Everyday Parenting the First Five Years

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Everyday Parenting the First Five Years
Robin Goldstein
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Everyday Parenting: The First Five Years
Robin; Gallant, Janet Goldstein
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Amazing story.......2006-08-30

I went to school in Kanpur but at that time was not aware its historical importance. This indeed is a facinating book which has sparked my intense interest in 1857 mutiny. I look forward to visiting Kanpur to see whatever is left of the memorial gardens (now called Nana Rao Park).

Careful who you trust..........2006-02-19

This is a great story, objectively written and excellently researched. It transports the reader to the book's epoch in history and provides all the information needed to make the story alive and real. The background to the Mutiny , all of the leading protaganists male and female and their heroism and duplicity are brought into focus as the survivors of Cawnpore are guaranteed safe passage only to be massacred by the Ghat on the river when they were at their most vulnerable. Similarily the murder and disposal of innocents at the Bibighar. Both these acts , and in addition the siege itself and the retribution of the British including many Scottish regiments, highlight a clash of Northern Victorian with Eastern culture sufficient to show the reader the extremes of barbarity, cruelty and compassion of both. A superb story.

Historical Drama At Its Best.......2004-08-29

If you like military history, this book is an indispenable read about the siege and subsequent massacres at Cawnpore during the Indian Mutiny. The author makes the story very dramatic and readable, even though it is meticulously researched and abounds in footnotes. It is not an easy read but it is a very worthwhile read. Don't forget to reference the footnotes, as they will add to the experience. The Indian Mutiny was more of a mutiny by native soldiers and cavalry than it was a popular uprising, but contemporary Indian accounts tend to characterize it as the latter in an attempt to paint it as the first spark of independence for the country. While the book's emphasis is on the events at Cawnpore, which would prove to be a catalyst for British revenge and an iron-handed continuation of British rule over India, the book also is an excellent overview of the entire Mutiny. If this interests you, follow-up by reading about the siege of Lucknow or the storming of Delhi. A fascinating era of history which helps explain how things are now in the Indian sub-continent.

A Cinematic Ride.......2003-10-24

Andrew Ward's, "Our Bones are Scattered", was a gripping read. Hard to put down. Not history from 30,000 feet but ground level. You feel for individuals struggling to survive as their world crumbles into chaos. I didn't see a bias; Ward has clearly expressed the motivations and movements driving events from both sides. These movements resonate with events today: Here are ancient and admirable cultures violently rejecting the impositions of a more technologically advanced intruder... an epic that cries-out for film. Experience the best and the unimaginable worst as worlds collide.

Revisionist trash.......2002-12-17

A classic case of political correctness ruining a histry book. In Ward's world, all Indians are noble, all British are bad. A waste of money and time--if I could give it zero stars I would. It deserves to be out of print.

CAWNPORE AND LUCKNOW: A Tale of Two Indian Mutiny Sieges

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CAWNPORE AND LUCKNOW: A Tale of Two Indian Mutiny Sieges
Don Richards
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Following the May 1857 uprising by sepoys in Meerut and Delhi, the whole future of the British Raj was in the balance. Nowhere was this better demonstrated than at Lucknow and Cawnpore. At the latter a garrison of 240 with 375 British women and children battled to survive a siege by 3,000 mutineers led by Nana Sahib. Unimaginable horrors of artillery and sniper fire coupled with the crippling heat of the Indian summer took their toll. An offer of safe passage was treacherously reneged on and the massacres which followed drew a terrible retribution when relief finally arrived, in the shape of Generals Havelock and Neil. At Lucknow, the 1800 British men, women and children supported by more than 1,000 loyal sepoys resisted assaults by 20,000 mutineers, despite heavy casualties and sickness. Sir Colin Campbell's force got through to relieve the garrison and evacuate civilians in November 1857 but the city was not restored to British control until March 1858. These dramatic events are brought to life in this first rate history.

