A FIELD GUIDE TO THE ACACIAS OF KENYA.

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A FIELD GUIDE TO THE ACACIAS OF KENYA.
M. & H. Beentje Coe
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WPC6JQ

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Georgia, the largest state east of the Mississippi, has ten major river basins and an estimated 20,000 miles of streams. A Canoeing & Kayaking Guide to Georgia combines and expands the information gathered in A Paddler’s Guide to Southern Georgia and A Paddler’s Guide to Northern Georgia, the classic paddling guides for this state for over twenty years. From the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia to the Atlantic Coast of Southeast Georgia, this redesigned and completely updated guide to paddling the creeks, rivers, and coastal waterways of Georgia covers thousands of miles of paddling that range in difficulty from scenic floats down the Oostanaula to whitewater runs of the Dog. New maps, new river profiles, completely updated contact information, at-a-glance data that includes class, length, time, gauge, level, gradient, volume, and ratings for solitude and scenery make this guide almost as indispensable as the paddle and life jacket.

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Have no Idea what this means-The books title is already on this page.......2007-04-01

Very good information about put in/take out places. Directions good. All necessay information on rivers and creeks is included. One other bit of information could have been included, however, detailed descriptions, or landmarks, or physical features identifiable from the water to help guage distance traveled. Examples of these are illustrated in "The Georgia Coast-Waterways and Islands" by Nancy Schwalbe Zydler and Tom Zydler on pages 81 thru 108 regarding the Savannah River. Specifically, this information is labeled "Shoreline Descriptions for Savannah River Chart # 2 thru 17.

Disappointing.......2007-03-09

I found this book a relatively little use in a recent trip to the Altamaha basin. During my limited scouting, I found at least five errors on the maps which resulted in extra miles driven. Moreover, the narrative fails to mention the pervasive impact of the pulp plant stench on enjoyment of the lower river. I wonder if the information available has really been updated from the earlier guidebooks. While there is some useful information in this book, I strongly recommend using online sources and local maps to augment trip planning.

A Canoeing & Kayaking Guide to Georgia.......2006-08-28

Great book for the outdoor addict. Our state is blessed with plenty of paddling and fishing opportunities on our rivers. This book ensures you know where to go, how long it will take, and what you will see. Did not give a five due to several of the maps/roads being slightly outdated. This book has been a great help in providing plenty of weekend excursions.

Great Resource.......2006-06-29

This books provides great detail about floatable sections of the rivers and creeks around the state. They are broken down by region and section of the river. There is also supporting information for some of the rivers like discussion with the paddlers involved in the making of the river scenes of the movie Deliverance on the Chattooga river. In my opinion, this is an excellent resource for the canoer/kayaker/fisher.

You won't find a better hiking guide.......2003-08-19

This is easily the most superbly detailed hiking guidebook for the St. Louis area that I've ever seen. The author has actually hiked every trail he writes about and I plan to make good use of this book.

Hiking Mid Missouri, Scenic Trails of the Heartland

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Hiking Mid Missouri, Scenic Trails of the Heartland
Darcy Folzenlogen
Manufacturer: Willow Press
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ASIN: 1893111016

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This guide describes and illustrates over 120 dayhikes at 40 areas throughout Central Missouri. The hiking areas were chosen to demonstrate the geologic, topographic, floral and faunal diversity of our region. Designed primarily for families, naturalists and weekend explorers, the guide is illustrated with maps and photos. For each hiking area, the following information is provided: 1. Trail routes, mileage, difficulty, terrain and walking time 2. A narrative describing the natural and historic features of the area 3. Specific directions to the area from regional cities and highways

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Mention St. Louis and most people think of the famous arch. Residents and visitors-in-the-know appreciate the many outdoor recreational opportunities the Gateway to the West has to offer. With three new hikes and updated text, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: St. Louis points hikers to the best outdoor trails and rambles within easy reach of the city. Whether walking in the footsteps of Louis and Clark, exploring amazing rock formation in the Pickle Springs Natural Area, or trekking along a portion of the longest rails-to-trails paths in the U.S., hikers are sure to be amazed at the diversity of outdoor experiences awaiting them. The included hikes are located in Missouri as well as its neighbor, Illinois.

