The main reason I enjoy this guide is that, if the species is included in the book, I can usually find it within thirty seconds. Often times the bird is still in sight and I can easily compare its markings to those found in the guide.

I highly recommend this book as a quick reference guide.

However, at the end of the day, she earns more than a trophy could ever give her.

killers of protected animals, foreigners, IRA terrorists,
and whose enemies include tight-lipped FBI agents and
Native Americans?
This guy has a maze of enemies whose relationships equal
those of a soap opera, and he has to sort through them like
the best of our detectives.
The story revolves around a mysterious explosion at an
unusual federal animal research lab on the shores of Lake
Superior, where 2 people are shot at close range, but where,
at the same time, 5 timber wolves escape. And when our game
warden arrives, he finds the place guarded by FBI agents,
with help from the Fish & Wildlife Svc and other strange
people. Plus, as he pokes around, he bumps into an Ojibway
game warden, who shouldn't even be there, but our guy, Grady
Service, hears about a very unusual "blue wolf" which is among
those escaping animals.
This is a nice, intricate mystery involving a large number of
people of all kinds, and it all takes place in the beautiful,
and sometimes lonely, U.P. of Michigan about the time deer
hunting season is to begin. It makes for a complex set of
characters, and this hero's march through the wilderness,
both natural and political, makes good reading.

This is a photocopied saddle-bound reprint pamphlet, and does not contain the A.E. Waite introduction originally included in 1920s source edition used here. One side affect of this is that the page numbers referenced throughout the text do not match the printed page numbers (which seem to have been modified by the publisher to mask the deletion of the introduction.) I suspect that the loss of the introduction may be due to copyright issues.

The translator presents a number of interesting and useful interpretations of the Sepher Yetzirah text. However, the Hebrew text itself is not included - only the translation. This has some disadvantages for a document that exists in so many different versions. Stenring does cite which text he is using as his source (Mantua, I believe).

Overall, a worthwhile translation of this early Hebrew Kabbalistic text

Old indeed they are, and virtually inaccessible even to those fairly proficient in Chinese. A mere knowledge of the Classical idiom is no guarantee of understanding them; The Yi Jing in its original Chinese is little more than a skein of characters strung together, each one of them generally to be understood on its own rather than as part of a sentence. The Shi Jing is a book of poetry, but it is poetry from a remote antiquity; it contains many words that occur nowhere else in Chinese literature, the poems usually don't rhyme any more (yes, Chinese poetry rhymes!) and no doubt some of the poems date back to an extremely remote shamanistic past in Chinese history. They are venerated for the moral message contained in them, and also for the spontaneity to life that they express - a quality that is prized so highly in East Asian culture. It is a taproot of East Asian thought, just as the psalms and Homer are for the West.

Which makes Waley's translation all the more amazing, in that he could actually produce a work that is so absorbing and edifying. Waley was something of a genius of translation; he never visited the Far East - he claimed it would ruin his impression of it - but he translated so much of the best of Chinese and Japanese literature, and he did it so well. Some of the items he translated have never been attempted by anybody else, and while there are other translations of the Shi Jing his is far and away the best one to read.

Those who are familiar with Waley's other works may find the book a disappointment, which is unfortunate. This is an extremely difficult work to translate, much harder than the Analects, to say nothing of the popular Chinese novels that Waley also did into English. The problem is bringing the material to life, and I feel that Waley did as much as could be done with it.

This book was, I believe, out of print for quite a few years. I'm glad to see it's back.