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An unparalleled resource on the passing game. It will help you take your coaching to another level. — Ed Zaunbrecher, Head Coach, Louisiana University

For any coach interested in gaining insightful knowledge of the game, this book gives an excellent set of principles. — Jim Fassel, Former Head Coach, New York Giants

If you want to learn more about the quick passing game, this book is a must read. –Dirk Koetter, Offensive Coordinator, University of Oregon

Andrew Coverdale has coached football for ten years, now in his second year as the Head Coach of Castle High School (IN). Prior to that, he served as Offensive Coordinator at Trinity High School in Louisville from 1999-2002, during which time the Shamrocks set school scoring records each year, won state championships twice and were runners-up once. They finished the 2002 season ranked #4 in the nation in USA Today’s final poll, and boasted the Student Sports’ National Junior of the Year in Quarterback Brian Brohm, who threw for 3,777 yards and 47 touchdowns versus only 1 interception. Before joining Trinity, Coverdale’s stops included stints as Head Coach at Brown County High School (1997-98), QB/TE Coach at Taylor University in Upland, IN (1996), Receivers Coach at Noblesville High School (1995) and Northwestern (1994), and Offensive Line assistant at Harrison High School in West Lafayette (1993).

Dan Robinson is in his 20th coaching year at Northwestern High School (IN). Robinson has had two undefeated regular seasons, four Mid-Indian Conference titles, and a trip to the Indiana AAA State Championship. Hes coached several all-state quarterbacks.

Volume 2 of this amazing 3-volume series covers the more advanced routes of the quick passing game. Includes the “quick smash” route, the “stop” route, the “turn” route, the “short” route package, the picks: “In” and “out” route packages, the “Wheel” route, and also offers additional ideas in development in the quick passing game.

An unparalleled resource on the passing game. It will help you take your coaching to another level. — Ed Zaunbrecher, Head Coach, Louisiana University

For any coach interested in gaining insightful knowledge of the game, this book gives an excellent set of principles. — Jim Fassel, Former Head Coach, New York Giants

If you want to learn more about the quick passing game, this book is a must read. –Dirk Koetter, Offensive Coordinator, University of Oregon

Footballs Quick Passing Game: More Advanced Routes (The Art & Science of Coaching Series)

Football’s Quick Passing Game, Vol. 1: Fundamentals and Techniques

Andrew Coverdale has coached football for ten years, now in his second year as the Head Coach of Castle High School (IN). Prior to that, he served as Offensive Coordinator at Trinity High School in Louisville from 1999-2002, during which time the Shamrocks set school scoring records each year, won state championships twice and were runners-up once. They finished the 2002 season ranked #4 in the nation in USA Today’s final poll, and boasted the Student Sports’ National Junior of the Year in Quarterback Brian Brohm, who threw for 3,777 yards and 47 touchdowns versus only 1 interception. Before joining Trinity, Coverdale’s stops included stints as Head Coach at Brown County High School (1997-98), QB/TE Coach at Taylor University in Upland, IN (1996), Receivers Coach at Noblesville High School (1995) and Northwestern (1994), and Offensive Line assistant at Harrison High School in West Lafayette (1993).

Dan Robinson is in his 20th coaching year at Northwestern High School (IN). Robinson has had two undefeated regular seasons, four Mid-Indian Conference titles, and a trip to the Indiana AAA State Championship. Hes coached several all-state quarterbacks.

Volume 2 of this amazing 3-volume series covers the more advanced routes of the quick passing game. Includes the “quick smash” route, the “stop” route, the “turn” route, the “short” route package, the picks: “In” and “out” route packages, the “Wheel” route, and also offers additional ideas in development in the quick passing game.

Football’s Quick Passing Game, Vol. 1: Fundamentals and Techniques

“A book that will take the most novice beginner and permit him or her to progress to any level of driving with a clear understanding of how and why things are done.”
William E. Miller, M.D., President, American Driving Society

“[The authors] obviously know their subject well and treat it with much sensitivity and wisdom. I only wish I had this book before I started my driving program.”
Sasha Rockefeller

The modern bible of carriage driving . . . now back by popular demand

Widely renowned as the definitive book on training the driving horse, Carriage Driving offers an easy-to-follow, practical guide to this increasingly popular sport.

The philosophy is simple but remarkably effective: If driving is as much fun for your horse as it is for you, he will be a willing partner in the endeavor. With that in mind, Carriage Driving focuses on building a strong physical, mental, and emotional relationship with your horse. Equine mechanics, selecting the right bit and tack, harnessing, and ground training are just a few of the topics addressed.

