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This guide describes 40 hikes in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park.

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Rocky Tops.......2007-10-13

The couple has written a very good guide to trails in the park. Not the best book in my library on the topic, but in the top 2 or 3

Hiking Rocky Mountain National Park, 9th

There are better choices available.......2007-08-23

I agree with what others have said about this book being disorganized & not up to Falcon's standards. Additionally, the book is poorly written and reads as if it were written by a high schooler. Nolan's comment below nicely sums up the book. Too bad, because I usually enjoy the Falcon hiking books.

By contrast, Lisa Foster's book, "Rocky Mountain National Park: The Complete Hiking Guide," ISBN # 1565795504, is great. Foster's book was the one I actually used.

Worst Falcon Guide Ever.......2007-08-18

I own 22 Falcon hiking guides. This thing is horrible. First few pages talks about how it is not designed to make it easier to hike in the Rocky Mountains NP. And it doesn't. It's obviously written by one of those guys who wanted to get paid for writing the book, but doesn't want you on his trail. You know what I am talking about if you have read a dozen or so hiking guides. This dreadful thing is a 320 page continuous paragraph. I can't even tell where the new hike ends and where a new one begins. Don't know how long the trail is or what the elevation gain/loss. There is no chart describing the mileage/elevation throughout the trail that I have found in every other Falcon guide I ever purchased. I see now that if I had read the reviews first, I would not have made this selection. Since the return postage is probably more than the book costs, I am going to just burn it, stomp on it and make sure it is dead.

Very thorough descriptions but disorganized........2007-05-12

Kent Dannen's book is great for the avid RMNP hiker. He provides in-depth descriptions of a great list of trails and destinations, though you may have trouble finding what you are looking for. His trail descriptions contain a great many "rabbit trails" (which provide the hiker numerous options in and around his chosen hike area) but a great deal of page-flipping is required to find what you need. I recommend The Complete RMNP Hiking Guide by Lisa Foster as a companion to this book. Foster's book is better organized and contains numerous alternative routes for serious explorers, as well as descriptions of more technical routes, but Dannen's book will provide the hiker with a more complete description of flora and fauna, interesting terrain features, and noteworthy facts.

Not up to Falcon Guide's Typical Standards.......2005-06-14

This book may be a fine guide, but it's not up to the quality that I expect from Falcon. It's not written in the usual format, there are few mile markers to help you plan your trips, the maps are poor and very rare, there are few (if any) elevation maps showing where the real climbs are, the index is useless as it lists only specific destinations instead of trail names (ie no metion of the Continental Divide Trail which marches through RMNP) and the book is not organized by specific trails, rather by regions within the park. It might be a good read for those that know the park, and are looking for little corners they haven't yet explored, but if you are planning a trip in the park and don't know your way around, skip this book.

Rocky Mountain National Park hiking trails, including Indian peaks

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Rocky Mountain National Park hiking trails, including Indian peaks
Kent Dannen
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50 Front Range hiking trails: Including Rocky Mountain National Park and the Indian Peaks Wilderness

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50 Front Range hiking trails: Including Rocky Mountain National Park and the Indian Peaks Wilderness
Richard DuMais
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Rocky Mountain National Park Hiking Trails : Including Indian Peaks
Kent; Dannen, Donna Dannen
Manufacturer: The East Woods Press
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Grandma Antolina finds a key and begins a long journey into the country, up and down a mountain, and so on, until she finds the door it opens, where her randchildren await. Críticas Magazine

Once Upon a Time ... There Was a Company

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Once Upon a Time ... There Was a Company
Speco Graphics Staff (editors)
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Once Upon a Time There Was Colombia
William Ospina
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The complexity of a country in which violence and internal armed conflict coexist with enormous cultural, natural, and human riches is captured in this illuminating essay by a Colombian poet. A refreshed view of Colombia is proposed, shedding light on the possibility of a future in which the nation may become reconciled with itself. The accompanying photographs, all previously unpublished, are taken by some of Colombia's best photographers.

