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Southwestern Indians: Arts & Crafts - Tribes - Ceremonials 1 review
Tom Bahti, Mark Bahti
KC Publications, Inc., 1997
A good supplement for Hillerman novels.
As with going to the opera, recording are a pail reflection yet help you remember your experience. This book is the next best thing to the real thing. There are colorful pictures depicting many different types of Southwestern Indian Arts and Crafts. It can not do justice to any one craft but serves ...
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Essays and Lectures: Nature: Addresses and Lectures / Essays: First and Second Series / Representative Men / ...14 reviews
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Library of America, 1983
The Most American Book of the Collection
+ Wonderful
+ A complete work of art
+ Poverty with Dignity
+ The philosopher of America
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West with the Night 121 reviews
Beryl Markham
North Point Press, 1982
Beautifully written account of life in East Africa
+ West With the Night
+ West with the Night
+ Reads like fiction
+ Far far better than I anticipated. Great writing.
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City11 reviews
Alexandra David-neel
Harper Perennial, 2005
An unusual journey to say the least
+ Extraordinary account, incredible woman!
+ A history of Tibet that no longer exists, we all owe David-Neel a debt
+ The Pilgrim was a Lady
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Twilight in the Forbidden City7 reviews
Reginald Fleming Johnston
Amereon Ltd, 1995
Twilight, the beginning of an end.
+ Takes you to a different time and space.
+ Bonus chapter and illustrated edition make this the best choice!
+ COMMENTS ON TWIGHLIGHT IN THE FORBIDDEN CITY
+ History of China and of colonialism
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 490 reviews
John Berendt
Vintage, 1999
Great Read
+ Great
+ enjoyed it immensley
Just read the book - you can't help but enjoy the characters and the irony.
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Northern Ireland: Can Sean and John Live in Peace? : An American Legal Perspective6 reviews
Carol Daugherty Rasnic
Brandylane, 2003
On the dreams under Northern Ireland's feet.
+ Northern Ireland: Compelling Reading
+ A Southern Belle looks at Northern Ireland
+ A thoughtful, exhaustive, scholarly inquiry
+ A must read before visitng Ireland
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Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right17 reviews
Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, ...
NAL Trade, 2003
A Must Read
+ Essential reading
+ Justice?
+ Barry Scheck you have redemed yourself.
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Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)9 reviews
Wallace Stegner
Penguin Classics, 2000
Vividly told account of the Canadian frontier
+ Almost shockingly good
+ wistful retrospective
+ Growing up on the northern plains.
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The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore 15 reviews
David Dary
Knopf, 2000
The Great Western Highway.
+ Very informative but where are the Maps?
+ Captivating
Francisco Coronado. Juan de Onate. William Becknell. Kit Carson. Jedediah Smith. Bent's Old Fort. Fort Union. Fort Larned. Fort Dodge. Raton Pass. Glorieta Pass.
Names resounding with history, lore, enterprise, bravery and honor; conjuring up images of treks and trading posts, ...
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Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia41 reviews
Edward Humes
Pocket, 1995
Unbelievable.
+ Love it.
+ Very memorable
+ Deep In The Murk of the Mississippi Mud
+ A book about my friend, Margaret Sherry and other acquaintances
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Henry David Thoreau : A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden; Or, Life in the Woods / The Maine ...8 reviews
Henry David Thoreau
Library of America, 1985
The Library of America's Thoreau
+ Influential writings whose beauty you will see differently at different stages in life
+ A Fine Collection of Great Works
+ I respect no one more than I do Henry David Thoreau
+ I would like to publicly thank Henry David Thoreau
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A Moveable Feast144 reviews
Ernest Hemingway
Scribner, 1996
Paris Paris Paris
+ Hemingway at his Best
+ The Writer's Life
+ Paris of the Lost Generation!
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The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany42 reviews
Martin Goldsmith
Wiley, 2001
A son's voyage of discovery of his parents' nightmarish past
+ Beautifully Haunting ...
+ A different Holocaust story
+ A Very Moving Book
+ Wow
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Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story53 reviews
Vladislav Tamarov
Ten Speed Press, 2001
a must for anyone interested in Afghan military history
+ U.S. Afghanistan Veteran Can Relate
+ Russian dispatches from Afghanistan.
+ Afghanistan
+ The Real Thing
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Henry David Thoreau : Collected Essays and Poems (Library of America)3 reviews
Henry David Thoreau
Library of America, 2001
A treasure.
+ ...could be worth it
+ An American Original
Henry David Thoreau, born in Concord, Massachusetts, on July 12, 1817, was one of the co-founders and most influential representatives of the philosophical school known as "Transcendentalism." (Others include fellow Concord residents Ralph Waldo Emerson and Bronson Alcott, reformist teacher and ...
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Here, Now, and Always: Voices of the First Peoples of the Southwest3 reviews
Museum of New Mexico Press, 2001
"We are the people."
+ Le culture completement lie
+ It Runs in the Cultures
"I am here.
I am here, now.
I have been here, always."
Edmund J. Ladd (Zuni).
In 1989, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, NM, began to put together a project designed to present Native American culture, traditions, and contemporary life from an Indian point of view: not ...
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All the President's Men93 reviews
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
Simon & Schuster, 1994
A Classic
+ A Masterpiece of Journalism!
+ GREAT READ!!!
+ An excellent primer on the basics of journalism.
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Living to Tell the Tale51 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vintage, 2004
Delightful trip
+ Always Brilliant...
+ Painting a Picture
This book had me traveling over the time, places, aromas and dreams. I enjoyed it.
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A Fragile Beauty: John Nichols' Milagro Country : Text and Photographs from His Life nd Work1 review
John Treadwell Nichols
Ancient City Pr, 1995
In Harmony With the Earth.
"An albatross around his neck" John Nichols called his 1974 novel "The Milagro Beanfield War" in an afterword to the book's 1994 anniversary edition, because he felt that particularly after "Milagro" had, over multiple obstacles, been made into a 1988 movie directed by Robert Redford, it had ...
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