Drivers at any level will benefit greatly from this groundbreaking book, which has stood for more than a decade as the preeminent resource on training a balanced, responsive, and safe driving horse.

HEIKE BEAN is the foremost authority on carriage driving, with over thirty years’ experience teaching in the United States and Germany.

SARAH BLANCHARD is a licensed riding instructor and equine writer for Horse Illustrated and other magazines.

“A book that will take the most novice beginner and permit him or her to progress to any level of driving with a clear understanding of how and why things are done.”
–William E. Miller, M.D., President, American Driving Society

“[The authors] obviously know their subject well and treat it with much sensitivity and wisdom. I only wish I had this book before I started my driving program.”
–Sasha Rockefeller

The modern bible of carriage driving . . . now back by popular demand

Widely renowned as the definitive book on training the driving horse, Carriage Driving offers an easy-to-follow, practical guide to this increasingly popular sport.

The philosophy is simple but remarkably effective: If driving is as much fun for your horse as it is for you, he will be a willing partner in the endeavor. With that in mind, Carriage Driving focuses on building a strong physical, mental, and emotional relationship with your horse. Equine mechanics, selecting the right bit and tack, harnessing, and ground training are just a few of the topics addressed.

Drivers at any level will benefit greatly from this groundbreaking book, which has stood for more than a decade as the preeminent resource on training a balanced, responsive, and safe driving horse.

Carriage Driving, Updated Edition (Classic Edition): A Logical Approach Through Dressage Training

Breaking a Horse to Harness: A Step-by-Step Guide

World-renowned driving expert Sallie Walrond believes that there is absolutely no reason why the moderately competent horse owner cannot train a horse to go willingly in harness, whether the pupil is an outgrown family pony or an unbroken two-year-old. To simplify the process, Walrond has produced this step-by-step guide, employing her own tried-and-tested method of breaking horses to harness. The lucid, easy-to-follow text provides all the necessary information, including advice on longeing, long reining, harnessing, hitching, carriage selection, and road safety. Sallie Walrond teaches, lectures, and judges internationally, making regular trips to the U.S. She is a life member of the Carriage Association of America and an honorary member of the American Driving Society.

A classic work on training horses to drive.
Breaking a Horse to Harness: A Step-by-Step Guide

In his new role as TV commentator (and in his short-lived run as Davis Cup captain) McEnroe has tried to make the unlikely switch from tennis enfant terrible to tennis elder statesman. Judging by the welcome he has received from both the cognoscenti and the American public, it has been a largely successful transition. This memoir of growing up (or not growing up) on the men’s tour tracks the same course. Unfortunately, when shifted to the page, the reinvention produces a much more muddled result. All of the career highlights and lowlights are here his idolization of Borg, his seminal matches with Connors and at Davis Cup, his clashes with the British press at Wimbledon, his romantic perambulations. But while appealingly self-aware (“For me, the relief of not losing has always been just as strong as, if not stronger than, the joy of winning”) and consistently honorable, the effort feels a little dull. McEnroe’s sincere pronouncements lack the cojones that might have made the book entertaining, and yet for all his openness, he engages in too much self-justification to seem truly vulnerable or poignant. The book grew out of a profile Kaplan wrote for the New Yorker two summers ago. That piece managed to present McEnroe as affable without diluting what is essentially brash and true about the star, and one wishes a little more of that boldness would have crept in here. For McEnroe, the persona hinted at in public remains more interesting and complicated than the person he gives us in this book. While the champion would no doubt argue, it appears that he has hit this one a little wide.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

McEnroe, the feisty New Yorker whose brilliant serve-and-volley style of play was at times overshadowed by his on-court antics, captured 17 Grand Slam championships during a 15-year “wild ride” on the professional tennis tour. Now, he and journalist Kaplan take a candid look back at this colorful career. Smashing racquets and screaming tirades against linesmen and umpires only cemented McEnroe’s role as the explosive bad boy of tennis. Yet the Hall of Famer shows surprising insight here. He explores why matches were constant battles against “the other guy and myself,” admitting that the relief of not failing was at least as strong as the joy of winning. McEnroe fully details his most significant triumphs and losses (e.g., the 1984 French Open final, in which he held a two-sets-to-one lead over nemesis Ivan Lendl, and the classic Wimbledon five-set defeat by Bjorn Borg). His three Wimbledon and four U.S. Open singles titles were special, but perhaps his proudest achievement was the five Davis Cups he helped to secure at a time when other top players were more interested in the money to be made in tournaments and exhibitions. McEnroe also writes openly about his turbulent former marriage to actress Tatum O’Neal, and current status as father to six and husband to pop star Patty Smyth. Readers will be happy to learn that his anger-management counseling seems to help him defuse “certain situations” effectively. Recommended for sports and general collections.
- Howard Katz, New York
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

