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The Best "Arkansas Outdoor" Book.......2000-02-01
Arkansas A Guide to Backcountry Travel & Adventure, by Bryan Hendricks, is in my opinion, the best source for information about outdoor activities in Arkansas currently available. I have read several titles that have promised useful information on this subject, but Mr. Hendricks' book has got the most complete listings of places to go and things to do in the most reader-friendly format of any of my previous purchases. I have 3 young children, and accurate information is vital to me when it comes to planning a trip. This book lets me know exactly what to expect when I'm considering a weekend jaunt with my family. Nothing can ruin an otherwise nice outing for me more than getting to a place and finding it totally different than it has been described to me. I have already been to several of the recreation areas mentioned in this book, and have found the author's assessments to be right on track. Therefore, I feel like I can trust Mr. Hendricks' observations when I am planning future excursions with my family. Arkansas A Guide to Backcountry Travel & Adventure, published by Out There Press, covers every region of the state in an easy-to-use layout, complete with locations, maps, activities permitted, contact information, ranger station locations, and also gives you names of businesses in the immediate area which may be of use while on an outing. Everything is easy to understand, with emphasis placed on hiking, camping, canoeing, fishing, and my personal favorite, mountain biking. It is so hard to get accurate information on what is permitted, and when and where, that the contacts included with the book will make it a valuable refernce for years to come. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to find outdoor activities in Arkansas, as I feel there is not a single wasted page between its covers.
Excellent Guide for Canoeing and Hiking.......2000-02-01
I recently read the book "Arkansas, A Guide to Backcountry Travel and Adventure", written by Bryan Hendricks in anticipation of a combined canoe and back-country exploration of the Buffalo River Area in North west Arkansas. I was pleasantly surprised to find all the information I needed for both the canoe trip and back country hiking trip contained in the same book! Usually, my trips require purchase of at least two different books: one for the whitewater and one for the back-country; but not in this case. This is the first time I've planned a combined journey with the luxury of finding all the needed information, map references, portages, and trail heads in one comprehensive volume. Great work, Bryan!
I was also fascinated upon further reading by the anecdotal information in the book which made for an interesting and "not-so-dry" read. The story of the "Legend of Boggy Creek" was particularly enjoyable and should provide a good discussion point for any family camping trip.
Thanks again for the excellent book and perhaps I'll see Mr. Hendricks on the Buffalo River this April.
A Guide to Adventure and Happy Trails.......2000-01-31
If you are looking for an expert, detailed guide to a backcountry adventure or just a highly readable armchair simulation, read this book. It offers detailed suggestions not only to surviving the wilds but thriving in them. ARKANSAS appeals to hiker, naturalist, and layman alike with each district and area offering a general overview for trip selection. Following each of these are detailed maps with topographical descriptions, seasonal guides to vegetation and animals, climate expectations, clothing needs, and equipment recommendations. Also, there are comprehensive activitity guides to camping, canoeing, fishing, biking, and hiking. The book traverses the state like its rivers: from the high-plateau Ozark Mountains of the Northwest, down the Arkansas River Valley, through the piney woods of the Ouachita Mountains, across the fertile cotton, rice, and soybean fields of the Delta to the blackwater swamps of the Southeast. The author's expertise is impressive, but more than this, the book reflects a deep appreciation, respect, and love of backcountry Arkansas.
Required Reading for Arkansas Backcountry Enthusiasts.......2000-01-29
When it comes to backcountry travel in Arkansas, I consider myself an expert, but Arkansas, A Guide to backcountry Travel & Adventure, took me to places where even I've never been! The ultimate test of a book like this is accuracy, and the author earned my trust immediately when I looked up a couple of places I know very well. His descriptions are dead-on, and his lively writing style is a lot spicier than what one normally sees in this type of book. I mean, if you didn't want to visit the Sulphur River Wildlife Management Area on the merits of its recreational opportunities alone, how could you resist after reading Hendricks' passage about the legendary Fouke Monster, which supposedly inhabits the area? This book is just full of juicy little tidbits like that to complement its impressive array of how-to, where-to information. I haven't had my copy very long, but it's already well worn from my travels around the state. I consider it as necessary as a backpack and canoe paddle, and when it's no longer serviceable, I won't hesitate to replace it.
Arkansas: A Guide to Backcountry Travel & Adventure.......2000-01-25
This is a terrific book, even for people who only occasionally venture into the woods on a hike. The author has obviously visited every one of the Arkansas parks and hiked the trails he describes. He tells the reader important details like, the location of the closest pay telephone, where the nearest supply store is and even if the people are friendly. There's information about camping, lodging, hiking trails and advice about scenic stops. This is a great gift for anyone who ever has or ever intends to visit an Arkansas park.