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Useful but all too conventional introduction to the subject
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The Indian Mutiny
Saul David
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A Jolly good read!.......2007-06-29

A excellent well researched account of the mutiny, puts to rest many of the victorian myths of the event

Useful but all too conventional introduction to the subject.......2007-04-02

This book is a useful; start to studying the events of 1857, when the people of India fought for their national sovereignty and for independence from the British Empire.
The Empire's servants called, and some still call, the revolt a `Mutiny', defining it as illegitimate. But it was the foreign rule that was illegitimate, because it denied India democracy and self-rule. As G. B. Malleson, Adjutant-General of the Bengal Army and the revolt's first historian, wrote, what was "at first apparently a military mutiny ... speedily changed its character and became a national insurrection." Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs all played a full part.
The Raj was a despotic regime dependent on military power. From the 1780s, the Imperial dogma was, "we acquired our Influence and Possessions by force, it is by force we must maintain them." As Lord James Bryce wrote in 1912, "The government of India by the English resembles that of her possessions by Rome in being virtually despotic." General Henry Rawlinson, India's Commander-in-Chief, said in 1920, "You may say what you like about not holding India by the sword, but you have held it by the sword for 100 years and when you give up the sword you will be turned out. You must keep the sword ready to hand and in case of trouble or rebellion use it relentlessly. Montagu calls it terrorism, so it is and in dealing with natives of all classes you have to use terrorism whether you like it or not."
In 1793, the Empire's rulers had imposed a `Permanent Settlement' on India which privatised the land and dispossessed the peasants. The Empire took 50-60% of the peasants' income in tax, more than the Mughal Emperors had taken, forcing the peasants into debt and then to sell their land to the bunyahs, the moneylenders. India's wealth was pillaged and her agriculture starved, in order to rack profit and rent up. The profits went to British investors, the rents to the Empire's allies, the landlords and princes. The British enquiry commission of 1832 admitted, "The settlement fashioned with great care and deliberation has to our painful knowledge subjected almost the whole of the lower classes to most grievous oppression." Charles Ball, a historian of the revolt, wrote, "in Bengal an amount of suffering and debasement existed which probably was not equaled and certainly not exceeded, in the slave-sates of America."
The Empire's rule was vicious. Governor-General Lord Dalhousie wrote in 1855, "torture in one shape or other is practised by the lower subordinates in every British province." The Report of the Commission for the Investigation of Alleged Cases of Torture at Madras, 1855, admitted `the general existence of torture for revenue purposes'. Torture was also normal police practice.
The revolt was violent, though nowhere near as bloody as its suppression. Karl Marx noted of Britain's newspapers, "while the cruelties of the English are related as acts of martial vigour, told simply, rapidly, without dwelling on disgusting details, the outrages of the natives, shocking as they are, are still deliberately exaggerated." A British officer said, "We hold court-martials on horseback, and every nigger we meet with we either string up or shoot."
Although the revolt was defeated, it did overthrow the East India Company's rule and its regime of robbery and corruption; the Company was wound up in 1874. After suppressing the revolt, India's British rulers used the old tactic of divide and rule to crush India's strivings for democracy and self-rule. "Divide et impera was the old Roman motto and it should be ours", Lord Elphinstone advised in 1859. The British state promoted Muslim separatism and set up separate electorates, a sure way to tear people politically apart. In the Punjab, the British won over the Sikhs by reminding them of the injuries and insults they had suffered under the Mughal Emperors. Sir Henry Lawrence, Chief Commissioner of Oudh, spread false rumours that Muslim rebels had desecrated Hindu temples.
The Empire then used the revolt's failure to justify their continued rule. If Indians could not revolt successfully, they could not rule themselves. Besides, as an MP said, "if we were to leave ... we should leave it to anarchy." The Empire's servants stressed its `superior' qualities of race and religion and its mission to `pacify' and `civilise' the Indians' `savagery'. As the Viceroy Sir John Lawrence wrote modestly, "we are here through our moral superiority, by the force of circumstances and by the will of Providence." But as a critic of empire noted, "a mission, historically speaking, is little more than another name for a tendency to rapine."
A century later, Winston Churchill said in Cabinet in 1940 that the Hindu-Moslem division had long been "a bulwark of British rule in India". The Times agreed, "The divisions exist and British rule is certain as long as they do." John Colville reported that in Cabinet, "Winston rejoiced in the quarrel which had broken out afresh between Hindus and Moslems, said he hoped it would remain bitter and bloody."
After the revolt, the Indian people continued to oppose foreign rule, winning their independence in 1947. Once the majority of a country's people want an occupier out, no amount of military force can keep the occupier in.

In Need of Wider Analysis.......2005-11-07

This is a new history of the Mutiny, relying heavily upon contemporary accounts and memoirs. It's essentially a descriptive work, good if you are looking for information on the varous sieges and campaigns.

