Customer Reviews:
Cruel and outdated........2007-10-14
This is one cruel woman (as another reviewer mentions, she does advise the canine equivalent of water boarding to correct digging behavior). You can find a training book to give you permission to do the most horrid things imaginable to dogs (and other animals), if that's what floats your boat. Some trainers recommend hanging bossy dogs until they pass out! If, on the other hand, you are a humane person, skip this and go read Pryor's _Don't Shoot the Dog_. Train your dogs through reinforcement and behavior modification (operant conditioning). Love them, listen to them, observe them, challenge them. It's timimg, consistency and patience. My dogs stop digging if I calmly say "don't dig there." And no near-drowning experience was necessary teach them that. Just a smile and a "good dog" when they stop the offendng behavior.
Nice prose is no excuse for abusive training tactics.......2007-09-25
Adam'Task was one of the first books I purchased in my quest to understand how best to communicate with and instill safe, acceptable behaviors in a dog I rescued in the Hawaiian Islands and brought home to the West Coast.
The author's poetic way with words and nice prose should not lull readers into using cruel tactics to teach their companion animals.
This book stirred misgivings in me, and it should in you. I assume most readers agree (at least I hope they do) that cruelty to an animal, especially a beloved companion animal, is inexcusable.
The author describes with humor how to train a dog not to dig holes in her garden....by shoving her dog's head into a hole full of muddy water, nearly drowning the dog. This is only one example. And it should serve as a red flag to the reader, no matter how prettily the author uses words.
This example of how to teach a dog not to dig holes is not communication or training by a person who respects how animals feel (I hope most readers agree animals have feelings). This is cruelty by a bully.
If I had been Hearn's dog in that situation, I would have bitten her....hard....and would probably have paid with my life.
There are a great many books by other authors, who write about animals' emotions.
I recommend the following authors because they write with deep respect for the animals they observe and communicate with and train and because they give concrete examples of how to teach your companion animal acceptable behaviors without resorting to abuse and bullying tactics:
Marc Bekoff and Jane Goodall, THE EMOTIONAL LIVES OF ANIMALS: a LEADING SCIENTIST EXPLORES ANIMAL JOY, SORROW, & EMPATHY - AND WHY THEY MATTER;
Patricia B. McConnell, FOR THE LOVE OF A DOG: UNDERSTANDING EMOTION IN YOU AND YOUR BEST FRIEND;
Trish King, PARENTING YOUR DOG;
Suzanne Clothier, IF A DOG'S PRAYERS WERE ANSWERED, BONES WOULD RAIN FROM THE SKY;
Stanley Coren, HOW DOGS THINK
Brenda Aloff, CANINE BODY LANGUAGE: INTERPRETING THE NATIVE LANGUAGE OF THE DOMESTIC DOG.
Waste of time.......2007-06-13
Adam's task offers an incoherent and ridiculously anthromorphized philosophical take on relations with animals. Her distain towards pet owners in general is an attitude likely to be unpalatable to most readers. The author believes that positive training, such as using treats in training a dog, will cause the dog to feel insulted and to 'lose respect' for the human. In lieu of positive training, she promotes borderline-abusive training, such as shoving a dog's head in a hole to reduce the dog's digging behavior. Don't waste your time with this one!
A Brilliant Book.......2007-03-09
In Donald McCaig's new introduction to this wonderful book, he tells of his reaction to first reading Vicki Hearne's writing: "I felt like some homesick exile startled by a voice singing brilliantly in my native tongue." What an apt description! Hearne's writing style is as unique and refreshing as her perspective on animal training. This book is a luminous mingling of literary criticism, science, philosophy, and animal psychology-- a real treat to read.
The message is more important than the method.......2007-01-28
Vicki Hearne looked at animals in a way few humans do. With careful thought, deep consideration and the willingness to ask a question... and listen for the answer.
Although some are quick to discount this book because of some tangential thoughts and what would, in today's age of positive-reinforcement-is-the-norm training methods, be considered "barbaric" training methods, don't let the reviews turn you away. An individual who reads their own emotions into Vicki's brutally honest accounts of her training experiences is being unfair.
Vicki's thought-provoking book about what really constitutes language, communication, society and community in the context of our lives with animals is a graceful exploration of the unanswered questions in one woman's life.
All one must do to train an animal, or train onesself, is to say what you mean, and mean what you say. Vicki deserves a commendation on her composition if for no other reason than she boldly asserts her experiences because they are true, and she means every word she says to any person or animal. That is true respect, regardless of the methods used.
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No matter what your budget or whether it's your first trip or fifteenth, Fodor's Gold Guides get you where you want to go. In this completely up-to-date guide our experts who live in Vancouver and British Columbia give you the inside track, showing you all the things to see and do ? from must-see sights to off-the-beaten-path adventures, from shopping to outdoor fun. Fodor's Vancouver and British Columbia 2003 shows you hundreds of hotel and restaurant choices in all price ranges ? from budget-friendly B&Bs to luxury hotels, from casual eateries to the hottest new restaurants, complete with thorough reviews showing what makes each place special. The Smart Travel Tips A to Z section helps you take care of the nitty gritty with essential local contacts and great advice ? from how to take your mountain bike with you to what to do in an emergency. Plus, web links and mix-and-match itineraries make planning a snap.
