Library Journal's review of this guide: "Combining encyclopedic coverage of destinations with loads of practical information and atlas-type maps, the series illuminates the wonders of nature but emphasizes the peculiarity of a place's people and their folklore."

Ms. Johns has insightfully juxtaposed major landscape works into a visual feast. For those who cannot travel to such faraway places, this catalog offers us a treat in travel as well as important understanding of the artistic talent responding to local settings and influences. Descriptions of the paintings and biographical anecdotes are superbly presented.

Dozens and dozens of Elizabeth biographies have appeared since Neale's. They range from fawning and highly subjective to harsh and unflattering. Yet even those writers dismissive of Neale's adoration for this queen cannot dispute his authentic scholarship. The man was an enormously respected historian, and his erudition forms the solid basis of his admiration. He sees Elizabeth in her own time, then draws the parallels needed to make that time, and what she accomplished within it, real to us. Perhaps most importantly: he writes with the hand of a gifted narrator, and with well-substantiated joy in his subject.

These are some of Sargent's most beautiful compositions and color galore. He was an amazing portrait artists and still, these landscapes are out of this world. His command of the painting media was genius........sheer genius. You'll love the beauty of these pictures. The more Sargent I see.......the more I have to rub my eyes to be sure anyone could be that good.

Very well written and to the point. Sheds new light on the Wonders

I have the Hungrian version of the book which involves both the Women's and Men's version. The first chapters include some Q&A form tests to get to know oneself. Then after helping to identify your problem/character it guides you to other pages of the book. The following chapters talk to women/men in couple or living alone, giving very practical ideas. I read this book many times with my girlfriend. It offers new ways to understand the other, it has a style that let us talk about this theme more freely. The text is easy to read, brief and valuable and the illustrations are both useful and nice. This Swedish couple wrote a great book.

I read this book *ages* ago. Then I promptly bought a copy. This book is *so* good there are just not enough words. It made me feel sad, and glad, and noble and young all at the same time. The book is wonderful for anyone, especially young ladies who happen to like dogs -- especially golden retrievers. :-) Marvelous.

I first read Talking to the Moon when living in Oklahoma's Osage County, only a few miles from where it was written. John Joseph Mathews, the author, was a native of that beautiful, rugged, still sparsely populated country. The scion of a locally prominent part-Osage family, he attended the University of Oklahoma and Oxford University, fought in WWI, and then came home to live alone for 10 years in a house he had built on his father's ranch. This book is the fruit of that time; it recounts his experiences and observations of the people, wildlife, and flora of that unique place. I found most of his observations to be accurate and pertinent 45 years later, except that if anything there are fewer people and better environmental conditions than there were in the 1930s and 40s, when Oklahoma's oil fever was still in full swing, and the Osage country was a hotbed of petroleum exploration and exploitation.

The book's structure is based on the Osage's concept of the moon's cycles as the basis of their year. The opening sentence of the third chapter, "Just-Doing-That Moon", says: "The Osage say that the moon is a woman and that she makes her appearance twelve times a year." Each of the moon's appearances has a name and, in the book, a corresponding chapter.

Mathews was deeply involved in Osage tribal politics, attempting to safeguard their lands and mineral rights from encroachment by state and federal government, and also attempting to preserve tribal history. He founded the Osage Tribal Museum in Pawhuska, and one chapter of the book is mostly devoted to his successful effort to have portraits painted for the museum of the leading elders of the tribe. This was in the summer of 1936, which still stands as the hottest on record in this area. His tales of dealing with the proud, recalcitrant elders and the somewhat clueless portraitist are both humorous and moving.

Mathews was a sophisticated, cosmopolitan intellectual, but he loved his people and his land, was always concerned with their welfare, and in writing this book, gave us an affectionate and clear-eyed account of the beauties and terrors to be found among the blackjacks and canyons of the land that Woody Guthrie called "the great Osage."

John Eastwood provides the engaging illustrations for Titus Rules!, a story of a Queen's favorite dog, and Titus' bravery in keeping on the alert. Warm characterization blends with whimsical humor with a peppering of black and white drawings in this warm story of a brave royal pet.

It changed the way that I looked at indians.