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Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape
George Seddon
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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This is a series of essays about the ways in which landscape is constructed, managed and designed. The essays attempt a synthesis that ranges from the physical and biophysical through land use to perception and cultural and linguistic analysis. The landscapes of Australia are challenging in that its culture, essentially European in origin, is both immensely enriching yet, because generated in an environment vastly different from that of Australia, disabling. This requires a dual allegiance and competing loyalties and demands, often difficult to resolve.
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Australian Studies, published by University of Queensland Press on June 1, 1999. The length of the article is 819 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: George Seddon, Landprints, Reflections on Place and Landscape.(Book Review)
Author: Jane Lennon
Publication:
Journal of Australian Studies (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1999
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Issue: 61
Page: 201(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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Customer Reviews:
Buckeye Must Read.......2007-01-31
If you are a tried and true Buckeye Football fan you need to read this book. An unbelievable set of stories from the famous and not so famous stars of the past. If you wish to read about what it was like to play under the coaching staff over the years this book is a must read. Most interesting is how Woody Hayes is portrayed by his players. One mistake does not a life make, and Woody Hayes is given his due here. As a big fan of Jim Tressel, and his outlook on coaching, I would have wished more content on how Coach Tressel handles (more like juggles) the coaching of a top notch program within the NCAA. I guess you cannot expect everything, but to a man I was happy to read each story.
A must for every Buckeye fan!.......2003-12-31
This a must for every Buckeye fan. Ohio State is the greatest tradition in college football...period! This is not just from the fan's point of view...the former players tell it best!
A Must for Buckeye Fans.......2003-09-26
This is a great idea for a book, get some of the greatest players ever that played Football at Ohio State and let them tell stories about what it's like to be a Buckeye football player. There are great stories about how they were recuited, the big games ,their team mates, and most of all coach Woody Hayes and what an impact he left on all their lives. I can't wait for a 2nd addition there are still many big name players and coaches who could contribute. Thanks Jeff Snook for a great book!
Amazon.com
The mystery, like other stories, relies on believable characters, a strong narrative, and crisp prose. But it is also "a way of examining the dark side of human nature," says Writing Mysteries editor Sue Grafton. The book's 37 contributors ponder everything from brainstorming ideas to dealing with editors. Jeremiah Healy jump-starts the book with a piece that considers the unwritten "rules" of mystery writing. Stuart Kaminsky discusses research--experts, it turns out, are just waiting for you to contact them--and Sandra Scoppettone discusses vivid villains. Sara Paretsky contemplates the pitfalls of using a recurring hero, and Michael Connelly contributes a fine piece on characterization. "The best crime novels," Connelly says, "are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective." Other chapters focus on amateur sleuths, convincing dialogue, depiction of violence, and specialty genres. The book's short chapters form a sort of mystery writer's antipasti plate. Some won't resonate, while others will leave you wishing you had a larger serving. An ideal primer for mystery writers. --Jane Steinberg
Book Description
Writing mystery fiction can be a special kind of puzzle. In this new, revised edition of the Mystery Writers of America classic, Sue Grafton weaves the experience of today's top mystery authors into a comprehensive mystery writing "how-to." Writers will learn how to piece a perfect mystery together and create realistic stories that are taut, immediate and fraught with tension.
The book's contributors include a "who's who" of the mystery writing elite: Faye and Jonathan Kellerman on conducting accurate research; Michael Connelly on mastering characterization; Tony Hillerman on writing without an outline; Lawrence Block on overcoming writer's block; Sara Paretsky on creating successful series characters; Tess Gerritson on writing the medical thriller; Ann Rule on the art of writing true crime. And many more!
Customer Reviews:
Great Help.......2006-08-06
I have other books concerning this subject. What I like about this book is that it contains chapters by different authors. There is nothing like hearing advice from the very authors that you enjoy reading so much.
The ultimate resource for Mystery Writing.......2004-12-22
Mystery Writing is an art in itself. It requires a lot of planning and preparation in order for the mystery story to work. Planting 'red herrings' and false clues in a story is an art that novice writers will have trouble in achieving with their first attempt. That is the reason why this book is so good -- it brings together the creative geniuses in the field of Mystery writing -- and these writers tell you their secrets to producing mystery. Definitely worth the money.
