Collaboratively compiled, edited, and notated by Gregory A. Waselkov (Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Archaeological Studies, University of South Alabama) and Kathryn E. Holland Brand (Associate Professor of History, Auburn University), William Bartram On The Southeastern Indians is comprised of the writings and observations first published in 1791 by William Bartram regarding flora, fauna, and the Native American Creeks, Seminoles, and Cherokee that he encountered while touring the American Southeast. This scholarly edition is enhanced for contemporary readers with illustrations, notes, a bibliography, an index, and an informative chapter devoted to the significance of William Bartram's writings in anthropological studies of 18th century southeastern Native American cultures. William Bartram On The Southeastern Indians is a core addition to personal, professional, and academic Native American Studies collections and supplemental reading lists.

Let a soldier die is a good book for a young teen that hasn't read many war stories. The vocabulary is well explained and the book's not to confusing.
Let A Soldier Die is about a helicopter gunship pilot named bear derring the Vietnanm war. This is his story about the hardship of war: the good the bad and the evil. A Gunship pilot's job is to deliver stuff to the soldier and they pick up the dead and wounded. Bear's experinces at war change the way he looks at life.

Another one trying to be like the master. This is not Gorky Park. What it is, is a very good second class. The location of Moscow is always written as dark and bleak and he does that well. The two main characters working together does not really work for me, I did not believe the reason they were together thus there pairing put me off of the book. For those of you who like a story to have one main plot and not confuse the issue with too many extras then you may enjoy the book. The characters are average; more detail would have been nice. Overall I think this is an average effort in this rather crowed field.

Moscow Twilight bills itself as being "on par with Gorky Park". Well... not quite. It is a suspense novel set in Moscow where the CIA station chief has been killed in what appears to be the Mafia attacking a restaurant.

The book pairs unlikely allies (really unlikely) Ben Martin, a temporary assistant cultural attache and Georgian KGB captain Sergo Chanturia. As the investigation progresses, stolen plutonium enters the plot and the possibility that Iraq will be on the receiving end to build bombs.

If you are a really informed Russophile you'll find some holes. Generally though, you will enjoy the story.

Here are the problems. To begin with, as you read, you never feel the characters speaking with a Russian accent. What I mean is their identities haven't been constructed enough that you can see it in their actions or hear it in their voice. If you compare it to Gorky Park, you'll know what Im talking about. Martin Cruz Smith did an incredible job building in the Russian attitudes, actions, reactions, etc. In Moscow Twilight you just never feel you've arrived in Russia. In fact, you could probably change the location, the characters and it would fit nicely in the US, Spain or anywhere. In my mind I hear all the characters speaking in an American accent.

The other aspect is the lack of development in some of the plot variations. For example Chanturia is a Georgian struggling with his Georgian identity and loyalty as the Republic struggles toward independence. His involvements get him close to conflict there, but it never quite materializes. He simple escapes it too easily. Also the angle of the stolen plutonium had some promise to go further, but it never did.

In the end you have a novel about a murder without a lot of passion behind it. You have to wholly accept a lots of premises (i.e. the KGB captain and cultural attache working together...) without asking a lot of questions. Finally you have no more sense of what Russia is about then when you started, as opposed to Gorky Park where you have entered the Russian heart and soul as well as infrastructure.

It's a decent book, but not a classic. Look for it at a garage sale near you.