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Once upon a Time There Was No Money
Joseph Clark
Manufacturer: Heliographica Press
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For those of you interested in the issues of MONEY as it is presented to us from the higher spiritual realms, this book is where the buck stops for negative information we are headed for as a society. This is a book about where we are now, what we are doing that is so controlling as a society whole, and the newest information brought in by spirit through this book about our use and dependency on MONEY.

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Corrections to book listing.......2005-08-04

The book listed here is not available from the original publisher which launched in mid 2004, A change of publisher and a new ISBN number have been made. The book has been increased in pages to 206, the cover has under gone a minor look.

This book can be found under a search using the new ISBN # 0-9770535-0-4 or by going dirct to the authors site at www.newenergybooks.com

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Joseph Clark

Informative.......2005-03-17

I have read this book from cover to cover and found it to be an EYE OPENER for things I did not now about in our society dealing with money and the world systems of government. This book is actually a spiritual awareness reading for the evolution of mankind. After reading it I found myself on a daily basis more aware of the government system and of my own personal existence in relation to the way all of mankind thinks, or as the books calls it mass consciousness of the planet.

I recommend this book as a must read for everyone that uses money, and that is all of us on the planet.

Once Upon a Time...There were 3 Little Kittens

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Once Upon a Time...There were 3 Little Kittens
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Once upon Anne elephant there was a time

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Once upon Anne elephant there was a time
James Barber
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There Never Was a Once upon a Time (Discoveries)

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There Never Was a Once upon a Time (Discoveries)
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short stories, Costa Rica, tr Linda Britt

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There Once Was a Time
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Nice browse-through reference

Worth $6000 to me!

For new *and* seasoned PMs

Accenture and Microsoft project mgmt experience in one book

This is not your typical project management book...

The Project Management Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw-ups, and How to Cut Them off at the Pass
Lonnie Pacelli
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Project Management Tool Kit, The: 100 Tips and Techniques for Getting the Job Done Right

The One-Page Project Manager: Communicate and Manage Any Project With a Single Sheet of Paper

Visualizing Project Management: Models and Frameworks for Mastering Complex Systems

Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn't Report to You

Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project

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This is your complete, hands-on guide to saving projects in trouble. Drawing on 20 years of frontline project management experience, Lonnie Pacelli identifies the 18 most pervasive causes of project failure: their causes, early warning signs, and how to fix them before it's too late.

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Nice browse-through reference.......2005-08-10

It took me a while to get into Lonnie's book. The book will be of most use to seasoned PMs and of incremental value over time to new PMs. The information Lonnie puts rings a bell in project situations you have been through and fosters thinking in those you have not been through. Lonnie did put a lot of effort in making the book as amenable as possible and he's done a very good job indeed. The apparently light-read has profound implications very appreciable if you have been there. Each topic evokes in me a lot of additional thoughts.

I recommend the following way of reading the book:

1) Select a chapter (any one)
2) Read all the headings
3) Make yourself a mental picture of the following:
3.1 - what you would put under the heading
3.2 - what headings Lonnie may be missing that you would add
4) Read the text for specific headings you want to drill-in further.

All in all this book is very good as an aide-memoire as well as fostering thinking in situations you have not been through.

Worth $6000 to me!.......2005-05-22

This book is remarkably concise and meaty. It highlights trouble spots that occur again, and again, and again, in project management. Each chapter is about a 5- to 10-minute read, but impart years of wisdom.

What's the $6K? That's the raise that I got because this book gave me the answers that I needed in a tight spot! Thank you, Mr. Pacelli!

For new *and* seasoned PMs.......2005-01-26

Regardless of whether you're managing your first project, or have the battle scars from many, this excellent book will be an invaluable resource.

For the new PM the 18 "Screw-ups" cited will give you ample warning about the most common pitfalls encountered in any project. Note that this book is more slanted towards software development projects, but the 18 pitfalls apply to any project type.

