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This new guidebook features rides for both road and mountain bikes on paved roads, dirt lanes, and mountain trails.

The hills and valleys of western Massachusetts are a prime destination for cyclists of all persuasions who seek tranquil, rural areas and challenging, enjoyable rides on roads free of traffic and congestion. The 30 rides collected here follow scenic country roads with a variety of terrain that also feature geographic, historical, and cultural interest.

The rides range in length from short jaunts to challenging multi-day tours. Each tour description includes directions to the start as well as distance, terrain, road or trail surface, approximate riding time, and the recommended type of bike to use. Along with mile-by-mile directions, author Andi Fusco provides fascinating commentary on the history and culture of the region. Also included are listings for bike rentals, repair shops, and lodgings for overnight tours. 25 black and white photographs, 30 maps , index.
• Perfect for recreational cyclists and families looking for low-traffic rides on scenic roads, both dirt and paved.
• Suitable for both road bikes and mountain bikes.

Customer Reviews:

Not so back backroads..........2005-07-08

I have just received my copy of this book and wanted others to know that the roads described as 'backroads' are not necessarily so. Route 116, Damon Road in Northampton, Old Deerfield, Route 9 through Williamsburg...they are all fine roads, but some are actually quite heavily traveled. These are not the dirt roads shown on the cover! Though the rides may be fine for some (even most) they are not as quiet and safe for children as you might be expecting.

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Teacher and Librarian Reviews Development & Underdevelopment.......2004-11-19

After reading and reviewing two books in the Road to Globalization series it is difficult to find anything that I like about these books. The size of the book reminds me of an elementary picture book yet the text seems "lost in translation." For example, take the first paragraph of chapter three, "By this time, the home had long been a principal element of social status." Using "By this time," to start a chapter is confusing to adults let alone below reading level teenage readers (who the book must be aimed at). By what time? The series is supposed to cover 1800 to 2000, which time?
The title would suggest that the focus is poor 3rd world countries vs. rich 1st world countries, but very little cause and effect relationships are discussed. Events of the 30-year period 1945-1975 are rehashed with very little weight given to poor vs. rich. After reading this book the reader has to ask themselves "what thing of value did that book just say?"

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n February 13, 1806, the brig Favorite left Boston harbor bound for the Caribbean island of Martinique with a cargo that few imagined would survive the month-long voyage. Packed in hay in the hold were large chunks of ice cut from a frozen Massachusetts lake. This was the first venture of a young Boston entrepreneur, Frederic Tudor, who believed he could make a fortune selling ice to people in the tropics. Ridiculed at the outset, Tudor endured years of hardship before he was to fulfill his dream. Over the years, he and his rivals extended the frozen-water trade to Havana, Charleston, New Orleans, London, and finally to Calcutta, where in 1833 more than one hundred tons of ice survived a four-month journey of 16,000 miles with two crossings of the equator. The Frozen-Water Trade is a fascinating account of the birth of an industry that ultimately revolutionized domestic life for millions of people.

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Adaptation and Creation.......2007-05-05

Modern life has so many luxuries that we tend to notice them by their absence not by their presence. Comfortable fabrics, ease of transportation, computer scheduling, mass communication and onwards have at times created the assumption that the masses demand a product, and the smart classes get together, solve the problem and within a few years industry and society are aided and life moves on. What is often given less attention is the creation of a new want, where it did not previously exist, nor was there any expectation that if the problem were not solved, no one particularly notice. Such is the case with consumer ice. Yes, ice in drinks, ice in environment cooling, ice in food preservation and comfort.

The story that Weightman, a British author and filmmaker, tells is even more remarkable considering that when ice was first sold as a commodity, the early 19th century, was in an age when technology did not yet exist to create man made ice in any location. In other words, it took entrepreneurs with ideas and skill, to cut, ship and sell ice from cold locations to warm locations, while preventing the obvious melting.

Anyone whose work requires of them anything more than non-linear, A to B thinking would find this book useful. For when Frederic Tudor, a frequently failed Massachusetts businessman, decided that he could perfect and manage the shipment of river and lake ice to the Caribbean in 1806, he began one of the first technological and marketing success stories of the early American Republic and the Industrial Revolution.

Of course the use of ice for consumer use was nothing new, but the scale of the enterprise that the Tudor created in early America far surpassed anything in world history before, and it was such a success that no one really remembers it today. The basics of creating and adapting new strategies for seemingly new problems, with rapid rates of success / failure observation are all told in their excruciating history for the Tudor saga.

