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The Best American Travel Writing 2000 13 reviews
Houghton Mifflin, 2000
An Outsanding Collection of Stories
"Best American Travel Writing 2000" is the first edition in yet another outstanding entry in the "Best American" series. It is structured like other "Best American" books, with a series editor and a yearly guest editor putting their heads together and selecting two dozen or so of the best articles to be published in the field during the previous year. Bill Bryson was a very canny choice to be ...
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The Best American Travel Writing 2006 (The Best American Series (TM)) 9 reviews
Houghton Mifflin, 2006
my travel writting text book--and a good read too!
It is a little bit hard to review this book because I have read most of the series and like them all. This is no exception and I thought that there are a few things that I can add.
As always a good/great selection of material and most/all are great reads. As has been stated elsewhere if you do not like one, you can skip it. However, I never skip a story. I sort of think that I might not finish ...
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Iron Kingdoms World Guide: Full Metal Fantasy, Vol. 2 (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying)3 reviews
Rob Baxter, Brian Gute, ...
Privateer Press, 2005
Speechless
What can I say abut this? This has to be the most comprehensive guide to an RPG world I have ever read. It reads like a history text and encyclopedia combined, but not as dry. The writers at Privateer Press have outdone themselves. Background info is given on the wonderful world of the Iron Kingdoms that they have shared with us. They go into such detail int he book. Each country's entry ...
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Design Matters: Creating Powerful Imagery for Worship2 reviews
Jason Moore, Len Wilson
Abingdon Press, 2006
Excellent!
This is a must read for every person who is involved with Media Ministry, especially the graphic design. Compliments and reinforces the Digital Storytellers conference.
This book also covers some general design even if your not involved with Church Media.
Highly Recommended.
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Alejandro Xul Solar1 review
Mario H. Gradowczyk
Harry N Abrams, 1996
El Jorge Luis Borges de la Pintura Sudamericana
Mi comentario es sobre Xul Solar,y creo que cualquier libro que rescate la obra de este gran creador sudamericano servira para que ocupe el lugar que merece en la historia. Recomiendo a todo amante del arte, de cualquier lugar, que entre dentro del mundo de este artista para descubrir todas las facetas que deslumbraron (como lo hace un calidoscopio a los ojos de un niño)a artistas tan ...
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Caribbean (Traveller's Literary Companion)1 review
NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company, 1997
A thoughtful and essential book to pack
This is a thoughtful and insightful anthology, as essential to pack as your sunscreen, serving as an antidote to the superficial "sun and fun" approach of the commercial Caribbean vacation. The booklists themselves are a treasure chest for those who want to dig deeper, or just fill a valise with books that illuminate their destination.
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Jorge Luis Borges (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives)1 review
Jason Wilson
Reaktion Books, 2006
The Best Short Biography of Borges
Those of us who have followed the writing career of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) from outside of Argentina have seen him primarily as the pathetic old blind man grasping on to the arms of his visitors as they wended their way to some café in the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires. What this excellent short biography by Jason Wilson reminds us is that Borges was at one time a dashing young man who ...
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South and Central America Including Mexico (Traveller's Literary Companion)1 review
Jason Wilson
Passport Books, 1995
A treat!
From Planeta Journal - Anyone book lover traveling in Latin America should carry a copy of this compilation of stories and poems. Each country receives a lively description as well as an index of native and foreign authors who wrote about local life. Wilson provides bibliographic details about the authors whose names are or should be familiar - Isabel Allende, Paul Bowles, Ernesto Cardenal, ...
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Gathering Our Own: A Collection of Iaia Student Playwrights (Institute of American Indian Arts Anthology ...1 review
Institute of American Indian Arts, 1996
Native American Drama
This is a collection of three plays written by students at the Institute of American Indian Arts. How the Gods Kill by Jason Begay (Dine)looks at conflict between traditional ways and Christianity. Inidan Game Show by Wende Williams (Navajo)uses a TV game show format to satirize stereotypes. Reunion by Terry Gomez (Commanche) dramatizes a family struggling to define and maintain their cultural ...
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Itinerary: An Intellectual Journey3 reviews
Octavio Paz
Harvest Books, 2001
"Words Became My Dwelling Place, the Air My Tomb"
Poet Octavio Paz has journeyed across much of the twentieth century landscape in this short book of essays. As a son of La Malinche (see his LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE), he maintained a clearheaded sense of balance while his contemporaries were losing their heads over communism, surrealism, existentialism, and all the other isms that characterized that time. What has always amazed me that Paz was at ...