Wide ranging and helpful.......2004-11-12
I found the book to a helpful review of everything from the unwritten rules of writing a mystery through the submission process. Personally, I enjoyed having different people present their views. I can see that it might be annoying if you want just one point of view. My advise is to read whatever section you are interested in and skip sections that you do not care about. Good job!
Having to mine isn't necessarily a bad thing.......2004-09-21
While I agree with the previous poster that one has to do a certain amount of mining with this, and other Writer's Digest anthologies, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. I actually had an opportunity to talk about the book recently with Sue Grafton, who edited it, and she said her goal was to take readers from idea through publication, employing the voices of experts in each area. For example, the chapter on series characters is written by Sara Paretsky, whose V.I. Warshawski is a classic demonstration of what she's talking about. In all, I enjoyed and appreciated the disparate voices perhaps more than I might have appreciated the same advice in a monolithic voice.
Empty advice - scrambled eggs with not enough ham.......2004-06-15
A favorite device of the Writer's Digest Books imprint is to collect a couple dozen magazine articles under some organizational headings, add an introduction by a well-known genre name (Sue Grafton, in this case), and publish it as a book. I've found these collections to be uniformly unsatisfying, short on real how-to information and long on shopworn cliches. Writing Mysteries is no exception.
The biggest failing of Writing Mysteries is that, regardless of what the table of contents promises, it presents no real strategy for approaching the complex task of planning and writing a book-length manuscript. Many of the chapters were clearly written to fill magazine column space. They cover topics that have been covered elsewhere time after weary time, too often in an off-hand or precious manner, and they tend to give empty advice - where do you get ideas? anywhere; do you use an outline? sometimes; and on and on. Worse, many of the chapters are rambling and poorly organized, and some deal only tangentially with the topic announced in the chapter title (or subheading).
There are useful tips here, but you have to mine the whole mountain to find the nuggets. You'd do better to purchase a single-author, comprehensive guide to writing mysteries. You'll get those nuggets of writing wisdom, along with a lot more actual how-to information.
Customer Reviews:
Good advice, but not very user-friendly.......2000-11-18
This is a kind of "anthology" reference book on writing modern mysteries for want-to-be authors. Everything from where to look for inspiration, building a good plot, mastering ambience and effective character and dialogue development is here. What is also here - and very much present - is, in fact, the influence of crime writers. For example, the first chapter discusses the general "rules" for writing a mystery. I find it too partial to the modern, American crime writers, depecting the use of violence, certain cities, etc.; as the optimal places to write mysteries about.
Other writers, like Tony Hillerman, who writes mysteries about the Navajo indians, writes a kind of pedantic chapter, very much geared towards people like him, who are established writers; but that the novice can find discouraging.
I find the most helpful, and best written chapter of all is one of the last ones, written by Ruth Gavin, a mystery editor; where she tells exactly what an editor is looking for in a mystery and what the readers are looking for as well. She definitely helps the first time writer to get published.
I find the traditional, cozy or not, British mystery the most enticing, entertaining and relaxing. If you are this kind of writer, this book is not going to appeal much to you. Although I would still reccomend you browse it, I suggest "You can write a mystery", by Gillian Roberts. On the other hand, if you are a Sue Grafton fan - who, by the way, is the editor of this book -, and you also like Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum; you will find this volume very appealing.
Very good handbook for the novice mystery writer........1998-04-05
Novice writers of this genre and those who just love to read mystery books will get a lot from this book. The essayists are all published writers of the genre who give expert advice with excellent examples to guide the reader toward better understanding.
Customer Reviews:
not a how-to, but a very good tool.......2006-07-30
Anyone hoping for a mystery recipe book will be dissapointed. This book won't tell you how to write a mystery story, but it will inspire some creativity and hopefully calm some worries (especially for those like myself who haven't done much mystery writing).
I picked up a copy from the "new & used" section of this site for only $.75. That's a steal for a book of this quality.
A Great General Book, Geared to the Mystery Writer.......2004-08-30
I am really sorry to see that this book is now about to be out of print, has limited availability in the U.S.! Luckily, it can still be obtained used through Amazon and many other booksellers.
I am starting a mystery, and found this book full of good advice. What it is not full of, however, is "nuts and bolts" type of advice. It is full of "general" advice from various mystery writers.
A number of writers talk about the importance of planning a writing a whole series, if you are just starting out. Many of them mention the importance of reading a lot in the genre. The technique of outlining three or four books mystery books that YOU like (by summarizing each chapter in three or four sentences) will teach you a lot about how to put together a mystery.
