High Country Bride (The McKettrick Series #1)

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One ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit...and on one condition.

Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit Triple M ranch. Now, three distinctly different, equally determined cowboys are searching high and low for brides.

If Emmeline Harding knows one thing, it's that she can't hold her liquor. And though she's not sure how she came to wake up next to a stack of gold coins in a brothel, she fears the worst. Fleeing town as a mail-order bride, she wonders: how will she ever confess her past to her handsome new husband?

Freedom-loving Rafe McKettrick is a man of strong beliefs and stronger passions and he'll do anything to win the Triple M -- even marry a stranger. To his surprise, Emmeline's charms beguile him even as the secrets he senses she's hiding ignite jealousy and suspicion. But when a visitor from the past enters the high country, the newlyweds have no choice but to give up on a marriage in name only and seek a union that satisfies them body and soul.

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"One ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit...and on one condition. Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit Triple M ranch. Now, three distinctly different, equally determined cowboys are searching high and low for brides. If Emmeline Harding knows one thing, it's that she can't hold her liquor. And though she's not sure how she came to wake up next to a stack of gold coins in a brothel, she fears the worst. Fleeing town as a mail-order bride, she wonders: how will she ever confess her past to her handsome new husband? Freedom-loving Rafe McKettrick is a man of strong beliefs and stronger passions and he'll do anything to win the Triple M - even marry a stranger. To his surprise, Emmeline's charms beguile him even as the secrets he senses she's hiding ignite jealousy and suspicion. But when a visitor from the past enters the high country, the newlyweds have no choice but to give up on a marriage in name only and seek a union that satisfies them body and soul."

Customer Reviews:

Okay read.......2007-06-14

Some fun characters and situations and if you like historical romance, without a lot of shock or suprises, then this would be a good bet for you. Rather predictable, but humorous and comfortable.

THE VERY BEST, REFRESHING! .......2007-05-16

It has been a long time since I have read such a fun, and interesting romance novel!!!!! I felt like this broke the mold of your normal average historical romance. Fast paced, Interesting story, one of the few that didn't bore me with sub-story lines and forced mystery. The only mystery here? "are these two going to actually make it?" Most books of this catagory are very predictable, always leading up to a big climax that falls short of really surprising anyone. THIS BOOK IS NOT THAT WAY! I rushed out and got the second in the series ( SHOT GUN BRIDE) and I'm sad to say... it was SOOOOOOO boring I had to force myself to stay with it.. I am about to read the third and I AM HOPING that MILLER gets back on track! Sometimes I feel like her books are rushed and thrown together, not very well thought out... a result of pumping out too many novels! BUT PLEASE READ THIS ONE IT IS A WONDERFUL ESCAPE !!!!!!

Enjoyable.......2007-02-20

This book was very readable and interesting. It is fun to read a trilogy
because you know the characters and feel acquainted with them.

Highly Wonderful!.......2006-08-22

Arizona Territory, 1884

HIGH COUNTRY BRIDE is a wonderful beginning to the entertaining historical western series of the McKettrick brothers looking for love. Be sure to follow up with, SHOTGUN BRIDE and SECONDHAND BRIDE and end with MCKETTRICK'S CHOICE.

Wonderful!.......2006-08-12

I loved this book and couldn't wait to read the next. I like the way that Rafe and Emmenline were put together, It had its twists and turns including Rafe's little temper tantrums he has. I loved it. Very enjoyable!!

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Struggling to get through this book...
A Middle book, but a Good book.
a rare miss for Mr. Gibson
Lame
New Thriller Genre Where the Future is Boring

Spook Country
William Gibson
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
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ASIN: 0399154302
Release Date: 2007-08-07

Amazon.com

Now that the present has caught up with William Gibson's vision of the future, which made him the most influential science fiction writer of the past quarter century, he has started writing about a time--our time--in which everyday life feels like science fiction. With his previous novel, Pattern Recognition, the challenge of writing about the present-day world drove him to create perhaps his best novel yet, and in Spook Country he remains at the top of his game. It's a stripped-down thriller that reads like the best DeLillo (or the best Gibson), with the lives of a half-dozen evocative characters connected by a tightly converging plot and by the general senses of unease and wonder in our networked, post-9/11 time.

