Trees of the Sydney Region

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Trees of the Sydney Region
John Child
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Trees of the Sydney region (Periwinkle)
John Child
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Written by a travel expert with family adventure and budgets in mind, this book is a one-stop guide to surf, sun, dining, lodging, and fun on beautiful Maui. Reorganized and redesigned for greater ease of use, this edition features new digital maps; chapters describing every beach on Maui including Lahaina, Kaanapali, Haleakala and Hana, plus the island of Lanai and the activities available at each; reviews of more than 300 restaurants including prices and sample menus; and recommendations on over 200 hotels, condos, cottages, and inns. Ideal for families with kids of any age -- toddlers to teenagers -- visiting Maui for the first time or returning for their annual island getaway, Paradise Family Guide Maui highlights kid-friendly attractions such as zoos, aquariums, museums, luaus, and hula-dancing classes, and provides information on baby-sitting and resort-run kids' camps. Author Christie Stilson, founder of the Paradise Family Guides, offers her personal favorites and "Best Bets" for a great trip on a moderate budget.

Paradise Family Guides Maui: The Most Complete Guide to Family Fun and Adventure! (Paradise Family Guides)

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Paradise Family Guides Maui: The Most Complete Guide to Family Fun and Adventure! (Paradise Family Guides)
Candy Adair Aluli
Manufacturer: Ulysses Press
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Ideal for families traveling with kids of any age — toddlers to teenagers — Paradise Family Guides Maui presents a blend of travel information unlike any other guide to Maui. It offers vacation ideas and tropical adventures that are sure to satisfy both action-hungry youngsters and relaxation-seeking parents. Special traveler-friendly features include the author’s personal favorites and “Best Bets” for a great trip on a moderate budget; descriptions of popular island sights and kid-friendly attractions including zoos and aquariums; lei-making and hula-dancing classes plus luaus and children's museums; lodging recommendations including condos, cottages, and suite hotels featuring extra living space and cooking facilities; baby-sitting information with details on resort-run kids’ camps; restaurant reviews that fully list menu items so parents can be sure that their children’s favorite foods are available; and complete vacation planning information including maps, car rental locations, shopping, nightlife, and more. Paradise Family Guides Maui is packed with listings written for families, including over 180 places to stay, over 280 eateries to fit any budget, over 140 cool things to see, over 320 fun things to do, over 90 spots to shop, and over 55 beaches to lay down a towel.

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Caring for horses is a lot of work. This handy yearbook helps the horse enthusiast organize their busy schedule. The illustrated diary section includes important dates in the international equestrian year, while the week-per-page layout provides plenty of space to include your own dates and important appointments. Use the Yearly Planner feature to keep track of health care dates such as shoeing and worming. You'll also a valuable reference information offering facts and figures covering subjects such as first aid, road safety, tack and much more.

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Two Acre Eden Finding the Good Life on Your Own Piece of Land
Gene Logsdon
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Two Acre Eden
Gene Logsdon
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Gene Logsdon
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"Little did the coauthors realize at the time they embarked upon this project over a glass of plum brandy in Bucharest more than twenty-five years ago, that their work would result in the discovery of the authentic, bloodthirsty prototype for Bram Stoker's famous novel Dracula." This pioneering study, first published in 1972, became a collector's item, so this fully updated edition is welcome indeed. The authors' pursuit of the notion that Vlad the Impaler (1431-76) was the original Dracula--through treks both antiquarian (in old libraries and museums) and geographic (in areas of Romania that were once Transylvania and Walachia)--has the thrill of an adventure story. In Search of Dracula is also an entertaining introduction to vampire lore and to people's obsession with Dracula. It has a delightful cover by Edward Gorey and numerous illustrations, including antique woodcuts of Vlad's impaled victims and photos from the authors' trips to Romania.

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The true story behind the legend of Dracula - a biography of Prince Vlad of Transylvania, better known as Vlad the Impaler. This revised edition now includes entries from Bram Stoker's recently discovered diaries, the amazing tale of Nicolae Ceausescu's attempt to make Vlad a national hero, and an examination of recent adaptations in fiction, stage and screen.