John McEnroe stunned the tennis elite when he came out of nowhere to make the Wimbledon semifinals at the age of eighteen-and just a few years later, he was ranked number one in the world. You Cannot Be Serious is McEnroe at his most personal, a no-holds-barred examination of Johnny Mac, the kid from Queens, and his “wild ride” through the world of professional tennis at a boom time when players were treated like rock stars. Here he candidly explores the roots of his famous on-court explosions; his ambivalence toward the sport that made him famous; his adventures (and misadventures) on the road; his views of colleagues from Connors to Borg to Lendl; his opinions of contemporary tennis–and his current roles as husband, father, senior tour player, and often-controversial commentator).

You Cannot Be Serious

Open: An Autobiography

Agassi has always had a tortured look in his eyes on the tennis court. In 1992, when he burst onto the world sports stage by winning the Grand Slam at Wimbledon, he looked like a deer in headlights. Nobody seemed more surprised and upset by his big win that day than he did. For good reason, too. Agassi hated tennis. This is the biggest revelation in his very revealing autobiography. Agassi has hated tennis from early childhood, finding it extremely lonely out on the court. But he didnt have a choice about playing the game because his father drove him to become a champion, like it or not. Mike Agassi, a former Golden Gloves fighter who never made it professionally, decided that his son would become a champion tennis player. In militaristic fashion, Mike pushed seven-year-old Andre to practice relentlessly until the young boy was exhausted and in pain. He also arranged for Andre, age 13, to attend a tennis camp where he was expected to pull weeds and clean toilets. The culmination of all of this parental pushing came when Andre began winning as an adult. But it didnt make him happy. Within this framework, Agassis other disclosures make sense. He had a troubled marriage to Brooke Shields that didnt last. He developed a drug problem that sabotaged his career. He was insecure about everything. Only when Andre met tennis star Steffi Graf (whom he eventually married) did things begin to change. Readers will definitely cheer when Andre finally makes peace with the game he once hated and learns to enjoy it. –Jerry Eberle –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life.

Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age of twenty-two Agassi had won the first of his eight grand slams and achieved wealth, celebrity, and the games highest honors. But as he reveals in this searching autobiography, off the court he was often unhappy and confused, unfulfilled by his great achievements in a sport he had come to resent. Agassi writes candidly about his early success and his uncomfortable relationship with fame, his marriage to Brooke Shields, his growing interest in philanthropy, anddescribed in haunting, point-by-point detailthe highs and lows of his celebrated career.

Open: An Autobiography (Vintage)

In this surprisingly listless behind-the-scenes memoir, Lawler, a veteran wrestler and a commentator for WWE Raw, delivers the standard run-down of the show business behind the “sport”: matches are tightly choreographed, trash-talking interviews are scripted and simmering wrestler feuds are plotted out months in advance by the same folks who concoct the sociopathic characters the wrestlers impersonate in the ring. The premise of the wrestler tell-all genre is that the making of wild spectacle is more interesting than the spectacle itself. That may be true, but in Lawler’s telling the rollicking charlatanism of the wrestling world gets bogged down in aimless anecdotes, bad one-liners (“I wanted to ask a fan, “Who did your makeup? Bozo?”) and unfunny practical jokes in which he douses people with water or spikes their food with laxative. A big Memphis celebrity, Lawler dutifully plugs a local vinyl siding companies and a few eateries (“Half a slab of pork ribs with slaw and beans is $8.95″ at Cozy Corner); and much of three late chapters is taken up with the Lawler’s increasingly shameless post-divorce quest to scare up groupies. Wrestling fans and connoisseurs of kitsch will swoon over the many photos of big men in trunks and tights, but others may find it a chore to wade through this slackly written story.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Himself a former wrestler, Jerry Lawler is now a TV, radio and video presenter who is known to millions as a ringside commentator for the WWE. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The full story of one of wrestling’s most colourful and outspoken personalities. An often controversial figure, Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler has been at the top of his profession both as a wrestler and most recently as a commentator for over 30 years. Holder of more than 90 regional or national titles over the course of his career, he is as well known for his feuds, both in and out of the ring, as he is for his achievements and his expertise. No stranger to the airwaves, he has hosted his own show both on radio and on television, and he is also a successful commercial artist whose work can be seen on several sites around his home city of Memphis. Outside the WWE arena perhaps his most famous dispute was with actor and comedian Andy Kaufman, a long-running conflict that at one point put Kaufman in hospital and culminated in a televised brawl on ‘Late Night With David Letterman’. Now in a no-holds barred autobiography ‘The King’ is prepared to tell all both about his sometimes stormy career and about the backstage secrets of the WWE.