Across the Border to Spook Country

For the last few decades, William Gibson, who grew up in Virginia and elsewhere in the United States, has lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, just across the border from Amazon.com's Seattle headquarters, which made for a short drive for a lunchtime interview before the release of Spook Country. We met just a few miles from where the storylines of the new novel, in a rare scene set in Gibson's own city, converge. You can read the full transcript of the interview, in which we discussed, among other things, writing in the age of Google, visiting the Second Life virtual world, the possibilities of science fiction in an age of rapid change, and his original proposal for Spook Country, which we have available for viewing on our site. Here are a few excerpts from the interview:

Amazon.com: Could you start by telling us a little bit about the scenario of the new book?

William Gibson: It's a book in which shadowy and mysterious characters are using New York's smallest crime family, a sort of boutique operation of smugglers and so-called illegal facilitators, to get something into North America. And you have to hang around to the end of the book to find out what they're doing. So I guess it's a caper novel in that regard.

Amazon.com: The line on your last book, Pattern Recognition was that the present had caught up with William Gibson's future. So many of the things you imagined have come true that in a way it seems like we're all living in science fiction now. Is that the way you felt when you came to write that book, that the real world had caught up with your ideas?

Gibson: Well, I thought that writing about the world today as I perceive it would probably be more challenging, in the real sense of science fiction, than continuing just to make things up. And I found that to absolutely be the case. If I'm going to write fiction set in an imaginary future now, I'm going to need a yardstick that gives me some accurate sense of how weird things are now. 'Cause I'm going to have to go beyond that. And I think over the course of these last two books--I don't think I'm done yet--I've been getting a yardstick together. But I don't know if I'll be able to do it again. I don't know if I'll be able to make up an imaginary future in the same way. In the '80s and '90s--as strange as it may seem to say this--we had such luxury of stability. Things weren't changing quite so quickly in the '80s and '90s. And when things are changing too quickly, as one of the characters in Pattern Recognition says, you don't have any place to stand from which to imagine a very elaborate future.

Amazon.com: Now that you're writing about the present, do you consider yourself a science fiction writer these days? Because the marketplace still does.

Gibson: I never really believed in the separation. But science fiction is definitely where I'm from. Science fiction is my native literary culture. It's what I started reading, and I think the thing that actually makes me a bit different than some of the science fiction writers I've met who are my own age is that I discovered Edgar Rice Burroughs and William Burroughs in the same week. And I started reading Beat poets a year later, and got that in the mix. That really changed the direction. But it seems like such an old-fashioned way of looking at things. And it's better not to be pinned down. It's a matter of where you're allowed to park. If you can park in the science fiction bookstore, that's good. If you can park in the other bookstore, that's really good. If people come and buy it at Amazon, that's really good.

I'm sure I must have readers from 20 years ago who are just despairing of the absence of cyberstuff, or girls with bionic fingernails. But that just the way it is. All of that stuff reads so differently now. I think nothing dates more quickly than science fiction. Nothing dates more quickly than an imaginary future. It's acquiring a patina of quaintness even before you've got it in the envelope to send to the publisher.

Amazon.com: So do you think that's your own career path, that you're less interested in imagining a future, or do you think that the world is changing?

Gibson: I think it's actually both. Until fairly recently, I had assumed that it was me, me being drawn to use this toolkit I'd acquired when I was a teenager, and using my old SF toolkit in some kind of attempt at naturalism, 21st-century naturalistic fiction. But over the last five to six years it's started to seem to me that there's something else going on as well, that maybe we're in what the characters in my novel Idoru call a "nodal point," or a series of them. We're in a place where things could just go anywhere. A couple of weeks ago I happened to read Charlie Stross's argument as to why he believes that there will never, ever be any manned space travel. It's not going to happen. We're not going to colonize Mars. All of that is just a big fantasy. And it's so convincing. I read that and I'm like, "My god, there goes so much of the fiction I read as a child."

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Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer.

Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn't exist yet, which is fine; she's used to that. But it seems to be actively blocking the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate before they start up. Really actively blocking it. It's odd, even a little scary, if Hollis lets herself think about it much. Which she doesn't; she can't afford to.

