Families That Take in Friends: An Informal History of Dude Ranching

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Families That Take in Friends: An Informal History of Dude Ranching
Joel H. Bernstein
Manufacturer: Stoneydale Press
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ASIN: 0912299010

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Families That Take In Friends. An Informal History of Dude Ranching
Joel H. Bernstein
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Credible or not?

The New Traveler's Atlas: A global guide to the places you must see in your lifetime
John Man , Chris Schuler , Mary-Ann Gallagher , Geoffrey Roy , and Nigel Rodgers
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0764160184

Book Description

Stunning color photos, vivid descriptions, and enlightening maps tell readers what they want to know before they travel to romantic destinations around the world. In this brand-new edition of a perennial BarronÂ's best-seller, approximately 50 dream locationsÂ—from the towering cliffs of Yosemite National Park to elegant and exotic cities like Kyoto and PragueÂ—are pictured and described with sidebar information on climate, currencies, best seasons for visiting, and local dining delights. This lavishly produced guide in its revised and updated edition blends solid information with brand-new color photos and scenic atmosphere in a way that will please both active and armchair travelers. The New TravelerÂ's Atlas offers inspiration for travel planning, pointing out the special qualities that make each of its chosen destinations uniqueÂ—whether for their sheer physical beauty, their evocation of past civilizations, or their current culture and lively traditions. Sites of special interest to travelers that have been added to this brand-new edition include:

British Columbia

Patagonia

Iceland

Hanoi, Vietnam

Dubrovnik, Croatia . . and others

Open this beautiful book and find the travel destination that suits your schedule, your mood, your stage in life, and your dreams. Includes a directory of tourist information services with phone numbers and web sites, an extensive index, and more than 200 color photos and maps.

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Credible or not?.......2007-08-31

The image of one of the grandest views in Yosemite, a double page (pp.12&13) spread of Tenaya Canyon seen from Olmstead Point, is printed BACKWARDS!!

Where were the editors and proofreaders when this travesty rolled off the press?? Why did the author not recognize this??

(I'm closing the cover now, and looking no further .....)

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Excellent Overview
Only average for either atlas or travel guide

Traveler's Atlas
DK Publishing
Manufacturer: DK ADULT
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0756615291

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Part atlas, part travel guide for the business traveler and vacation planner, the Travel Atlas presents planet earth as a place to experience. A gazetteer lists not only political and physical statistics on each country, but also facts on its climate, cuisine, languages, medical service, and entry requirements.

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Excellent Overview.......2007-08-23

This book is an excellent general atlas with beautiful maps and helpful descriptions of interesting areas for each country. It is mainly an atlas first and therefore can not go into full descriptions of every area of interest or else it would be much too large and expensive. If you need a more thorough travel guide I would suggest you purchase one for an individual country, which can go into much more detail. For what this is intended for though it its a real treat. Great book.

Only average for either atlas or travel guide.......2007-03-30

I'm a huge fan of maps and an avid traveler, so I was eager to get my hands on this Atlas from the publishers of the Eyewitness Guides series.

Unfortunately, it's disappointingly mediocre. The maps are light on detail and rather plain, the travel information is superficial, and about half the book is index pages for the low-detail maps. So it turns out to be both a poor atlas, and a not very good travel guide.

It's not terrible either, but not worth the money. If you'd like to browse through country information from a traveler's perspective, try Lonely Planet the Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World . There are also many fine atlases out there, such as the classic from National Geographic National Geographic Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition.

This one is not recommended.

The Traveler's Atlas: A Global Guide to the Places You Must See in your Lifetime

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Good if it is what you're looking for
Nice book, but missing a lot.
This is much better than "1,000 places to see..."
Disappointed
Great concept, disappointing photos and descriptions

The Traveler's Atlas: A Global Guide to the Places You Must See in your Lifetime
John Man , Chrid Schuler , Geoffrey Roy , and Nigel Rodgers
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0764151215

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Here in one big, handsome volume are more than 60 famous and fascinating places that every world traveler must see. From the dramatic fjiords of Norway to the ancient remains of the mysterious Inca city of Machu Pichu, the authors guide readers along highways and rough trails to the world's most spectacular places. It's a bonanza of inspiration and ideas for adventurous travelers on where to go next and how to get there--but the book's detailed maps and vivid full-color photographs make it nearly as much fun for the armchair traveler! Maps are matched with location shots, and points of major interest are listed with tips on best travel routes, background information, and the best ways to avoid crowds. It also contains a worldwide directory of national tourist organizations, embassies, and many other addresses to help world travelers get the most out of their adventures. Includes more than 300 photos plus 50 maps.

