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While playing golf, Bobby Jones and Dr. Thomas discover a dying man at the base of the cliff. The man manages to get out the words "Why didn't they ask Evans?" before he dies. Bobby is in a hurry to keep an appointment, so he asks a passerby to stay with the body. Just days later, he meets up with childhood friend Lady Frances ("Frankie") Derwent. A few days after the inquest, Bobby is drugged when someone slips morphine into his beer. Remembering things now that don't seem to match up about the death, Bobby decides to investigate the matter further and Frankie immediately agrees to help. The two of them are soon hard at work to discover the murderer of the dead man, and they soon must also protect themselves as they find their own lives in danger. Actress Emilia Fox reads this vintage Christie mystery with dramatic panache.
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During a round of golf, Bobby finds a man at the bottom of a small cliff near the seventeenth hole. "Why didn't they ask Evans?" are the dying man's enigmatic last words, and Bobby, of course, soon discovers that the man's death was no accident. Who is the man, who killed him, and who is Evans? Why Didn't They Ask Evans is a spellbinding mystery by Agatha Christie, the world's best-loved mystery writer.
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Middle range Agatha--which is always great.......2007-02-04
The premise is a bit silly. Stop looking elsewhere; look nearby. But a bit thin. Other than that, everything quite good--and typical. Which is really good for fans.
Her best couple after the Beresfords.......2004-07-07
While golfing during a foggy morning, Bobby's ball fell off the cliff. Instead of his ball, he found a dying handsome stranger whose last words, much to his wonderment and disappointment, were 'Why didn't they ask Evans?'. Armed with this query and his friend, the strong-willed Frances, they began to unravel the mysteries surrounding this man's death. What they only began to uncover proved to be dangerous and deadly.
With a lot of discussion and cloak-and-dagger-ish snooping around (there was a moment when Bobby had to climb on a tree and nearly fell) this novel is arguably Christie's fastest-moving novel. While she did give her characters some time to flesh out, the rest of the story sprinted past. In short, this novel can be finished in one sitting, but that one sitting, my friend, is the most fun sitting you'll ever have!
This one is for FUN!.......2004-02-02
If you are looking for a challenging classic mystery problem try one of the next two, (MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS or THE ABC MURDERS) because this one is a light hearted romp.
The detectives in this story are Bobby Jones, 4th son of the local Vicar and Lady Frances Derwent, wealthy young socialite. The two had been childhood friends have renewed their relationsonship while dealing with the mystery. Bobby found a dying man while out golfing. The man's dying words were "Why didn't they ask Evans?". That simple question led the two detectives to ask many more, about the photo in the dead man's pocket, the family that came to claim the body and just who was the mysterious Evans to name a few. The answers takes the two from their hometown in Wales, where the mystery starts to London and then throughout the English countryside ending with a dash via car and airplane back home again for the final answers.
WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS? is in the same spirit as THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT, THE SEVEN DIALS MYSTERY, THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS and the Tommy and Tuppence series. There are exciting adventures, false identities, kidnappings, fantastic coincidences and more which make this just FUN!
Evan Knows it all.......2003-12-30
For Me This Was a real page turner, I did not find it as some of the other reviewers did. I could not put it down until the last page I would really reccommend it.
A fast-paced engaging book!.......2003-11-26
This bumped my all time favorite Christie book to #2. This was the most fast paced book I have ever read. It was intriguing from beginning to end. Very suspensful and mysterious. I loved it!
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Manufacturer: Berkley Pub Group
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why didn't they ask evans?.......2001-01-10
the book to me is kind of predictable. I preferred "Ten Little Indians" over this one, but I thought it would be worth it to try it. I am glad I did ,though, because it still makes me want to read some other books of hers that she wrote! Other then the ending I thought this book was very well written and pretty suspenful!
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Burning Realm
Michael Reaves
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An Unfinished, Brilliant Work.......2007-09-02
It's hard for me to put down my feelings about this novel. I first read it fifteen years ago when I was still in high school, and I promised myself someday I'd track down the other volumes in the trilogy and finish the story. This summer I ordered the non-anthology, non-Star Wars novels written by Michael Reeves from Amazon. This novel was amazing enough that I wanted to know what happened fourteen years later, AND it made me want read what else Reeves has done.
What did I remember about "The Burning Realm" that stuck with for over a decade? A tenth order orange magic starbust called the Devastator. Triskendelka, Lady of Bats. The monstrosities living in fragement of Xoth. The fate of a Cloakfighter. That I really wanted to know what happened before and after this novel.
