Legendary Deerslayers Review

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(More customer reviews)Very enjoyable reading. If you enjoy reading about days and people from a long gone era you will enjoy this book. Well worth the price.

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Emphasizing adventure, natural history, and Americana from a simpler, more romantic era of deer hunting, white-tailed deer historian Rob Wegner presents readers with this dramatic, complimentary volume to Legendary Deer Camps. The next installment in the Deer & Deer Hunting Classics Series, this outstanding collection of writings and nostalgia from our 19th century deer camps, and the history surrounding their colorful occupants, reconnects readers with this time-honored tradition. Luxurious illustrations offer a fascinating mix of classic photography and prints from some of America's most prominent, influential artists - Winslow Homer, Currier and Ives, and Frederic Remington. The text is authoritative, but engaging, profiling a dozen of America's greatest deer hunters - eleven true-to-life heroes, including John James Audubon, Theodore Van Dyke and Archibald Rutledge - and their fictitious prototype "Natty Bumppo." A rich blend of sporting art and natural, literary history - Rob Wegner has truly created a masterpiece.

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Kenny Salwey's Tales of a River Rat: Adventures Along The Wild Mississippi Review

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(More customer reviews)An excellent sequel to The Last River Rat. Kenny tells tales and spins yarns that make you want to read much more. Each story tells not only of life along and on the River in Kenny's own words, but how these experiences have shaped his life. He then uses these lessons to teach us how precious life is, be it the short life of a brown trout, a hunting dog, or a squirrel named Dusky. There is plenty of humor in this book, but interwoven with that are stories of life that cause us to stop and say to ourselves, "These are some powerful lessons to be learned. " Kenny has given many people a different outlook concerning nature itself, life in the swamp, and growing up in a time that was much less complicated. Sometimes we just have to stop and smell the skunk cabbage.

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Mythology: The Illustrated Anthology of World Myth and Storytelling Review

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(More customer reviews)This massive coffee-table style book gives a good overview of some of the major mythologies in the world. Overall, it has both good and bad points, with the good generally outweighing the bad.
The good points include the wide range of mythological stories that are related. While Greek mythology - certainly the most well-known and influential in Western culture - gets more space than any other culture (over one hundred pages), there is plenty of space dedicated to the whole world of mythology: Egyptian, Babylonian, Norse, Chinese, Indian and Japanese amongst them. A wide range of illustrations and photos help tell the stories.
Although wide-ranging, I think there are some noticeable gaps, both within specific sections (for example, no story of Eros and Psyche in the Greek myths) and significant types of myths that are neglected. It would have been interesting to see a little about the Arthurian legends, which are a big part of British mythology. The other thing that is missing is any sort of comparisons. While many cultures had creation and flood stories, there is little direct commentary on the similarities or differences. It would have also been interesting to see some discussion on parallels between myths and the stories of the Bible.
Of course, this book is big enough as it is, and editing decisions needed to be made. While this book suffers from the flaw of incompleteness, it does not have flawed writing, which makes it a good book although (literally) not a light read.

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Myths are the timeless expression of the imagination born out of the need to make sense of the universe. Moving across the centuries, they resonate with our deepest feelings about the fragility and grandeur of existence. Mythology is a comprehensive, richly illustrated survey of the mythic imagination in all its forms around the world, from the odysseys, quests and battles of ancient Greece and Rome to the living beliefs of indigenous cultures in the Americas, Africa and Oceania. Looking at each major myth-making culture in turn, this book retells some of the most significant and captivating stories in a lively, contemporary style. Generously illustrated with more than 700 color photographs, Mythology brings you the vibrant stories that echo time and again in our lives.

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Cranford (AD Classic Library Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)This paperback version is the one that the recent tv series fan will want, because unlike some of the other paperback versions, it includes the three Gaskell novellas that were the basis for the Judi Dench-Eileen Atkins miniseries. The three books were
"Cranford", "My Lady Ludlow" and "Mr Harrison's Confessions."
Mrs Gaskell stories are considered comedies, and this comes clear in the original texts. Some sadness of course in events, but mostly there is a clear comic, even sardonic voice in which we can fall in love with the characters and still laugh at their foibles, fashions, and foolishness which seem still so apropos today.
Highly recommended.