Neither side comes out well, both committing atrocities; but David's view seems to be that the British essentially reacted to the atrocities carried out by the Indians (eg at Cawnpore and Jhansi). I suspect that Indian readers especially will regard this book as Anglocentric. I thought that the author did a decent job in trying to identify the immediate causes of the conflict (disenchantment in the Bengal Army rather than cartridge grease). However, his attempts to place the Mutiny in a wider historical context are limited to a half-page comparison with the American War of Independence, and then the Mutiny is placed within a context of earlier shifts in sepoy loyalty under the Mughal Empire. I thought that the "wait and see" attitude of the majority of Indians deserved greater attention.

The Mutiny, even by its nomenclature, causes problems of analysis from both the modern British and Indian perspectives, maybe because it serves different uses in each tradition. I suppose in reading this book, much depends on whether or not you are convinced by David's view that it was a backward-looking rebellion, an attempt to restore the status quo ante rather than an expression of Indian nationalism. I'd rather that he had expanded the book and tackled these issues head on rather than doing it in a cursory manner and relegating much of the Indian interpretation to appendices. In that way, I might have got a picture of the Mutiny which has both less to do with British self-justification for the Imperial role and the needs of modern Indian nationalism.

G Rodgers

Modern Mein Kampf.......2005-08-23

Right from the title you know that you are reading a piece of history which is rather controversial. I am surprised that some of the now politically correct Brits still try and pass this incident off as a Mutiny rather than what it was - The First War of Indian Independence. If building the railways, introducing educational reform are reasons why certain historians pass off the British Raj as a force of good - that is like saying Nazis were a force of good for building their authobahns and the Luftwaffe. Everyone though is entitled to their view - including the erstwhile colonists. I shall always see my nation being colonized as something bad overall - all the railways, education etc. would not be worth it even for one loss of life - and India lost millions either fighting wars in Germany, Italy, Africa for wars which were not theirs to fight or through famines in Bengal - lots of them were transplanted to South America or Fiji as indentured servants or taken to Africa to build railways. As a side note - the very free market which they used to exploit Indians is now being used by Indians to take away the higher paying jobs of the Brits. Poetic justice.

Coming to the book itself, it seeks to justify the British excesses as an act of self-defence in a reactive mode. It's almost as if the author already knew what he wanted to write before embarking on his research. Most of his research is based on British sources. To claim that 160 years ago, these sources adhered to a Neutral Point of View is laughable. This book is so skewed toward justifying British excesses that it borders on being racist.

The Indian Mutiny 1857-58 (Essential Histories)

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First-hand source material and the latest research

The Indian Mutiny 1857-58 (Essential Histories)
Gregory Fremont-Barnes
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ASIN: 1846032091
Release Date: 2007-05-22

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In the mid-19th century India was the "jewel in the crown" of the British Empire and was protected by the largely native armies of the East India Company. In 1857 discontent exploded into open rebellion, obliging Britain to field its largest army since the Napoleonic Wars, forty years before.

Gregory Fremont Barnes examines the origins of British rule in India, the causes of the conflict, the rival forces and fighting itself, including the massacre of Cawnpore and the epic sieges of Delhi and Lucknow. He also reveals the intriguing truth behind the 'greased cartridge' controversy - the allegation that the introduction of gun cartridges covered in pig fat, an insult to both Hindu and Muslim religious sensibilities, was the catalyst for the conflict. However, once hostilities began the mutineers had no qualms about using the cartridges, thus throwing into question the long-held belief that the mutiny hinged principally on this issue. The discussion of the importance and enduring legacy of the Indian Mutiny makes this essential reading for anyone wanting to learn more about the power of empire.

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First-hand source material and the latest research .......2007-07-07

Gregory Foremont-Barnes' THE INDIAN MUTINY 1857-58 adds to the 'Essential Histories' multi-volume history of war which focuses on war as seen from political, cultural and individual perspectives alike. In the mid-19th century India was the focus of Britain's international and commercial power - its most important colony - but in 1857 there was open rebellion. First-hand source material and the latest research explains why the armies rose up against Britain, strategies used on both sides, and more.