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The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, more often than not they left their bones to bleach beside forest paths or on the banks of the Ohio River, victims of Indians who claimed the vast virgin territory and strove to turn back the growing tide of whites. These frontiersmen are the subjects of Allan Eckert's dramatic history.
Against the background of such names as George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone, Arthur St. Clair, Anthony Wayne, Simon Girty and William Henry Harrison, Eckert has recreated the life of one of America's most outstanding heroes, Simon Kenton. Kenton's role in opening the Northwest Territory to settlement more than rivaled that of his friend Daniel Boone. By his eighteenth birthday, Kenton had already won frontier renown as woodsman, fighter and scout. His incredible physical strength and endurance, his great dignity and innate kindness made him the ideal prototype of the frontier hero.
Yet there is another story to The Frontiersmen. It is equally the story of one of history's greatest leaders, whose misfortune was to be born to a doomed cause and a dying race. Tecumseh, the brilliant Shawnee chief, welded together by the sheer force of his intellect and charisma an incredible Indian confederacy that came desperately close to breaking the thrust of the white man's westward expansion. Like Kenton, Tecumseh was the paragon of his people's virtues, and the story of his life, in Allan Eckert's hands, reveals most profoundly the grandeur and the tragedy of the American Indian.
No less importantly, The Frontiersmen is the story of wilderness America itself, its penetration and settlement, and it is Eckert's particular grace to be able to evoke life and meaning from the raw facts of this story. In The Frontiersmen not only do we care about our long-forgotten fathers, we live again with them.
Researched for seven years, The Frontiersmen is the first in Mr. Eckert's "The Winning of America" series.
Customer Reviews:
Writing at its best.......2007-10-08
If you like compelling writing that generates a lightning bolt narrative about manifest destiny and those who were major players in this exciting but heart breaking game, this book is for you. I also recommend another thunder storm of a book: Walking the Trail, One Man's Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tears by Cherokee author Jerry Ellis. He was the first person in the modern world to WALK the 900 mile route of the Trail of Tears and the book was nominated for a Pulitzer and National Book Award.
Couldn't Put It Down.......2007-08-27
This was a great read. Once I started I couldn't put it down. I plan on reading the other 5 books by Allan Eckert. It takes you back to pure human nature and puts you in touch with yourself. You have to ask how you would respond to the situations encountered by these brave frontiersmen. I'm telling most of my friends about this book.
The Frontiersmen.......2007-08-15
A very powerful and informative historical narrative of some of the personalities that shaped the settlement of this country ;from the perspective of Simon Kenton. A "must read" !
What a book!.......2007-07-28
I can't decide which I like better, this book or Eckert's 'Dark and Bloody River', but they are both MUST READ's for any history fan. For even a casual reader this book will hold your attention, and provide you with a facinating insight into our nation's history.
My All Time Favorite Historical Narrative !!!!.......2007-06-05
This is a fantastic book if you love Early American Historical Narratives which I love. I first read this book about twenty years ago, and recently read it again. The author's foot notes and reference material allow you to really dive into the time period of the book!
Customer Reviews:
Good Read, Amazing Life.......2005-12-02
I highly recommend this biography for older children (15+) or anyone interested in the early American history. It is about Tecumseh, a Shawnee warrior in the Ohio territory in western America during the period from 1768 to 1812. He was witness to the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
The book reads like a colorful novel with plenty of "amplification" notes for extra historical detail. Life was rough in those days for Indians and settlers. There was a lot of distrust on both sides. During this time England, France and America are vying for control of the new world and the various Indian tribes were in the middle of it all. Much of the story takes place in locations familiar to many of us; Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois for example.
It is the story of Tecumseh's amazing life and his efforts to unite native Americans to defend all Indians against the white settlers and their government. It is brutal at times.
The narrative is told from the perspective of the Indian. But I found Eckert to deal pretty evenly with both sides. That was one of the reasons I enjoyed the book so much. Indians and whites both had their fair share good and evil characters. Hope you check it out!
Here is a quote that I really liked:
"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home."
Chief Tecumseh, Shawnee Nation
great book about great man.......2004-04-21
I have a new hero. I recently came across this excellent biography of the great Indian leader Tecumseh, and I'm stunned. First, by Tecumseh. This brilliant warrior and visionary understood that civilization is insatiable, and that one must never make peace with the culture that uses any means necessary to kill the indigenous, and to kill the land. This is a powerful account of necessary resistance to the depredations of the dominant culture.
I'm stunned also by the writing. Allan W. Eckert is an extraordinary writer, and tells Tecumseh's story beautifully and movingly. The book is very hard to put down.