Milgrim is a junkie. A high-end junkie, hooked on prescription antianxiety drugs. Milgrim figures he wouldn't survive twenty-four hours if Brown, the mystery man who saved him from a misunderstanding with his dealer, ever stopped supplying those little bubble packs. What exactly Brown is up to Milgrim can't say, but it seems to be military in nature. At least, Milgrim's very nuanced Russian would seem to be a big part of it, as would breaking into locked rooms.

Bobby Chombo is a "producer," and an enigma. In his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for manufacturers of military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. Hollis Henry has been told to find him.

Pattern Recognition was a bestseller on every list of every major newspaper in the country, reaching #4 on the New York Times list. It was also a BookSense top ten pick, a WordStock bestseller, a best book of the year for Publishers Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and the Economist, and a Washington Post "rave."

Spook Country is the perfect follow-up to Pattern Recognition, which was called by The Washington Post (among many glowing reviews), "One of the first authentic and vital novels of the twenty-first century."

Customer Reviews:

Struggling to get through this book..........2007-10-09

I like William Gibson a lot, and I really enjoyed PATTERN RECOGNITION. But I am STRUGGLING to make it through this book. I'm officially halfway through and debating if I want to spend any more time finishing it.

Some interesting ideas are presented and there are some potential plotlines that might be worthwhile, but where is the story? I think Gibson of all people should know that in this day and age there are a million pieces of media competing for my attention every day. As much as I wish I did, I don't have time to mosey through this book admiring the scenery and waiting for something to draw me in.

So take this review for what's it worth. I've only read half the book. Maybe the second half is totally amazing and compelling. I'm not sure I'll stick around to find out.

A Middle book, but a Good book........2007-10-08

Gibson tends to write books in threes. Characters will reappear and ripen, sometimes with useful memories of their lives in the earlier texts, sometimes not. He's also developed the converging-narratives structure to the point that it's just a bad habit he maybe oughta drop, if he can.

The first and third of books of trilogies will tend to be the best ones. How many people ever read Dante's Purgatorio? And how many ever read it TWICE? Well. In Gibson's earlier trilogies the middle book was the weak one, relatively speaking. The carryover characters aren't fresh any more and haven't grown as much as you'd hope. They don't have much to say. Hubertus Bigend, carried over from _Pattern Recognition_, is not so much a character as the cipher that holds the place in the narrative where a character might otherwise be. There's a bit too much of that here for this book to satisfy.

The good news is, some of the new material is good, and Gibson's sense of the Favela culture that animates the edge of both the Information Age and the Intelligence Community is still in place and productive. As in his earlier second books, Vodoun makes an appearance, and if I could interview Gibson I'd ask him if that pattern has any particular meaning. There isn't much else to say, except this is a pretty darn good book, a nice book to read while waiting for the better book that is a betting certainty to follow.

a rare miss for Mr. Gibson.......2007-10-07

I enjoyed most of Gibson's books. Actually, the earlier the books, the more I like them. They were full of energy and edgy. "Spook Country" is sadly lame. The plot is lame, the premise is lame, and the characters never developed enough for us to care. This book is not horrible to the extent I dislike reading it; however, it is definitely not worth the time I put into it. Life is short and I should have read something else.

Lame.......2007-10-02

I was really looking forward to reading this new Gibson novel. I've been a big fan of his since Neuromancer. Spook Country started off well with some neat characters and scenarios, but the plot quickly devolved into inane nonsense. I was left with the impression that the author finished this book while he was busy doing something else. What a disappointment.

New Thriller Genre Where the Future is Boring.......2007-10-01

William Gibson is one of my favorite authors and I have read all his other books. I don't know what to think of this latest book except that maybe he is trying to describe a world where technology advances are dead, and the only people interested in it are artists and mobsters.

If this was written by any other thriller or mystery novelist I would have enjoyed it more. I was hoping for his usual brand of inspiring and innovative science fiction about the near future. Instead I got something that while a pleasant enough read, left me thinking the future is going to be a very boring and depressing third-world kind of place.