"The Shattered World," is the first novel in the series, and it exceeded my expectations. It was better than "The Burning Realm," and written in the same style too. I've never found another fantasy work that captures an ambiance similar to what the this novel and it's predecessor evokes, in part because Reeves uses obscure words that *sound* like they belong in a fantasy novel. Editors of today would probably cut them, but they worked for me. Totally added to the story experiences.
Despite my search, and my hopes, there is no sequel. The ending leaves off with a holocaust on the horizon. No solution has been found for the Runestones of the World Fragments decaying in magic power. I'm not giving anything away, as this is basically the impetus for the original meeting of the characters in "The Shattered Realm." The original plot. I want to know how this story ends, and I don't think I ever will.
The plot was five stars, pacing is excellent. Characterization is subsumed in part by the action, but it is there. Parts of me want to give this novel a one star because I absolutely hate that I'll never know what happens in the never written final book. It's got four because I realize waiting years hoping to finish this story means I liked it.
As for whether or not you should buy it? It is brilliant fantasy action. It is unfinished. You've been warned.
Lovers Parted by Demons.......2003-05-23
The Burning Realm (1988) is the second Fantasy novel in The Shattered World series. In the previous volume, Pandrogas has found the Necromancer and learned both his true history and his source of magic. While saving Pandrogas and Amber, Beorn has shapechanged too long and lost himself to his bear persona. Pandrogas and Amber take Beorn's bear-form to Tamboriyon and set him free in the forest. They agree to part for a commonyear, Pandrogas to return to Darkhaven to guide the new students of necromancy and Amber to stay on Tamboriyon to learn how to use her own powers.
In this novel, the commonyear has passed and both Pandrogas and Amber prepare for their rendezvous. Pandrogas takes ship from Darkhaven, but is intercepted by Trisandela, the Lady of Bats. Amber has obtained the rank of Conjuress in the Taggyn Saer system and is uncertain about her feelings for Pandrogas, but returns to the meeting place. When she arrives, Pandrogas is not there and does not come that day. After some soul searching, Amber leaves Tamboriyon to hunt for him.
Meanwhile, Kan Konar, cloakfighter from Typor's Fist, has escaped from the web of Zhormallion, the Spider Lord, on Xoth. After reaching the surface, he cannot find his cloak (which has been claimed by Tahrynyar) but does find a damaged dragonship, a chase boat from one of the huge hunting ships. He hears someone, or something, coming and hides within the boat, which is hurled into the Abyss by a cacodemon. After a while, he comes out and looks around, only to find the Lady of the Bats in the boat with him. He learns that she has eased his escape after he has freed himself from the web. Apparently she is just playing Chton politics.
Mirren, a werewolf and thief, has survived the sinking of a ship from the tsunami caused by a lesser fragment plunging into the Ythan Ocean on Rhynne. She washes ashore on a small island with an abandoned wizard's tower, former home of Stonebrow, deceased leader of the Circle. She finds seawater stains, fish, and damp everywhere from the tsunami, but also some dry food and clothing. She gathers some money and jewelry and convinces a pair of would-be plunderers to take her to the mainland.
Kyra is an assassin on Zarhenna who bungles an assignment. When Mirren applies to be an assassin, Kyra is assigned as her instructor. Since this is a demotion in status, Kyra is determined to make Mirren into a successful assassin. However, Mirren also bungles her first assignment and flees from the Guild With No Name into the labyrinth of Chton tunnels within the fragment. Kyra is given an final assignment, find and kill Mirren or never come back.
This novel is a mystery quest with several storylines. Most are soon intertwined with the Lady of Bats in her effort to dominate the Chtons. However, Trisandela's plan encounters a setback as a third party joins the competition for Chton leadership.
Recommended for Reaves fans and anyone else who enjoys high sorcery and low politics, with a smidgen of romance.
-Arthur W. Jordin
Review of "The Burning Realm".......2000-12-13
In this sequel to "The Shattered World", Reaves once again takes us back to a world literally torn apart, whose fragments have been set in a precarious, decaying orbit by the efforts of long-dead sorcerers. One sorcerer, Pangrogas, seeks to master the art of Necromancy to save these fragments, while becoming embroiled in the plots of the Chthons - ancient demonic enemies of Mankind.