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Explorers & Discoverers Volume 5.: From Alexander the Great to Sally Ride (Explorers & Discoverers)
Nancy Pear , and
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Your students will discover the lives and times of more than 260 men and women explorers, from ancient Greek scholars and travelers to 20th century oceanographers and astronauts. Who these individuals were, when and how they lived and traveled, why their journeys were significant and what the consequences of their discoveries were are all answered within these biographies. Includes illustrations, maps, a cumulative index and charts depicting explorers by place of birth and a chronology of exploration.
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Your students will discover the lives and times of more than 260 men and women explorers, from ancient Greek scholars and travelers to 20th century oceanographers and astronauts. Who these individuals were, when and how they lived and traveled, why their journeys were significant and what the consequences of their discoveries were are all answered within these biographies. Includes illustrations, maps, a cumulative index and charts depicting explorers by place of birth and a chronology of exploration.
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Good basic guide for the begginer.......2000-11-15
"The Guide to owning Dwarf Rabbits" is a good basic guide to the first time rabbit owner. This book covers topics like Housing, feeding and health. "The Guide to Owning Dwarf Rabbits" is written in an easy to understand style and contains all you need to know for your first rabbit, but is not very in depth for those with rabbit experience.
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Complete with illustrated, step-by-step photos on integrating tropical plants into the home landscape, planting, propagation, pruning, irrigation, and other care, plus tips on growing fruits and vegetables in the tropical garden, orchid care, and gardening in small spaces, this volume contains the expert advice of horticulturists from around the country. 350+ photos, 300 in color.
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Great Book For Tropical Lovers!.......1998-10-28
This is the kind of book everyone needs that is trying to grow a tropical looking garden in cool or hot climates. I hope the publisher reprints this book soon.
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Judaism in Late Antiquity: Theory of Israel (Pt.5 Vol.1) (Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch Der Orientalistik)
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London from Punk to Blair
Joe Kerr , and
Andrew Gibson
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London is known around the world as a metropolitan, ordered city full of tourist attractions and exclusive shops, but the real face of the city – disordered, chaotic, sprawling, vigorous, untamed – remains unseen and unexplored.
London from Punk to Blair is a richly illustrated portrait of Europe’s foremost capital. An array of contributors, including poets, journalists, teachers, historians, wanderers, drinkers, photographers and foodies, offer a selection of personal and subjective readings of the city since the late ’70s. Using maps, journeys, pictures, narratives and signs, the contributors chart a variety of literal and metaphorical explorations through modern and postmodern London, showing how it works, and how it fails to work; what makes it vibrant, and what makes it seedy. From West End galleries to strip pubs in Shoreditch; from millionaires’ loft apartments to buses and suburban Tube stops; from film, fashion and gay clubs to punk bands, ruinous factories, pigeon filth and the vagaries of weather, London from Punk to Blair embraces the city like no other book has before.
London is too complex and fragmented for any one person to comprehend fully, but this book goes a long way to help you discover what lies outside, and inside, Zone 1. The book will open your eyes to parts of London that you have never seen, or even knew existed.
Contributors include: Phil Baker, Michael Bracewell, Christopher Breward, John Davis, Tom Dyckhoff, Allen Fisher, Charlie Gere, David Gilbert, Fiona Henderson, Patrick Keiller, Sarah Kent, Roger Luckhurst, Nicholas Royle, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie, Patrick Wright.
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essential reading.......2005-09-12
If the "sprawling, amorphous" city of London and its recent history interests you, then I cannot recommend this book enough. Published by Reaktion, who excel at releasing slightly-eccentric alternative travel accounts that "explore the creative collision between physical space and the human mind" (their Topographics series is brilliant), this book seems to be the culmination of their efforts. A big hulking 400-page tome with a thoughtfully melancholic cover depicting a vast, dirty, washed-up stretch of a Thames-side shore, and in the backdrop, the much-derided Millenium Dome.
"London: From Punk to Blair" is at odds on the bookshelves alongside all those usual London volumes that glimmer with shots of Big Ben, Tower Bridge or Piccadilly Circus. This book comes more from the unorthodox school of Iain Sinclair, JG Ballard, Patrick Wright and Patrick Keiller (the latter two contribute chapters). Writers who present London as a strange and untameable beast, loaded with the ghosts of past inhabitants, crimes and happenings. Writers that are allured by its corruption and changing landscape. That explore the darkness that lies beneath its veneer.