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The Indian Mutiny
Julian Spilsbury
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By 1857, the British East India Company was India’s de facto ruler, having won the subcontinent by subterfuge and force of arms. Discontent was rising however, and in the following Spring, entire regiments of Indian troops turned on their British overlords and challenged the global trading powerhouse in open warfare. The brutal struggle that followed would forever break the Company’s hold on India, and send shock waves reverberating across the British Empire. This sweeping, true-life drama combines powerful eyewitness accounts and painstaking historical investigation to present an intimate portrait of the British troops and the Sikhs, Gurkhas, and Afghan who fought alongside them, often against terrible odds. This is living history that reads like the finest action-adventure story!

Victorian Colonial Warfare: India, from the Conquest of Sind to the Indian Mutiny

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Victorian Colonial Warfare: India, from the Conquest of Sind to the Indian Mutiny
Donald Featherstone
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Eight Months' Campaign against the Bengal Sepoy Army, during the Mutiny of 1857

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Eight Months' Campaign against the Bengal Sepoy Army, during the Mutiny of 1857
George Bourchier
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ASIN: 1402187521
Release Date: 2005-11-30

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This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1858 edition by Smith, Elder & Co., London.

The Indian Mutiny (Men-At-Arms Series, 67)

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The Indian Mutiny (Men-At-Arms Series, 67)
Christopher Wilkinson-Latham
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ASIN: 0850452597
Release Date: 1977-06-01

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On the 24 April 1855, Colonel Carmichael Smyth held a parade of the ninety skirmishers of the 3rd Light Cavalry of the Bengal Army at Meerut, some 30 miles from Delhi. The disastrous events that followed sparked an almost wholesale mutiny of the Honourable East India Company's Bengal Native Army. Had the ensuing uprising succeeded, it would have threatened the validity of the entire British Empire. As it was the Mutiny witnessed several tragic and bloody events, from the original incident in Meerut to the horrifying siege of Cawnpore. Christopher Wilikinson-Latham details the history of the conflict, from its beginnings to ultimate resolution.

Battles of the Indian Mutiny (British Battles)

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Battles of the Indian Mutiny (British Battles)
Michael Edwardes
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In 1796, famed engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe toured the coal fields outside Richmond, Virginia, declaring enthusiastically, "Such a mine of Wealth exists, I believe, nowhere else!" With its abundant and accessible deposits, growing industries, and network of rivers and ports, Virginia stood poised to serve as the center of the young nation's coal trade. By the middle of the nineteenth century, however, Virginia's leadership in the American coal industry had completely unraveled while Pennsylvania, at first slow to exploit its vast reserves of anthracite and bituminous coal, had become the country's leading producer.

Sean Patrick Adams compares the political economies of coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania from the late eighteenth century through the Civil War, examining the divergent paths these two states took in developing their ample coal reserves during a critical period of American industrialization. In both cases, Adams finds, state economic policies played a major role. Virginia's failure to exploit the rich coal fields in the western part of the state can be traced to the legislature's overriding concern to protect and promote the interests of the agrarian, slaveholding elite of eastern Virginia. Pennsylvania's more factious legislature enthusiastically embraced a policy of economic growth that resulted in the construction of an extensive transportation network, a statewide geological survey, and support for private investment in its coal fields.

Using coal as a barometer of economic change, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth addresses longstanding questions about North-South economic divergence and the role of state government in American industrial development, providing new insights for both political and economic historians of nineteenth-century America.

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A nugget emerges from a bland mine.......2006-11-05

Adams compares the histories of coal and attendant railroad industries of antebellum Pennsylvania and Virginia (and eventually West Virginia) along with one chapter for post-war events. I had to read this book as part of a larger project on which I am working and harbored little hope that it would be interesting reading. Gamely I began to read, expecting to plow through the usual molasses-thick academic writing that provides a surefire cure for insomnia. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised. His book is academic, but his writing is lively and straight-forward, the words of a man who knows his stuff and relates it in an interesting fashion. He gives us a good peek into the workings the antebellum political and industrial business and political world. It does bog down a bit when he gets into relating long lists of statistics in the narrative that would have been better served in charts, but it does not happen often and does not detract significantly from the book. Well recommended even if you're not fascinated by coal production, especially for Civil War scholars studying the breakup of Virginia.

Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean: Continuing Aspects of British and French Dominion (Legacies of West Indian Slavery)

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Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean: Continuing Aspects of British and French Dominion (Legacies of West Indian Slavery)
Paul Sutton
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Phoenix: Trade & Dominion: The European Oversea Empires in the Eighteenth Century

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Good over view of the european empires in the 18. century

Phoenix: Trade & Dominion: The European Oversea Empires in the Eighteenth Century
J.H. Parry
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Between the mid-15th and the mid-18th century, every European country bordering the Atlantic (and some that did not) acquired land overseas. But, as these imperial powers rushed to grab colonies, the world began to grow too small for these competing adventurers. Continuing the story he began in The Age of Reconnaissance, the author of the highly praised History of Civilization series now deals with the second phase of empire--its expanded operations, collisions, mutinies, alterations of course, and changing attitude toward the subject races.

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Good over view of the european empires in the 18. century.......1998-10-17

Parry gives a detailed view of the trading situation in the eighteeth century. Including a detailed view of the companies and their difficulties. The different countries, the discoveries and the political situation is also included.

Britain, Canada, And The North Pacific: Maritime Enterprise And Dominion, 1778-1914 (Collected Studies, 786.)

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Britain, Canada, And The North Pacific: Maritime Enterprise And Dominion, 1778-1914 (Collected Studies, 786.)
Barry M. Gough
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The Canada Yearbook 1937: The Official Statistical Annual of the Resources, History, Institutions and Social and Economic Conditions of the Dominion

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The Canada Yearbook 1937: The Official Statistical Annual of the Resources, History, Institutions and Social and Economic Conditions of the Dominion
William D. (M. P. Minister of Trade and Commerce) Euler
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Census of Industry, 1927. Central Electric Stations in Canada.

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Census of Industry, 1927. Central Electric Stations in Canada.
Canada. Department of Trade and Commerce. Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
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Dominions Royal Commission. Royal Commission on the Natural Resources, Trade, and Legislation of Certain Portions of His Majesty's Dominions. Papers Laid Before the Commission, 1914-1917

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Dominions Royal Commission. Royal Commission on the Natural Resources, Trade, and Legislation of Certain Portions of His Majesty's Dominions. Papers Laid Before the Commission, 1914-1917
Great Britain. Parliament
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Letters addressed to William Wilberforce, M.P.: recommending the encouragement of the cultivation of sugar in our dominions in the East Indies, as the ... and general abolition of the slave-trade

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Letters addressed to William Wilberforce, M.P.: recommending the encouragement of the cultivation of sugar in our dominions in the East Indies, as the ... and general abolition of the slave-trade
James Cropper
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This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection

Ninth Census of Canada - 1951 - Neuvieme Recensement Du Canada: Volume VII (Seven) - Distribution, Retail Trade

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Ninth Census of Canada - 1951 - Neuvieme Recensement Du Canada: Volume VII (Seven) - Distribution, Retail Trade
Canada Dominion Bureau of Statistics - Bureau Federal De La Statistique
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Ninth Census of Canada - 1951 - Neuvieme Recensement Du Canada: Volume VIII (Eight) - Distribution, Wholesale Trade, Services

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Ninth Census of Canada - 1951 - Neuvieme Recensement Du Canada: Volume VIII (Eight) - Distribution, Wholesale Trade, Services
Canada Dominion Bureau of Statistics - Bureau Federal De La Statistique
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Choice Magazine Best Academic Titles of 1999

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Northern Flights: Tracking the Birds and Birders of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Sheryl De Vore
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Choice Magazine Best Academic Titles of 1999.......2000-02-07

A feature that sets this book apart from other birding guides is DeVore's breadth of expertise, which she uses to enliven and enrich the landscape. We are given a readable description of the last million years of geologic history in the area, as well as loads of fascinating information on the natural and human history of the Great Lake. An accessible book for general readers, undergraduate and graduate students, professionals, and two-year technical program students. D. Flaspohler, Michigan Technological University

Superb description and a plea to save the UP ecosystem.......1999-08-07

Many scientists, ecologists and volunteers have devoted their lives to study our feathered friends in the UP. Each has carved a niche, tracking, devotedly observing one or a few species, and illuminating another small piece of the web. Now, Sheryl DeVore, a birder with a keen eye and ear, a deep knowledge of her subject, and the ability to tell and describe, shines more light. The UP is a birder's paradise. So it is here -- to Whitefish Point, the Porcupines, Seney, the Hiawatha and Otttawa National Forests that dedicated researchers come to understand the extent of damage we have caused these creatures and to determine how we can help restore their numbers and health. Review written by Chuck Hutchcraft, former editor of the Chicago Tribune

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