Book Description
A companion volume to the popular Animal Planet television series, Big Cat Diaries, which explores the history, biology, behavior, conservation, and survival of big cats inside and outside Kenya's 600-square-mile Masai Mara Game Reserve. With their stunning color photographs and fascinating, first-hand narration, these companion books offer a rare insight into the lives of these magnificent animals. Series titles include:
Lion,
Cheetah, and
Leopard.
Customer Reviews:
Big Cat Diary: Cheetah.......2006-08-17
Love the book and the fast service. I love all of the books that Jonathan Scott has written. I just wish in the US that we could still see the Big Cat Diary Series.
Leopards rule and rock! No doubt about it! .......2005-07-18
I love this book! Leopards are my # 4 favorite animals of all time topped only by jaguars, tigers, and of course lions. I think they are both cool and beautiful. I loved all the ones in here, most definitely the female ones. They were the most cool and beautiful. The only bad part was any of them getting hurt or killed, but other than that this book rocked! The cubs were cute, also. And boy, did I ever learn a lot about lions and hyenas as well as leopards. Like I said, this is a terrific book. I own it at home and will own it until my dying day. I highly reccomend it to anyone over the age of 12. Man, oh man, Amazon.com, you keep up making books like this.
Book Description
Devoted campers, hikers, boaters, anglers, bikers, and golfers agree: Foghorn Outdoors guidebooks are essential for anyone who wants to spend less time planning and more time enjoying the outdoors. Each book is an excursion guide packed with the latest information on a variety of adventures near and far. Foghorn Outdoors: Northern California Biking features 150 of the most scenic routes in regions such as the San Francisco Bay Area, Mendocino, Wine Country, Tahoe, Yosemite, and Big Sur. Also highlighted are rides for mountain bikers, road cyclists, and recreational riders of all abilities, including those pulling trailers or sporting training wheels. Each route is rated for level of difficulty, terrain, mileage, estimated riding time, and elevation gain; and every ride description includes a route map, elevation profile, and a black and white photo. Mile-by-mile route details include where to stop for water, groceries, cafes, picnics, parks, short hikes, historic sites, and more. Additional advice offers tips on equipment and clothing, rules of the road and trail, bike maintenance tips, and a listing of regional bike shops.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent!.......2007-09-10
Gobs of information! This book didn't leave me on an abandoned trial that is blocked by a new housing development like SOME BOOKS. Recommended!
An excellent resource.......2007-07-11
This book organizes all of its road rides and off-road rides together in 8 geographic areas in Northern California, and includes difficulty ratings, distance, time, elevation profile, map, directions and useful descriptions for each ride. What I like best is the author's lists of "best" bike rides in 12 different categories, such as Best Oceanfront Rides, Best Rides for Wildlife Viewing, and Best Rides to Waterfalls, among others. It covers more routes than any other bike guide I've seen or owned.
very handy indeed.......2004-02-03
I am an avid biker (http://www.sujee.net/outdoors/biking/) and this book has found a permanant place in my camel-back! I have read/bought my share of biking books in Northern california. But I liked this one better b/c
A) rides are clearly classified mountain or road : this seems trivial, but more than once I had turned up to a trail with my road bike, just to find out the trail is not paved / dirt.
B) Every ride has clearly marked 'how to get there' 'difficulty' and 'elevation maps', etc.
C) All rides are neatly catogorized into locations and a very easy to use reference / Table of Contents
D) Plenty of rides for every level. Most of them have a little 'insider tips' as well.
Customer Reviews:
Great book for intermediate riders.......2001-04-11
This book has lots of interesting and easy-to-medium routes submitted by individual cyclists, including road and off-road trails. My wife and I have enjoyed the rides in this book much more than the ones in Grob's book, which are often too ambitious. We recently lost our copy on a tour, and ordered a replacement because we missed it so much! One pet peeve is that the distances are sometimes off by a few miles, making the directions a little hazy, but this only happened in a few of the rides we tried.
a good book....for begineers.......2000-02-07
I am an advanced biker, I found this book to be much more for begineers, and also, it does not give you very many tips, I have tried aalmost half the rides in this book and i found that only 25% of them were actually okay. If you are advanced, like me, i don't suggest you buy this book, if you are begineer-medium biker, i suggest you can get it.
Customer Reviews:
A great guide to riding some of the best Terrain our there........2001-04-01
As a 27 year resident of Northern California, I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by some of the trails I found in this book. The trail coverage is broad as Northern California is not a small place. This book outlines some of the best trails throughout Santa Cruz, San Jose, San Franciso, and all the way up to the California-Oregon border. I look forward to riding some of the far Northern California trails that are outlined in this book.
Excellent trail guide!.......1998-06-10
This book covers Northern California trails in pretty good detail. The book does a good job of covering the famous trails and covering some less well known backcountry trails that even locals may not know about. The directions to the trail heads are usually pretty good. The trail directions are sometimes out of date and a little vague, but usually good enough to keep from getting lost. Overall, I definitely recommed it!