Within a few decades, thousands were employed, lives were change and fortunes were made in ways that resemble the growth of the information technology industry. If someone today sees an image of an New England worker, hacking away at the ice; the thought is you are viewing a bucolic, quaint image. Instead, the viewer is seeing innovation and a diffused hierarchy of adaptation all with the expressed purpose of taking American winter ice to the tropics and even to Europe. Weightman even explains why some markets are closed with the failure to market commercial ice to the British Isles.

The eventual collapse of the ice trade came about as quickly as it sprang up, because of further innovation in creating artificial ice machines, perfected by later New Englanders. The reader can expect a fascinating story about seemingly mundane events over nearly a hundred years that involves business, marketing, adaptation, personal failure and commercial luxury of the most common natural element, water, in this case its frozen form.

Recommended for businessmen.......2005-08-11

The title of this book refers to the international trade set up by Bostonian Frederick Tudor during the 1800s. Mr. Tudor came up with the idea that winter ice harvested from the various waterways in his home state could be transported to hotter climates (Cuba, India, etc..) and sold for a profit. He spent the better part of his life turning his idea into reality such that by the time he died he was wealthy, and the frozen water trade was an international business involving thousands of workers and dozens of companies. This book tells the story of the man and his idea and covers:

1. The scientific and technical challenges Mr. Tudo encountered in his endeavor, such as keeping ice refrigerated for long durations, transporting ice over long distances, and separating good clean ice from dirty ice.

2. The business challenges of starting up and running the trade. This included incredulous doubters, copycats, fair-weather collegeaus, moneylenders who could not fathom the various difficulties he encountered, and potential customers who having never seen ice in the summertime, had to be convinced his ice was natural and safe.

All in all, the book tells of patience, hardwork, perseverence, resourcefullness, foresight, and ingenuity. Mr. Tudor built his business froms scratch, with no models to follow or others to obtain counsel from. Unfortunately, various inventions in ice-making and refrigeration (some of which Tudor contributed to) in the end doomed the frozen water trade. His tale as told in this book would be a good text for entrepeneurs to read and learn from. I highly recommend this book.

Provides a lively discourse on his accomplishments.......2004-06-04

In 1806 the brig Favorite left Boston bound for Martinique packed with large chunks of ice cut from a frozen lake: the first venture of a Boston entrepreneur who believed he could make a fortune selling ice to people in the tropics. Despite ridicule and hardship, Tudor made his fortune and founded a huge industry in the process: The Frozen-Water Trade: A True Story provides a lively discourse on his accomplishments. The Frozen-Water Trade is the impressive and informative story of that early 19th century adventerous entrepreneur.

Tale of Commercial Endeavour and Perseverance.......2004-05-31

I picked this book up upon when I listened to an extract read on the BBC World Service several months ago. It spoke of a wild venture by a New England businessman to ship ice from Boston to the tropics. It seemed to me a fantastic and improbably story.

The very fact that it was improbably caught my attention - even with the technological advances of today, when little seems impossible, the idea of an industry based on shipping frozen water thousands of miles by ship seemed a little ludicrous.

It is to Weightman's credit that he transformed this almost-forgotten industry from the footnotes of history into a gripping tale of commercial endeavour and perseverance. It is an inspiring read and a fine example of how history holds more than dusty dull stories.

Fredrick Tutor.......2004-04-20

One of the 'Books Of The Day' happened to be this one (cant remember which though) and I was not only hooked in just a few pages, but surprised at how little I knew about such an revolutionary part of our early "ice age".

While the first few chapters of the book are excellent, it starts to get a bit dry in the middle - though the reference inside Waldon about Fredric will always stick in my mind from now on.

It would have been best if it had finished up at the end of the 'Mr. Tutor' epic. Instead I felt the 'After Tutor' chapter was almost added as something to bulk up the book - interesting but just seemed out of place. Maybe it was just unpolished?

If this book didnt fill such a huge hole in what I knew - I think it would've been a 3ish. Truth be told anytime such a little gem of a book is found - I am absolutely "kept" - and with this book it was 80% of the way.

