trails Illustrated Maps #141

Founded in 1915 as the Cartographic Group, the first division of the National Geographic Society, National Geographic Maps has been responsible for illustrating the world around us through the art and science of mapmaking.
Today, National Geographic Maps continues this mission by creating the world s best wall maps, recreation maps, atlases, and globes which inspire people to care about and explore their world. All proceeds from the sale of National Geographic maps go to support the Society s non-profit mission to increase global understanding and promote conservation of our planet through exploration, research, and education.

Coverage area includes parts of San Juan and Uncompahgre national forests; south San Juan Mountains; Lizard Head, Mt Sneffels and Uncompahgre wilderness areas; Calico National Recreation Trail; portions of the Colorado Trail; the trail networks at Coal Bank Pass and Silver Jack Reservoir; and the cities and surrounds of Telluride and Ouray. 14ers: Mt Wilson, El Diente Peak, Wilson Peak, Mt Sneffels, Uncompahgre Peak, Wetterhorn Peak, Redcloud Peak, Sunshine Peak. Includes UTM grids for use with your GPS unit.

Scale = 1:63,360 Size: 26” x 38”

Telluride, Silverton, Ouray & Lake City, Colorado – Trails Illustrated Maps #141 (National Geographic Maps: Trails Illustrated)

“…a fascinating blend of famous New Hampshire moments and personally recommended hiking trails. In both the literary world and the outdoor world of hiking and conservation, her star is in the ascendancy.” –Floyd W. Ramsey, author of Shrouded Memories

Marianne O’Connor lives in New Hampshire and is an avid hiker.

Explore the haunts of hikers gone by and see for yourself whether these ghost tales are fact or fiction. Hikes are rated according to difficulty and spookiness with something for every member of the family.

“…a fascinating blend of famous New Hampshire moments and personally recommended hiking trails. In both the literary world and the outdoor world of hiking and conservation, her star is in the ascendancy.” –Floyd W. Ramsey, author of Shrouded Memories

Haunted Hikes of New Hampshire

The New England Grimpendium

J. W. Ocker runs the Web site Odd Things Ive Seen, where he chronicles his visits to various oddities of culture, art, and history. His writings have been featured in Rue Morgue magazine, CNN.com, American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty, and Studies in Australian Weird Fiction. Ocker lives in Nashua, NH.

An insiders guide to wicked, weird, and wonderful New England.

A rich compendium of macabre and historic New England happenings, this travelogue features firsthand accounts of almost 200 sites throughout New England. This region is full of the macabre, the grim, and the ghastlyand all of it is worth visiting, for the traveler who dares! Author J. W. Ocker supplements directions and site information with entertaining personal anecdotes.

Topics include: Legends and personalities of the macabre
Infamous crimes and killers
Dreadful tragedies
Horror movie locales
Notable cemeteries and gravestones
Intriguing memento mori
Classic monsters
100 black-and-white photographs

The New England Grimpendium

‘Don’t leave home without STREETWISE.’ –The New York Times

‘STREETWISE is an absolute travel essential.’ –Travel + Leisure Magazine

‘In a strange city, your sense of direction is only as good as the map in your hands. The best maps to carry are published by STREETWISE.’ –Chicago Daily Herald

STREETWISE is the first map to be designed with modern graphics and is the originator of the laminated, accordion-fold map format. Weve set the standard that every map company has imitated but never duplicated. Our mission is to make you feel comfortable, to make you feel safe in a place where youve never been before and to enable you to experience a familiar place more fully.

The company was founded in 1984 by Michael Brown, who had been in international publishing for many years, setting up subsidiaries for textbook publishers. In the 1970s, Brown traveled extensively throughout Africa, India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Brown would take a large paper map, cut out the city center, folded it up and slip it into his pocket, thus preventing him from looking like a tourist in areas where discretion is the better part of travel. This was his tool for surviving.