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A Good One
Should be paid to listen to this.
an eye for an eye
High drama in Yosemite
Great book!

High Country (Anna Pigeon Mysteries)
Nevada Barr
Manufacturer: Berkley
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0425199568

Customer Reviews:

A Good One.......2007-10-05

This is another good Anna Pigeon mystery. Not as good as her best, but worth reading.

Should be paid to listen to this........2007-04-17

One star is to many. I purchased this book through Audible because it was featured and on sale. I thought it would be an opportunity to experience a new, to me, author. What a shame. Because of the narration and the melodramatic reading and descriptions I could not finish it. It was so Jr. High Schoohish. Because of this first experience I will not purchase anything by Nevada Barr or anything being narrated by Barbara Rosenblat.

an eye for an eye.......2007-01-05

Women in murder mysteries seldom get to confront physically demanding life-or-death situations. Or, if they do, they are on the receiving end of physical violence, eg Sara Paretsky's VI Warshawski, who has had more concussions than Ali. Anna Pigeon, a National Park Ranger, is often in danger in Barr's series, but never as out-there physically as she is in this tale set in Yosemite. It's a chiller, literally and metaphorically, and the physical violence Anna exhibits raises fascinating questions of gender, genre, and ethics.

High drama in Yosemite.......2006-09-30

Many other reviewers did not like this book. I beg to differ. I thought it was gripping and could hardly put it down. Other reviewers' problems may stem from this book apparently being a departure from previous books in the Anna Pigeon series. Since this was my first experience with Nevada Barr, I didn't notice.

Anna is a national park ranger who has been placed undercover as a waitress at Ahwanee Lodge in Yosemite to help investigate the disappearance of four young people in the park. Her depiction of the bleak cold grayness that defines winter in the western mountains is extremely accurate. It reminds me of times hiking on Mt. Rainier and in the Sierras. The part of the book I enjoyed most covers what happened to Anna on her visit to Lower Merced Lake. It is violent, suspenseful, unpredictable, and guaranteed to keep the pages turning.

Some may be put off by Nevada Barr's almost-Churchillian sentence construction, unusual metophors, and literary allusions. Others, like me, will love them. This is a great read and highly recommended.

Great book!.......2006-09-28

This was my first Nevada Barr book, and I thought it was fantastic! She is an excelllent writer, her characters are memorable and stay in your head for days, and she has a deep understanding of the human condition. It didn't hurt that I'm from California and have probably visited Yosemite at least 20 times.

High Country: A Novel (Literature of the American West)

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Magnificent Achievement - T. Weck
High Country
High Praise and A Higher Recommendation
High Country a winner
a quiet strength

High Country: A Novel (Literature of the American West)
Willard Wyman
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0806136979

Customer Reviews:

Magnificent Achievement - T. Weck.......2007-06-08

I admire a spellbinding story where the characters are real, their choices and dilemmas have a grab that keeps you absorbed by their story. Then you add to this a complete understaning of the settings, the profession, the way people behave in the wilderness West, and it becomes an insight into a vanishing breed as an extra bonus beyond being a great story. The prose is as good as it gets - it often has a poetic quality. This book should be a best-seller: that is the bottom line, plain and simple.

High Country.......2007-04-10

Great book, hard read, must find a place that has no noise, then you will get through, you will enjoy it. Sound like a prop from a college wrote it.
Over all I enjoyed it.

High Praise and A Higher Recommendation.......2007-01-28

Read this. It will stay with you. And it will probably lead you to check internet sites for pack trips into the mountains of western Montana and the Sierras of California so that you can experience what the novel describes and visit with the characters even more closely.

I loved this. One of my favorite reads of the last year. It communicates a life ethic that is 180 degrees from the culturally promoted one of contemporary American life. The persons you meet within its pages will awaken memories of folks from the margins of your life.

I can't say enough good things. It deserves to reach a wide audience. Make sure you've got plenty of time to give to this novel because you'll find you want to keep going and going till you've reached camp.