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The Frozen-Water Trade: A True Story (ISBN:078686740X)

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The Frozen-Water Trade: A True Story (ISBN:078686740X)
Gavin Weightman
Manufacturer: Hyperion
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NQIQ4I

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Guide Dog Trainer's Insights on Dogs and Training.......2005-03-05

This book is a terrific resource for anyone selecting or training any dog to work around the public, including therapy dog work, assistance (service dog is the term under the Americans with Disabilities Act) dog work, and even search and rescue. Michael Tucker trained guide dogs and conveys in this book many aspects of teaching the dog how to work reliably and with the ability to take initiative responsibly. It's a wonderful book that should be back in print! ---Kathy Diamond Davis, author, "Therapy Dogs: Training Your Dog to Reach Others," now in 2nd Edition (Paperback).

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Matisse - cut paper design postcards

Matisse - cut paper design postcards

Matisse cut paper design postcards

Matisse Cut-Paper Design Postcards
Henri Matisse
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486258947

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Matisse - cut paper design postcards.......2000-03-28

What a great selection of Matisse cut paper work! I like that these postcards can be removed easily from the book for use, or display.

Matisse - cut paper design postcards.......2000-03-28

What a great selection of Matisse cut paper work! I like that these postcards can be removed easily from the book for use, or display.

Matisse cut paper design postcards.......2000-03-27

This is a great book if you are looking for samples of Matisse's cut paper work. The postcards have perforated edges and can be easily removed from the book. I put magnetic backgrounds on them to hang in my classroom so that children could see them when we focused on Matisse in art class.

MATISSE CUT-PAPER DESIGN POSTCARDS: 24 FULL-COLOR READY-TO-MAIL CARDS.

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MATISSE CUT-PAPER DESIGN POSTCARDS: 24 FULL-COLOR READY-TO-MAIL CARDS.
Henri. Matisse
Manufacturer: Dover Publications,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000S10GVE

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OK.......2007-05-13

The book is a nice addition to your wild flower library, but definitly not one to take with you for identification purposes.

The Incomplete Guide.......2000-06-27

Perhaps the publisher has changed the subtitle since its initial publication in 1992. My book is subtitled "The Complete Guide to Growing and Identifying Wildflowers." Unlike their excellent Field Guide to Birds, this book is neither complete nor especially helpful for the identification of eastern wildflowers. There are two excellent chapters on Trilliums and Lady Slippers. Following these is a "gallery" of 87 plants with photographs, Some helpful for identification, some not close enough to be useful, (e.g.Hawkweed). It would be helpful to see the plant's leaves, yet they are frequently omitted from the photograph,(e.g. Yarrow and Queen Anne's Lace which are often confused). The growing tips are quite welcome. Most guides omit these. The fact that the authors have chosen their favorite plants and omitted the rest is this book's severest limitation. I took a drive today and wondered, "What is that gorgeous blue plant dotting the roadside? Could I grow it? What is that pinky splash of daisylike plants? Is that some kind of wild phlox growing by that stream bank?" The Stokes book did not help. I found the answers elsewhere.

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Best Recipes from Marilu

A FABULOUS guide to celebrating special days!

delicious, healthy recipes

Holidays are Healthier AND Happier

Very disappointing

Party Hearty: Hot, Sexy, Have-a-Blast Food & Fun All Year Round
Marilu Henner
Manufacturer: Collins
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0060988584
Release Date: 2003-10-07

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I've always been a party person. To this day, I associate holidays with being a little naughty and eating and partying too much -- but now my healthy lifestyle doesn't fall apart. In Party Hearty, I help you build a few simple corrective actions right into your holiday routine so that you won't gain weight, be sick or hung over, or need to diet or detox afterword. And don't worry -- you won't be eating only raw food at your next Thanksgiving dinner. I provide delicious recipes that fit within my total health makeover guidelines. And I help you take the focus off the food and enjoy the holidays the way you did as a child, with fun invitations, decorations, toasts, scents, games and activities, exercises, music, movies, party favors, and much more.

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Best Recipes from Marilu.......2005-05-19

I have all of Marilu's books, and if you're looking for great recipes, this is the one for you. It has dishes that are more gourmet/restaurant quality. Grilled Tuna with Washabi Whip was on the menu this week, as was Tofu Olive Wraps (sun-dried tomatoes, olive spread, watercress, fresh rosemary, carmalized onions). Everytime I cook from this book, my hubby can't stop raving.

I use this cookbook daily, not just for holidays. However, it does have some great holiday ideas. Not just for food, but for decorating and music and games. But, the recipes are what's the best part....