After many years on the road, Brown settled back in New York and decided to start his own business, based on the adaptations he had made to maps in his travels. His goal was to give someone the ability to navigate easily in unfamiliar terrain.

He started with a new map format: the accordion fold. Such a simple idea, but at the time it was revolutionary. No more struggling to fold an awkward, oversized paper map. This new format would enable the user to blend in like a native, instead of stick out like a tourist. Brown then added lamination to ensure that the map would be a lasting tool.

More important than the format was the design of the map itself. It had to be a map that not only succeeded above and beyond any map he had used, but was esthetically appealing as well. The look of it had to be as striking as the functionality. Color was introduced in a way that was never seen before in a map – vivid purple for water, soothing gray for the background of street grids, gold to highlight elements of the map. Clarity, conciseness and convenience in a very stylish package.

Building the business was a 24 hour job. Brown sold the maps during the day, zipping around Manhattan making deliveries on his Harley Davidson. At night he packed the orders and did the design work. More titles were added, each title requiring months of research and design.

Today, STREETWISE produces over 130 titles for major destinations, regions and countries throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and Asia. We have grown from the back of a motorcycle to selling millions of maps around the world.

Yet each title is still painstakingly researched and updated. STREETWISE is one of the only, if not THE only map company that conducts research by walking or driving an area to ensure accuracy. After all, what good is the map if what you hold in your hands doesnt match what you see on the street sign? This lengthy fact checking results in superior accuracy; in effect, weve done the work, now you have the adventure.

In the end, its not about the map, its about getting out and finding your own authentic experience wherever you go. Its about being in a city or a region and discovering things that you never thought you would find. You can do this if you have confidence and you have confidence if you have a great map. STREETWISE is the great map that you need.

Streetwise Houston Map – Laminated City Center Street Map of Houston, Texas – Folding pocket size travel map with integrated metro light rail lines & stations

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You probably didnt know that Houston is the 4th largest city in America. The downside, its the leading city in metropolitan sprawl with high-rise towers and shopping malls spreading out forever over the low flat lands of Southeastern Texas. The upside, Houston has much to offer in terms of world class museums, fine dining, sports teams, parks and a hip party atmosphere.

The STREETWISE map of Houston is split north to south from front to backside and covers a large swatch of west Houston in detail. Districts like the Galleria are easy to find as well as places like Rice University, Hermann Park, and Reliant Stadium and of course downtown Houston.

Downtown Houston, once the business core, is by day a bustling area filled with high-rise office buildings and hotels. To find your way youll need the STREETWISE map of Houston with its inset of Downtown Houston. Without it youll easily get lost looking for the George R Brown Convention Center, Minute Maid Park, or the Toyota Center. There is nothing worse than driving around forever looking for something that is only minutes away. That won’t happen provided you have the correct tool, like the STREETWISE Houston Map.

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Our pocket size map of Houston is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE Houston map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE. Buy your STREETWISE Houston map today and you too can navigate Houston, Texas like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.

‘Don’t leave home without STREETWISE.’ –The New York Times

‘STREETWISE is an absolute travel essential.’ –Travel + Leisure Magazine

‘In a strange city, your sense of direction is only as good as the map in your hands. The best maps to carry are published by STREETWISE.’ –Chicago Daily Herald

Streetwise Houston Map – Laminated City Center Street Map of Houston, Texas – Folding pocket size travel map with metro light rail

147 Fun Things to do in Houston

Come along with our family and experience one of America’s most dynamic, diverse and delightful cities through Karen Foulk’s helpful handbook! Discover why millions have chosen to call the Bayou City HOME! –Giff Nielsen, Sports Director, KHOU-TV

Take a leisurely stroll through the creative pages of Karen Foulk’s travel guide. She’s opening a door to travel, adventure, and family togetherness while showing thousands how to make discovering Houston fun. –Peter Marzio, Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

When my grandchildren would come for a visit, I knew only a few places to take them. I don’t want a book about trendy nightclubs. I need this book! It even gives me driving directions. –Cheryl Leavitt, Grandmother of Sixteen, Resident of Sugar Land

Who needs Hawaii or the Caribbean you are holding Houston in your hands. Let Karen Foulk show you 147 fun things to do right here, right now. You can entertain guests, build family memories, impress a date or dazzle your friends with all the fun places you know using this guide.