High Country a winner.......2007-01-05

Great book if you love the mountains and enjoy escaping into a great story line with wonderful descriptions of the life of a packer in the mountains. I could not put the book down!

a quiet strength.......2006-07-03

It's been 50 years since I last went on a packing trip (in the
Wyoming Bighorns) and Wyman's novel brings back many pleasant
memories. This is not an "action" novel, nor is it dramatic in
the usual sense of that word. It is a novel about a man who
coexits with nature--a kind of mutual respect rather than a
battle. Introspection and inner strength are the key words here.
Ty Hardin has relationships with people to be sure, and these are
important to him, but it is his relationship to the mountains and
the wilderness which is the crucial point. There are dramatic
moments--a lot of them--but in the high mountains of Montana and
California these are natural and expected (e.g. you are going
to have bad weather fronts moving in).

The writing is moving and very satisfying, and come from the
heart of someone who has lived the life that Ty Hardin does.
Packing is an unusual subject for a novel, but suddenly we have
two at the same time--High Country and Brumfield's Across the
High Lonesome--and both are excellent reading.

The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy

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The power of networks within and between hi-tech regions
Excellent view of Silicon Valley's now and future in the Flat world!

The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy
AnnaLee Saxenian
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0674022017

Book Description

Like the Greeks who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece, the new Argonauts--foreign-born, technically skilled entrepreneurs who travel back and forth between Silicon Valley and their home countries--seek their fortune in distant lands by launching companies far from established centers of skill and technology. Their story illuminates profound transformations in the global economy.

Economic geographer AnnaLee Saxenian has followed this transformation, exploring one of its great paradoxes: how the "brain drain" has become "brain circulation," a powerful economic force for development of formerly peripheral regions. The new Argonauts--armed with Silicon Valley experience and relationships and the ability to operate in two countries simultaneously--quickly identify market opportunities, locate foreign partners, and manage cross-border business operations.

The New Argonauts extends Saxenian's pioneering research into the dynamics of competition in Silicon Valley. The book brings a fresh perspective to the way that technology entrepreneurs build regional advantage in order to compete in global markets. Scholars, policymakers, and business leaders will benefit from Saxenian's firsthand research into the investors and entrepreneurs who return home to start new companies while remaining tied to powerful economic and professional communities in the United States.

For Americans accustomed to unchallenged economic domination, the fast-growing capabilities of China and India may seem threatening. But as Saxenian convincingly displays in this pathbreaking book, the Argonauts have made America richer, not poorer.

Customer Reviews:

The power of networks within and between hi-tech regions.......2007-01-26

AnnaLee Saxenian has long been a follower of localized firm and professional networks in the hi-tech industry, highlighting their superiority over corporate hierarchies in her book "Regional Advantage." More recently, in "The New Argonauts," she has turned to ethnic professional networks in Silicon Valley, especially in the Indian, Chinese and Israeli communities. These networks, originally founded for social purposes, evolved to become professional networks for advice, capital and know-how for immigrant entrepreneurs. As immigrant entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley identified business opportunities in their home countries, the networks extended to support these new ventures. They also tied into their home-countries' networks through alumni associations and family ties.

Thus, organizations that were once highly localized began to reach across continents - and their benefits with them. Access to tacit knowledge (technical and managerial), a common understanding of entrepreneurship, shared language and culture have all been considered factors that are bound by geography and contribute to the success of regional economies. Now, they are transcending vast distances thanks to the kinds of networks described by Saxenian. New "Argonauts" (people who work in two or more regions, shuttling back and forth several times per month) literally carry market and technological knowledge, contacts, business models and capital around the world.

As a result, "Silicon Valley, once the uncontested technology leader, is now integrated into a dynamic network of specialized and complementary regional economies. These new technology regions are not replicas of Silicon Valley, nor are they becoming new Silicon Valleys [...] Even as the returnees seek to use their experience in Silicon Valley to reshape these institutions, distinctive regional and national histories ensure that the identities and technology trajectories of these regions are unlikely to converge."

Saxenian emphasizes the role of entrepreneurial networks over multinational enterprises. Multinationals have traditionally been seen as the prime diffusers of new technologies to "following" economies. In Saxenian's view, they will be supplanted here, as they were in the U.S. hi-tech industry.