It’s Good to Be the King…Sometimes

Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks

Frankly, this literary critic didn’t expect Mick Foley’s memoir of his life as Mankind (and his other wrestling personas, Cactus Jack and Dude Love) to hit No. 1 on Amazon.com’s hardcover nonfiction bestseller list in its first literary bout. The cover is cluttered and confusing, and do we really need 500-plus pages of Foley’s boasts? Yes. Foley gives his all for his calling, and he burns to tell his adventures. Take the famous tale of how he lost most of his ear (the bloody result is depicted in the 16-page color-photo section). It was in his 1994 bouts with Vader (Leon White): after getting a broken nose, a dislocated jaw, and 21 stitches in the first match, Foley did his “hangman” routine, wherein he catches his neck between the second and third ropes and spins them into a twist. “The end result is the illusion of a man being hanged by his neck while his body kicks and writhes in an attempt to get out… the man actually is hanging by his neck and the body really does kick and writhe in an attempt to get out.” Unfortunately, in the prior match, Too Cold Scorpio had had the officials tighten the ropes, so Foley tore off his ear to avoid death by strangulation, like “a fox that chews off its paw to escape a trap.” Foley also wrestles on 10,000-thumbtack mats with barbwire ropes and C-4 explosives, and earns the ultimate compliment: “The fans really like the way you bleed.” Many fans also like the way his gory story reads. –Tim Appelo –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Mick Foley is a nice man, a family man who loves amusement parks and eating ice cream in bed. So how to explain those Japanese death matches in rings with explosives, golden thumbtacks and barbed wire instead of rope? The second-degree burn tissue? And the missing ear that was ripped off during a bout-in which he kept fighting? Here is an intimate glimpse into Mick Foley’s mind, his history, his work and what some might call his pathology. Now with a bonus chapter summarizing the past 15 months-from his experience as a bestselling author through his parting thoughts before his final match. A tale of blood, sweat, tears and more blood-all in his own words-straight from the twisted genius behind Cactus Jack, Dude Love, and Mankind.

Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks

Craig Luebben was an AMGA Rock Guide Instructor and served on the Board of Directors for six years. He was the author or coauthor of nine books on climbing and wrote numerous gear reviews and travel articles for Climbing and Rock & Ice magazines. His FalconGuides Advanced Rock Climbing, coauthored with John Long, won the Mountain Exposition Award at the 1997 Banff Mountain Book Festival.Craig died in 2009 while leading a pitch on Mount Torment in North Cascades National Park.

Clyde Soles is a freelance writer and photographer with four decades of climbing experience. The former senior editor of Rock & Ice magazine, he has authored or coauthored nine outdoor how-to books, including two other knots books.

All the knots a climber needs to know

This completely revised and updated edition of Craig Luebbens bestseller covers the ten essential climbing knots all climbers need to know, and then presents sixteen others for various special situations. Color illustrations make learning these knots a cinch. Knots include the Munter Hitch, the Auto Block, the Clove Hitch, and the Equalizing Figure Eight. This edition is newly illustrated with sharp color photos that clearly show how to tie the knots, as well as with photos of the knots being used in the field.

Climbing Self Rescue: Improvising Solutions for Serious Situations

“A must-read..Those with a working knowledge of rope management and anchor systems can understand the techniques.” — Rock & Ice

“Gem of a book…Its backpack-suitable size and laminated cover make it appropriate for field or armchair use.” — Wilderness Medicine magazine

“Should be on the shelves of any serious, regular climber.” –Midwest Book Review

When your climbing team is in trouble on the mountainhow to get yourself out of a jam without calling 911. Self-rescue procedures for teams of twothe most common climbing party size Techniques equally effective on rock, snow, and ice Utilizes gear climbers already carry in their rack Includes 40 one-page rescue scenarios and solutions for analysis The rope is stuckor too short. A crucial piece of gear is MIA. Youve wandered off route into dicey terrain. An injury leaves you or your partner in need of help. Climb long enough and finding yourself in a jam far from help is inevitable. In Climbing: Self Rescue, two longtime climbing instructors and guides teach how to improvise your own solutions, calling for outside help only when necessary.