147 Fun Things to do in Houston

Two Maya archeologists base this tale of war, expansion and ritual on recently deciphered Mayan hieroglyphics and artifacts. According to PW , the authors “vividly conjure the Maya world of cyclical time and multiple levels of reality, a universe where all things are alive with meaning.” Illustrated.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The mystique of the pre-Columbian Maya has prompted much speculation about the nature of this sophisticated people. With the recent breaking of their elaborate hieroglyphic code, Schele and Freidel, Mayan scholars of note, provide a new look at the Maya. Structured on sound scholarly principles, their presentation abounds in notes, references, indexes, and chronologies with profuse line-drawings of temple and other inscriptions. They devote a chapter to each of the major Mayan city-states. What makes this volume more accessible and of greater impact than the average scholarly study are the frequent vignettes of great events, kingly acts, etc., told dramatically, in a fictive but plausible style that allows the ancient Maya at last to speak for themselves. Recommended for informed laypersons, as well as specialist and YA readers. See also William Ferguson and others’ Mesoamerica’s Ancient Cities, reviewed in this issue, p. 122.–Ed.
- Jo-Ann D. Suleiman, Sanad Support Technologies, Rock ville, Md.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. In this book, two of the first central figures in the massive effort to decode the glyphs, Linda Schele and David Freidel, make this history available in all its detail. A Forest of Kings is the story of Maya kingship, from the beginning of its institution and the first great pyramid builders two thousand years ago to the decline of Maya civilization and its destruction by the Spanish. Here the great historic rulers of pre-Columbian civilization come to life again with the decipherment of their writing. At its height, Maya civilization flourished under great kings like Shield-Jaguar, who ruled for more than sixty years, expanding his kingdom and building some of the most impressive works of architecture in the ancient world. Long placed on a mist-shrouded pedestal as austere, peaceful stargazers, the Maya elites are now known to have been the rulers of populous, aggressive city-states.

Hailed as “a Rosetta stone of Maya civilization” (Brian M. Fagan, author of People of the Earth), A Forest of Kings is “a must for interested readers,” says Evon Vogt, professor of anthropology at Harvard University.

A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya

The Maya

Because of the wealth of new archaeological data and breakthroughs in the translation of hieroglyphs, Coe’s updating of his classic synthesis of Maya civilization provides a valuable service to both informed lay readers and specialists wishing to apprise themselves of the current state of understanding of this most intellectually sophisticated and aesthetically refined pre-Columbian culture. Although the vast majority of the text may be found in the prior edition, the work is transformed by significant interpolations and deletions and is augmented by a new section of color plates, a useful guide for travelers, and a listing of Maya rulers. As it now stands, this refreshed and renewed little masterpiece merits a place in collections serving students of ancient Mesoamerica. Continuing a tradition of massive exhibitions and concomitant exhibition catalogs, the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, has at last discovered the New World. This initial incursion wisely focuses on the most accessible of the great pre-Hispanic cultures, the Maya. In this daunting but unfocused potpourri, some 29 essayists broach nearly the full range of Maya historical, societal, intellectual, political, and artistic traditions with varying degrees of competence. As is common with collective efforts of this sort, one finds both a certain redundancy of elementary facts and a not infrequent inconsistency about the facts themselves. Crammed into the last hundred pages of the volume is the catalog of more than 500 well-illustrated but only perfunctorily documented and analyzed objects. Aside from its value as a remarkable gathering of some 1400 excellent color reproductions, this ill-balanced and ultimately superficial tome has little to recommend it.ARobert Cahn, Fashion Inst. of Technology, New York
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

“The gold standard of introductory books on the ancient Maya.”Expedition

The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the New Worlds greatest ancient civilization. In these pages Michael D. Coe distills a lifetimes scholarship for the general reader and student.