Seasoned project managers will recognize every one of the pitfalls cited. Even though this readership may have developed techniques to prevent them after years of experience, many will find the list to be an excellent review before initiating any project. One of the best uses of this book for seasoned (and even new) PMs is to share copies of this book with key project team members and all major stakeholders before the project is initiated. This will communicate awareness of the most likely things that can go wrong, as well as build a collaborative environment.

I particularly like the format used to present each "screw-up" - "How it happens", "Warning signs", "Turning it around" and "Takeaways". This format casts each of the 18 "screw-ups" as a pattern of sorts, and presents each in a consistent manner. I also liked some of the artifacts depicted in the book, such as the example progress report. This (and additional material) can be downloaded from the site supporting the book (paste the ASIN - B00061GLJ2 - into the search box on this page, select All Products, and click the Go button).

The wisdom contained in this excellent, easy-to-read compendium is invaluable. I personally love the book and highly recommend it.

Accenture and Microsoft project mgmt experience in one book.......2004-09-12

The Project Manager Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw-ups and How to Cut Them Off at the Pass is an excellent read for both new and experienced project managers alike. Pacelli shares his experiences gained from a combined 20+ years at two premier, project-oriented organizations; Accenture and Microsoft. Although geared more toward technology-oriented projects, Pacelli provides examples outside of technology including his own prepared food service business and the lessons learned from these experiences can be applied to almost any type or size of project.

If you are about to initiate a project and are lucky enough to be the designated project lead or are just a team member the title alone entices you to find out what you can do to avoid the most common pitfalls. Alternatively, if you are currently knee-deep in a program curiosity begs you to check your own project for what Pacelli calls the "warning signs". He takes a potentially dry topic and makes it engaging and light to read.

New project managers will find the Advisor easy to navigate making it easy to refer to again and again. The "screw-ups" profiled loosely follow the chronology of a typical project life-cycle from not "addressing the right problem" through not "reporting project progress" to "tripping at the finish line". Each of the 18 chapters highlights a different screw-up and gives the reader ways to identify the traps, how to read the warning signs and what to do to turn it around. The key takeaways are conveniently summarized at the end of each chapter. This organization makes it a great airplane read which is where I initially read the book.

Most of the big failure traps are covered such as lack of sponsorship, scope creep, limited user involvement, project cost, poor communication and inadequate testing. Less attributed traps, but sometimes just as inevitable, are also covered including poor teaming, inadequate risk management, ineffective customer training and no contingency. Even the topic of "pulling the plug" on your project is addressed... one of hardest to actually execute. Many of these issues will be familiar to experienced project managers. But what's different about this guide from the generic, theoretical, "Project Management 101" handbooks is that Pacelli describes his real-world experiences of the subtle warning signs (or obvious ones as the in the case of the project sponsor that doesn't return phone calls) that are often overlooked when you are in the "heat of battle". He combines these warning signs with innovative, but practical, techniques for mitigating these issues. For example, to address the issue of "designing the wrong thing" he suggests clearly defining scope along multiple dimensions (functional, geographic and organizational) including defining exceptions to scope.

I was intrigued with the description of getting the right Sponsorship where Pacelli suggests continuously clarifying expectations, right-sizing your time with the project sponsor, and being explicit on what you need from the sponsor are all ways to help ensure your sponsor is engaged. It resonated as one of the toughest areas to address and Pacelli covers off on the topic with easy-to-follow, common sense approaches. Another chapter I found especially insightful was Screw-Up #10 "The project cost much more than expected" which doesn't focus on cost management techniques but probably more important techniques in managing through the problems including use of contingency fund, tradeoffs on remaining work and requesting additional funding.

Seasoned project managers will sympathize with Pacelli as he chronicles some of his own "failures" and war stories including poking fun at himself in the role of the "overzealous project manager". Pacelli carries the "have some fun" theme throughout the book especially in his chapter on "The team didn't gel" which includes the advice of playing the occasional practical joke and "Go out for a milkshake".