Because few climbers carry fancy search and rescue gear, all skills taught in this book use the items typically found on a climbing rack: rope, carabiners, slings, and cord. Text, illustrations, and photos explain knots, belaying and hauling systems, rappelling, ascension, passing knots, how to safely assist and rig an injured climber, and more. Roughly half of the book is devoted to real-life climbing scenarios and solutions ranging from moderate to severe. Because real-life situations rarely unfold as they do in practice, Climbing Self-Rescue teaches how to analyze and improvise your way out of a crisis.

ANDY TYSON is a guide for Alpine Ascents, Exum and Antarctic-logistics and Expeditions. MOLLY LOOMIS is an instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School , Alpine Ascents and Prescott College. Tyson is the author of Glacier Mountaineering; Loomis has written for Rock & Ice, Climbing, She Sends, and other publications.

Climbing Self Rescue: Improvising Solutions for Serious Situations (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert)

Text: English, French, German, Spanish

Completely new and updated full colour maps, at a variety of scales. Coverage of major cities and towns; special interest maps, such as national parks; compact format ideal for on-the-road use; route distance and climate charts; and a thorough index of all sites.

Lonely Planet Southern Africa Travel Atlas (Lonely Planet Travel Atlases)

Lonely Planet Southern Africa

As usual the guidebook standard is set by Lonely Planet

– Outside –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Lonely Planet’s 5th edition of Southern Africa brings you the most extensive coverage of the region. Go on safari in Kruger National Park, taste your way through South Africa’s Winelands, glide in a traditional dugout canoe down the Okavango Delta, snorkel in Lake Malawi and be amazed by one of the seven natural wonders of the world, Victoria Falls.

Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.

In This Guide:

Detailed itineraries take you from laid-back coasts to unforgettable safaris
Dedicated music chapter gets you into the African groove
Green Index highlights the best ecofriendly options

Lonely Planet Southern Africa (Multi Country Travel Guide)

The richly illustrated At Home with Beatrix Potter will delight the many admirers of the artist and writer of children’s books. Her beloved characters–Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and their whimsical friends–were inspired by the English countryside, which she grew to love during summer vacations as a girl. In 1905, at the age of 40, Potter bought Hill Top Farm overlooking Esthwaite Water in the Lake District, a region of hills and lakes famous for its glorious landscapes. She continued to buy property in the area with her royalties, and by the time she died 37 years later, she had amassed over 4,000 acres. She fought vigorously to preserve the beauty of the Lake District and its rural ways, leaving her estate to the National Trust, Britain’s leading conservation agency. This book, written by an official of the Trust, is a tribute to the jewel of the estate, 17th-century Hill Top Farm. Potter restored and furnished it as a showcase of English country ways, though she actually lived in a large cottage nearby. Her substantial collection of Lake District antiques reflected the influential Arts & Crafts movement, which emphasized the integrity of handmade objects in a period of increasing mechanization. The book takes us on a tour of the farm, alternating the artist’s original photographs and watercolors with photographs of the building and countryside as they look today. Several two-page spreads of the garden in early summer and the Lake District in late autumn are especially beautiful. Unpretentious, solid, charming, understated: At Home with Beatrix Potter embodies the rustic virtues that Beatrix loved. –John Stevenson

Will delight the many admirers of the artist and writer of children’s books. Lakeland Echo A lovely book which has successfully knitted the many strands of Beatrix Potter’s life into a delightful tale. Keswick Reminder A must for those who want an intimate insight into Potter’s private world. Westmorland Gazette –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

The creator of Peter Rabbit, Samuel Whiskers, and Jemima Puddleduck, Beatrix Potter (1866-1942) is one of the best-loved children’s book authors of all time. Yet few in America are aware of the role she played in protecting some of England’s most beautiful landscapes and in designing romantic interiors and a lovely garden at Hill Top, her beloved Lake District farmhouse.

Taking the reader through her picturesque house and the breathtaking scenery around it that inspired many of her famous stories, this enchanting book is the first to look at the intimate connection between the English countryside and Potter’s work. Her own exquisite illustrations appear alongside specially commissioned full-color photographs of their real-life counterparts, revealing a home filled with treasured old furniture and beautiful objects and celebrating an artist-storyteller whose legacy as a conservationist at last receives the attention it merits.

150 illustrations in full color, 10 x 10″

SUSAN DENYER is the National Trust’s Historic Buildings representative in the north of England. She was closely involved in the restoration of the Hill Top interior and helped to set up the Beatrix Potter Gallery in Hawkshead.