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Very helpful.......2007-01-05

We are always looking for new outdoor adventures and this has helped considerably!

Hiking Missouri (America's Best Day Hiking Series)

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This book is much more than just a hiking guide.
Guaranteed to reawaken interest in Missouri adventures

Hiking Missouri (America's Best Day Hiking Series)
Kevin M. Lohraff
Manufacturer: Human Kinetics Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0880118938

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This is your complete guide to 102 of the best day hiking trails in Missouri. Whether you're looking for a short and simple hike or a longer, more challenging trek, this book will lead you to the right trail.

Hiking Missouri offers a guided tour of trails in every corner of the state, from St. Louis to the Ozarks to Kansas City. For each of the 58 featured parks and nature areas, you'll find the following:

• Selected trail descriptions—including the length and difficulty of each trail—plus detailed information on featured trails

• Easy-to-read maps of the park and of each featured trail

• Practical information on how to get to the park, park hours, available facilities, permits and rules, and a contact address and phone number

• A brief description of the park's history and terrain

• Details on nearby parks and recreational opportunities, including contact phone numbers

There's also a convenient trail finder that summarizes essential information about each featured trail so you can select an ideal hike.

Hiking Missouri is part of America's Best Day Hiking Series from Human Kinetics.

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This book is much more than just a hiking guide........1999-10-01

This wonderful book is "a must," not just for hikers but also for nature lovers. More than an accurate and detailed guide, the book affords readers lush visual imagery through the descriptions of a skilled writer who, without doubt, loves the trails he treads.

Guaranteed to reawaken interest in Missouri adventures.......1999-08-23

I have been enjoying canoeing, kayaking, and camping in Missouri all my life, but every page of this book told me something I didn't know about my favorite state. This book is guaranteed to make the reader start making trip plans. This is a great gift book because it is a catalyst to further adventure.

Hiking St. Louis: A Guide to 30 Wooded Hiking and Walking Trails in the St. Louis Area

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very informative with beautiful and interesting park choices
Fantastic - well-organized - so much in such a little book

Hiking St. Louis: A Guide to 30 Wooded Hiking and Walking Trails in the St. Louis Area
E. P. Harris
Manufacturer: Evie P. Harris
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0966541901

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very informative with beautiful and interesting park choices.......1999-08-26

I haved lived in St. Louis for most of my life, yet I never knew there were so many beautiful parks hiding within our city. After reading "Hiking St. Louis", I feel as though I have made a new discovery right underneath my nose. The hiking trail directions and maps will make it easy for me to find these nearby treasures and enjoy them during their best seasons. I look forward to pulling out those old hiking boots this upcoming Fall season.

Fantastic - well-organized - so much in such a little book.......1999-07-31

This trail guide is so easy to follow. It gives just a little history of an area and then exact and detailed directions of each trail. This book is for a local and tourist or newcomer to the area. I loved Cliff Cave Park and the overlook of the Mississippi river, which I had always wanted to find. And I loved Belle Fountaine and Coldwater Creek with the Wpa ruins and giant staircase. The overlook there was spectacular too. I am discovering so many new places and some of the harder trails I have been shown how to make them easier. Ellisville has a very interesting trail system, on which I took my bike, being a paved trail, but mostly wooded. I love the information about available restrooms, suggested seasons difficulty of trails, etc. I will purchase this inexpensive book for many of my friends, relatives, and business partners because there is so much valuable information about the wooded trails all within the St. Louis area and it is in the format of a hiker-friendly book that is easy to carry.