The eighth edition incorporates the latest archaeological and epigraphic research. Among the finest new discoveries are the spectacular polychrome murals of Calakmul, which provide archaeological evidence for the importance of marketplaces in the Classic Maya cities as well as giving a unique glimpse into Maya daily life. Other recent finds relate to the initial peopling of the Maya area by Early Hunters and Archaic peoples.

It is clear that the birth of Maya civilization lies not in the Classic but in the Preclassic period, above all in the Mirador Basin of northern Guatemala, where the builders of gigantic ancient cities erected the worlds largest pyramid as early as 200 BC. In addition, the persistent influence of the precocious Olmec civilization of southeast Mexico on the development of complex society in the Maya area has become more apparent. These and other discoveries continue to suggest that we must rethink what we mean by the term Classic.

This edition concludes with new historical evidence for the crucial role played by collaborationist native leaders, both Maya and non- Maya, in the Spanish conquest of the region. 20 color and 170 black-and-white photographs and illustrations

The Maya (Eighth Edition) (Ancient Peoples and Places)

As I read, I exclaimed several times, Oh, we have to hike this trail! We should paddle this route! I thought I knew Door County, but Magill Weber suggests all sorts of new natural treasures to explore. The information will make the Midwests many nature lovers quite happy.Lynne Diebel, coauthor of Green Travel Guide to Southern Wisconsin and Green Travel Guide to Northern Wisconsin

Magill Weber, who grew up in Wisconsin, has spent extensive time in Door County hiking, biking, sailing, kayaking, and birding. She is a project director for The Nature Conservancy in California.

A picturesque peninsula with 298 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline, state parks, forests, and cozy inns, Door County is one of the Midwests prime tourist attractions. Magill Weber explores the many recreational opportunities available to visitors, including secret spots known only to locals and longtime seasonal residents. Wisconsin native Janet Mrazek contributes 125 detailed and easy-to-follow maps. With suggestions of more than 150 scenic hikes, biking and paddling routes, end-of-the-road beaches, lighthouses, and wildlife-watching sites, and descriptions of the local flora and fauna, Door County Outdoors is the ultimate guide for active travelers and nature enthusiasts.

As I read, I exclaimed several times, Oh, we have to hike this trail! We should paddle this route! I thought I knew Door County, but Magill Weber suggests all sorts of new natural treasures to explore. The information will make the Midwests many nature lovers quite happy.Lynne Diebel, coauthor of Green Travel Guide to Southern Wisconsin and Green Travel Guide to Northern Wisconsin

Door County Outdoors: A Guide to the Best Hiking, Biking, Paddling, Beaches, and Natural Places

Door County Tales: Shipwrecks, Cherries and Goats on the Roof

Gayle Soucek is an author and freelance editor, with several books and numerous magazine articles to her credit, including Marshall Field’s: The Store that Helped Build Chicago and Chicago Calamities: Disaster in the Windy City, both books published by The History Press. She once served as managing editor for the Chicago art and entertainment biweekly, Nightmoves.

She and her photographer husband divide their time between their home in a Chicago suburb and their second home in Baileys Harbor. As a child, Gayle first discovered her latent acrophobia on a climb up Eagle Tower during a family vacation. She’s pretty sure that the claw marks she left on the railings remain to this day.

Befitting its role as Wisconsin’s thumb, Door County has its own unique pulse. It is the idyllic paradise “north of the tension line,” that sends many unsuspecting tourists spiraling into an addiction that lands them in a summer home. It is also the “Door of the Dead,” which some historians blame for more shipwrecks than any other body of fresh water in the world. The variety of nature s splendors and terrors is matched by the cast of characters that has risen up among them. In Door County Tales, these characters are given free rein, which seems only proper in a place where one might walk out of a restaurant and see goats grazing on the roof.

