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81. A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina (Richard Hampton Jenrette Series in Architecture and the Decorative Arts) by Catherine W. Bishir, Jennifer F. Martin | |
Paperback: 496
Pages
(1999-04-26)
list price: US$24.95 -- used & new: US$21.29 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0807847674 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (2)
Best architecture guidebooks in existence
Wonderfully informative |
82. Guide to the Battle of Antietam | |
Paperback: 310
Pages
(1996-08)
list price: US$14.95 -- used & new: US$9.00 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0700607846 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Eyewitness accounts by battle participants make these guides an invaluable resource for travelers and nontravelers who want a greater understanding of five of the most devastating yet influential years in our nation's history. Explicit directions to points of interest and maps--illustrating the action and showing the detail of troop position, roads, rivers, elevations, and tree lines as they were 130 years ago--help bring the battles to life. In the field, these guides can be used to recreate each battle's setting and proportions, giving the reader a sense of the tension and fear each soldier must have felt as he faced his enemy. This book is part of the U.S. Army War College Guides to Civil War Battles series. Customer Reviews (8)
Edifying Rendering of the Antietam Struggle
AWC Battlefield Guides
The bloodiest day
Luvas' book on Antietam Battlefield Another thing missing is a comprehensive map of the battlefield with his selected stops, again helping show the context of a given part of the battle with the whole.
Off the Beaten path - Antietam National Battlefield Unlike the Gettysburg guide thisbook outlines the campaign on an "operational" as well as"tactical" level.Both of which are easy to understand andfollow along if you desire to use this book as a battlefield guide. Thedriving directions along with detailed maps, historical photos, and reportstaken from the Official Records make this book a complete tour andreference package! If you require an outstanding volume of workdetailing nearly every aspect of the campaign, then look no further.Ihighly recommend this book as "must read" for anyone interestedin Marse Robert's Maryland Campaign of 1862.It will also make anexcellent reference tool for anyone who cannot make it to the battlefield. It brings the fields of battle to you! ... Read more |
83. Following the Royal Road: A Guide to the Historic Camino Real de Tierra Adentro by Hal Jackson | |
Paperback: 245
Pages
(2006-12-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description The northern section of the Camino Real, the portion in New Mexico and Texas, was designated a National Historical Trail by the U. S. Congress in 2000 and an interpretive and visitor center (the Camino Real Heritage Center) has opened south of Socorro, New Mexico. This guidebook provides the traveler with useful commentary on the entire Camino as it winds its way from New Mexico through Mexico, ending in Mexico City. Jackson includes narrative accounts collected from a variety of primary sources to add an eyewitness perspective to topics as diverse as sixteenth-century haciendas, colonial presidios, and important rest stops (parajes) on the Camino in New Mexico. There are many historical vignettes plus sixty maps drawn by the author to assist in finding Camino sites. Other information provides the traveler details such as highway numbers, mileage, accommodations, and areas of interest off the main Camino route. |
84. Vanishing America: In Pursuit of Our Elusive Landscapes by James Conaway | |
Hardcover: 320
Pages
(2007-09-28)
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Wake Up and See America Before It's Gone |
85. Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark | |
Kindle Edition: 600
Pages
(2009-08-19)
list price: US$16.00 Asin: B002M4DRPC Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (10)
Great read!!
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
A classic story best told by those who lived it
Decent Nat'l. Geo. Book of Lewis & Clark Journals
Two Men Who Need No Introduction |
86. In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror by Anthony D. Romero, Dina Temple-Raston | |
MP3 CD:
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(2007-06-18)
list price: US$19.99 -- used & new: US$9.98 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1400154782 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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ACLU promotion
A gem of a book
Romero's ACLU is great but his co-writer is a disaster
You should read this book.
Readable but disjointed |
87. Guide to the Battle of Chickamauga (The U.S. Army War College Guides to Civil War Battles) | |
Hardcover: 312
Pages
(1993-05)
list price: US$27.50 -- used & new: US$112.48 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0700605959 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Eyewitness accounts by battle participants make these guides an invaluable resource for travelers and nontravelers who want a greater understanding of five of the most devastating yet influential years in our nation's history. Explicit directions to points of interest and maps--illustrating the action and showing the detail of troop position, roads, rivers, elevations, and tree lines as they were 130 years ago--help bring the battles to life. In the field, these guides can be used to recreate each battle's setting and proportions, giving the reader a sense of the tension and fear each soldier must have felt as he faced his enemy. This book is part of the U.S. Army War College Guides to Civil War Battles series. Customer Reviews (6)
book
Mystified at the rave reviews of this book
Helpful guide to exploring the Chickamauga battlefield
Badly needed for this park
Indispensable... |
88. Why Mexicans Think and Behave the Way They Do! by Boye Lafayette De Mente | |
Kindle Edition: 140
Pages
(2007-01-23)
list price: US$9.95 Asin: B000O78OCA Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description A definitive explanation of the cultural factors that created the character and personality of the Mexican people with specific guidelines on what to expect in business and other relationships and how to deal effectively with Mexicans. Customer Reviews (8)
Good
Worthless...