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MISSOURI HIKING TRAILS
Ramon D. Gass
Manufacturer: Missouri Department of Conservation
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JF2O6O

Missouri Hiking Trails: A Detailed Guide to Selected Hiking Trails on Public Land in Missouri

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Missouri Hiking Trails: A Detailed Guide to Selected Hiking Trails on Public Land in Missouri
Ramon D. Gass
Manufacturer: Missouri Dept Conservation
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1887247033

Hiking Kansas City: The Complete Guide to More Than 100 Hiking and Walking Trails in the Kansas City Area (Show Me Missouri)

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Hiking Kansas City: The Complete Guide to More Than 100 Hiking and Walking Trails in the Kansas City Area (Show Me Missouri)
William B. Eddy , and Richard O. Ballentine
Manufacturer: Pebble Pub
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ASIN: 1891708066

Walks and Rambles in and Around St. Louis (Walks & Rambles Guide.)

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Walks and Rambles in and Around St. Louis (Walks & Rambles Guide.)
Robert Rubright
Manufacturer: Countryman Press
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Binding: Paperback

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North Missouri Mountain Biking, Hiking, And Gps Trail Guide

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Hiking in North Missouri

North Missouri Mountain Biking, Hiking, And Gps Trail Guide
Tim Riekena
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ASIN: 1412035651

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Hiking in North Missouri.......2005-10-14

A comprehensive and excellent reference manual for anyone interested in finding hiking and biking trails in North Missouri. .

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'Did you bring your mother a bit of that lovely English tea?'.......2006-07-07

"It all started with the imbecile, practically sacriligeous, determination of these stubborn Colonists to defy the sacred authority of our Royal and Sovereign Majesty King George III."
- Scheherazade, on her early career as a horse in His Majesty's armed forces

Lawson wrote at least four books in this vein: a famous figure in American history as seen by a close animal companion (ranging from a mouse acting as advisor to a ship's cat). This is the only one of the four in which the narrator would seem at first glance to be based on something that definitely existed, since Revere in his role as a courier obviously *did* have at least one horse.

Lawson, however, isn't attempting to be meticulously accurate; he's concerned with writing an entertaining story that will bring the human historical figure to life, aimed mostly at young readers. So what we have here is historical fiction in which the broad historical details are reasonably correct, including the characters of the leading figures of the Sons of Liberty, but most of the Loyalists are caricatures - the most notable exception being the storyteller, commonly known as "Sherry".

Sherry tells the story as a retrospective in her near-retirement years after her involvement in Revere's pre-War courier work have ended, starting with her early career as the personal mount of an officer in His Majesty's 14th Regiment of Foot. She's careful to retell events as she saw them at the time, underscoring the laughable arrogance of her former associates - at least, of the officers and so-called gentlemen. The "most thrilling moment of [her] entire military career" was the Regiment's last Royal review before being dispatched to Boston - through which her rider and his immediate superior slept on horseback. Lawson's portrait of Sherry's former owner Lt. Barnstable could serve as a poster about the evils of inbreeding among the gentry - and that's just Lawson's illustration. At the time, though, Sherry was deeply devoted to him just because he was her master.

The first two years of the Regiment's posting to Boston are skimmed over very quickly, mostly serving to illustrate how unsanitary long-distance ocean transport could be, the drawbacks of conscripting convicts for jobs they're neither trained nor motivated to perform well, and the high-handed behaviour of the regulars toward the people of Boston (and the cold shoulders they got in return). Unfortunately for Sherry, Barnstable opts to kill time by gambling, and has to sell her to a local factory owner to settle some of his debts.

Thus begins Sherry's long path of disillusionment with her old loyalties, when her devotion to her former master is repaid with life as an ill-treated carthorse, and her former best friend rejects her with "I never speak to civilians". Life is very bleak, until the day she wrecks her cart trying to avoid being seen by her former associates - and comes to the attention of Sam Adams, who arranges for her to be 'appropriated' and turned over to Paul Revere for his courier work. And as Sherry becomes acquainted with the revolutionaries' point of view - and even that of the rank-and-file regulars, mostly homesick conscripts - she herself begins to change.