The richly illustrated At Home with Beatrix Potter will delight the many admirers of the artist and writer of children’s books. Her beloved characters–Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and their whimsical friends–were inspired by the English countryside, which she grew to love during summer vacations as a girl. In 1905, at the age of 40, Potter bought Hill Top Farm overlooking Esthwaite Water in the Lake District, a region of hills and lakes famous for its glorious landscapes. She continued to buy property in the area with her royalties, and by the time she died 37 years later, she had amassed over 4,000 acres. She fought vigorously to preserve the beauty of the Lake District and its rural ways, leaving her estate to the National Trust, Britain’s leading conservation agency. This book, written by an official of the Trust, is a tribute to the jewel of the estate, 17th-century Hill Top Farm. Potter restored and furnished it as a showcase of English country ways, though she actually lived in a large cottage nearby. Her substantial collection of Lake District antiques reflected the influential Arts & Crafts movement, which emphasized the integrity of handmade objects in a period of increasing mechanization. The book takes us on a tour of the farm, alternating the artist’s original photographs and watercolors with photographs of the building and countryside as they look today. Several two-page spreads of the garden in early summer and the Lake District in late autumn are especially beautiful. Unpretentious, solid, charming, understated: At Home with Beatrix Potter embodies the rustic virtues that Beatrix loved. –John Stevenson

At Home with Beatrix Potter: The Creator of Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter: A Journal

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943). Her passion for the natural world lay behind the creation of her famous little books. A particular source of inspiration was the Lake District where she lived for the last thirty years of her life as a farmer and conservationist.

This lavish, illustrated journal describes Beatrix Potter’s life as a young woman in Victorian Britain as she struggles to achieve independence and to find artistic success and romantic love. Using witty, observant commentary taken from Beatrix’ s own diaries, the journal moves from London to Scotland to the Lake District, and features a wealth of watercolour paintings, sketches, photographs, letters, paper-engineered items and period memorabilia to recreate a world where nature and imagination are brilliantly combined.

Beatrix Potter: A Journal

Starred Review. With their most recent cookbook, Home Baking, the authors of Seductions of Rice and Hot Sour Salty Sweet strayed slightly from the kind of pungent Asian food that is their strength, but they’re back on track with this paean to the subcontinent, which they’ve been visiting separately and together since the 1970s. The many dals, like soupy Easy Karnataka Chana with chickpeas and salads like Nepali Green Bean-Sesame Salad are simple and terrific. Entrees are often spicy and always authentic, like Goan Pork Vindaloo, made by rubbing a vinegar-spice paste into the meat. A chapter on street foods is full of promising tidbits, including the suggestion that readers make fried foods such as Mushroom Pakoras with Fresh Herb Chutney for guests (so long as they don’t mind spending a whole lot of time in the kitchen). Reading Alford and Duguid’s chatty text and headnotes is like receiving envy-inducing postcards from a college friend who never gave up backpackingif you have the sort of friends who would be disposed to build a tandoor oven out of clay and manure or visit Arugam Bay in Sri Lanka based on a tip from a snake-bitten fellow traveler. This is a comprehensive book filled with compelling writinga worthy addition to the couple’s impressive body of work. Color and b&w photos. (On sale Nov. 20)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Random House Canada continues its impressive cookbook program with another lavish volume from world travelers Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid.
Quill and Quire

What is left to say about the astonishing husband-and-wife team Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid?…This wonderful coffee table book is the result of multiple trips over three decades to the Indian subcontinentAlford and Duguid have gathered a breathtaking range of recipesThe books gorgeous design is filled out with the authors own luminous travel photosMangoes and Curry Leaves is so fascinating it renders one virtually speechless.
Quill and Quire –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

For this companion volume to the award-winning Hot Sour Salty Sweet, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid travel west from Southeast Asia to that vast landmass the colonial British called the Indian Subcontinent. It includes not just India, but extends north to Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal and as far south as Sri Lanka, the island nation so devastated by the recent tsunami. For people who love food and cooking, this vast region is a source of infinite variety and eye-opening flavors.

Home cooks discover the Tibetan-influenced food of Nepal, the Southeast Asian tastes of Sri Lanka, the central Asian grilled meats and clay-oven breads of the northwest frontier, the vegetarian cooking of the Hindus of southern India and of the Jain people of Gujarat. It was just twenty years ago that cooks began to understand the relationships between the multifaceted cuisines of the Mediterranean; now we can begin to do the same with the foods of the Subcontinent.