The other contributors each have something unique to say. The book is broken into eight chapters, as follows, with two-to-five author contributors of articles for each chapter: Getting Started, Plot and Structure, Creativity, Character, Setting, Writing the PI Short Story, Stretching the Boundaries, and From the Editor's Desk. Personally, I found one article on Trans-Gender Writing in the book to be particularly helpful.
This is a great general book, geared to the mystery writer.
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Joe Leaphorn, former Navajo tribal police lieutenant, is not a happy retiree. So when his successor asks him to look into how a young Hopi named Billy Tuve came by a valuable diamond the boy tried to pawn for a fraction of its worth, Joe finds himself involved in a five decade old mystery. It dates back to a plane crash in the Grand Canyon, one that took the life of a man whose putative daughter also has an interest in the diamond; it could lead her to her father's remains, from which she hopes to extract enough DNA to establish her birthright. For good measure, Hillerman adds a couple of villains determined to beat her to the site of the crash, a cache of other diamonds long since given up for lost in the Canyon's watery depths, and a Hopi ritual that's kept the site secret for years. It's a good yarn, well but twice told; Hillerman sets it up in a chronologically confusing opening chapter, in which Joe spins the story for a couple of former law-enforcement colleagues--not just to entertain or enlighten them but to demonstrate what he calls his "Navajo belief in universal connections. The cause leads to inevitable effect. The entire cosmos being an infinitely complicated machine all working together."
Hillerman is a name-brand writer with a huge and well deserved following. His evocation of the landscape of the Southwest is as compelling as it ever was, and many familiar characters from the other 18 novels in this prize-winning series appear here, notably Sergeant Jim Chee and border patrol officer Bernie Manuelito, the woman Chee hopes to marry. Joe Leaphorn remains his most fully-realized protagonist; his perspective on life, destiny, and the sometimes uneasy truce between Native Americans and whites gives this series a unique place in the genre. But as evidenced by his latest, Hillerman's hero needs more than a retired duffer's memories to keep him vital and alive, even for his most dedicated fans. --Jane Adams
Book Description
Former Navajo Tribal Police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simpleminded kid nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee. He needs help, and Chee and his fiancée, Bernie Manuelito, decide to provide it.
Proving the kid's innocence requires finding the remains of one of 172 people whose bodies were scattered among the cliffs of the Grand Canyon in an epic airline disaster fifty years in the past. That passenger had handcuffed to his wrist an attaché case filled with a fortune in diamonds -- one of which seems to have turned up in the robbery.
But with Hillerman, it can't be that simple. The daughter of the long-dead diamond dealer is also seeking his body. So is a most unpleasant fellow, willing to kill to make sure she doesn't succeed. It's a race to the finish in a thunderous monsoon to see who will survive, who will be brought to justice, and who will finally unearth the Skeleton Man.
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Hailed as ""a wonderful storyteller"" by the New York Times, and a ""national and literary cultural sensation"" by the Los Angeles Times, bestselling author Tony Hillerman is back with another blockbuster novel featuring the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee.
Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simple-minded kid nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee. He needs help and Chee, and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito, decide to provide it.
Proving the kid's innocence requires finding the remains of one of 172 people whose bodies were scattered among the cliffs of the Grand Canyon in an epic airline disaster 50 years in the past. That passenger had handcuffed to his wrist an attaché case filled with a fortune in -- one of which seems to have turned up in the robbery.
But with Hillerman, it can't be that simple. The daughter of the long-dead diamond dealer is also seeking his body. So is a most unpleasant fellow willing to kill to make sure she doesn't succeed. These two tense tales collide deep in the canyon at the place where an old man died trying to build a cult reviving reverence for the Hopi guardian of the Underworld. It's a race to the finish in a thunderous monsoon storm to see who will survive, who will be brought to justice, and who will finally unearth the Skeleton Man. "
Customer Reviews:
A disapointing book.......2007-06-25
I've read all the previous Chee-Leaphorn books and I've thoroughly enjoyed them. Up until now. Hillerman's previous books were sometimes a bit clumsy but the story and Navajo culture kept me involved. This time, the story simply became too tedious and the errors in the text became too irritating. A little over halfway through this book, I stopped reading it and I never returned.