A Masterpiece of Algonquin Historical Writing.......2001-11-21
Eckert's A Sorrow in Our Hearts is nothing short of a masterpiece, and will assuredly stand the test of time, perhaps as no other "Native American" history book before it. I have read many hundreds of books on Algonquin history, and nothing I have seen comes close to A Sorrow In Our Hearts in being fair to the individuals involved. Eckert's portrayal of Tunskwatawa as a misguided opportunist may irritate some, but it holds together as the most credible explanation of how things turned out. I turn to this volume over and over again and it never ceases to amaze me the amount of useful information that it contains. It maintains a high level of historical accuracy without losing the mystical feeling of standing in Tecumseh's presence, seeing the world through his eyes, and the bracing sense of strength, courage and upliftment that those around him must have felt. If there were a sixth star to award this book, I would not hesitate to add it to my review.
I have stood by that battlefield where he died and heard the accounts of his demise and burial from a descendant of those who were there and I sense the greatness of the man, and somehow Eckert has managed to do him justice through a medium that is not always compatible with the Algonquin way, and it makes me feel that sorrow to which he refers. We all must die sooner or later, but Tecumseh was still a young man (younger than I am now) when he died at the battle of the Thames. When I am buried, let them lay me to rest with only a well worn copy of Eckert's A Sorrow In Our Hearts in my hands.
Evan Pritchard
Professor of Native American History, Marist College
author of Native New Yorkers, The Remarkable Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York;
No Word For Time, the Way of the Algonquin People, etc.
One of Eckert's Best.......2001-09-27
"A Sorrow In Our Heart" is definately one of Eckert's best historical novels, right next to "The Frontiersmen" and "Dark and Bloody River". It, of course, tells the story of the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, who has been hailed by many as the greatest Indian leader of all time. Tecumseh came closer than any other before or after him to saving his people from total destruction by the whites on the eastern frontier in the early 19th century. In the end, Tecumseh's death is not just a loss in the Indians' long struggle against the Americans, it signals the death knell for their way of life, as their defeat in the War of 1812 sealed their fate on the North American continent. A great and a wonderfully entertaining book, history has never been so hard to put down.
EXCELLENT book.......2001-05-19
This is an amazing true story woven expertly by Eckert!
Customer Reviews:
Graphic Adaptation of the Allan Eckert Drama.......2002-06-14
This is Timothy Truman's beautiful graphic novel adaptation of Alan Eckert's outdoor drama Tecumseh! which is performed every summer in Chillicothe, OH. It is based on the life of the Shawnee leader Tecumseh and tells the story of the rise and fall of this great Indian hero and his ambitious plan to unite the eastern woodland tribes in a final war to remove the threat of white expansion into the trans-Alleghany west. Truman has done a number of other wonderful graphic novels relating to this period and this one is just as great. If you can get ahold of a copy, buy it.
Book Description
Johnny Logan was born Spemica Lawba, a Shawnee. Taken prisoner as a boy when his village was destroyed by an army under General Benjamin Logan, he is adopted by Logan. Later returned to his people, Johnny Logan becomes a spy for the Americans in the War of 1812 and gives up his life to prove his loyalty to the Americans.
Customer Reviews:
Johnny Logan.......2007-05-12
I recieved the book in the time promised, and it was in good condition!
Another Fine Eckert Historical Novel.......2005-02-24
Allan Eckert's "Johnny Logan: Shawnee Spy" tells the story of a Shawnee Indian boy named Spemica Lawba and his brief but interesting role in history.
Born in 1774 to the older sister of Tecumseh in the Shawnee's central Ohio village of Chillicothe, Spemica Lawba is thrust into a world turned upside down for the Indians who are desperately fighting for their land and for their very survival against an ever increasing flood of white settlers pouring into the Ohio Country. An American militia force from Kentucky, led by General Benjamin Logan, attacks Chillicothe in 1786, burning the town to the ground and taking the young Spemica Lawba prisoner. Logan later decides to adopt the Shawnee and gives him the name Johnny Logan. Following the end of hostilities in the Ohio Valley, Johnny is returned to his native people, but soon finds himself at odds with his former family. When Tecumseh begins to stir up the tribes against the United States before the outbreak of the War of 1812, Johnny decides to prove his loyalty to the Americans by serving as a spy against his own people.
Eckert's historical novels are always good and a delight to read. They also can help to introduce little known history to a much wider audience. This book was long out of print, but is thankfully available again. Recommended as an addition to his Winnging of America series, and to his great books "Dark and Bloody River" and "A Sorrow in Our Hearts".
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Tecumseh!: A play,
Allan W Eckert
Manufacturer: Little, Brown
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Tecumseh!: A play,
Allan W Eckert
Manufacturer: Little, Brown
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Tecumseh! is a playscript in two acts of the life of the famous Shawnee warrior, Tecumseh, depicting his nearly successful efforts to draw all the tribes into a union to oppose and oust encroaching whites, and his betrayal by his brother, which thwarted the plan; and finally his death in the Battle of the Thames during the War of 1812.
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