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    CANARY ISLANDS POCKET GUIDE (Pocket Guides)
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    4 out of 5 stars Really Detailed Travel Info.......2000-07-12

    This book makes me want to travel to the Canary Islands after cancelling one trip for lack of interest, and even venture off Tenerife to try a couple of the other islands. This is a winner. From Accomodations to Youth Hostels (there aren't any at present) and point by point, this is the book to buy. Each island is detailed for you to decide if it's worth a separate trip. Where to go - what to do - eating out - travel tips - and Berlitz"s language aids.
    Lanzarote Berlitz Pocket Guide
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      Canary Islands Pocket Guide
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        Insight Pocket Guide: Tenerife (Insight Pocket Guides)
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          Tenerife Berlitz Pocket Guide
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            Tenerife Insight Pocket Guide
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              Tenerife Insight Pocket Guide
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                Berlitz Pocket Guide Gran Canaria (Berlitz Pocket Guides)
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                  Canary Islands Berlitz Pocket Guide
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                    Canary Islands Berlitz Pocket Guide
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                      		Canary Islands Berlitz Pocket Guide

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                      Chief Sarah: Sarah Winnemucca's Fight for Indian Rights
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                        Dorothy Nafus Morrison
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                        Sarah Winnemucca of the Northern Paiutes
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                          Gae Whitney Canfield
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                          ASIN: 0806120908
                          Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
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                          • From the True Perspective of a Native American
                          • "Paiute Princess" Writes Her Own Page In History
                          		 Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
                          Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
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                          Customer Reviews:

                          5 out of 5 stars From the True Perspective of a Native American.......2007-01-05

                          This book is a little difficult to read and understand at times due to the archaic language, but is definitely a worthy read. It tells the story you never learned in your history class in school. From the beginning legend of how the Native Americans became estranged from their White Brothers who were banished across the seas to the Paiute Elder telling everyone to rejoice in the return of the White Brothers is fascinating yet heartbreaking. We all know it didn't turn out so well for the Native Americans. In reading Sarah's story, which is written from the heart, it is easy to see how the Native Americans were exploited, treated as less than human and moved around like pawns to suit the white man's interest. I have the utmost respect for Sarah and her courage to speak up for her people. I also have the greatest respect for those who have followed, speaking her truths. Wake up people, we are on the wrong track. Bless you Sarah Winnemucca for your wonderful book and your attempts to make things right!

                          4 out of 5 stars "Paiute Princess" Writes Her Own Page In History.......2001-08-06

                          Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins was the daughter of Northern Paiute Chief Winnemucca. Edited by Mrs. Horace Mann,Sarah Winnemucca provides more than a brief glance into the lives of the Northern Paiutes living on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation during the late 1800s. Winnemucca gives her voice to the plight of her people as they struggle to survive the effects of government Indian policy in the Western United States.

                          Sarah Winnemucca's autobiography enables the reader to examine how the US reservation system, assimilation policy and the BIA failed to provide adequately for the Paiute people. The author provides the reader with an opportunity to experience the feelings of hope and despair of the Paiute people during the late 1870s and 1880s. Her examples of the corruption by white settlers and Indian agents provides reasonable and believable evidence of what life was like for Sarah Winnemucca and her Paiute family.

                          Sarah Winnemucca's memories are bitter-sweet. She relates her actions to help not only her own people but the US army during the Indian wars of that era, including the Bannock War. Marrying US Army soldier Lewis Hopkins in the early 1880s, her story also includes events during their marriage. An advocat for her people, Sarah traveled to Washington, D. C. to speak with the President, and she traveled coast-to-coast publicly speaking about the plight of her people as well as her life as a young Paiute woman. Her daring escapades as an Army scout and participant in several Indian wars further illustrate her strength as a Native woman.

                          This book, written in Sarah Winnemucca's voice, is both a powerful and moving example of the active role some women played in the history of the west. I found her memories to reflect a side of history often overlooked by other authors, and I highly recommend her work.
                          Sarah Winnemucca (American Indian Lives)
                          Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                          • Tale of a Complex Life
                          • Not the best biography of Sarah Winnemucca
                          • Historical Treasure
                          		 Sarah Winnemucca (American Indian Lives)
                          Sally Zanjani
                          Manufacturer: Bison Books
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                          ASIN: 0803299214

                          Book Description

                          This book is the triumphant and moving story of Sarah Winnemucca (1844–91), one of the most influential and charismatic Native women in American history. Born into a legendary family of Paiute leaders in western Nevada, Sarah dedicated much of her life to working for her people. She played an instrumental and controversial role as interpreter and messenger for the U.S. Army during the Bannock War of 1878 and traveled to Washington in 1880 to obtain the release of her people from confinement on the Yakama Reservation. She toured the East Coast in the 1880s, tirelessly giving speeches about the plight of her people and heavily criticizing the reservation system. In 1883 she produced her autobiography—the first written by a Native woman—and founded a Native school whose educational practices were far ahead of its time. Sally Zanjani also reveals Sarah’s notorious sharp tongue and wit, her love of performance, her string of failed relationships, and at the end, possible poisoning by a romantic rival.