Not since reading "Finding Moon" by Hillerman have I been so disappointed. In "Finding Moon", it appeared Hillerman lost interest in the story and ended the book abruptly. In "Skeleton Man", Hillerman began the book with a confusing first chapter and continued to confuse. For instance, the character Tuve said he traded a military entrenching tool (a type of shovel) for his diamond and, in the story told by the old storekeeper, the cowboy traded a knife. Later in the book, however, Tuve was referred to as trading a "fancy jackknife" for the diamond. I think Hillerman confused himself. Also, the basis of the book seems to be flawed--I, like a previous reviewer, thought DNA could be traced through generations rather than just from parent to child. And, worst of all for me as a Hillerman fan, the Chee and Leaphorn characters simply bored me to tears in this book.
As stated, I did not finish the book. At some point I decided my time was worth more than "Skeleton Man" had to offer. Very disappointing.
A Grand Escape.......2007-05-17
We all pass around the Hillerman mysteries in my family. I read this one the other day--and I couldn't put it down, as usual. Having just driven through the Southwest, I found myself absorbed by his descriptions of the Grand Canyon's geology, plants and animals, as well as his insight into the Navajo and Hopi philosophies. I agree with some of the critics, however, that the repetition of some of the diamond storyline was overkill, and that it was surprising that the heiress would get away with attempted murder after he had portrayed her as unhinged. A thought just occurred to me: While Hillerman explains much about the sacred, secret journey one of the Hopi protagonists takes down into the Grand Canyon, there's little exploration of the meaning of bones and DNA in the American Indian mindset. That could have been an interesting discussion for the book, too.
In the end, it was gripping and satisfying diversion, as always. And I'm glad Chee's getting hitched. It's about time.
Western lore 10, suspense 5. mystery 0.......2007-03-06
As always, I did enjoy reading this Hillerman, but it was disappointing in several respects:
1. Length. When you have to print the book in Bookman Old Style to make it adequately bulky for the newsstand, it's a novella, not a novel.
2. Mystery. None. Back in the day, there was always a mystery to be solved. Sometimes it was somewhat baffling, sometimes quite transparent, but there was always something. No mystery at all in this book.
3. Suspense. Not up to Hillerman's usual chilling standard.
4. Characters. Not enough Joe Leaphorn. Cardboard villain. Female semi-villain a nut case and allowed to skate on a major misdeed. A little too much pre-wedding rumination by Bernie Manuelito. But Jim Chee and Cowboy Dashee were excellent as usual.
5. Plot. Somewhat contrived and, as another reviewer has pointed out, also a bit repetitive because of having to keep all the players up to date on the state of play. Some clues are laid out but never lead anywhere, not even to dead ends. But:
6. Indian and Western lore and Grand Canyon geology and geography. Superb, as always, and worth the read for that alone.
Summary: Tony, as a huge fan, can we please, please go back to the Good Old Days and have a mystery worthy of the Grand Master you are? Thanks, Dave
Skeleton Man.......2007-01-10
Love anything by Tony Hillerman. Great suspense, great character development; great action, obvious respect and love for the Hopi and Navajo peoples. Collecting these as well.
Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito marry, among other things.......2006-12-17
Joe Leaphorn believes in universal connections. He also seeks to restore harmony to his existence as a retired man. He is pleased to be called by his successor in the police force to help solve a mystery. It seems he knew the owner of a trading post who, suffering burglary of his establishment, added to his insurance claim the loss of a diamond. The question is, was there really a diamond, and where had the man obtained such a stone?
In 1956 planes crashed above the Grand Canyon. It was a disaster of considerable dimension. John Clarke, carrying diamonds for the family business, was one of the deaths. His posthumous child, Joanna Craig, seeks to establish through DNA testing her relationship to him. Bradford Chandler, a skip tracer, has been hired to oppose the claim of Joanna Craig and to find the diamonds and the bones of Clarke.
Jim Chee, Bernie Manuelito and Cowboy Dashee want to discover the truth of the matter on behalf of Dashee's cousin, Billy Tuve, who is being held for his alleged involvement in a robbery-murder of a jewelry store. His involvement is posited on his possession of a diamond. Both the diamond of the trading post owner and that of Billy Tuve seem to orginate from the same place and may be two of those held by John Clarke, passenger of one of the airliners in the 1956 crash.
The story shows considerable ingenuity in the weaving of the Indian lore into the plot amidst the brilliant collection of characters the author has developed for his books about the Navajo Police Force.
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