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15 reviews
William Dietrich

HarperTorch, 2006

(4.5 stars) It's the end of the world as we know it...
Generally speaking I have a policy about epic books and that is they have to be long. After all if you're telling a tale of an epic battle, or generations in a family life, or about two civilizations clashing together (or crumbling) shouldn't it be long? Shouldn't there be hundreds and hundreds of pages to mull over, to fit every detail into it and every perspective? Most of the time, it suits an ...

On Puget Sound

1 review
Art Wolfe, William Dietrich

Sasquatch Books, 2007

Great photos of a natural wonder.
This is a very nice book, even though I was hoping for something more. The pictures are fantastic, and even though I've lived next to Puget Sound for most of my life, half the images were of things I've never seen. The text makes a good case for people to care about protecting Puget Sound. I hope that many people read it and are inspired to take the bus or use a push mower more often to help ...

Napoleon's Pyramids

42 reviews
William Dietrich

Harper, 2008

A fun novel in the grand tradition of H. Rider Haggard and Edgar Rice Burroughs!
It was actually William Dietrich's newest historical novel, The Rosetta Key, which caught my attention and caused me to buy the prequel, Napoleon's Pyramids. I love the Indiana Jones movies and the old serials from the forties and fifties, so a story that deals with an adventurer in search for the Egyptian Book of Thoth and the Ark of the Covenant in Israel during Napoleon's invasion of 1799 was ...

The Rosetta Key

11 reviews
William Dietrich

Harper, 2008

A nonstop adventure set in Napoleonic Egypt
In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte set forth to invade and conquer the Holy Land following his successful conquest of Egypt the year before. The difference in this attack is that Napoleon is set apart from his own navy, which had gone down to defeat at the hands of the British Commander, Admiral Nelson. Bonaparte gambled on the premise that a relatively small group of dedicated fighters would be enough ...

The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest

6 reviews
William Dietrich

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1993

A balanced view
"I hope you read it [the book] for whatever understanding it provides. Then, when you get a chance, go and read the living things that it came from." This, the last sentence in the book, powerfully wraps up an engrossing examination of both sides of the controversy on logging old-growth forests. Always on the side of the environmentalists, I came to understand and sympathize with the loggers ...

Natural Grace: The Charm, Wonder, and Lessons of Pacific Northwest Animals and Plants

1 review
William Dietrich

University of Washington Press, 2003

This is a wonderful book.
If you are interested in becoming better acquainted with the flora, fauna, and other natural features of the Puget Sound area, I highly recommend this book to you. It provides fascinating information about familiar plants, animals, dirt, and other natural features. A chapter is devoted to each subject, with a few chapters discussing several together. Although most people who live in this area, ...

Getting Back

14 reviews
William Dietrich

Grand Central Publishing, 2000

I adored it and will read it over and over
You know I used to have a really high rating as an Amazon reviewer. I don't know exactly what it was but it was in the top 1000. I used to do fairly boring reviews devoid of controversy and in my opinion - interest and my rating was high - lots of "helpful" votes. Lately I have started to write about more emotional works such as "Runaway Jury" and global warming, aids, evolotion and ID, that ...

Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River

4 reviews
William Dietrich

University of Washington Press, 1996

Exceptional history, balanced perspective
I have taught Pacific Northwest History at high school and college levels, and found this book one of the best regional histories published. Although focused on the Columbia River, it presents more of the general history of the interior Northwest (east of the Interstate 5 corridor) than any other history of the region. Of course, the Columbia River and its tributaries are central to Northwest ...

Hadrian's Wall: A Novel

18 reviews
William Dietrich

HarperTorch, 2005

Hadrians Wall by Dietrich.
Hadrian's Wall: A Novel Despatch to me was prompt. It was of my favourite historical period, and was well-written and researched. Recommended for readers of English Ancient Roman books.

Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology

1 review

Yale University Press, 2008

The Kimura Part
Unfortunately, the Kimura section doesn't reflect new work in the history of mathematics, so it cannot explain the neutral theory as a piece of constructivist mathematics, which it is. The lineage is pretty straightforward: Kimura back to Malecot, back to Borel, the latter of whom was one of the early twentieth-century responders to issues raised by Cantorian set theory. In other words, ...

Piramides De Napoleon, Las
WILLIAM DIETRICH, 2007

Paris, 1798. Ethan Gage parte hacia Egipto con la expedición de sabios de Napoleón tras ganar en una partida de cartas un misterioso medallón que, supuestamente, perteneció a Cleopatra y que tal vez esconda uno de los mayores secretos de la historia. Allí buscará las respuestas para comprender el poder que tiene ese objeto, codiciado por todos, en lo que se convertirá en una peligrosa y trepidante aventura. La llegada a Egipto, contra las ...

The Rosetta Key LP
William Dietrich

HarperLuxe, 2008

Surviving murderous thieves, a nerve-racking sea voyage, and the deadly sands of Egypt with Napoleon's army, American adventurer Ethan Gage solved a five-thousand-year-old riddle with the help of a mysterious medallion. But the danger is only beginning. . . . Gage finds himself hurled into the Holy Land in dogged pursuit of an ancient Egyptian scroll imbued with magic, even as Bonaparte launches his 1799 invasion of Israel, which will climax ...

Dark Winter

6 reviews
William Dietrich

Grand Central Publishing, 2002

The Ultimate Cold War
Geologist Jed Lewis took a last-minute detour to Antarctica, as a favor to a friend. Seems Amundsen-Scott base's grand old man, astrophysicist Mickey Moss, may have found a Martian meteorite - and if he has, it could well be worth up to five million dollars. With that kind of money at stake, and a secret that can't last five minutes among twenty-six so close-knit administrators and ...

Ice Reich

21 reviews
William Dietrich

Grand Central Publishing, 2000

Cold-hearted Nazis in Frozen Antartica
Because of his experience in flying in icy weather conditions, ordinary good-guy American Owen Hart is asked to serve as pilot for a German team on an expedition to Antarctica. Thinking he can keep himself uninvolved emotionally and politically, little does Hart know what he's getting himself into! To begin with, he falls for the girlfriend of the fiendish Nazi Drexler, immediately setting ...

Richard Neutra's Windshield House

1 review

Yale University Press, 2001

Richard NeutraÃ*s Windshield House
An illuminating miniature on a legendary house that was almost destroyed by the New England hurricane of 1938 and succumbed to fire in 1973. It was NeutraÕs grandestÑand most unlikelyÑcommission: a summer house for a famous Rhode Island family on Fishers Island. John Nicholas Brown picked Neutra after seeing the MoMA exhibition on modern architecture that included the Lovell Health House. ...

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