If you're a fan of David Maass art, then this is your book. This books has the prints in it that made Maass famous as an artist. Included are stories from the great writer, Gene Hill, who as an author has written as beautifully as the prints adoring the pages throughout this book. A great addition to anyone's library. For the hunter who has so often forgot to grab the camera to remember the moment, these prints and stories are sure to bring you back in time.

This book is a wonderful book to teach children, how to behave and how to respect and apprieciate their elders. After just reading the book once my children were saying "Please","Thank you" and "Your Welcome" all the time. This book is a must have in every household with children.

This beautifully illustrated book is a fascinating beginner-level study of birds in flight. It makes an excellent art-reference book. It's strongest point is the series of images showing each stage of motion in the flight of several types of birds. The writing style is merely average, but is useful as supporting text to the graphics.

Anyone interested in Jewish themes set in the framework of a romantic novel should enjoy "Alex in the Promised Land." The novel begins in 1973 as Alexandra Fisher, on sabbatical from the University of Pennsylvania to do research on Kibbutz life, waits at the El Al terminal for a plane to Israel. Newly widowed she is determined to try and locate her first love Eli, whom she left in Israel twenty years earlier when she was called home suddenly because of her mother's illness. He is the biological father of her son, though neither is aware the other exists. While waiting at the airport she ponders what led her to go to Israel twenty-three years before when she was only nineteen. During a series of flashbacks, life on an outpost kibbutz in the Negev soon after the foundation of the State of Israel is described in some detail. The contrast between kibbutz life in the fifties and the seventies is an underlying theme in this novel, the main plot of which is the unique attraction between Alexandra and Eli and the difficulties they encounter in trying to revive their life together.

I'm ordering my second copy of this book, this one for my six-year-old grandson. It's a book of birds native to our Michigan area with beautiful illustrations, told in an interesting fashion. He has me read to him from it, and of course always needs to know about the bugs and such that they eat. He'll soon be old enough to read it himself, and likes to try and copy the illustrations. I'd recommend it for adults and kids alike.

David bird has now become a major brand name in the world of Bridge humour for his "Monks of St.Titus" books about the Bridge playing Abbot and his charges. The publishers want to capitalise on this brand by extending it in the same field. So, when it was decided that Ron Klinger's series of "Jewish humour" bridge magazine articles should be issued in book format, the publishers wanted to get the Bird brand on the cover.

David Bird set to work with Ron Klinger to expand the articles for book format and this is the result. If you are a fan of the Abbot, you will find this book very appealing. It is much better than the "Robin Hood" and "Cruise Liner" books.

The hands are, presumably, the work of Ron Klinger and they are good indeed. They are substantially better than the ones in David Bird's "Robin Hood" books. Good as they are, they are not free from errors. For example, in one case, a player holding a singleton trump is described as leading a second round of trumps.

The humour is straight, down the line Jewish and indeed, you might almost expect to find Maureen Lipman turning up to play at the Synagogue pairs. It is funny and it adds enough levity to keep the readers interest even as some of the trickiest hands are described.

Once you have read all of the Abbot books, you will certainly want to read this.

This is one of the few good book you can find, you can't find one like that easily. It is the best thing you can get that tells you all what you need to know on that topic, if you want a good book, buy this one.

If you love to listen to the sounds the nightjars make at night, then you must have this book to keep them around. I have never seen a book give so much detail about their habitat and history. And now I finally know the difference between a Whip-poor-will and a nighthawk. This is a great reference book for everyone.

I purchased this book to take with me to the Manu Reserve in Peru. It offered a very nice overview of the wildlife of the area, though I did see quite a few birds, reptiles and mammals that were not included. The illustrations and narratives are well done.
I wish the section on snakes was larger and the guide just touched on plant life.
My biggest wish is that the insect section would be expanded. There are 1,000 kinds of butterfly in Manu alone, yet the guide hardly touched the subject.
An all inclusive guide to all the plants, insects and wildlife would be far from portable, so if you are looking for a travel guide this does its job nicely. Hopefully you can carry this and let your guide haul around the Birds of Ecuador and other more comprehensive guides.

This attractive pocket-size guide is an ideal travel companion reliable and full of information despite its light weight and small format. It is easy to use even for non specialists : texts and photographs are clear and thumbnail color outlines of family group allow for a quick identification of birds. However this guide is not meant to be exhaustive : some species are left-out and you won't learn everything about the birds described. But unless you are a true bird specialist you probably won't mind since the 88 species descibed are the most typical of the 102 occuring in the vast region covered (12 countries south of a line running from Kenya and Uganda to Namibia) and you are not likely to meet the remaining 14 species. For each species described the guide provides clear color photographs selected to show the variations associated with age, sex and color form along with illustrations showing birds in flight, distribution maps and an authoritative text describing key identification features. The text also provides some basic background on the birds habitat range, feeding or breeding habits. Ideally this guide could be used in combination with another pocket-size guide dealing with birds in general such as Ian Sinclair's "Photographic guide to birds of southern Africa".