This sequel doesn't live up to the high standards set forth in the original, with somewhat underdeveloped and predictable characters, but Reaves still spins a good yarn. I recommend it for most fantasy or sword-and-sorcery fans.
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THE MOST IMPORTANT GUIDE TO EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT EVER WRITTEN
First published in 1975, The First Three Years of Life became an instant classic. Based on Burton White's thirty-seven years of observation and research, this detailed guide to the month-by-month mental, physical, social, and emotional development of infants and toddlers has supported and guided hundreds of thousands of parents. Now completely revised and updated, it contains the most accurate information and advice available on raising and nurturing the very young child. White gives parents real-world-tested advice on:
* Creating a stimulating environment for your infant and toddler
* Using effective, age-appropriate discipline techniques
* How to handle sleep problems
* What toys you should (and should not) buy
* How to encourage healthy social development
* How and when to toilet-train
No parent who cares about a child's well-being can afford to be without this book.
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Practical and program-free!.......2007-05-25
This is a great book based mainly around real life observation of real kids and families. There's no parenting program that's being forced down your throat and White allows for many different parenting styles. Baby's life is broken down in stages and the chapters about those stages are superbly organized beginning with a description of the developments baby will experience, a description of what activities you can engage in to encourage healthy development, and suggestions of toys and other items that will stimulate baby. The best thing about the book is that it gives you so many options, and doesn't make you feel like a complete failure for not playing 24-7 Mozart while carrying your baby around in a sling and tending that organic garden full of healthy veggies.
Not Yet Received.......2007-02-26
You wrote that the latest date of delivery will be Feb.21, now is 24 of Feb.
Outstanding read for parents of children 0 - 4 even 5.......2007-01-15
This book focuses on the critical development of the first years of a child's life. Mr. White discusses child rearing, nurturing, even tasks that require little effort by the parent on helping their child's mind, vision, and learning grow.
I highly recommend this book for parents who are expecting or who have just had a child and consider what is presented are developmental improvements that will help your child forever!
Great Book!.......2006-06-15
White does repeat that all babies are different and it's perfectly ok if your baby doesn't have all checkpoints met at the time he says they will. I have found this to be true for my daughter. She is so advanced in some areas whereas some of her new abilities are in a future chapter, but the ones she hasn't mastered, within a week of getting past the section she was just in, she starts doing the things he said she would. Now, my baby is still just 3 1/2 months, but this book has been extremely helpful, because I am a mom who really wants to know what my child will be up to. I want to look out for all her milestones. White's timeframe may not be right on the money for a lot of people, but he knows what he's talking about, that's for sure.
Another Excellent Book by White.......2006-02-18
This is another must-have' book for parents from Burton White. It examines the first three years in stages and helps you figure out the best strategies needed to help your child develop into a wonderful kid. From birth to age three, you are dealing with extremely high levels of stress and change that will never occur again. It is well worth the money to purchase this book which can serve to help you understand what is happening with your child and give you concrete information on how to best facilitate proper development and - most importantly - to keep your sanity. I highly recommend this book to any mother who is about to have a child and to all families who currently have a child under 3 years old.
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Jim Harrison's The Raw and the Cooked extols our profound (and precarious) relationship to what we eat, and to the natural world. Compiled from the author's much-loved Esquire, Smart, and Men's Journal columns, the book offers charging personal panoramas in the guise of food essays. In pieces with titles like "Conscious Dining," "Hunger, Real and Unreal," and "Repulsion and Grace," Harrison--a kind of dharma bum cum foodie--takes his readers into realms of taste and feeling, spirit and body. "We are often like autistic children," he writes, "unable to connect experiences, especially if we want something interesting to eat." A Michigan "outlander," he nonetheless travels wide and can tell of the "tummy thrills" engendered by trips to restaurants like Manhattan's Babbo, meals planned and meals remembered. But the journeys he likes best involve hunting or foraging, his personal salves: "I arrived home in a palsied state," he writes. "To set the brakes, I wandered for hours in the woods looking for morels. At one point I wandered three hours to find four morels. I did however gather enough to cook our annual spring rite, a simple sauté of the mushrooms, wild leeks and sweetbreads."