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Bit of a let down...........2007-03-10

I was disappointed with this book. I have read the authors' biography of Dracula, and found little new or worthwhile presented here. Moreover, the title is deceptive. Very little of this book is devoted to the history of vampires, and too much of it deals with modern popular culture. Given that the authors are serious scholars, I was hoping for a detailed look at popular culture roughly at the time of Vlad Tepes. I highly recommend the authors' other book, "Dracula: Prince of Many Faces," but find little merit in this volume. I think this book might have more appeal to a general audience. So, if you are looking for some basic background on the "real" Dracula (Vlad Tepes), and the basics of how he fits into folklore and popular culture, then this book may very well be for you. It is well written, and draws on the authors' considerable knowledge. It just was not what I expected or hoped for.

The "real" dracula.......2005-12-15

If given the choice I would prefer to split this book down the middle, the first half being given fours stars and the second 1. I would have to say that the title of the books says this is a history of vampires as well as dracula. I think this is incorrect; there is one chapter on vampiric folklore which to be blunt is very vague and doesn't really tell you anything.

However, whilst I have doubts about there use of some evidence (the authors repeatedly seem very trusting of peasant folklore) the chapters on Dracula (Vlad Tepes), which constitute the bulk of the book, are very good and the book is worth buying for that alone.

I do have the feeling that once this was done the authors needed to padd the book out and hence add three chapters on vampire fiction to the present day. It is only because I have an obsessive need to finish any book I start that I finished this, otherwise I would have given up contented once they had finished with Dracula.

However, I am in agreement with the previous reviewer who stated that the score was recued by the appendixes. By bringing such resources in one place it is a very useful aid to the reader's further research and hence am happy to recommend.

AN ESSENCIAL GUIDE OF VAMPIRES.......2005-09-13

I THINK THIS BOOK IS VERY NECCESSARY IF YOU WANT TO KNOW EVERY THING ABOUT THE HISTORY OF DRACULA AND VAMPIRES, AS TO KNOW THE TRADICIONAL FOLK OF THE PEOPLE FROM ROMANIA.

THE BOOK IS VERY EASY TO READ, AND YOU CAN HAVE A GOOD TIME IF YOU LOVE VAMPIRE STORIES.

interesting read.......2005-06-06

i enjoyed this book very much. it was an insightful read into the actual history of vlad the impaler and the legend of dracula. if you like history and vampires, then this is the book for you.

GOOD HISTORY BUT A LITTLE DRY.......2005-05-18

Now I had seen Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally numerous times on TV as they were interviewed for various historical programs on Dracula and vampires which is what inspired me to search out this book. I would somewhat disagree with the spotlight reviewer who said it was not scholarly enough. I found it to be quite concise and complete, having read a great deal about Vlad Tepes previously. There was much more detail about this Machavellian-era ruler than I ever knew about before. My main problem with the first half of the book that deals with Vlad Dracul is that it is a little bland. One wouldn't that relating tales of impalings and hats being nailed to heads could be dry but it was. I was hoping for something a little more lively, no pun intended.

We next move into a look at Vampire folklore throughout the world but mainly eastern european lore where the legends of vampires are so ingrained into the culture of those peoples. Finally we move on to Bram Stoker using Vlad as his basis for Dracula although it's certain that this was not the only influence. To be sure the gruesome tales of Elizabeth Bathory and other legends played a part in Stoker's tales as well. It's a short read but fairly complete, a tad dull in spots, particularly those battles against the turks, but an interesting history still.

In search of Dracula: A true history of Dracula and vampire legends

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Was Dracula real?
The True History of Vlad the Impaler, the Man who was Dracul
All the information you'll ever want

In search of Dracula: A true history of Dracula and vampire legends
Raymond T. McNally , and Radu Florescu
Manufacturer: Galahad Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

ASIN: 0883652706

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Was Dracula real?.......2005-12-22

The story of how Vlad Tepes became Dracula is much like the story of how Arturious the Dux Belorum became King Arthur.

Indeed a careful study of both personages reveals much about the mythic processes that underly the retelling of history generally.

In this book, the authors litterally ventured to ancient Wallachia to exhume the roots of the Dracula legend. In doing so they found the now often re-told story of a fifteen century prince Vlad Tepes who attempted through terror to vainly assert his rule over a waning kingdom against the backdrop of a divided Christendom and an overwhelming Moslem force.

In the retelling of his story Tepes' thirst for blood became a litteral one and his presence came to be consigned that night which houses all our fears. Interestingly enough Tepes is reputed to have found final repose on an island monastery.

