Simply a great fishing book. Describes the correct fishing gear to use for different fishing situations. Gets into spin casting, bait casting, fly fishing and other types of fishing. Describes and advises the use of various lures and hook shapes/sizes. Recommends the best knots for different line type and baiting. A useful book for every fisherman's bookshelf.

Jules being one of the most prolific science fiction writers of our modern era (at least as I far as I know); wrote in this book, i.e., Measuring a Meridian by Jules Verne, an amazing, awesome and stupendous tale about two teams of "savants" (one group being from Tsarist Russia and the other being English); and their adventures in the jungles, e.g., fighting the "savage" natives and numerous dangerous, vile and ferocious beasts. I would definitely recommend reading this book, i.e., Measuring a Meridian by Jules Verne; and I do consider it to be one of the better science fiction books (well, in league with 20,000 Leagues under the sea)

MillsHughes@compuserve.com from UK

I read this a long time ago (during many hours of school detention) after seeing a TV adaptation when I was a kid. All I can say is that it was a great read and it is well worth seeking out if you can find it.

Realmente es un libro excelente, narra una historia fascinante que te va envolviendo durante el transcurso de la misma, ademas se aprende acerca de las costumbres rusas y también narra parte de la historia de Rusia viendolo todo desde el punto de vista del protagonista Miguel Strogoff. Recuerdo que lei este libro por primera vez a los 12 años y desde entonces lo he vuelto a leer como 6 veces mas, es simplemente uno de mis libros preferidos. Se los recomiendo, ya que trae aventura, traición, lealtad, etc. Van a quedar encantados del protagonista Miguel Strogoff, que en la historia es el correo especial del zar de Rusia que tiene que llevar a cabo una importante misión al tener que cruzar la estepa siberiana para entregar una carta de la cual depende el destino de Siberia, no les puede seguir contando, así que leanlo.

it was a good book and had lots of factual inf

Have you ever had an animal talk to you before? Well, in the book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy find and travel to an imaginary place called Narnia. They leave their home country of London because of air raids were bombing there. So they went to an old professor's house and lived there for a while. The day they came they decided to go and explore the wood and field the next day, but wouldn't you know it began to rain very hard that you couldn't even see the wood or field. They decided to explore the huge house. They went room to room. Until one room with a humongous wardrobe and a dead dragonfly on the window - sill, Lucy thinks to herself that maybe something great is in the wardrobe. She goes in and finds the country Narnia. I thought this book was great and I think you would too. Read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.

I couldn't put this book down. It was fast reading, exciting, interesting. I gave it 5 stars. Jake is a real detective, brave, curious. Rhoda is the same Rhoda. Always chiding him for trying to crack the case, always afraid that he'll get hurt. A totally enjoyable reading experience.

Published just in time for Passover, the holiday of freedom, Melvin Jules Bukiet (STRANGE FIRE, NEUROTICA, SIGNS AND WONDERS, Professor at Sarah Lawrence) has collected some of the works of the children of Shoah survivors, the Second Gen'ers, the "2G." I was drawn to this book by its cover art, in which the sign over the gates to Auschwitz reads "NOTHING MAKES YOU FREE" instead of the actual "WORK MAKES YOU FREE/Arbeit Macht Frei". Included in the book are pieces in English and those translated into English from Italian, French, Serbian, Swedish, Hebrew, German, and Hungarian. Although these adult "CHILDREN" grew up around the world, they carry a common literary burden and can spot each other in crowded rooms. Bukiet (the son of number 108016) asks "how atrocity gets filtered through imagination." This collection helps to answer it. He writes that if the Holocaust is a historic Rorschach blot, in it the depressive can justify despair, the hopeful can find redemption, and the stupid can discern the triumph of the spirit. The collected authors grew up as children of a nightmare, children of the khurban that "is a black hole that devours the light." Bukiet explains that they lived with parents that had numbers tattooed on their arms; parents who saw their kids as replacements for murdered family members; parents whose Yiddish language was now as dead as Sanskrit; parents who appreciated life having known death (or resigned themselves to suicide); parents with cauterized tear ducts; and parents who never wasted food at the dinner table, having known hunger intimately. Their parents lived with the aftermath of atrocity and passed on these psyches to their 2G-Second Generation children (either through speaking of it always or never speaking of it). Many of the 2G authors are rage filled, angry, cynical, and distrustful. And This makes for good writing.

The authors included in the collection are, in Part 1: Carl Friedman, Eva Hoffman, Victoria Reel, Tammie Bob, Ruth Knafo Setton, Goran Rosenberg, Doron Rabinovici, Alan Kaufman, and Barbara Finkelstein; in Part 2: Savyon Liebrecht, JJ Steinfeld, Thane Rosenbaum, Henri Raczymov, Sonia Pilcer, Lily Brett, Val Vinokurov, Helena Janaczek, Esther Dischereit, and cartoonist Art Spiegelman; and in Part 3: Anne Karpf, Lea Anini, Gila Lustiger, Joseph Skibell, Leon De Winter, Alcina Lubitch Domecq, Mihaly Kornis, Peter Singer, David Albahari, Alain Finkielkraut, and the editor Melvin Jules Bukiet. I recommend that you read the authors' brief bios before starting to read the collected works. Not included are authors like David Lehman and David Curzon, who identify as 2G, but whose parents escaped Vienna in 1939; and the journalist, Joseph Berger (Displaced Persons), since he were born slightly prior to May 7, 1945.

Maria Sandoz is one of the most underrated American writers of her time. Her account of Old Jules is a vivid portait into the obscure history of the plains, and the people who lived and died there.

This book is like a Bibli for papermakers