A warning: Harrison can lick his spiritual wounds publicly for long stretches, and not all readers will find his swaggering muscularity to their taste. Those who follow him are, however, rewarded by contact with his passion and sly, world-colliding depictions: "The dinner was a mystical experience," he writes, "and as such you must live through it to fully understand the mysticality ... less apparent when I got up next morning in a driving rainstorm with the usual flooded freeways." --Arthur Boehm
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Jim Harrison is one of this country's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he has also been writing some of the best essays on food around, now collected in a volume that caused the Santa Fe New Mexican to exclaim: "To read this book is to come away convinced that Harrison is a flat-out genius -- one who devours life with intensity, living it roughly and full-scale, then distills his experiences into passionate, opinionated prose. Food, in this context, is more than food: It is a metaphor for life." From his legendary Smart and Esquire columns, to present-day pieces including a correspondence with French gourmet Gerard Oberle, fabulous pieces on food in France and America for Men's Journal, and a paean to the humble meatball, The Raw and the Cooked is a nine-course meal that will satisfy every appetite. "Our 'poet laureate of appetite' [Harrison] may be, but the collected essays here reflect much more." -- John Gamino, The Dallas Morning News "[A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, and Sam Peckinpah...." -- Jane and Michael Stern, The New York Times Book Review "Jim Harrison is the Henry Miller of food writing. His passion is infectious." -- Jeffrey Trachtenberg, The Wall Street Journal
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Hilarious.......2007-04-03
I have given this book to so many friends. It is terrific. Filled with tons of laughs and great stories of a true gourmand. Written in a no b.s. style that is pure enjoyment.
No recommendation could be high enough for what I think of The Raw and the Cooked.
Salacious.......2006-01-29
Jim Harrison coaxes glorious feasts from from Upper Peninsula game meats, honky tonks of many states, and celebrated restaurants; not the least from the currents of his own life and times. Read this book for tales of culinary euphoria, none of it precious. But be forewarned: this book will put at least 10 pounds on your frame. And be prepared for descriptions of meals that feature multiple many meats, followed by ever humbling gout. Yet, fatter and happier is Harrison's philosophical equation. He'll even provide scientific arguments for how the two conditions are truly inseparable. Its classic Harrison humor and writing though. If you liked True North, you'll like this.
Make the Meatballs!.......2005-01-28
Well, there certainly is more than enough erudition in all of these reviews. How about just enjoying the food, as Jim Harrison does? My copy is worn out from making the most fabulous meatball recipe on this earth! I have read all of Jim Harrison's books, but totally enjoy his take on life in his non-fiction particularly. Get over the fact that he overdoes the name-dropping.
I lived in the U.P. for many years, but never heard of him till I moved to New York and discovered his books and magazine writing. An amateur food writer? I beg to disagree. If measured by how badly he makes you want to frequent the dives (even more than the four star restaurants) to try the meals and experience the ambience he so deliciously describes, then he is the best of food writers. He also solved a mystery my husband and I both suffered from - gout! This book is a steal at any price, and a joy to read for food and wine lovers.
Very Personal and Very Erudite Amateur's take on Food.......2004-11-27
`The Raw and the Cooked' by poet, playwright, and novelist Jim Harrison is quite properly subtitled `Adventures of a Roving Gourmand'. The author makes a very careful point of saying that he is not a very good cook, and his involvement in writing about cooking is definitely not his primary occupation. His `day job' is creative writing of poetry, drama, and narrative fiction, so his choice of words can be expected to be especially careful. His role as `roving gourmand' is a case in point. The first meaning of `gourmand' in my Merriam-Webster unabridged dictionary is `a greedy and ravenous eater'. This is definitely not the same as `gourmet', a secondary meaning of the word, and it is much more appropriate to the author's style than the more genteel `gourmet'.
As a writer on culinary matters, Harrison seems to be in a class by himself. He is quite definitely not in the same class as the students of cookery such as Jeffrey Steingarten, John Thorne, and Jim Villas. He is also not in the same class as professional observers of the culinary world such as Calvin Trillin, Robb Walsh, and Alan Richman. The most similar writer who comes to mind is R. W. Appel whose culinary writing is secondary to his news writing at the New York Times. But, even Appel is more of a professional journalist, so his food writing is part and parcel of his `day job'.
As an amateur writer on eating, Harrison has a deep respect for all these writers plus the great cookbook authors of the day such as Paula Wolfert, Marcella Hazan, and Julia Child, upon whom he depends for his recipes. His greatest respect seems to be reserved for M.F.K. Fisher, who also seems to earn the respect of every other major culinary journalist.