Book Description
From the Redwood forests of northern California to the mountains around Lake Tahoe, this land was made for mountain biking. With so much to explore, it pays to have the inside scoop to the fate-tire trails in this region, Mountain Bike! Northern California gives mountain bikers a leg up to the most unforgettable rides in this area. Some of the trail profiled include: Grasshopper Peak Loop, Clickapudi Trail, Manly Gulch Loop, American River Bike Path, Bullards Bar Loop, Sardine Valley Loop, Angora Lakes Out-and-Back, Mt. Diablo-Mitchell Canyon Loop, Henry Cole Middle Ridge Loop, and Monterey Recreation Trail.
Customer Reviews:
My Bible to Mountain Biking in Northern California.......2005-04-08
This book rocks. If you want adventure, then go with the recommendations in this book. It will never fail you.
The writting is very easy and pleasant to read, and the layout is done by regions. The trail descriptions are very detailed. After visiting a region and biking a trail you will feel that the author has not left anything unsaid. This book is a compilation of her experiences trail biking in Nor. Cal. What really surprised me was that she listed trails that were even esoteric to locals and people who were supposed to be familiar with the area.
Great eclectic collection of trails. Enjoy!
Life After Being A Ski Bum.......2004-03-17
If you are interested in accomplishing nothing in your life then grab this book. It is irrefutable evidence that you too can live a meaningles life, bumming around California, after having flopped in Europe and Colorado. A sappy memoir posing as a guide to adventure.
The best guidebook available.......2000-12-26
This is by far the best Northern California Mtn Bike guidebook on the market. It is the easiest to use, the most comprehensive, and the most diverse of all the books out there. The book is laid out incredibly well. All of the 100 rides listed are sorted by region, by difficulty, by scenery, and even by whether or not they are family and kid freindly. The maps are detailed enough to give you a good orientation once you arrive at the ride, without being so detailed that you get lost just trying to read it. The written directions provide more detail, and cover virtually everything that you need to know in order to hop on the saddle. Every level and style of rider will be pleasantly surprised by how well this book addresses their specific needs and concerns. So far I've taken 4 of the recommended rides, all of which were exactly as the book promised. This guide is the most used book in our house, and will continue to be until I've exhausted all the rides that I'm interested in. The only thing I haven't been impressed with are the less than spectacular black and white photos. But if you ignore those, this book is a perfect 10.
Book Description
Roger McGehee spent years searching for the best trails in the northern half of the state. This guide that contains more than 80 rides.
Customer Reviews:
Visuals packed with the most pertinent information.......2004-08-04
Of the three major mountain biking guides that cover Northern California the Falcon Guide is my favorite. Despite having fewer rides (67 versus the other two which each have a hundred) the trail information is presented in such a way to allow for efficient trail selection and detailed understanding of the trail's difficulty. Each ride is accompanied by a map depicting where in CA it is, a helpful schematic of the trail and an elevation profile of the ride. The books best feature is that each trail does not get a single difficulty score, but the elevation profile is broken up into sections that are each assigned a difficulty category (from 1 to 5). The rides tend to be on the intermediate to advanced side (though some good beginner single track is included) and there are no paved or easy rides (which the other two books include). To date I have found the trailhead directions and trail descriptions to be accurate and lively.
Book Description
This new edition reflects the author's meticulous attention to detail and dedication to giving cyclists the best possible rides through redwood forests, cypress groves, mountains, and along the coast. Updated information on the particulars of each ride and a revised list of "best" sites for cycling guarantee enjoyable experiences throughout Northern California.
Customer Reviews:
Useful, but could be better..... .......2007-02-03
This is a useful book for any cyclist, but especially for people who want a nice easy ride. It covers scenic routes in Northern California including in the Tahoe, SF Bay, Foothills, Mt. Shasta area and several others. Each ride is given a brief description, a difficulty rating, distance, approximate time to complete and a rating of the steepness. There are pictures and maps here and there, but there could be more. If you enjoy scenic bike rides that are relatively short, you will get a lot of use out of this book. However, many of the areas have changed rapidly over the last few years and you may find the rides somewhat different than what you expected. I know it's difficult to keep up with progress in California, but I think the author tends to be overly optimistic and doesn't mention some of the hassles in various areas caused by building, new growth, etc. If you don't live in CA, this might be a problem if you are planning a vacation around various biking tours.
Tom Stienstra is a great author, but he didn't do this book........1999-10-09
Tom Stienstra has written many excellent outdoor guidebooks, and my favorite is "California Camping" which I use all the time. It's fantastic! But just so you know, he didn't write the book, "Easy Biking in Northern California," though I wish he did because his writing style is one-of-a-kind, and his books are always award winners.
Book Description
Learn to detect and evade surveillance efforts that threaten your personal security. These time-tested tactics of observation, detection and evasion are proven effective against the most sophisticated surveillance techniques used in the world.