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Good if it is what you're looking for.......2006-07-01

This book has a very specific purpose. It's a good book for browsing and doing some quick and interesting couch traveling to places with nice scenery and thats about it. I would not recommend it as a reference. So I'm not sure that "The Traveler's Atlas" is really a good title. But I guess I would have gone with it over the more honest "Some Interesting and Pretty Places a Few People Visited and Researched".

It nicely highlights and handful of beautiful areas of the world and gives a thorough 2-3 page description of the experience of visiting there and the history. However, the places seem to be chosen based on their scenery alone. So if you're looking for events or cultures, they don't come up too often. Some locations are streotypical "Places you must see" and some aren't as obvious. I like that it seems to be written by people who have actually been to each place and that the pictures are pretty but not over the top. Kind of like pictures an experienced amateur would take on a trip themselves.
This makes a good present to someone with aspirations of unique travel, someone who thinks they have already seen everything, or someone who appreciates wonders of the world.

Nice book, but missing a lot........2006-04-01

This is a nice coffee table book, but leaves out the vast majority of South America. I could not believe Rio de Janeiro and other major places where not listed. Could be a bit more extensive.

This is much better than "1,000 places to see...".......2006-02-25

If you are building your "lifelist" this is the book for you. It is much better at giving the reader a sense of the destination than the "1,000 places to see..." book.

Disappointed.......2006-02-12

This book is full of Typos! Someone should have gone through and checked the information in this book, even spots on the map are incorrect.

Great concept, disappointing photos and descriptions.......2003-12-30

I am disappointed by this book. The paper quality does not do justice to the photos. Colors and defintion are washed out. Furthermore, while I only skimmed through the book I noticed several typos.

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wine 101(California).......2007-03-15

a dated book , but still filled with pertinent information for the wine enthusiast regarding ; California with a few sections on the Pacific NW vineyards.

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Traveler`s World Atlas
Tiffany and Co.
Manufacturer: Graphic Image, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: 1930189230

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leather bound 4.5"x6". title in silver. silver top, bottom and sides of pages. silver ribbon book marker attached to top of book.includes maps of europe, africa, middle east, northern asia,russia, southern asia, far east, australia,new zealand pacific, polar regions, south america, caribbean, mexico, central america, canada,u.s., national parks and interstates.

The Traveler's Atlas: France the Ultimate Tour Guide

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The Traveler's Atlas: France the Ultimate Tour Guide
Pierre Cabanne , Herve Bordas , Philippe Houdebine , and Michael Jacobson
Manufacturer: Collier Books
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Atlas Pocket Travelers: France: (Travels with a Donkey, Gleanings in France, A Motor-flight through France)

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Atlas Pocket Travelers: France: (Travels with a Donkey, Gleanings in France, A Motor-flight through France)
Robert Louis Stevenson , James Fenimore Cooper , and Edith Wharton
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THE ATLAS UNIVERALS TRAVELERS' AND TOURISTS' TELEGRAPHIC CIPHER CODE

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THE ATLAS UNIVERALS TRAVELERS' AND TOURISTS' TELEGRAPHIC CIPHER CODE
T. Walter Hartfield
Manufacturer: C. Amory Stevens
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Rand Mcnally Business Traveler's Briefcase Atlas, 2001 (Atlases - USA)

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the best Book

Rand Mcnally Business Traveler's Briefcase Atlas, 2001 (Atlases - USA)
McNally
Manufacturer: RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0528990780

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the best Book.......2002-11-09

The book is cool it has city info and a CD rom
it was one of the best maps ever

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Excellent Book for Beginners and Experts

Simply the Best Fly-Tying Guide

Best I've Seen for the beginner

An excellent book covering nearly all basics

The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide (Orvis)
Tom Rosenbauer
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1592281214

Book Description

This essential book on fly tying will teach anyone how to tie flies. All the important techniques are illustrated with color photographs, from starting the thread on the hook to whip finishing. The book lays the basic ground work by fully explaining simple tying techniques, and then progresses to detailed tying instructions for some of the most popular, modern patterns. How to choose and prepare the correct material, and all the necessary tying steps for each fly, are detailed in superb, large, color photographs.

Even if you have no previous tying experience, you'll be able to tie dries, nymphs, streamers, saltwater offerings, and bass bugs after just a few sessions with this book. The tier is then advised how to progress to similar patterns using the same basic techniques. Also included is a huge reference of fly patterns--more than four hundred flies from the Orvis catalog are shown in full color, along with their tying recipes and proportions for each one. This book, calling on the Orvis Company's vast resources and teaching experience and written by an author whose name is synonymous with Orvis, is sure to become the bible for fly tyers of all skill levels.