In this way, Tepes has an Avalon of sorts where locals maintain he will arise again someday to reclaim their birthright of local hegenomy.

As with all mythic process the Dracula story inevitably says more about us, the living, as we tell and re-tell it. Did they forge nations from their strength of will? As with Arthur: do their deeds inspire us still? As with Dracula: do their deeds terrify us still?

Did they play their part in God's passion play...and save us from sin?

To quote Ann Wroe from the concluding lines of her excellent book "Pilate, the Biography of an Invented Man."

"Me? I did that, for you?"

The True History of Vlad the Impaler, the Man who was Dracul.......2002-11-11

Any serious student of vampire legends or of Eastern European medieval history will not want to miss this book. First published over twenty years ago and now reprinted and expanded, this book in my opinion remains, along with Florescu's and McNally's other work on Dracula, "Dracula: Prince of Many Faces: His Life and Times," the standard introduction to Vlad the Impaler and his connection with Bram Stoker's classic Gothic horror novel "Dracula." Writing as historians, McNally and Florescu have been criticised by other authors for what appears to be their grudging admiration for the Impaler's political savvy and military skill; they do not praise him for his many atrocities however, but, like good historians, attempt to remain as dispassionate as possible towards their subject, attemting to understand and explian him. In the appendices they do compare the various medieval Dracula traditions, analysing the various reports of his atrocities by medieval Romanian, German and Russian writers-all of whom wrote from a biased position. Also refreshing to me is the fact that the authors do not share the now prevalent view that Bram Stoker was a sexually repressed Victorian author whose novel is filled with thinly veiled sexual undertones; to me, this is a result of modern authors reading the modern obsession with sex back onto Stoker. (For anyone who is ONLY familiar with the Coppola film-read the novel! Though more faithful to Stoker's original than any production to date (Florescu and McNally give it high marks, and so do I), it nevertheless portrays the novel as essentially a love story, with the Impaler being driven to his acts of cruelty by the death of his wife-in reality he had several wives and mistresses, and was reportedly as cruel to them as his enemies.) Thankfully McNally and Florescu do not waste any time on these theories. The book will be of value to students of Eastern European folklore as well as horror film buffs, as it sets forth much information on vampire lore from Eastern Europe and also contains a detailed film guide to Dracula films-from Murnau's silent classic "Nosferatu" to Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula". There is also much information on Bram Stoker and Dracula and Vampires in literature.

All the information you'll ever want.......1999-06-28

If you have an interest in Vlad the Impaler (or an obsession like myself)read this book! It has all the possible information you could ever want on this guy. From how he was revered in the past to how he is known today in Romania. It has some good vampire info too.

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IN SEARCH OF DRACULA - A True History of Dracula and Vampire Legends
Raymond T.; Florescu, Radu McNally
Manufacturer: Warner Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0446920479

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IN SEARCH OF DRACULA, A TRUE HISTORY OF DRACULA AND VAMPIRE LEGENDS.
RAYMOND T. MCNALLY & RADU FLORESCU
Manufacturer: BCA/NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SHPMVW

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In Search of Dracula: A True History of Dracula and Vampire Legends
Raymond T. McNally , and Radu Florescu
Manufacturer: Warner Paperback Library
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In Search of Dracula: A True History of Dracula and Vampire Legends
Raymond T & Radu Florescu McNally
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ASIN: B000QBA918

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In Search of Dracula: A True History of Dracula and Vampire Legends

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IN SEARCH OF DRACULA A TRUE HISTORY OF DRACULA AND VAMPIRE LEGENDS

Manufacturer: New York Graphic Society
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ASIN: B000H2B2UI

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In Search of Dracula, a True History of Dracula and Vampire Legends.
McNally and Florescu
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IN SEARCH OF DRACULA: A TRUE HISTORY OF DRACULA AND VAMPIRE LEGENDS.
Raymond T. & Radu Florescu. McNally
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ASIN: B000O9GZT2

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KING OF THE GYPSIES.............BARTLEY GORMAN.......2005-05-08

This book was magnificent and must for any fight fan it is dark and the details are incredabley graphic i couldnt put this book doown once i picked it up....READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!

A Wandering Gypsy.......2004-05-03

The ship hit a rock...Oh what a shock the boat nearly turned right OOver...turned 9 times around and the poor old dog was drowned ....Now I'm the last of the Irish rovers'!

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