A FABULOUS guide to celebrating special days!.......2004-04-15

Marilu Henner has a winner here! This book is packed with ideas to help us plan special parties and celebrations throughout the year. New Year's, Super Bowl Sunday, Valentine's, - even an Academy Awards Party! Name a special day - Marilu covers it. She explains the tradition of each holiday. She offers delicious and healthy menu suggestions and recipes. She also helps to plan the invitations, set the atmosphere, create activities, and propose the toast! And she makes it all so much fun with great personal stories along the way. This is a great book for anyone planning a special celebraton day - Marilu shows us how to do it all!

delicious, healthy recipes.......2003-08-28

I wanted to add a good review for this book because people have written negative things about it. The recipes are so good! I made several for different parties and everyone loved them. There's lots of other info, but if you're not interested, don't read it! Yes, it's true that the index is not thorough enough for a book that's organized differently like this one is, but that's the only drawback to this healthy cookbook.

Holidays are Healthier AND Happier.......2002-11-27

I've been following Marilu Henner's plan for a number of years and I was counting the days for this book to be released. I am so thrilled to have it and have already given some away as gifts.

The food is the main event of course, but there is so much more to this book. First and foremost the emphasis is on enjoying the holidays and making them a celebration. And I just love the fact that maintaining a healthy lifestyle gives us more energy for doing just that. The recipes in all of Marilu's books contain high quality ingredients. When I first started following this plan I wondered what I would eat if I wasn't eating meat dairy or sugar. I found out that the answer is GREAT FOOD !!!

This book also contains a lot of tips and suggestions for parties, even mentioning ideas for invitations and scents. What I love about that is that it adds another dimension. It's not just about the food. And those lists can inspire you to come up with even more ideas. The creativity in this book makes it so much fun to read. So much more than just a recipe book !!!

I love to entertain and this book is giving me so many ideas for ways to make entertaining more interesting and special.

I have so much more energy, and love life so much, since starting this plan. I have Marilu to thank for that. And now I can thank her for making my holiday shopping so easy !! I am giving copies to anyone who may have me to dinner this year !

Very disappointing.......2002-11-22

I absolutely loved Marilu's previous books and couldn't wait to receive a copy of her new book "Healthy Holidays". Unfortunately, the book is very disappointing.

"Healthy Holidays" is very disorganised. Recipes are not categorised like normal cookbooks eg entree, soup, dessert etc. Instead, the recipes are listed under each holiday eg Valentine's Day, Christmas Day etc. Too bad if you are looking for recipes for a "non-holiday" or you don't like her suggestions for the Christmas menu. I was looking for inspiration for a salad one night and had to go through every holiday in the book to find a salad I liked. She should have simply stuck with the normal categorisations and then given a list of suggested menus for each occasion.

The book should have also included a glossary and a conversion table. There are lots of ingredients which I have never even heard of! Moreover, there were no conversions at all. I am Australian and when I refer to any recipe in "Healthy Holidays" I have to refer to my other recipe books to find out the conversions!

In addition, possible substitutions would have been good. For example, I have been unable to find maple sugar - can maple syrup or honey be used instead? What is whole-wheat pastry flour? Is that just what we Aussies refer to as wholemeal plain flour?

The book was also filled with lots of "mumbo jumbo". I don't care what Marilu ate whilst filming a movie in Spain - I doubt anyone does. We simply want to have great recipes to work with.

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Lovely hardcover, four-color photography cookbook for outdoor cooking and entertaining. This cookbook is formatted by menus with all of the recipes included in each menu section. Example: Grilled Venison Steaks in a Red Wine Marinade, also includes Baked Whole Garlic with Crusty French Bread, Baby Brussel Sprouts, Grilled Polenta, and Apple Galette. St. Emilion wine is a suggested accompaniment.

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Great Grilling Review.......2007-09-18

I bought this copy as a gift for a good friend. My best friend had given me a copy as a gift years ago. Although it does have a section about the basics, this is not for beginners. It has some great menu suggestions and many cool recipes, but they require some effort and a little experience. The result is worth it.

Special Occasions - Holiday Entertaining All Year Round

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Special Occasions - Holiday Entertaining All Year Round
John Hadmuscin
Manufacturer: Crown Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WSQL6W

Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining: Slow Cooker Favorites for All the Year Round

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Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining: Slow Cooker Favorites for All the Year Round
Dawn J.; Good, Phyllis Pellman Ranck
Manufacturer: Good Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: B000RWDW88

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Disappointing

Lambert had an agenda...