Random House Canada continues its impressive cookbook program with another lavish volume from world travelers Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid.
Quill and Quire

What is left to say about the astonishing husband-and-wife team Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid?…This wonderful coffee table book is the result of multiple trips over three decades to the Indian subcontinentAlford and Duguid have gathered a breathtaking range of recipesThe books gorgeous design is filled out with the authors own luminous travel photosMangoes and Curry Leaves is so fascinating it renders one virtually speechless.
Quill and Quire –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Mangoes & Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent

Seductions of Rice

Chinese stir-frys, Spanish paellas, Japanese sushi, Indian thorans, Thai salads, Turkish pilafs, Italian risottos, Senegalese yassas, American gumbos: if rice isn’t the heart and soul of all these diverse dishes, rice can be found piled right there at the side of the plate, or in a bowl. To say that Alford and Duguid, authors of the award-winning Flatbreads and Flavors, deliver the world of rice is much too simple an understatement. Your days of buying one rice to serve all purposes will end with even a cursory reading of this lovely book.

The authors are photographers as well as writers, but their greatest skill may be to travel the world at the level of the culture they visit. They seem able to drop away from Western culture and hunker right down with rice vendor or cook, no matter where.

Seductions of Rice opens with all the basics of rice, everything a reader would want to know and then some. Then on to the cultures of rice: Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Indian, Central Asian, Mediterranean, Senegalese, and North American. Recipes either made from rice or to accompany rice range from Chinese Congee to Thai Green Papaya Salad to Japanese Quick Morning Miso Soup to South Indian Lentil Stew to Cuban Black Beans to Mexican Green Rice.

And in between? The authors fill in all the space between these diverse grains of rice with traveler’s tales from the road. It is a luxurious book, a delicious book, a ripe combination of travel and taste. You leave off thinking that the world must be the shape of a rice ball. –Schuyler Ingle –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the James Beard Cookbook of the Year Award-winning authors of Flatbreads and Flavors and Hot Sour Salty Sweet comes the paperback edition of what Cookbook Digest calls the perfect book on rice. It is a beautiful, comprehensive, and altogether fascinating overview of this ancient grain.

With a depth of passion and experience and an ability to embrace and convey richness of place and taste, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid embarked on an excursion to find the world’s most essential and satisfying food. Along the way, they experienced firsthand dozens of varieties of rice that offer unimaginable subtleties of taste, as well as a staggering array of foods to accompany them, all providing simple ways to get flavor and variety on the table.

SEDUCTIONS OF RICE is the glorious result: two hundred easy-to-prepare dishes from the world’s great rice cuisines, illuminated by stories, insights, and more than two hundred photographs of people, places, and wonderful food.

Seductions of Rice

Warwick Ball is a Near Eastern archaeologist and author who spent over thirty years carrying out excavations, architectural studies and monumental restoration throughout the Middle East and adjacent regions. He first visited Syria in 1972 and has been back numerous times since. He is author of many books and articles on the history and archaeology of the region, including (with Leonard Harrow) Cairo to Kabul. His recent book, Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire, was winner of the James Henry Breasted History Prize in 2000 and was a Choice Outstanding Academic Book. Born in Australia, he now lives in Scotland.

revised & updated edition

With a wealth of historical splendors matched by few other countries, Syria has remained almost undiscovered by mass tourism. As a result, little has been spoiled, much is unknown, and there is much to discover.

It is a land of immense antiquity, boasting cities and archaeological remains that are among the oldest in the world. Hittites, Hurrians and Hebrews, Aramaeans, Assyrians and Arabs, Egyptians, Canaanites, Persians, Nabateans, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Crusaders, Turks and French have all come, leaving behind some of the most spectacular monuments that can be seen anywhere. Today, entire deserted cities such as Palmyra or Resafeh, immense castles like Crac des Chevaliers and a bewildering array of palaces, mosques, temples, theatres, churches and other ruins strewn across the country provides Syria with one of the richest and most diverse heritages in the world.

Syria’s timeless monuments overawe the visitor. But they can enchant as well: to lose oneself in the back-streets and bazaars of old Damascus and Aleppo – still perhaps the most wholly satisfying traditional cities of the Arab world today – or to experience the sheer enchantment of the utterly haunting Dead Cities – probably the greatest concentration of ruins in the entire Mediterranean – is to experience travel at its very best. Most of all, the visitor to Syria meets with the characteristic courtesy and hospitality to outsiders that makes travel in the Arab world such a pleasure. Syria is still ‘the best kept secret’.