Excellent view of Silicon Valley's now and future in the Flat world!.......2006-08-25

Excellent view of Silicon Valley's now and future in the Flat world! This author is excel in comparing Silicon Valley with new 'Want be Silicon Valley' regions. Especially her comments on the differentiators that are based on lot of interviews are extremely valuable for these challengers. In summery, openness, strong wishes to keep in the leading edge that the author viewed as Silicon Valley excel are the true differentiators of the region from many others.

I Hope You Are Living As High on the Hog As the Pig You Turned Out to Be

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Great!
FUNNY AND ENTERTAINING BOOK

I Hope You Are Living As High on the Hog As the Pig You Turned Out to Be
Bill Anderson
Manufacturer: Fireside
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Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

"Whisperin'" Bill Anderson weaves these classic country music tales right from the horse's mouth, delivering hilarious episodes and touching moments.

Customer Reviews:

Great!.......2007-07-19

This was a great book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I highly recommend it to everyone, especially those who like country music and country music artists. I love reading about the older country artists and their experiences in the industry etc. It was a funny and entertaining book. Bill Anderson has a great sense of humor too and has a way with words.

FUNNY AND ENTERTAINING BOOK.......2006-11-17

I AM A country music buff, the stories and mishaps of the older country singers are so funny.....well written and easy to read.....

Motorcycle Adventures in the Southern Appalachians: Asheville Nc, the Blue Ridge Parkway, Nc High Country

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Great Guide!

Motorcycle Adventures in the Southern Appalachians: Asheville Nc, the Blue Ridge Parkway, Nc High Country
Hawk Hagebak
Manufacturer: Milestone Pr Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1889596116

Customer Reviews:

Great Guide!.......2007-08-03

I just returned from a motorcycle trip to this region with my son. One of the routes we used was totally from the guide. It was just as described!
The little extras that change a ride from routine to something special are all there.
I recommend it!

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stunning
howl at the moon

The High Sierra of California
Gary Snyder , Tom Killion , and John Muir
Manufacturer: Heyday Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1890771511

Book Description

Combining the dramatic and meticulous work of printmaker Tom Killion--accented by quotes from John Muir--and the journal writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder, The High Sierra of California is a tribute to the bold, jagged peaks that have inspired generations of naturalists, artists, and writers.

For over thirty years, Tom Killion has been backpacking the High Sierra, making sketches of the region stretching from Yosemite south to Whitney and Kaweah Crest, which he calls "California's backbone." Using traditional Japanese and European woodcut techniques, Killion has created stunning visual images of the Sierra that focus on the backcountry above nine thousand feet, accessible only on foot.

Accompanying these riveting images are the journals of Gary Snyder, chronicling more than forty years of foot travels through the High Sierra backcountry. "Athens and Rome, good-bye!" writes Snyder, as he takes us deep into the mountains on his daily journeys around Yosemite and beyond.

Originally printed in a limited, handmade, letterpress edition, The High Sierra of California is now available in an affordable, full-color trade edition.

Customer Reviews:

stunning.......2007-02-07

This book is stunning the woodblock prints are so beautiful they almost make you cry. We spend a lot of time in the sierras and this book shows the beauty of these mountains better than any photographs. Get the book
look at the pictures then do your family a favor and go spend time in these incredible mountains.

howl at the moon.......2002-06-17

hop up and down in your Teva sandals. Wade the great streams as they roar over round stones down from ancient peaks... dance the silver dance of the wild rainbow... but find a place in your ultralight backpack for this book. It deserves a place next to that bag of peanuts, your titanium cup; worth its weight in gold dust from the river, split pea soup from the pouch. Ancient shaman tales and woodcut journeys... yamabushi of the mind, and lots of white space for taking your own cryptic outerspace trailnotes...