Controversial

A Ludicrious Attempt To Have The Last Word

Pay for a DNA test

Natalie Wood: A Life (Random House Large Print)
Gavin Lambert
Manufacturer: Random House Large Print
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0375433155
Release Date: 2004-01-06

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She spent her life in the movies. Her childhood is still there to see in Miracle on 34th Street. Her adolescence in Rebel Without a Cause. Her coming of age? Still playing in Splendor in the Grass and West Side Story and countless other hit movies. From the moment Natalie Wood made her debut in 1946, playing Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles’s ward in Tomorrow Is Forever at the age of seven, to her shocking, untimely death in 1981, the decades of her life are marked by movies that–for their moments–summed up America’s dreams.

Now the acclaimed novelist, biographer, critic and screenwriter Gavin Lambert, whose twenty-year friendship with Natalie Wood began when she wanted to star in the movie adaptation of his novel Inside Daisy Clover, tells her extraordinary story. He writes about her parents, uncovering secrets that Natalie either didn’t know or kept hidden from those closest to her. Here is the young Natalie, from her years as a child actress at the mercy of a driven, controlling stage mother (“Make Mr. Pichel love you,” she whispered to the five-year-old Natalie before depositing her unexpectedly on the director’s lap), to her awkward adolescence when, suddenly too old for kiddie roles, she was shunted aside, just another freshman at Van Nuys High. Lambert shows us the glamorous movie star in her twenties—All the Fine Young Cannibals, Gypsy and Love with the Proper Stranger. He writes about her marriages, her divorces, her love affairs, her suicide attempt at twenty-six, the birth of her children, her friendships, her struggles as an actress and her tragic death by drowning (she was always terrified of water) at forty-three.
For the first time, everyone who knew Natalie Wood speaks freely–including her husbands Robert Wagner and Richard Gregson, famously private people like Warren Beatty, intimate friends such as playwright Mart Crowley, directors Robert Mulligan and Paul Mazursky, and Leslie Caron, each of whom told the author stories about this remarkable woman who was both life-loving and filled with despair.

What we couldn’t know–have never been told before–Lambert perceptively uncovers. His book provides the richest portrait we have had of Natalie Wood.

Customer Reviews:

Disappointing.......2007-09-01

A very, very boring book. Natalie had a very interesting life, but this book is impossible to enjoy.

Lambert had an agenda..........2007-08-09

Gavin Lambert has told of how he loved Natalie and how he wanted to tell her story...What he really wanted to do was wash off some of the dirt Suzanne Finstad threw on Robert Wagner in her much better bio, Natasha. He tries to make Wagner look like a macho knight in shining armor...in doing so he sacrificed Natalie. Finstad's Natasha was a page turner...and a more touching, more true, look at Miss Wood...This book is a bore. Lambert tells the story of Natalie's mother and the sea captain and the possibility that her Fahd may not have been her father. Lambert plays this for all it's worth. He also takes pot shots at Natalie's sister Lana. He undoubtedly worked closely with Wagner on this area of the book. Lambert tried his best to make the reader like Wagner...I liked him more before I read this book. I came away from it thinking that Wagner cared more about how the public sees him than he does about telling Natalie's story..He should be ashamed of himself for allowing Lambert to say things like "Natalie liked to swish her tail." It was vulgar and Natalie deserved better...After reading this book I felt that she deserved a better friend than Lambert and a better husband than Wagner....If you want to read a well researched biography about Natalie, read Finstad's Natasha.

Controversial.......2007-01-13

I have to give Gavin Lambert credit for trying to peel the layers of Natalie Wood's life. Obviously, this book shows how complex her life was.
Her Russian ancestry is very interesting and the stories that her mother Marusia told. It is difficult for an author to separate the fact from the fiction Family history is often difficult to document especially since Natalie's family fled Russia and probably many records were destroyed Mr. Lambert says that Natalie's father was George Cetalopv and not Nick Gurdin. I have a hard time believing this. Natalie didn't show any interest in George. Neither does she resemble him. Probably the only people who REALLY know are Marusia, Olga and Natalie (close family members). It is possible that three of Marusia's daughters are from different fathers! Or maybe two are from the same dad. Regardless, Natalie Wood is very beautiful and talented.