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Excellent Book for Beginners and Experts.......2006-07-19

Once again, Tom Rosenbauer delivers a clearly-written, practical, and insightful book on fly-fishing. This time he looks at tying and gives many practical tips--especially on the use of tools and materials. For example, a beginner is hit with all these tools--which ones are best, which ones to use, etc. Rosenbauer gives clear descriptions of which tools are most useful, what they're used for, and which ones you don't really need. At the same time, he gives tips from his experience--also useful for the expert.

The bulk of the book is, of course, the fly-tying receipes. He provides many photographs of each step in making a fly. The many photos are probably more than the expert will need, but very important for a beginner. For the expert, you get many great fly receipes.

Overall, highly recommended fly-tying guide.

Simply the Best Fly-Tying Guide .......2005-10-12

The plain English explanations and simple, step-by-step directions make this the best fly-tying guide for the novice tier. It's also nice that the author provides substitutions for materials that the tier just might not have lying around.

I throughly enjoy working from this book, and have become an avid fly-tier working with Mr. Rosenbauer. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in getting into fly tying.

Best I've Seen for the beginner.......2002-12-28

I just began to investigate the world of fly tying. This was the third or fourth book I read in detail, and the only one that provided enough detail to actually tie some simple flies correctly.

It provides a good combination of clarity on specific techniques, and step-by-step instructions on tying several patterns. Both the photos and the text are clear and easy to follow. Also, things are not made more tricky than they actually are, a problem with some of the other books.

I also just bought the Benchside Reference, which I agree with all is an indispensible reference. I could not put it down after I got it from the library, and that is saying a lot for a reference book. I think with the two, the typical beginner could tie a decent Wooly Bugger in an hour -- I did.

An excellent book covering nearly all basics.......2001-07-20

The book shows in very clear colour detail the upright (hair & feather) wing, parachute, klinchammer, dubbing, hackle and has a vast number of fly patterns. This book is very good for beginners and those who are experimenting and starting to advance. Reading this book should give anyone a good strong basis on which to build.

The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Tying (Orvis)

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Eric Leiser , and Matt Vinciguerra
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A thorough and systematic approach to learning the are of fly tying.

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Eric Leiser & Matt Vinciguerra
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For coloring book fans who like challenges, here is an entertaining collection of 30 optically demanding and delightfully disconcerting illustrations. Intriguing assortment of heavenly bodies — stars within stars, interlacing stars, and polyhedra-like configurations — can be colored in bold hues or soft, muted tones for completely original results.

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Pleased.......2007-01-04

Okay, I admit, I'm hooked on Dover Coloring Books, especially the ones with geometric designs. I've added this book to my "collection", and am
happily coloring its pages.

Pictorial Archive of Geometric Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

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Wil Stegenga
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ASIN: 048627148X

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260 large-format royalty-free designs featuring imaginatively combined geometric elements. Most are elaborate, densely patterned circles squares and rectangles, some combining sharp, angular forms, others containing sinuous interlacements of circles and rounded forms. Each large-format design is boldly printed and easily reproducible.

Geometric Patterns and Designs for Artists and Craftspeople (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

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Wil Stegenga
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More than 260 high-impact, permission-free designs that exploit to their fullest the dramatic potential of squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, and other elements. Invaluable for wallpaper and textile design, packaging and computer art, these eye-catching forms provide artists and craftspeople with angular forms and pleasant symmetries. More than 260 black-and-white designs.

Geometric Design and Ornament (Dover Pictorial Archives)

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E. V. Gillon
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374 designs with Russian feeling. Bands, interlocking circles, polygons; like folk motives.

Geometric Designs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Pictorial Archives)

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This treasury of dazzling geometrical designs includes prismatic configurations that recede and advance, optical illusions that confound the eyes, intricate kaleidoscopic images, and more. Illustrators, designers, and craftspeople will find this collection of designs indispensable for art and craft use, as wallpaper and textile designs, and a host of other projects. 176 black-and-white illustrations.

Geometrical Designs and Optical Art: 70 Original Drawings (Dover Pictorial Archives)

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Jean Larcher
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Geometric design and ornament: 374 illustrations for artists and designers (Dover pictorial archive series)

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Geometric design and ornament: 374 illustrations for artists and designers (Dover pictorial archive series)
I¸ A¸¡kov Georgievich Chernikhov
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Wil Stegenga
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