Door County Tales: Shipwrecks, Cherries and Goats on the Roof (American Chronicles)

There are few if any bonds in sports that weave as deeply into the fabric of a culture as the tie that binds the Red Sox and New England. It hardly suffices to call followers of the Red Sox “fans”. For a New Englander, following the Red Sox is a way of life, passed from generation to generation, a father handing the torch to his son in a ritual conducted regularly at the quaint, little ballpark at One Yawkey Way. Cy Young played there, and so did the Babe, the Grey Eagle, Teddy BallGame, Yaz, Pudge, the Rocket. New Englanders don’t know these Fenway heroes from the Baseball Encylcopedia; the tales are passed down in the family as first-hand knowledge. A New Englander can attest to a great grandfather who actually saw Smoky Joe Wood throw harder than Walter Johnson–or another relative who watched Willie Tasby take off his spikes while playing center field during a storm for fear of being electrocuted.

It was oh-so-easy to be a Red Sox follower in the beginning. Launched 100 years ago as part of the newly formed American League, the team won five of the first 15 World Series. The Red Sox were the best baseball team in the world, playing in a jewel of a ballpark, citizens of “the thinking center of the continent, and therefore, of the planet,” according to Oliver Wendell Holmes. Only an outsider could ruin this, and indeed a New York entrepreneur named Harry Frazee bought the Red Sox, found himself in need of cash to finance a Broadway play, and sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920.

Entering the 2001 season, the Red Sox had yet to win another World Series. They have been to the Series four times since the end of World War II, and lost each time in the seventh game. Such agony and pain would drive away mere fans. But there are no fans in Red Sox Nation–only New Englanders who are carrying on a rite of passage.

100 years of incredible Red Sox history comes alive with The Boston Red Sox, an officially licensed book of Major League Baseball. FEATURES: Green Monster The most famous fence in the Majors; The all-time starting nine; The Rivalry; The Yankees vs. the Red Sox; 1967, Yazs year and the wild ride to the World Series; Fenway Park; The great years: 1903 1918; The unforgettables, including Ted Williams season-ending doubleheader; Red Sox characters Luis Tiant and Tony Conigliaro and others; Embossed Dust Jacket, shrink-wrapped.

The Boston Red Sox : 100 Years — The Official Retrospective

Remembering Fenway Park: An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Boston Red Sox

Harvey Frommer is the author of Remembering Yankee Stadium and more than 40 sports books. The oral historian and sports journalist is a professor in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College and professor emeritus atCity University of New York. He lives in Lyme, New Hampshire.

Johnny Pesky was known as Mr. Red Sox for his seven and a half seasons playingand many years as a coach and commentator for the team. The Red Sox honored Pesky by officially naming the right-field foul pole Pesky’s Pole and retiring his No. 6 in 2008.

No other ballpark has the feel and tradition of Fenway. Entering the grandstand, one is transported back through time as the spirits of all those who came before seem to inhabit the cozy confines. Built by Red Sox owner John I. Taylor, Fenway Park opened in the spring of 1912, making it the oldest ballpark in the major leagues. Remembering Fenway Park beautifully documents the stadiums entire career through a decade-by-decade account, a priceless collection of historical photographs, and vivid, first-person reminiscences of the people to whom this great place has meant so much: journalists, players, and fans. No Red Sox fanno baseball fanwill resist this incredible book.

