Nature Walks in Connecticut, 2nd: AMC Guide to the Hills, Woodlands, and Coast of Connecticut (AMC Nature Walks Series)

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Now in a more compact, easy-to-use size, this completely updated edition of AMC's popular Nature Walks in Connecticut leads nature lovers of all ages and abilities on 40 walks on the state's most scenic trails.

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Excellent!.......2005-02-23

Great book with a great selection of trails, some only a few miles away from me that I was unaware of.

The book is set up so that it is very easy to plan each trip. The descriptions of the flora and fauna to be encountered on the trail are very detailed. As a budding nature photographer, this is a major plus.

Love the book and recommended to anyone who lives in or is planning a vacation to Connecticut who wants to see the variety of landscapes and wildlife that the state has to offer.

Great access, beautiful walks.......2004-07-17

I was pleased to find this guide to discovering the natural areas of Connecticut. Since I bought it, my family and I have been on numerous hikes. The chart in the front helps us plan--if we have time for a bit of a drive and a day's outing, we can go farther to a new and spectacular hike. If we don't have much time, we choose one closer to home. It's a great way to explore our new home state.

A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay (Skills for Success Series)

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Great!

A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay (Skills for Success Series)
Terry Marsh
Manufacturer: Cicerone Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1852845058

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Great!.......2004-01-06

This is a perfect book for ANYONE considering this trek. It has it all, including contact numbers and addresses.

Coast to Coast Walk: A Pictorial Guide (Wainwright Pictorial Guides)

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Hiking guide as art
Good book, but text is ridiculously small
A Coast to Coast Walk

Coast to Coast Walk: A Pictorial Guide (Wainwright Pictorial Guides)
Alfred Wainwright
Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0711222363

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Stretches across 190 miles from St. Bees Head on the East Coast to Robin Hood's Bay on the West, passing through the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors

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Hiking guide as art.......2007-07-29

This beautiful guide to England's Coast to Coast walk is a rare thing... a very practical and reasonably up to date guide by the man who originated the route together with the original drawings and maps Wainright did to accompany the original edition. It is a beautiful book. The photoreproductions of Wainright's original handprinting give the book the feel of an historical artifact; a work of art from a different era.

Good book, but text is ridiculously small.......2007-01-09

The content in this book is terrific. Unfortunately, the text is ridiculously small. I cannot conceive of why. If the text were a reasonable size, I would have given the book a 5-star rating.

A Coast to Coast Walk.......2005-08-31

A great book for planning and walking across England. It has all the details necessary and is written in a humorous vein. The personal drawings and asides add to the light-hearted approach. Really necessary for the details of the walk.

Navajo Long Walk : Tragic Story Of A Proud Peoples Forced March From Homeland

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Navajo Long Walk : Tragic Story Of A Proud Peoples Forced March From Homeland
Joseph Bruchac
Manufacturer: National Geographic Children's Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0792270584
Release Date: 2002-04-01

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Abenaki Joseph Bruchac and Navajo Shonto Begay combine their talents to tell the tragic story of how, in the 1860s, U.S. soldiers forced thousands of Navajos to march to a desolate reservation 400 miles from their homeland in an effort to “civilize” them. Hundreds died along the way; those who survived found unspeakable living conditions at their destination. When word of the Indians's plight finally gained public attention, President Andrew Johnson sent a Peace Commission to investigate. The resulting treaty allowed the Navajos to return to their homeland, and ho'zho—harmony—was restored. The Navajos prospered and have lived in peace with the U.S. government ever since while preserving their own proud culture.

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Navajo Long Walk : Tragic Story Of A Proud Peoples Forced March From Homeland .......2007-09-24

Excellent Research Book. Help make clearer how them like other tribes had to leave there homeland and travel someplace else. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in a nations struggle for survival.

Thayer's book review.......2002-11-26

Navajo Long Walk is an exciting book about an Indian family who is forced to go to camps and live the white sholdiers' way. The main characters are Kee, Hasba, Gentle Woman, the mother, Strong Man, the father, and Wise One, the grandfather. This family, like all the other Navajo families, have to move to different for-away camps that are called forts. Some of the forts they go to are Fort Defiance and Fort Summer.

Kee learns that you can be friends with white soldiers like when he neets a white soldier, his horse and his son.

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A fully revised edition of the classic hiking guide to Connecticut. Leave the densely populated southeast coast behind to explore the woods and hills of this beautiful state. Connecticut boasts a diversity of parks, sanctuaries, hills, woodlands, and wetlands. This fifth edition has been fully revised and updated by David Hardy, the son of the original authors. He has added new hikes to Falls Village, Dinosaur State Park, Devils Den, Bigelow Hollow in Nipmuck and revised many more. The hikes range in length from 1 to 13 miles, and an overview chart makes it easy to choose a hike at a glance. Each chapter includes a topographic map, information on mileage and rise, a detailed trail description, and a wealth of information on natural and human history you'll encounter along the way. 5 new hikes in this edition. 40 black and white photographs • 51 maps • Index

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Coast to Coast Walk (Walking Country)
Paul Hannon
Manufacturer: Hillside Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1870141555

Nature Walks along the Seacoast: Southern Maine, New Hampshire, and Northern Massachusetts

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Nature Walks along the Seacoast: Southern Maine, New Hampshire, and Northern Massachusetts
Steve Sherman , and Julia Older
Manufacturer: Appalachian Mountain Club Books
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Nature Walks in Southern New Hampshire: Nature Rich Walks from the Connecticut River to the Atlantic Ocean

ASIN: 1929173121

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Explore the coastal preserves, tidal rivers, barrier beaches, and inland islands that make up the coastline from Newburyport, Massachusetts to Kennebunk, Maine, including the entire New Hampshire seashore. These 45 easy-to-moderate nature walks take beginner hikers, families, fitness walkers, and birdwatchers on rambles through soothing woodlands, strolls around historical lighthouses, walks through urban gardens, and even a climb up Mt. Agamenticus.