Poker Nation: A High-Stakes, Low-Life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Country

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fun & informative
great book
A good read for traders aka gamblers
Great intro to the world of poker
Fun, interesting and informative

Poker Nation: A High-Stakes, Low-Life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Country
Andy Bellin
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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ASIN: 0060958472
Release Date: 2003-02-04

Amazon.com

Readers who enjoy poker will love Poker Nation, an energetic and obsessive account of America's favorite card game, told with intelligence and panache. Andy Bellin writes in the first person and from the gut, recounting stories about poker fanatics (himself among them) and dispensing advice on how to play the game: "You have to maximize profits through guile and savvy, eke out every last dollar that your competition is willing to lose to you--and, when you don't have the winning cards, flee as fast as possible." Aphorisms leap off the pages: "The worst hand in poker is the second-best one at the table" and "People say the mark of a con is in the details." Whether readers prefer the anecdotes about double-bluffing and illegal poker clubs or the tips on when to hold and when to fold (there's even a table showing the "Chances of Drawing Helpful Cards from a Deck of Forty-Seven Unknown Cards"), anybody interested in its subject matter will find Poker Nation engrossing. --John Miller

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Journalist and poker fanatic Andy Bellin takes readers on a raucous journey into the shut-up-and-deal world of professional poker. From basement games to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, you'll look over his shoulder as he learns to count cards, read a legendary player's body language, hang in there when the chips are down, and take his beatings like a man. Even if you don't know the difference between a flop and a river card, Bellin keeps you in the game with his portraits of the colorful players, dreamers, hustlers, and eccentrics who populate this strange subculture. Along with learning what goes on behind the scenes in illegal poker clubs, you'll get great advice on how to play Texas Hold'em, today's game of choice for big-money players.

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fun & informative.......2006-09-06

This book reminds me of another good poker book, All In by Jonathan Grotenstein & Storms Reback. It a little bit of many different things. There's poker advice, poker history, biographies, poker stories, and humor. It's a great book for someone who wants to learn a thing or two about poker but doesn't just want to read strategy books like Super System.

great book.......2006-07-28

If you ever wondered if the world of poker is for you, read this book! most poker players will never set at the million dollar game(or table) - most poker players have to grind it out hour after hour - this book tells you all about that world!

A good read for traders aka gamblers .......2006-03-24

I dont play poker at all. I picked this book up with the intent of improving my stock, currency and commodities trading under the premise that professional poker players and traders are two of a kind. Despite my ignorance of poker, I find this book a real page turner covering not only poker skills and tactics, but its addictive and even devastating effect on life of many poker players. It's very interesting and informative. The author's writing skill is excellent. No matter whether you like poker or not, if you are interested in reading fascinating stories, you will be very satisfied.

p.s. As per whether it will help my trading, a little bit, I must say.

Great intro to the world of poker.......2005-09-09

"Poker Nation" is the perfect introductory book for those new to the game, especially if you've just started getting into the 2005 World Series of Poker coverage. It's more of a series of anecdotes, musings, and observations than it is an Xs and Os how-to guide, so you won't get overwhelmed by the technical aspects of the game. Bellin's personal style of writing conveys all the highs and lows that poker can entail, and does so in a humorous, self-deprecating manner. If you're like me and rarely read books from cover-to-cover, you might be surprised how much of an easy read this can be.

Fun, interesting and informative .......2005-04-19

This book is a little difficult to categorise. It is not really an autobiography, it is not a poker 'how-to' manual although it does provide some interesting insights. So what is it? It seems to be a book about deciding to write a book.

Andy Bellin has a simple, easy to read prose style. The book proceeds at great pace mixing personal experiences and anecdotes very effectively, providing an interesting and illuminating insight into the world of poker and addiction. I was gripped from the first chapter and read the book very quickly. It is often funny, sometimes chilling and slightly scary but it always holds your interest. It is also thought provoking as it prompts readers to consider their own attitude to gambling and addiction in general.

Recommended.

Beatty's Cabin: Adventures in the Pecos High Country

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classic new mexico history and lore

Beatty's Cabin: Adventures in the Pecos High Country
Elliott Speer Barker
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

North America | Travel | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0007E6JAY

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classic new mexico history and lore.......2007-08-14

This is a classic New Mexico tale by a man whose life spanned the late 19th century into the middle of the 20th. There are wonderous tales of grizzly bears, cattle russlers and trout fishing contests here. This is the history of what is now the Pecos wilderness from the time New Mexico was still a territory thru the modern Forest Service. This is one book about the history of New Mexico you shouldn't miss.

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