In a nutshell then, Harrison writes about less about food and food preparation than he does about eating and the enjoyment of food, wine, spirits, and hunting. And, he spends a lot of time writing about the writing about food, with a level of reflection you do not find in any writer I have read (with the caveat that I have not yet spend a reasonable amount of time with the writings of M.F.K. Fisher to compare Harrison and Fisher). This writing is done with an eye to the careful selection of words that may be unmatched among modern food writers. One example of this circumspection is his questioning the description of a pork chop with superlatives. The problem with this practice is that if the chop is praised with effusive adjectives, what is left to describe Bach or Rembrant or Shakespeare. Can a pork chop really measure up to `Hamlet'?
One of the consequences of this careful language is that Harrison may be difficult to read when he uses unfamiliar locutions. Contrary to an anti-intellectual complaint about erudite discourse, it is not the `big words' on which one may choke, but the statements which are so packed with meaning that we actually have to stop reading and take some time to parse the words to be sure we have gotten the full sense of the writer's words.
This means that Harrison may not be for everyone. As a writer who is entirely aware of his amateur status, his writing is almost entirely based on his personal experiences and his own choices and reactions to food, and his relating reactions of others to specific culinary situations. This has the advantage of avoiding making false generalizations about the food world. It has the weakness of being essays that are much closer to fiction than they are to journalism.
As almost all essays in this book have been published elsewhere in major periodicals, major editors with a good knowledge of their audience's taste have vetted almost all essays in this book. Therefore, I personally have found almost all essays quite enjoyable to read. It is no accident that the only pieces I found wanting were previously unpublished.
If you simply enjoy reading about food, especially writings by Fisher, Trillin, and Walsh, the chances are very good that you will find this book very entertaining. To all of you with these tastes in words, I heartily recommend this book.
I HATE THIS BOOK.......2003-09-25
Jim Harrison is a pretentious fop who needs to hang with real life for a little while.
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Grab some tissues and tuck in........2007-09-23
Like a good box of chocolates, this book is best consumed one piece at a time, slowly, with time to ponder, cry, and hug your dogs between portions. In Daniel Pinkwater's perfectly crafted essay, the reader can actually feel the writer's love for his big old fur-friend. I'm crying just thinking about it. Anyone who has had to put down an adored dog, anyone who has lost an old pal to illness or accident, will love this book. But it should come with a warning -- may cause ceaseless sobbing. It's worth the tears.
The best book to get someone who has lost a dog friend.......2007-01-15
I first read this book when my own dog died. The collection of stories from sometimes famous writers about their own dogs and own losses is incredibly moving. It helped get me through a rough time. Since then I've given the book to others when they've lost dogs (or cats) and each one has really appreciated it.
A Moving Collection of Stories for Dog Lovers.......2006-07-03
This is a great book to read if you are grieving the death of a beloved dog. This a great collection of short, long, moving, funny, serious, and sentimental stories about dogs. Many of the writers are unfamiliar names to me and I found myself wishing that the book included a brief bio of each author, or at least the date of the first publication of each story.
Great Writers Humbled Before Dogs..........2004-11-01
Some of the greatest writers of our times have humbled themselves to celebrate the memory of lost dog-friends amd provide us with a spiritual boost. To experience the depth of feeling and understanding a human and dog can share is only possible through direct experience, or through the masterful language of these gifted people.
As a dog trainer, shelter worker and rescue volunteer, I am continually confronted with man's inability to respect, admire and wonder at the enrichment domestic dogs and cats bring to our lives. Even the most expensive purebred specimens are not exempt from man's ability to be inhumane.
Knowing that human intelligence and emotion at its highest levels of achievement and expression, through the works of these brilliant writers, recognizes the treasure that is the dog's presence in our lives, and deeply mourns its loss, gives me continued hope for humanity.
Barbara Davis
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Who can forget?.......2004-04-30
Old Dogs Remembered is a wonderful collection that reflects on the joy of being owned by a dog and being the object of unquestioning devotion. While it is the collected remembrances and obituaries for famous people's dogs long past, it also focuses the reader on the dogs in our lives now. Our dogs pass away, but we have the power to make sure they are remembered. Take a minute to reflect on your current companion or one that awaits you in an afterlife that can only exist because we love our pets. Write his or her story, and save it, for yourself, your children, or just for the future. All old dogs deserve to be remembered.
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A classic of material culture, first published in 1980, is once more available.