                          Customer Reviews:

                          4 out of 5 stars Tale of a Complex Life.......2004-09-24

                          A simply told tale of the complex life of a complex woman -- I did not find it dry or academic at all. I cannot judge the quality of the research, as I am not familiar with Winnemucca's life, but the biography appears both frank and well-rounded. I enjoyed the way in which the author wove contemporary sources and Paiute folklore into her story. It's not an especially sophisticated book (for good or for ill) but it is not without complexity. Nineteenth century U.S. cultural and political constraints are clearly illustrated, along with Sarah's personal life and the tribulations facing the Paiutes & other Native Americans of that era. I think it would be of interest to anyone interested in 19th century women, Native Americans, or the frontier.

                          3 out of 5 stars Not the best biography of Sarah Winnemucca.......2004-07-06

                          Zanjani's writing is academic and somewhat dry. The historical research has not advanced much since Gae Whitney Canfield's "Sarah Winnemucca of the Northern Paiutes" but Zanjani does incorporate new theoretical approaches to interpreting Sarah's own memoir and place in history. The bibliography then, is useful for scholars, but the the prose is further bogged down with unresolved (and unresolvable) intellectual issues best left to academics. Try Canfield's well researched and easily readable prose instead.

                          5 out of 5 stars Historical Treasure.......2003-05-29

                          a piece of historical treasure, how often do you see a book written by an indian woman from the 1800's? it is a must own for anyone remotely interested in indians, or american history.
                          Sarah Winnemucca: Scout, Activist, and Teacher (Signature Lives: American Frontier Era)
                          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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                          		 Sarah Winnemucca: Scout, Activist, and Teacher (Signature Lives: American Frontier Era)
                          Natalie M. Rosinsky
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                          5 out of 5 stars Wonderful for children and adults.......2005-10-18

                          A thorough, factual, story of the life of this remarkable women. Sarah Winnemucca was a woman ahead of her time in seeking justice and humanity for her people, the Northern Paiute, of the Great Basin. This book, for young adults, is wonderfully illustrated, including a timeline of her life. Teachers and readers will appreciate the references, glossary and index. This is the best introduction to Sarah Winnemucca for all ages. For a more extensive look at her life see Sally Zanjani's "Sarah Winnemucca," which is for high school and adult.
                          Life Among the Paiutes
                          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                          • Life Among the Paiutes
                          		 Life Among the Paiutes
                          Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
                          Manufacturer: Univ of Nevada Pr
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                          ASIN: 0912494069

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                          5 out of 5 stars Life Among the Paiutes.......2000-06-03

                          I read Winnemucca's autobiography for a Native American History class at University and found it to be excellently written! She was such a powerful role model for Indian women during the time and was greatly respected for her role in the Indian community! Although some feminists may critique her for not standing up for her people at some points in her life, her contributions to the Paiutes have made her one of their most revered members over history. As I read this book I was in awe of how great of a woman Sarah must have been considering the time she lived and how priceless her stories are!
                          Mavericks In Calico: They Rewrote Woman's Role
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                            		Mavericks In Calico: They Rewrote Woman's Role
                            Ellen Carney
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                            Sarah Winnemucca (Raintree Native American Stories)
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                              Mary F. Morrow
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                              Sarah Winnemucca (The Story of An American Indian)
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                                Doris Kloss
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                                Sarah Winnemucca, Paiute (Native American Stories)
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                                  Mary F. Morrow
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                                  Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England
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                                  		 Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England
                                  Michael Camille
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                                  Book Description

                                  What is the status of visual evidence in history? Can we actually see the past through images? Where are the traces of previous lives deposited? Michael Camille addresses these important questions in Mirror in Parchment, a lively, searching study of one medieval manuscript, its patron, producers, and historical progeny.

                                  The richly illuminated Luttrell Psalter was created for the English nobleman Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (1276-1345). Inexpensive mechanical illustration has since disseminated the book's images to a much wider audience; hence the Psalter's representations of manorial life have come to profoundly shape our modern idea of what medieval English people, high and low, looked like at work and at play. Alongside such supposedly truthful representations, the Psalter presents myriad images of fantastic monsters and beasts. These patently false images have largely been disparaged or ignored by modern historians and art historians alike, for they challenge the credibility of those pictures in the Luttrell Psalter that we wish to see as real.

                                  In the conviction that medieval images were not generally intended to reflect daily life but rather to shape a new reality, Michael Camille analyzes the Psalter's famous pictures as representations of the world, imagined and real, of its original patron. Addressed are late medieval chivalric ideals, physical sites of power, and the boundaries of Sir Geoffrey's imagined community, wherein agricultural laborers and fabulous monsters play a similar ideological role. The Luttrell Psalter thus emerges as a complex social document of the world as its patron hoped and feared it might be.

                                  Customer Reviews:

                                  5 out of 5 stars Camille, fantastic art history writer.......2003-07-08

                                  Camille is one of the best new art history writers I have encountered lately. I relish everything he writes! He's not afraid to pull out all the descriptive language and criticize what has been said up to now. Excelent work!!

                                  5 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Tale of Merry Olde England.......1999-01-27

                                  Who would have thought illuminated manuscripts could be so fascinating? Camille guides us along their margins, pointing out ghouls and grotesques and creatures of medieval fancy that are at once amazing and obscene. In his story of the making of Britain's cherished Luttrell Psalter, he reveals an England rife with political strife and intrigue as it shaped itself into a young, unified nation. A beautiful book with brilliant illustrations.
                                  Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England
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                                    		Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England
                                    Michael Camille
                                    Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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