Praise for Remembering Fenway Park:

“Remembering has everything a fan could want: iconic images, funny stories, and a sense of reverence.” -The Boston Globe

“Historian Harvey Frommer has used Fenway as a virtual cutaway of baseball history for 99 years with scores of former Red Sox-everyone from Jim Piersall to Pumpsie Green to Carl Yastrzemski to ‘Spaceman’ Bill Lee contributed their memories, as well as opponents such as Brooks Robinson, who steps in with timely pinch hits. The text is crisp, and the photos, both black-and-white and color, simply gorgeous. A great book even for those who hate the Red Sox.”
-The Dallas Morning News

“Daringly organized as a mosaic of Red Sox Nation, Remembering Fenway Park glitters with fond memories and delightful surprises. Anyone who has ever sat in Fenway, or longs to, will love this book. In his sure hands with oral history, Harvey Frommer is a treasure of our national pastime.”
-John Thorn, Official Historian for Major League Baseball

“Fascinating”
-Northeast Public Radio

“[This] handsome coffee table book marks the centenary of the grand old park.”
-Sports Illustrated.com

“Gem of a book about a jewel of a ballpark”
-George Will

“Worthy of its sacred subject . . . Unforgettable.”
-Dan Shaughnessy, Boston Globe

The Mighty Orinoco (1898), Jules Verne’s novel of scientific adventure along Venezuela’s Orinoco River, appears in its first English translation, along with an introduction and notes by Walter James Miller. Translated by Stanford L. Luce and edited by Arthur B. Evans, the text includes all the illustrations from the original French edition.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

“Jules Verne was the Michael Crichton of the 19th century, a fabulist whose ability to link technology with imagination to create riveting pop-culture products was uncanny.”–The New York Times

“Surprisingly, this is the first English translation of Verne’s 1898 novel…[and] features Verne’s usual mix of action and the fantastic… A beauty.”–Library Journal

Jules Verne (1828-1905) was the first author to popularize the literary genre of science fiction. Written in 1898 and part of the author’s famous series Voyages Extraordinaires, The Mighty Orinoco tells the story of a young man’s search for his father along the then-uncharted Orinoco River of Venezuela. The text contains all the ingredients of a classic Verne scientific-adventure tale: exploration and discovery, humor and drama, dastardly villains and intrepid heroes, and a host of near-fatal encounters with crocodiles, jungle fever, Indians and outlaws — all set in a wonderfully exotic locale. The Mighty Orinoco also includes a unique twist that will appeal to feminists — readers will need to discover it for themselves. This Wesleyan edition features notes, and a critical introduction by renowned Verne scholar Walter James Miller, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition.

CONTRIBUTORS: Walter James Miller, Stanford Luce, Arthur B. Evans.

“Jules Verne was the Michael Crichton of the 19th century, a fabulist whose ability to link technology with imagination to create riveting pop-culture products was uncanny.”–The New York Times

“Surprisingly, this is the first English translation of Verne’s 1898 novel…[and] features Verne’s usual mix of action and the fantastic… A beauty.”–Library Journal

The Mighty Orinoco (Early Classics of Science Fiction)

Lighthouse at the End of the World: The First English Translation of Verne’s Original Manuscript

Fans of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days may find this work from Verne (18281905) austere. In 1859, three sailors arrive on an isolated island to man a new lighthouse at the wreck-prone tippy tip of South America. They soon discover a band of egregious criminals, led by dangerous evildoer Kongre, who have been tricking ships into running aground, killing the survivors and taking the loot. When two lighthouse men go to assist a ship and are killed, serious trouble ensues. Characters are cardboard; the action slight, though violent; the plot simple; and the encounter between decency and evil on an island one-dimensional. Posthumously published in 1905, the book was translated into English in 1923, but this is the first English translation from Verne’s original manuscript. (Sept.)
Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

At the extreme tip of South America, Staten Island has piercing Antarctic winds, lonely coasts assaulted by breakers, and sailors lost as their vessels smash on the dark rocks. Now that civilization dares to rule here, a lighthouse penetrates the last and wildest place of all. But Vasquez, the guardian of the sacred light, has not reckoned with the vicious, desperate Kongre gang, who murder his two friends and force him out into the wilderness. Alone, without resources, can he foil their cruel plans?