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The Best American Travel Writing 2001 8 reviews
Jason Wilson
Houghton Mifflin, 2001
Not romantic, but rivetting
Anyone who's read Paul Theroux's travel books - "The Old Patagonian Express," "The Happy Isles of Oceania" - knows he's not in it for the fun. His selections for the best travel pieces of 2000 (for this 2001 edition), reflect his seriousness of purpose, his sense of place and his eye for quality writing. "It is not about vacations," he states in his introduction, and explains, "travel writing at ...
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Ghost Hunting: True Stories of Unexplained Phenomena from The Atlantic Paranormal Society83 reviews
Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, ...
Pocket, 2007
Great Ghost Hunting Book for Your Collection!
This is one of my favorite ghost books! Not only is it from the fabulous "Ghost Hunters", Jay & Grant, but it really gives you more details into some other cases they covered previously to filming the show. I could not put this book down and enjoyed every minute of reading it. I can't wait to see if they decided to do another book like this one especially if it details even more previous cases ...
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Philadelphia: A Photographic Celebration1 review
Running Press Book Publishers, 2000
The photos capture the essence of Philedelphia
The pictures are beautiful and it is a perfect balance of text and photos. it reflects a city w/a less-than-positive reputation in a wonderful light.
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The Best American Travel Writing 2003 (The Best American Series (TM)) 4 reviews
Houghton Mifflin, 2003
Travel on the edge
Though there are a few funny pieces in this year's travel anthology, Frazier's ("On the Rez") bent is for serious things happening in unhappy and often unlovely places. Tom Bissell's "Eternal Winter" explores the death of the Aral Sea, a hopeless Soviet-made ecological disaster with endless ghastly repercussions in a surreal landscape. Peter Chilson writes about the Tuareg rebellion at the edge ...
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The Best American Travel Writing 2005 (The Best American Series (TM))4 reviews
Houghton Mifflin, 2005
Essays Highlight the Dark Underbelly of Travel
This year's editor Jamaica Kincaid has done an excellent job of choosing essays that, more than chronicle exotic journeys, speak about the perplexities of the human condition as her selections are often scabrous, sardonic, and emphasize the dangers and follies that roil beneath the surface of a travel itinerary. Here are some highlights:
1. "War Wounds" by Tom Bissell. A son and father, a ...
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Best American Travel Writing 20027 reviews
Topeka Bindery, 2002
Travel the world without leaving your living room
If you like short stories and travelogues you'll love this book. These are the best of the best. And like some reviewers have already mentioned, there are a wide variety of experiences and information in this collection of essays. I found myself laughing in Devin Friedman's "Forty Years in Acapulco" and Lawwrence Millman's "In the Land of the White Rajahs" and learning new information from Molly ...
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The Best American Travel Writing 2004 (The Best American Series (TM))7 reviews
Jason Wilson, Pico Iyer, 2004
Traveling the Un-American World
As with any compilation of anything, whether or not this volume truly represents the "best" of its chosen subject is a matter of fruitless dispute. Pico Iyer's introduction, describing a supposed theme in this year's offerings of a certain melancholy or weariness to American travel writing as a genre, rings hollow; while the field of publications from which the submissions were gleaned is pretty ...
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Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent: Abridged Edition (Penguin ... 4 reviews
Alexander von Humboldt
Penguin Classics, 1996
Entertaining account of 5 years in S.America
Alexander von Humboldt (of the Current fame) was a famous polymath during the age of enlightenment. Like many noblemen, he used his money and leisure time in esoteric pursuits, such as collecting flora & fauna and trying to find the deeper meaning of it all. This particular volume has been well-translated from the original - there is none of that stilted 'I haf von the Cherman translated been' ...
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Mastering New Testament Greek Vocabulary Through Semantic Domains2 reviews
Mark Wilson, Jason Oden
Kregel Academic & Professional, 2003
Excellent way to improve vocabulary
This book organizes words according to their semantic domains and thus allows you to build competence by learning substantially all the terms associated with a particular category of words. I find it much easier to learn words in small groups that encompass a particular category because learning in this kind of context lets you see the similarity and contrasts between terms and genders. For ...
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Warmachine: Prime Remix (Warmachine)2 reviews
J. Michael Kilmartin, Douglas Seacat, ...
Privateer Press, 2006
High Quality Publication, High Quality Game System
Everything about this steam-powered offering from Privateer Press screams quality. Colorful and characterful illustrations accompany thrilling fluff, providing a wealth of inspiration when putting together an army for this well refined miniatures game. Warhammer's got nothing on Warmachine.
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