Revere's personal tragedies in the year in which Sherry comes to live with his family are omitted, but Lawson goes to some trouble to humanize him, emphasizing his family life - particularly along the lines of implying that he couldn't afford a horse of his own, and had never ridden a horse before Sherry was given to him.

A fun story, and while it can't be taken as historical gospel, it might inspire the reader to learn more about the people involved. For that, I recommend PAUL REVERE'S RIDE by David Hackett Fischer.

Mr. Revere and I.......2003-06-18

Mr. Revere and I is about Paul Revere told from the perspective of his horse Sherry. Sherry goes through three owners, the last her favorite. She expierences what it is like to be the horse of a Patriot. We enjoyed reading this book because it includes humor, facts, and sometimes even suspense. That is why we recommend this book to other kids.

wonderful history.......2003-01-09

I teach 8th grade US history and recommend this book to my kids, who range in reading levels. It tells the story of Paul Reevere and the Sons of Liberty from the HORSE'S viewpoint. It is a delightful and very accurate depiction of this most important time in our history. This book can spark the imagination and interest young and old!

this Book was Great.......2001-04-25

I had to read this book for reading in school and I loved'd it. Im in 5th grade and it was still great fun. I am recameding this to you. READ IT. on a 1 to 5 chart, it was a 10. off the charts.

Great Read-Aloud for elementary school kids.......1999-10-28

This book is such fun for adults to read to kids! The hors-ey perspective on American history is a hoot, the vocabulary is challenging, and there are lots of opportunities for discussion with your bright child. The history is accurate, too. It would be an unusually motivated 9 year old who could read this alone, but as a read aloud, it offers benefits to parent and child.

Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of Certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq. As Recently Revealed by His Horse, Scheherazade, Late Pride of His Royal majes

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Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of Certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq. As Recently Revealed by His Horse, Scheherazade, Late Pride of His Royal majes
Robert Lawson
Manufacturer: Tandem Library
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Binding: School & Library Binding

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Mr. Revere and I
Lawson Robert
Manufacturer: Little, Brown & Co
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J1E83K

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Mr Revere and I....Being an Account of Certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq as Recently Revealed By His Horse Scheherazade

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Mr. Revere and I
Lawson
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Binding: Audio Cassette
ASIN: B000K7GUUM

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Mr. Revere and I
Robert Lawson
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Mr. Revere and I : Being an Account of Certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq., as Recently Revealed by His Horse, Scheherazade, Late Pride of His Royal Majesty's 14th Regiment of Foot
Robert Lawson
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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Mr. Revere and I Being an Account of Certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq. As Recently Revealed By His Horse, Scheherazade, Late Pride of His Royal Majesty's 14th Regiment of Foot
Robert Lawson
Manufacturer: Little Brown
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B000N1AHFO

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28th printing. 152 pages. Jacket protected in mylar cover. Minor scuffing to the jacket prior to cover. Not price-clipped. Scheherazade could look right through a window into the kitchen and so became the horse of a patriot and knew all about the Revere family, the trade of the silversmith, and the doings of the Sons of Liberty. Great book.

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Mr. Revere and I(unabridged Audio Cass)
ROBERT LAWSON
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Mr. Revere and I, by Robert Lawson: Teacher Guide

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Mr. Revere and I, by Robert Lawson: Teacher Guide
Rebecca L Berry
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Mr. Revere and I: a Chronicle of Stirring Events in the Career of One Paul Revere, Esq. as Revealed By His Horse

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Mr. Revere and I: a Chronicle of Stirring Events in the Career of One Paul Revere, Esq. as Revealed By His Horse
Robert Lawson
Manufacturer: LITTLE,BROWN AND CO.
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quality pictures.......2000-03-27

The pictures are large and of a very high quality. The book is devided into 6 sections, which seem tied to the life stages of michelagelo rather than the subject matter or technique. I bought this book to study the technique and style so the pictures are were very usefull but the organizations wasn't hellpfull. The texts which accompany the drawings do a very good job of discribing the techniques michelagelo used.

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