Very informative
Very informative
Outrageous! |
89. The Battle of Gettysburg: A Guided Tour by Edward J. Stackpole, Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, Bradley M. Gottfried | |
Paperback: 124
Pages
(1998-05)
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Great guide and summary
Concise yet complete tour guide with great graphics After the tour, an account of the fighting is described by day, hours and short descriptor, e.g."Action of Buford's Calvary, 8:00 to 10:00 am, July 1" (78 pages). Superb graphics that clearly sketch out positions with key topography markers help you fix on the formations. They are very distingushable as they are marked with reference to the modern day road structure in he park (e.g. you can tell the bulk of Pickett's division-by brigade-was originally lined up much farther south than the positon of Lee's statue in their charge by the Spangler house). I have been to this field five times. It is a very good book for new and repeat visitors. ... Read more |
90. Lewis & Clark by Stephen E. Ambrose, Sam Abell | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(1998-10-01)
list price: US$35.00 -- used & new: US$19.88 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0792270843 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Lewis & Clark Probably no one knows more about Meriwether Lewis and William Clark than bestselling author and historian Stephen Ambrose, and Lewis & Clark: Voyage of Discovery reflects his superb command of -- and deep affection for -- this epic American journey. Highlighted by Sam Abell's stunning photographs, this engrossing historical narrative interweaves choice entries from the explorers' journals with the author's own latter-day chronicle of how he and his family continue to discover the Trail today. Here is the whole extraordinary saga, from its visionary spark in Thomas Jefferson's mind to the expedition itself, with its hardships and adventures. Ambrose's own observations offer a modern look at the land and those who live in it, including the Native American descendants of the tribes who stood between Lewis and Clark and the Pacific Ocean. Superlative history, breathtaking photography, and an epic tale of exploration, endurance, and enterprise -- the classic ingredients that readers everywhere have come to expect from National Geographic. Customer Reviews (14)
great book
Lewis and Clark: Voyage of Discovery
A good overall Lewis & Clark Book
Very good in some ways, very Stephen Ambrose in some ways
Awesome man |
91. Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg by James M. Mcpherson | |
Kindle Edition: 144
Pages
(2009-02-04)
list price: US$16.95 Asin: B001RLTFA2 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (34)
Gettysburg Tour
A wonderful tour guide and a history of the battle at Gettysburg
Mcpherson forgot his GPS
Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg, by James M Mcpherson.
Hallowed Ground |
92. Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio by Thomas S. Bremer | |
Hardcover: 240
Pages
(2004-12-13)
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Editorial Review Product Description Bremer recounts the history of San Antonio, from its Native American roots to its development as a religious center with the growth of the Spanish colonial missions, to the modern transformation of San Antonio into a tourist destination. Employing both ethnographic and historical approaches, Bremer examines the concepts of place, identity, aesthetics, and commercialization, demonstrating numerous ways that modern market forces affect religious communities. By identifying important connections between religious and touristic practices, Bremer establishes San Antonio as a distinctive source for anyone seeking to understand the interplay between the religious and the secular, the traditional and the modern. |
93. America's Scientific Treasures: A Travel Companion by Paul S. Cohen, Brenda H. Cohen | |
Paperback: 464
Pages
(1998-06-18)
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GREAT, USEFUL, EASY TO READ |
94. Boardin' in the Thicket: Reminiscences and Recipes of Early Big Thicket Boarding Houses by Wanda A. Landrey | |
Paperback: 216
Pages
(1998-05-01)
list price: US$15.95 -- used & new: US$11.57 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1574410547 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description A descendant of one of the pioneering boarding house families, WandaLandrey searched the Big Thicket to find survivors of the boardinghouse era and to collect their stories and recipes. Wanda Landrey is ahistorian, writer, and researcher who lectures on the culture of theBig Thicket region of Texas. She holds B.A. and M.A. degrees inhistory from Lamar University. Boardin' in the Thicket received a citation from the San AntonioConservation Society and was selected to be among those featured inthe cookbook, Best of the Best from Texas II. Customer Reviews (6)
This Book is a Gem
Entertaining, interesting, and credible.
Great recipes and history
Home cooking and boarderhouse history at its best!
Delightful stories with mouth-watering recipes! |
95. I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i by Susanna Moore | |
Hardcover: 192
Pages
(2003-04-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Hawai’i of the travel brochures is a lush tropical destination for millions of visitors every year. But the familiar image of a Pacific paradise barely scratches the surface of the rich history and fascinating culture of the real Hawai’I—and in this evocative, eclectic, and unfailingly engaging book, novelist Susanna Moore shows us a hidden realm no tourist is likely to see. She interweaves her own memories of growing up in Honolulu in the 1950s and ’60s with a concise chronicle of Hawai’I’s two-hundred-year encounter with the West—from the great explorer Captain Cook to the American missionaries who followed in his wake to the nineteenth-century haole landowners whose enormous plantations and close-knit society reshaped island life. By turns a sweeping, romantic tale of native kings and ancient ritual and a vividly drawn, personal memoir of a world that is now all but gone, I Myself Have Seen It unfolds against a fascinating backdrop of Polynesian myth whose ocean spirits and fire gods still cast powerful spells. Customer Reviews (6)
One star is being generous...
thin fluff
Hawaiian Insight.
This would get a C-minus in 10th grade world history.
A Look Beneath the Surface |
96. Southern Fried Spirits: A Guide to Haunted Restaurants, Inns and Taverns by Robert Wlodarski | |
Paperback: 250
Pages
(2000-05-25)
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Editorial Review Product Description Southern Fried Spirits is for the adventurous person looking forsomething different while dining or lodging in the Southernstates. Spend a hauntingly unforgettable evening at one of therestaurants, taverns, or inns listed. Many of these establishmentshave been around for quite a while, some dating back to the eighteenthcentury. They all have one thing in common—they are haunted. Customer Reviews (1)
Rooms With A Boo |
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