Customer Reviews:
You want what you paid for right? You got it!!.......2007-08-18
The title to this book says it all literally. I was skeptical at first and I thought the title was just hype to sell the book but after reading half of it in one setting, I was totally wrong. For the average guy with basic knowledge on the subject, this book is sure to build on that. What I love most about this book is when you read about countermeasures and all that stuff you also learn about the measures taken by operators. It's all how you read the book. This book is very detailed and amusing at the same time. The things people plan against you are very well thought out. The countermeasures are also genius. Once again, the title holds great justice to the material inside. Furthermore, the tactics in this book are still being used today if this helps you when debating on purchasing this book.
its about being followed, but does not cover other surveillance.......2007-07-05
This book is about detecting people who are following you, and observing your activities. It unfortunately does not cover countermeasures to other kinds of surveillance, such as video surveillance, which has become prevelant in our time.
Very detailed and informative.......2006-08-30
Though it can get a bit dry at times, reading this book through is very well worth it. It covers a lot of material, whether it be foiling foot, vehicular, or technical surveillance attempts. Unlike some books that will include a few pages on eluding surveillance, listing techniques like "leave the TV on if you think you're bugged" or "make two right turns if you think you're followed" and leaving it at that, this one will provide you with more discreet and effective ways at accomplishing these goals.
It also offers insight on the mindset of your adversary, the survelliance operative. It is obvious that the authors are very knowledgeable in this field. So if you want to learn how to detect and elude surveillance like a smooth operative, this book is your one-stop solution.
How To Watch Your Backside?.......2000-04-21
In the ever changing "Information Age" in which we exist, more and more of us are voicing concerns about our fear of "Big Brother" and the amount of privacy that we can continue to maintain. With government agencies and pseudo-agencies, as well as more and more online businesses requesting more of our personal data, and storing this info in larger and larger databases, we all should be rightly alarmed and concerned. This book, I find, provides very helpful advice to the consumer on how to try and preserve their privacy while also making you aware of how others (crooks) are constantly looking for ways to pilfer your identity. While some areas of the book I did not consider to be detailed enough (particularly, areas on surveillance), overall, I considered the book to be very informative. However, be aware, that the everyday consumer is not the only one who may be reading this book!
Book Description
Over the past twenty-five years, the internationally renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has been an explorer of unfamiliar places where human activity has reshaped the surface of the land. His astonishing large-scale color photographs of the landscapes of mining, quarrying, railcutting, recycling, oil refining, and shipbreaking uncover a stark, almost sublime beauty in the residue of industrial "progress." The implicit social and environmental upheavals that underlie these images make them powerful emblems of our times. This handsome catalogue of the first major retrospective of Burtynsky's work features essays by Lori Pauli, Kenneth Baker, and Mark Haworth-Booth, as well as a wide-ranging interview with the artist by Michael Torosian. The book includes sixty-four color plates.
Customer Reviews:
mixed emotions...........2007-07-27
I am a great admirer of Edward Burtynsky - and I will not hide my dissapointment with the book. I've seen an exibition "Manufactured Landscapes" twice, and have to say that reproductions in the album are of a poor quality, not to mention that at least in this particular case size does really matter...
The album is good to have a general idea about the author, his work and his workshop (nice introduction, and interview with Edward Burtynsky - that's what I've missed from the exibitions) but if you haven't seen full-size prints before, do not buy this book - otherwise it might spoil your opinion about one of the best photographers ever...
Art & patience.......2007-06-08
I discovered Ed Burtynsky by chance when waiting for my dentist...
It was a chock : over its technical knowledge, this guy is capable to find the perfect angle to show what he wants to show !
as we say in France "respect !"
manufactured landscapes.......2006-03-16
the reproductions in the book were awful. i had seen his exhibition and purchased th e book because of it. the reproductions were not any where up to the originals. i am a photographer and the book is useless to me.
ronald meyerson
Manufactured Landscapes.......2006-02-27
I viewed the original exhibition at the National Arts Gallery in Ottawa a few years back. The images are breathtaking, unnerving and awe inspiring.
Manufactured, indeed..........2005-12-02
The New York Times reviewed EB's recent exhibition and called his work "large, sumptuous and numbingly clichéd color pictures" and called his motives "high-minded". The reviewer went on to say "One of the problems with Mr. Burtynsky's photography is that he uses the same pumped-up pictorial rhetoric of shock and awe in almost every one of the more than 60 works on view. This produces a monotonous effect and, what's worse, a loss of representational credibility. By applying the same compositional formula to every subject, from California tire dumps to new buildings in China, Mr. Burtynsky hammers away at the idea of the global proliferation of industrial production, destruction and waste. But he leaves out a lot of information, too." -and went on to say "Mr. Burtynsky's photographic vision is closer to that of National Geographic magazine. Though technically impressive and, because of its scale, important-seeming, it offers nothing about photography or about the world that we have not already seen in the works of countless other proficient, globe-trotting photojournalists whose names have faded into the oblivion of artistic mediocrity." This observer concurs.
Books:
- Biological Psychology (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)
- Biological Science, Volume 3: How Plants and Animals Work (2nd Edition) (Biological Science)
- Bugling Elk and Sleeping Grizzlies: The Who, What, and When of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
- Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850--1900 (Animals, History, Culture)
- Cougar: A Guide for Older Women Dating Younger Men
- Crinkleroot's Guide to Animal Tracking
- Diary of a Spider
- Dolphins And Porpoises
- Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
- Earth Day Birthday (Sharing Nature With Children Book)
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