Special features include:
* detailed descriptions, including walking time and distance
* detailed maps and driving/parking directions for each walk
* easy-to-use highlights chart for trip planning
* tips on where to view wildlife
* anecdotes and history from local experts

Into a Desert Place: A 3000 Mile Walk Around the Coast of Baja California

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The word incredible barely lends justice to Graham's effort
Husband's birthday present
True Baja experience
Spiritual Journey not just a travel adventure
Come apart, into a desert place

Into a Desert Place: A 3000 Mile Walk Around the Coast of Baja California
Graham Mackintosh
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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ASIN: 0393312895

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Englishman Graham Mackintosh seems an unlikely candidate to walk the 3,000-mile coast of Baja, California--after all, he calls himself "the most unadventurous person in the world." Yet Mackintosh spent 500 days in that loneliest of deserts, carrying his world on his back, dining on rattlesnake and cactus, drinking distilled seawater, and living with fear as a constant companion. So, just what was this "most unadventurous" man doing in a place like Baja? In Into A Desert Place, Mackintosh blames books for his transformation from armchair traveler to hardened adventurer. A taste for adventure travel literature soon developed into an addiction; when the library shelves had surrendered the last of their treasures, he went into a kind of withdrawal: "It got so bad that I even thought of doing something adventurous and crazy myself.... " Walking around Baja was not Mackintosh's first choice--he considered getting married--but a trip to visit friends in Los Angeles led him to the little Mexican village of Ensenada, which had been prominently featured in one of those adventure travel tales he'd read in England.

Like Tolkein's Bilbo Baggins, running down the road toward adventure without a hat or coat, Mackintosh set off to Baja without a tent or sleeping bag, hitchhiking his way around the peninsula until his money ran out. By that time, he'd fallen deeply in love with the harsh environment and was determined to come back and explore it more thoroughly. Into a Desert Place is his account of what he saw and learned on that second trip, and how he survived.

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The word incredible barely lends justice to Graham's effort.......2007-08-12

Baja is an adventure, even if by air in your own airplane. Hopscotching from place to place on a peninsula that stretches almost a thousand miles south of California, is quick and efficient but, as always in a single engine aircraft, the prospect of an off field emergency landing is on the pilot's mind.

In Baja, where an arid, desolate landscape, and rugged mountains stretch endlessly below the wings and dry riverbeds host cactus and rattlesnakes, nature ups the ante. These inhospitable thoughts are a memory of my flying adventure to "The Baja" in October 1993, but they are nothing in comparison to Graham Mackintosh's incredible journey on foot following the coastline.

As luck would have it Graham was in Mulege (about midway down the eastern coast of Baja on the Sea of Cortez) and attended the well known Hotel Serenidad's pig roast fiesta with us on Saturday evening. In response to our questions, Graham (this was before I read the book) told us how ill-suited and inadequately prepared he was for his adventure. But his appearance belied an iron will, unyielding perseverance, and an indomitable spirit. It took two years to achieve his goal, then another two more to write the book. My fellow travellers and I sat in awe as he recounted his tale.

The inscription he wrote for me in my copy of the book shows his humility. He very generously referred to me as "A Fellow Baja Adventurer," but I know there is no comparison in our experiences. Thanks Graham, I wish you well. Is there a movie in the works?

Husband's birthday present.......2007-05-12

This book was the perfect gift for my husband. He keeps talking about his dream of going in the desert, walking, exploring, being away from civilization for a while,... but he's never done it. This book author DID IT!

True Baja experience.......2006-08-25

I have traveled many times down to Baja, his descriptions reflect my impression of the people and places.

Spiritual Journey not just a travel adventure.......2002-07-31

I originally read this book several years back and now find myself periodically rereading it as its a spiritual journey packaged in a travel adventure. I dream of doing something like it however will probably not. If you like "cultural experiences" with the locals where you travel to you will love this book.

Come apart, into a desert place.......2002-03-21

A British "every man" who describes himself as being a self absorbed couch potato, walks alone around the rugged and remote coastlines of Baja California. The self-deprecating honesty and insight is unusual and refreshing. He persists through heat and drought, rock slides and dangerous tides, scorpions and thorny plants, daunting geological impediments, rattlesnakes, and sharks -- yet the story is more 'man in nature' than the more common and inane 'man against nature.'
Mackintosh's sensitivity to the lands he interacts with is fascinating, particularly given that he is afoot in a 'wild' land a hemisphere from his home, in an environment foreign to his previous life. "I didn't need anyone to tell me what was right and wrong. The land was sacred to me. I was a part of it. I wasn't one of a million careless tourists with their trucks, bikes and polluting toys. I was one in a million. The desert was special and my needs were special. There was no conflict. ... The sense of being special to a special place was very much part of the exhilaration and the experience. ... Yet, to put it into words was to distort it. The feeling was the reality and the mystery. It saddened me to think that I might never be able to share it with another person. 'In what concerns you much,' wrote Thoreau, 'know that you are alone in the world.'" Relevant recountings of historical events are woven into the narrative, as are the author's spiritual musings.
The whole-heartedness with which Mackintosh merges into a new landscape is complimented by the friendships which he easily forges with the ranchers and fishermen of rural and wild Baja, and their families. As a journal of wilderness travel, this may be one of the best books written in the twentieth century.

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The Scottish Coast to Coast Walk
Brian Smailes
Manufacturer: Challenge Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 095269008X

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