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Cranford is a witty portrait of small town life in early-Victorian England. The story unfolds through the eyes of Mary Smith, a young woman who observes the comedic struggles of two middle aged sisters in their efforts to maintain a level of refined dignity amid poverty. The story reveals "touches of love and kindness, of simple self-sacrifice and of true womanly tenderness... naturally and truthfully just as they are found in the current of real life." Cranford is based on the experiences of Elizabeth Gaskell's childhood upbringing in Cheshire, UK. Twelve years after publishing Cranford, Gaskell has kind words for her most prolific work. "It is the only one of my books that I can read again; but whenever I am ailing or ill, I take Cranford and - I was going to say, enjoy it! (but that would not be pretty!) laugh over it afresh!" This edition includes artwork by George Du Maurier, commissioned by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1864, and artwork by Hugh Thomson for Macmillan and Co. in 1891.

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Prodigal Of The Pecos Review

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(More customer reviews)Prodigal Of The Pecos is the second book in the Pecos series by C.E.Edmonson. Life on the ranch is difficult enough without being caught in a bitter land battle with a ruthless greedy land baron. Clint Cooper is a honest hard working Marshall who finds out that his brother was murdered and his home town is being terrorized by the greed of ruthless land baron Montgomery Fitzgerald.
This story comes to life, as we struggle along with Clint Cooper, as he fights to save the town he once loved, and avenge the death of his brother. A man of courage and faith, struggles to save his family and the entire town which has become his family. This is a western, but the good versus evil, greed versus integrity is still a viable plot today.
It is hard to put this book down as you get wrapped up in the lives of the characters in this book and get embroiled in a life and death battle that seems all too real. A real page turner!

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David Copperfield (Oxford World's Classics) Review

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(More customer reviews)David Copperfield was always a favorite of mine. It is wonderful, how, circling with the years, I can make my own retrospect and read it again from my older perspective.
When I was younger, I too, wanted to complain that all of Dickens' heroines were the same, and now I realize how wrong I was. Agnes is good and beautiful and patient of course, but what about the heroine Aunt Betsey? What about Miss Mowcher, who gives David a piece of advice "from three foot nothing ... Don't confuse bodily defect with mental!" she exclaims, and this is advice we coudl still use today! What about Peggotty, who is true and good and occasionally silly? Then there are the women who are not so good: Mrs Heep, Miss Murdstone, Mrs Markleham (the Old Soldier) and Rosa Dartle?
Dickens' characters are marvelous, but what I find most wonderful is the love that brings them together. Aunt Betsey takes David in, and is rewarded by the softening of her own heart; Mr. Peggotty seeks and finds his niece; Traddles finally marries "the dearest girl" and long-suffering Mrs Micawber will never desert her husband and something at last turns up Down Under. The characters who are courageous enough to choose love over pride are almost always rewarded at the end -- assuming that they survive, of course! (I'm thinking of Ham.) Perhaps it is just a novel, and those who have courage to love are not always rewarded in real life, but the idea is wonderfully satisfying.

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David Copperfield (1849-50) was Dickens's favorite novel: 'Of all my books', he wrote, 'I like it the best.'Strikingly autobiographical in its childhood scenes, it relates David's history from birth to young manhood, and the host of characters he meets on his journey of self-knowledge: Mr Micawber, the Peggottys, Betsey Trotwood, Steerforth and Uriah Heep among them.

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Daughter of the Legend Review

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(More customer reviews)I was raised on the ridge where this book takes place. These people were always real to me, and the way Mr. Stuart describes them is as true to form as possible. I read the book when I was a little girl and then again when I was in my teens, and for the last few years I have not been able to find it. I am happy to have the opportunity to let my kids read this treasured book. My son has actually been in the play that was adapted from the book.This book has been a part of my family's history since it was written, and being from the same places as the characters, and knowing the people of this community I am proud to say that I am a raised in the hills of East Tennessee, Newman's ridge runner.

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A regional love story set in the hills of Tennesseeagainst a backdrop of mystery and racial misunderstanding. Dave, ayoung lumberjack, falls in love with Deutsia, a Melungeon girl. Herpeople are shunned by the valley people and the relationship splitsthe lifetime friendship of Dave and his best friend, Ben. Edited andpreface written by John H. Spurlock and the afterword by BrentKennedy.

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