The new completely revised and updated edition of this book is to keep pace both with the rapid increase in travel to Syria and the new material which has appeared on Syria itself.

With lucid and informative text, this book reconsiders the history and heritage of Syria and surveys the major sites, making a strong case for reassessing its importance in our perception of the growth of civilization out of the Middle East. With its many site plans and maps, readable text and 96 color plates, it makes available the immensely wealthy history, archaeology and architecture of Syria to the general reader and the interested traveler.

Syria: A Historical And Architectural Guide

Lonely Planet Syria & Lebanon

‘For tens of millions of globetrotting readers, the Lonely Planet guides are the gospel of adventure travel.’

– New York Times Magazine –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Discover Syria & Lebanon

Smile your thanks when the elderly caretaker of a Damascus house opens the door just for you
Test-drive your Arabic as you fly through the Syrian desert in a 1960s Dodge taxi
What conflict? Find your peace hiking amid waterfalls, hermitages and monasteries in Lebanon’s gorgeous Qadisha Valley
Lather up with olive oil soap from Aleppo’s famous souq – and learn how to pick one fit for a queen

In This Guide:

Three authors, 140 days of on-the-road research, one international conflict, countless invitations to tea
Ask the archaeologist: all your questions on Syria’s stunning ruins answered by a specialist
Get the local lowdown: special color chapter featuring travel tips from Syrians and Lebanese

Lonely Planet Syria & Lebanon (Lonely Planet Syria and Lebanon) (Multi Country Travel Guide)

Chris Sidwells is a bestselling author, journalist, photographer and broadcaster; a writer of books, magazine and newspaper features on every aspect of cycling and fitness.

No sporting event has had its past and present, its highs and lows so intricately entwined with those of a country like the Tour has with France. The Tour de France is the biggest annual sporting event in the world, and at the same time it transcends sport. The Tour de France comes to the people. It passes their houses, it turns right in their village squares, it thunders through their suburban streets and into the hearts of their towns and cities. It is a unique event in that people don’t so much go to see the Tour, as it comes to see them. A Race for Madmen traces how the Tour de France has developed and examines tactics, bike technology and rider preparation too. It profiles some of the men who have won the Tour de France, and others who have been key players, looking closely at their lives and motivation. Subsidiary competitions, such as the King of the Mountains prize, are featured, as well as Tour lore and traditions. The book examines the Tour’s extraordinary history, and how a bike race, a simple sporting contest captured the imagination of a country, then a continent and then the world, while at the same time it has stayed uniquely French, even though a Frenchman hasn’t won it for over 20 years.

Race for Madmen

A Voyage for Madmen

In the psychedelic summer of 1968, as Apollo 8 soared toward the moon and the Democratic Convention crashed in Chicago, nine men tried finally to accomplish the sailor’s age-old ultimate goal: a solo, nonstop circumnavigation of the world. Nichols (Sea Change) deftly introduces myriad aspects of a voyage that promised “dubious, unquantifiable” rewards. He insightfully contextualizes the endeavor as an offshoot of Sir Francis Chichester’s famous 1967 solo circumnavigation (with one stop), which represented to England a “longed-for” heroism. Detailing the British media’s successful exploitation of the so-called race, he approaches the voyage as the remarkable result of nine men wishing to outdo Chichester. Nichols painstakingly describes the enormous difficulty of solo navigation in the pre-global positioning system of the 1960s. These “hardcase egomaniacs driven by complex desires and vainglory to attempt an extreme, life-threatening endeavor” used only rudimentary equipment and their wits. Nichols is at his liveliest when describing the only two participants who “were really happy aboard their boats”: the French-Asian Bernard Moitessier, the most skilled sailor, whose mystical seamanship brings surprises, and the British Robin Knox-Johnson, who was energized during his journey by the memory of “the Elizabethan sea heroes of his youth.” Nichols also delivers a compelling portrait of English Donald Crowhurst, an electronics engineer whose “supercharged personality” wreaked havoc on the entire race. While Nichols’s pace is neither breakneck nor suspenseful, his careful details and psychological insight make for a riveting account of the triumphant human spirit. 16-page photo insert, 8 maps.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame, wealth, and glory. For the others, the reward was madness, failure, and death.

In this extraordinary book, Peter Nichols chronicles a contest of the individual against the sea, waged at a time before cell phones, satellite dishes, and electronic positioning systems. A Voyage for Madmen is a tale of sailors driven by their own dreams and demons, of horrific storms in the Southern Ocean, and of those riveting moments when a split-second decision means the difference between life and death.

A Voyage for Madmen