A Ludicrious Attempt To Have The Last Word.......2006-07-29

Well, I just received Gavin Lambert's book on Natalie Wood, and after trudging through this monotonous, overblown biography, the conclusion is as follows: it's boring as hell! (I can't say I haven't been warned). This is the "wonderful" biography of Natalie that is supposed to set the record straight? It boasts 78 photos, but instead of being included in a glossy pictures section, they are widespread on various pages in the book so that they appear grainy. It seems to me that it was written as a rebuttal, and to paint Lana Wood as a greedy, vicious person (she was obviously not interviewed), and to make childish slaps at her, when she was not given the opportunity to tell her side of it. Robert Wagner seems threatened by anyone who knew Natalie before he, Lambert and Mart Crowley did - dismissing all of the people Natalie befriended before who offered their insights in "Natasha: The Biography Of Natalie Wood" as vultures who barely made her aquaintance and who are weaving fantasies about her. Basically, Wagner is uncomfortable with the aspects of Natalie's life that he was not involved in. It doesn't really attempt to get behind Natalie's persona any, like "Natasha" did, and of course, it doesn't acknowledge Natalie's love for Jimmy Williams, her first boyfriend, the rape by a famous actor, or what happened on the night of her death, hastily tying up loose ends and making her death sound so simple. Lambert wrote this book for Wagner, there's no question, and Natasha and Courtney are hardly mentioned at all. Did Lambert actually do any in-depth research? As well, there are allegations that Nick Gurdin may not have been Natalie's or Lana's father, and then there's Natasha Lofft, who has not proven with DNA that she is actually Natalie's half sister, but Wagner and the girls have no problem believing that she is, but they dismiss Suzanne Finstad's book as speculation and trash? I'll believe this claimant's story when I see proof! At least Finstad was able to remain somewhat objective and unbiased, since she did not know Natalie (and she did try to get Wagner's input, but he refused) which is obviously not the case with this pathetic attempt at a so-called "definitive" biography. Much of the book appears to be written quickly, but at least it does name the film Natalie turned down, which was reputed to have the actor who raped her in the cast. And of course, it has to dispel all the allegations of Wagner's sexual orientation, and what played the role in the demise of his first marriage to Natalie (heaven forbid that anyone attempt to tarnish the reputation of Prince Valiant).

As much of a disappointment as this book is, I'm glad I purchased it so I can compare it to "Natasha" and Lana's book to try to decipher what is closer to the truth. At least I didn't have to spend too much money on it!

Whatever the truth, I hope that Natalie is at peace.

Pay for a DNA test.......2005-07-06

This is in response to reviewer Natasha Lofft's claims that she is the half-sister of Natalie Wood in the review of Gavin Lambert's "Natalie Wood: A Life," dated on May 23, 2005.

Natasha Lofft is the daughter of Maria Gurdin's first love, Captain George Zapalov and his wife Nina. This story originated from a fantasy that Maria Gurdin, Natalie Wood's mother, harbored for years because Captain Zapalov was her first love. Maria Gurdin first met Natasha Lofft while vacationing on the Russian River when Ms. Lofft was a teenager. Maria Gurdin, it must be noted, was a woman who suffered mental illness and Alzheimer's for many years before she passed away.

George Zapalov had blue eyes and Maria Gurdin had green eyes. The two of them together could not have had a brown eyed child. Also, Nina, Natasha Lofft's real mother, had brown eyes. How could Maria have given birth to two kids around the same time?

If Natasha Lofft wants to prove that she is truly Natalie Wood's half-sister, she should pay for a DNA test and stop wasting people's time with this fantasy.

Life Magazine November 26, 1945: Natalie Wood is new movie moppet; THEATER: 'AS YOU LIKE IT'; Churchill's HQ; see additional description below

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Life Magazine November 26, 1945: Natalie Wood is new movie moppet; THEATER: 'AS YOU LIKE IT'; Churchill's HQ; see additional description below
LIFE MAGAZINE
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Natalie Wood a Life
Gavin Lambert
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Life Magazine June 15, 1962 -- Cover: Natalie Wood

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Life Magazine June 15, 1962 -- Cover: Natalie Wood
Editor Henry Luce
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Life Magazine issue dated November 26, 1945: Cover Story: Champion Afghans; Natalie Wood is new movie moppet; THEATER: 'AS YOU LIKE IT'; Churchill's HQ; Please see TABLE OF CONTENTS photo for additional information on articles in this issue

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Editor Henry Luce
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Natalie Wood: A Life
Gavin Lambert
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Natalie Wood: A Life Large Print Edition

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Natalie Wood: A Life Large Print Edition
Gavin Lambert
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