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Great Landscaping Book.......2007-03-14
This is a very informative, well written, well organized guide to many of the plants that thrive in the various micro-climates of the greater Bay Area. The wealth of information is thorough and well researched. Nicely photographed as well. For anyone about to landscape, this book provides all the necessary information.
a classic returns to print.......2007-01-20
as a nurseryman, this offering gets right to the point when trying to explain the idea of future growth, the maturation, of the landscape to potential clients better than other books. the book is laid out simply in a straight-forward manner that is easily understood by novice or esoteric. the plant catalog is serviceable, not all-encompassing, which is a positive so as not to get bogged down solely by materials. the first and fourth chapters are of particular importance---paying attention to the basics for a good, solid start and future AND to gardening where you are. too many of us wish to duplicate something that we've seen somewhere else--EXACTLY! so often, the results are disappointing due to inflexibility on all sides. even though this book deals with the Bay Area specifically, it is adaptable and should prod some enterprising individual to produce a similar release for the Central Coast and the various environs of Southern California inclusive! after a lengthy absence, it is nice to have East Bay MUD's classic available once again. now, if we could only get Bob and Peg Perry to update THE BIBLE, we'd really be in the chips!
It only makes sense.......2006-03-09
A book especially for the SF Bay Area(and similar Mediterranean climates). How incredibly sensible to plan your landscaping to fit the climate and water availability. It works wonderfully. Loads of great information and ideas for smart, labor saving landscaping. A must for your gardening collection
Indispensable for Western gardeners.......2005-02-25
It's about time somebody published an inspiring photo driven book about western gardens. The Sunset Western Garden Book may be the bible for western gardeners for its wealth of information but it does not serve to inspire the way a book full of real gardens can. With more than 500 photos of western gardens this book should be destined to be a classic.
The great thing is that it is not just a beautifully designed, coffee table type book. The text is authoritative with dozens of full page charts and it seems to have been reviewed by a who's who of garden experts. The author suggests plants from all over the world that are adapted to a summer-dry, Mediterranean climate and the photographer shows them in gardens not just close-up details.
Hooray for this book. We western gardeners are too often frustrated by books and gardening advice originating from other regions. This book is so beautiful it will frustrate gardeners in those other regions who will want what we now have.
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Design for Good Acoustics and Noise Control
J. E. Moore
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Engraving in England in the Tudor Period: A Catalogue Raisonne
Arthur M. Hind
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Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir
Peter Jan Honigsberg
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In 1966 Peter Jan Honigsberg--a young, idealistic law student--arrived in the South to help provide legal representation for civil rights workers. Although based in New Orleans, most of his work was in the city of Bogalusa and in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Bogalusa was the heart of the Louisiana movement and the home of one of the most formidable but little-known black organizations in the country--the Deacons for Defense and Justice, the first modern-day African American organization to carry weapons and to respond with force against the Ku Klux Klan. This riveting memoir, one of only a handful of first-person full-length accounts of the civil rights movement, is both a stirring coming-of-age story and a thrilling chronicle of a remarkable era in United States history.
Honigsberg's engaging narrative conveys the emotions and personal dangers activists faced. He describes how the Deacons worked with the Bogalusa Voters League to boycott the white-owned businesses in the downtown area and to integrate the local schools, restaurants, parks, and paper mill.
Unlike many law students, Honigsberg not only worked on legal issues; he participated directly in marches and demonstrations. His narrative includes lively firsthand accounts of his attempt--with a group of black and white demonstrators--to integrate a beach on Lake Pontchartrain, his experience marching through hostile Ku Klux Klan territory under the eye of the National Guard, and his witnessing a prominent civil rights leader lift his car's trunk to display a cache of carbines and grenades to a station attendant who refused to fill the tank with gas. This memoir provides a unique glimpse into the civil rights movement and the people who were forever changed by its struggle for human dignity and its vision of racial justice and equality.
Customer Reviews:
Fascinating.......2000-11-13
The memoir Crossing Border Street by Honigsberg is an excellent look into the life and times of a man committed to civil rights. Coming from NYU Law School, Honigsberg did more than legal matters, he got involved in marches and demonstrations, risking his life on several occasions. The memoir also includes interactions with the Deacons for Defense, which were the originators of the Black Panthers. Few people have ever heard of the Deacons, or of civil rights marches outside of MLK. This is a fascinating book, and I can't recommend enough!
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Citation Details
Title: Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir. (Book Reviews).
Author: Adam Fairclough
Publication:
Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2002
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 68
Issue: 1
Page: 233(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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