A good variety of writers present subjective and opinionated essays and accounts on an array of London subjects, that often cover the unusual and elusive. Punk, Dialect, Weather, Tube stations, Brixton, Diana's London, Crime, Film, Pigeons, the Gay scene, Strip pubs, CCTV... to name but a few. "Blowdown: The Rise and Fall of London's Tower Blocks" elaborates on Hackney Council's "European record for demolitions by a local authority". The Sunday morning spectacles where audiences are invited to view the celebrity-guested "execution" (I have attended a twin one myself on Hackney Downs). Joe Kerr interestingly ponders upon whether these demolitions are actually a good thing. With high-rise living currently working well for the rich, is the failure of council-run towerblocks simply due to mismanagement?
The violent British thriller "The Long Good Friday" (1979, starring Bob Hoskins) receives close attention as the film that successfully epitomized what-was-to-come in Eighties London. It depicts an East-End Gangster who attempts to take advantage of the "deregulated capitalism" of the new Thatcher era, in the free-enterprise zone of Isle of Dogs. This eight-mile-square former-docksite was a ghostland of dead industry and working-class housing. The main character's ruthless ambition to build an Olympic stadium is ultimately thwarted and crushed by the very greed and corruption he ordinarily adheres to. The film stands as an accurate allegory of its free-enterprise era, and anitcipated the excessive, unfettered knock-'em-down-build'-em-high scenario that would eventually be enacted with an apocalyptic force (the working-class were swept away and sent packing) as the docks-area was transformed into a high-tech ultra-city of high finance and luxury living.
The essays never hold back on severe tongue-lashings for both Thatcher's Conservative, and Blair's New Labour governments, and seem rooted in an old-style Leftism across the board. Hilda Kean provides a brilliant chapter, "The Transformation of Political and Cultural Space", that laments the politically-aware era of the Eighties that boasted a number of halls, pubs, cinemas and radical bookshops as its social arenas. She expands upon the demise of certain practices that have slipped from the ordinary-person by the eradicating hands of the government. Self-help groups and libraries unceremoniously closed. Thriving squat communities removed by gentrification. Radical bookshops linked to political-cultural groups, priced out and bankrupted etc. She argues that these kind of factors have led to the eradication of the encouragement and flourishing of self-education and political-awareness. (And it's true... politics, certainly amongst younger people, WAS more fashionable in the Eighties. It DOES make you ponder upon governmental motives, "commodity culture" and "culture industries" etc. and question what direction we are actually heading in).
After reading Hilda Kean's essay, it may leave you with the impression of London's "past" being perhaps - admittedly more shabby, but - more empowered, creative, vibrant, self-nurturing and self-expressionistic... in stark contrast to the "New London": depoliticized, glossy, tourist friendly, gentrified, controlled, rebranded and repackaged. Food for thought!
The photographs compliment the text brilliantly, ranging from '77 Jubilee street parties to Eighties 'blowdowns' to the construction of a new "office city" in Paddington. My favourite shot is a moving portrait that cries out: CHANGE. An elderly couple pasing a local demolition site, powdery dust rising into a heavy ominous sky, housing blocks in the distance standing next in line for the death sentence. A poignant scene that speaks volumes about real everyday needs and life, versus the elusive but destuctive powers-that-be.
Interstingly, the book explores the emotional impact that certain physical spaces can induce. Iain Sinclair, a writer who explores and chronicles the capital's nooks and crannies like a man with a mental magnet, is conspicuous in his contributive absence, yet receives several references and discussions. The idea of atmospheric hidden-zones is given some thoughtful exploration by Nicholas Royal, who accounts his habitual solitary excursions through the city's fenced-off derelict quarters. The empty warehouses, hospitals and offices, draped in dust, "charged with a potent melancholy" that play a part in "the imaginative life of the city". And that one by one fall foul to the wrecking ball.
The topics of this book reach far and wide. Overall, it is interesting and thought-provoking. Ultimately, the underlying message seems to suggest a London that was perhaps "better before". The mood of many parts of the book can be summed up in a sentence from the inroduction: "Amidst the apparent evidence of increasing diversity and heterogeneity, the truth is that contemporary London is simultaneously moving towards greater uniformity and homogeneity".
Nevertheless, read and be stimulated.
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Career Patterns in the Ch'ing Dyn (Michigan monographs in Chinese studies)
Raymond Chu , and
William Saywell
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