Lighthouse at the End of the World: The First English Translation of Verne’s Original Manuscript (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)

“Lisa Tamati is a true inspiration, not only has she pushed her mind and body to the limit, she’s done it for all the right reasons, using her gift to help others along the way.” Dean Karnazes, author, Ultramarathon Man

“A strong, endearing and very personal account of one woman’s growth into extreme sports athleticism. There are even a few tips for those crazy enough to follow.” Australian Bookseller & Publisher Magazine

Lisa Tamatihas completed most of the world’s toughest endurance races. Nicola McCloy has written several books, including Whykickamoocow.

One woman’sincredible story of ultra-running endurance, heartbreak, and resilience as sheattempts to completeBadwaterthe world’s toughest desert foot race

“Lisa Tamati is a true inspiration, not only has she pushed her mind and body to the limit, she’s done it for all the right reasons, using her gift to help others along the way.” Dean Karnazes, author, Ultramarathon Man

“A strong, endearing and very personal account of one woman’s growth into extreme sports athleticism. There are even a few tips for those crazy enough to follow.” Australian Bookseller & Publisher Magazine

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Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons

“I can think of nothing that would give me more confidence going into my first ultramarathon than having read this book. Nothing is left out.” –Matt Fitzgerald of Competitor Running

“I think it’s the perfect thing to give an aspiring ultrarunner, a friend who is curious about what you do, or anybody new to crewing. I’m going to keep a few copies handy for sure.” –Scott Dunlap of A Trail Runner’s Blog

Marathons have become too easy for some runners. What was once the pinnacle of achievement in a runner’s life is now a stepping stone for extraordinary adventure in ultramarathoning. The number of ultrarunners–those running distances of 50k , 50 miles, 100k , or 100 miles–is growing astronomically each year.

Dean Karnazes’ Ultramarathon Man and Chris McDougall’s Born to Run have inspired tens of thousands to try these seemingly superhuman distances. But to date, there has been no practical guide to ultramarathoning. Now, Bryon Powell has written Relentless Forward Progress, the first how-to manual for aspiring ultrarunners. Powell covers every aspect of training for and racing ultra distances. Along the way, more than a dozen elites and experts, including Geoff Roes, Krissy Moehl, Michael Wardian, Dave Mackey, and David Horton, provide invaluable advice on running ultramarathons. By its conclusion, this encyclopedic volume prepares runners for going farther than they have ever gone before and, in the process, shows them that they are capable of the “impossible.”

Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons

Imagine Evelyn Waugh reborn as one of Nick Hornby’s endearingly superficial protagonists, and you have London’s Sunday Times television and restaurant critic Gill: droll, astute, irritable, irritating and always cleaver-sharp. Moving from Hiroshima to Kyoto, Gill carps about the Japanese, with their ways that differ greatly from Gill’s own, being “the people that aliens might be if they’d learnt Human by correspondence course and wanted to slip in unnoticed.” He barnstorms through Ethiopia, Russia, Argentina and elsewhere before heading home to England. The anthology of travel essays opens with arguably Gill’s finest sectionon Sudan, whose current horrors make his root-cause impressions from 1998 required readingarguing how even those who care about mass suffering are “protected by the one-way mirror of news.” In Los Angeles, he makes a porn film: life on the set teaches him argot like “kung fu death grip” and some unusual uses for pineapples. Compilations inevitably draw episodes against one another, and this one is no different. Yet it maintains a high batting average from start to finish. Gill’s aim isn’t always on (only a Brit would search for authentic barbecue in California), but usually it’s his bald foreignness that makes him such a skilled marksman. That, and the fact that he himself is such an original.
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*Starred Review* A self-described “mongrel Scot”–part English, part Indian, born in Edinburgh–Gill has here collected 21 essays (dating from 1995 to 2001), presumably from his work as a columnist for the Sunday Times of London, “AA Gill Is Away” being the notice the paper runs when Gill is out on assignment. His interests are omnivorous and take him places as diverse as Sudan, India, Cuba, Bethlehem, Japan, and even the San Fernando Valley, where the author helped create a porn film. Gill can be mischievously funny, as when he describes Westerners who do yoga in India as exercise, “which is a bit like walking the Stations of the Cross as aerobics.” Yet he can write with the most penetrating tenderness and humility, as when he shares his visit to the most destitute part of Sudan: “It is not staring at the face of starvation that thuds like a blow to your heart, it is having starvation stare back at you.” This is not conventional travel writing–not that of the newspaper travel section, or even that of such classic writers as Simon Winchester, Pico Iyer, and Jan Morris (see By the Seat of My Pants, reviewed on p.24). It somehow feels more interactive, riskier, and more enduring. Alan Moores
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A A Gill is probably the most read columnist in Britain. Every weekend he entertains readers of the SUNDAY TIMES with his biting observations on television and his unsparing, deeply knowledgeable restaurant reviews. Even those who want to hate him agree: A A Gill is hopelessly, painfully funny. He is one of a tiny band of must-read journalists and it is always a disappointment when the words ‘AA Gill is Away’ appear at the foot of his column. This book is the fruit of those absences: 22 long travel pieces that belie his reputation as a mere style journalist and master of vitriol: this is travel writing of the highest quality and ambition.

Aa Gill Is Away

The Angry Island: Hunting the English

He writes for the London Sunday Times and lives in Britain, but rapier-wit social critic Gill wants readers of this provocatively perceptive dissection of English cultural mores to know he was born a Scotsman, thank you very much, and is most definitely not an “enigmatically indecipherable” Englishman. In 16 defiantly abrasive essays, Gill bristles with outrageous originality about cliched topics like England’s class system (“unfair, cruel, and above all smug”); gardening (“the great English cultural expression”); British accents (“a never-ending source of subtle snobbery”); and kindness to animals (“gives them an excuse to patronize, bully, and be psychologically spiteful to other people”). Elsewhere, he balances droll bombast with surprising outbursts of admiration for the British way. He’s a fan of the nation’s war memorials, praising them, without a hint of sarcasm, as sublime expressions of the “exhausted relief” that shrouded England after the First World War. And he admires the country’s propensity for queues, concluding that the Second World War was wonor not lostthrough the orderly evacuation by both navy destroyers and rowboats after the disastrous battle of Dunkirk. Gill’s caustic ruminations often veer into over-the-top hyperbole, but these essays, brimming with incendiary certitude, also offer nuggets of truth. (June)
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Think of England, and anger hardly springs to mind as its primary national characteristic. Yet in The Angry Island, A. A. Gill argues that, in fact, it is plain old fury that is the wellspring for England’s accomplishments.

The default setting of England is anger. The English are naturally, congenitally, collectively and singularly livid much of the time. They’re incensed, incandescent, splenetic, prickly, touchy, and fractious. They can be mildly annoyed, really annoyed and, most scarily, not remotely annoyed. They sit apart on their half of a damply disappointing little island, nursing and picking at their irritations. The English itch inside their own skins. They feel foreign in their own country and run naked through their own heads.

Perhaps aware that they’re living on top of a keg of fulminating fury, the English have, throughout their history, come up with hundreds of ingenious and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something benign. Good manners and queues, cul-de-sacs and garden sheds, and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge. They’ve built things, discovered stuff, made puddings, written hymns and novels, and for people who don’t like to talk much, they have come up with the most minutely nuanced and replete language ever spoken — just so there’ll be no misunderstandings.

The Angry Island by turns attacks and praises the English, bringing up numerous points of debate for Anglophiles and anyone who wonders about the origins of national identity. This book hunts down the causes and the results of being the Angry Island.

The Angry Island: Hunting the English