Sprinkled throughout the Advisor are also some sample deliverables that he has used and refined in his own experience running projects as consultant, project manager and business owner. Readers will find excellent updated versions of the standard "project progress report" and "communication plan" that have more relevance in today's corporate environment where competition is keen for management attention but yet so critical for success.

Although it's great flight-time reading, I found myself continually coming back to the Advisor reflecting on my own projects. At a minimum, this book is an excellent quick-reference prior to beginning a project as well as a periodic refresher during the project. However, many readers will find the Advisor a required checklist and invaluable practical, experienced-based resource to organize a project for success.

Pacelli also offers up additional resources and templates for project success that will be maintained on his website to supplement the book. Pacelli also gives an opportunity to share your own "screw-ups". I'm looking forward to this supplement to the Advisor.

So, before you start your project be sure to pick up a copy of The Project Manager Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw-ups and How to Cut Them Off at the Pass. You will certainly learn about what to avoid. And it's a fun read.

This is not your typical project management book... .......2004-09-11

I thoroughly loved the writing style and content of this book. The content is geared toward anyone managing a project and what pitfalls to avoid along the way--I saw many of my past mistakes in this book and then wished I had this earlier so I didn't have to learn the lessons the hard way.

This book is a must have for anyone managing a project, large or small.

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These amazing islands are a unique habitat that straddle the equator some 600 miles off the coast of South America. Giant tortoises. Marine and land iguanas. A living laboratory of evolution.

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Into Wild Galapagos

Manufacturer: Tandem Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 1417645199

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

CREATION'S JOURNEY. NATIVE AMERICAN IDENTITY AND BELIEF.

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CREATION'S JOURNEY. NATIVE AMERICAN IDENTITY AND BELIEF.

Manufacturer: Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of the American Indian.
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Creation's Journey : Native American Identity and Belief
Tom (editor); Hill, Richard W., Sr. (editor) Hill
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An accomplished gardener and award-winning writer, Kennedy leads readers on a bold, original and humorous romp down the paths of North America's contemporary gardens.

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Tears of laughter from a wonderful writer and his garden........1998-01-15

I read this book some time ago, the text was so well written, so informative and joyful. It is a garden story, so hard to come by these days, full of laughter... "plants in bondage" we've all been there with delphiniums. A treasure of a story and a window into a Canadian West Coast Garden. Thanks Des.

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Virgil Richardson has blazed his own unique trail through the twentieth century: a co-founder of Harlem's American Negro Theater and radio personality in 1930s, a World War II pilot, and an expatriate through much of the last fifty years. In Flight, this remarkable man tells the story of his life in his own vivid words. Educated in Texas, Richardson set out for New York City to try his hand on the stage. On the brink of success as an actor, he was drafted into the army at the dawn of World War II. After overcoming numerous obstacles, Richardson became a Tuskegee cadet in 1943, and later saw action above the battlefields of Europe. Upon returning to the U.S., and after a series of frustrations, Richardson decided to move to Mexico, where he encountered a society with a very different racial climate than the one he had left behind. He spent most of the 1950s and '60s there, making his way as a performer and teacher. Flight draws the reader into the rich and fascinating life of a determined individual unwilling to accept the limited options available to him in Jim Crow America.

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For My Grandchildren
Countess of Athlone Princess Alice
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For My Grandchildren: Some Reminiscences
Countess of Athlone Alice Princess
Manufacturer: Evans Bros.
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Release Date: 1979-06-25

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For my grandchildren;: Some reminiscences of Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
Alice
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Princess Alice - Countess of Athlone
Theo Aronson
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Solid biography

Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (Cassell Biographies)
Theo Aronson
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Solid biography.......2004-06-29

Somewhat dry & a bit too "loyal" (no shocking Royal revelations). I would have liked to have known more about Alice's feelings re: her father's early death; her brother's Germanization; her sons' hemaophilia...but that's not here. Anyway she was as reserved as Queen Mary when it came to personal life, so maybe there is nothing to discover. It's a decent biography, solidly written.

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