... and get out to the mountains he loves.

He was the first person in history to ski down all of Colorado's fourteeners. He's climbed all at least once and many several times. Among his accomplishments are four ascents up the Diamond face of Longs Peak, so it is no surprise that Longs Peak figures prominently in this text. Dawson began climbing at an early age, and has written several other guide books for hikers in Colorado. His illustrations are excellent, and his narratives are brief enough to keep your interest and meaty enough to provide the information most are looking for.

Having climbed Colorado 14ers for more than 30 years, I've used all available guidebooks. First rule, remember that the info in the book is often wrong -- unless you're willing to think for yourself, avoiding mountains is the best bet. After that, to me Dawson is the best guidebook ever. Roach is good too -- it's good to have both. But in spite of the price difference, Dawson's 2 volumes are well worth it. And please, tread lightly!

I've read seemingly every 14er guide available. Much of the information overlaps as one can imagine. However, what really sets this (and the companion volume as well) one apart is the truly four season information that it provides. Louis gives you ratings for summer and snow climbs as well as ski descents. None of the other 14er guides I've read give you that. These volumes are often compared to Gerry Roach's books which are excellent in their own right. However, in my mind the information in Louis Dawson's guides is better as many of us climb in seasons other than summer!

When I came home there was a dead deer on my living room table (yes I was shocked because it didn't belong there) and my husband was looking at it holding a knife. He didn't look so sure what to do. I got this book from the library which explains in very detailed pictures how to "disect" the animal. It worked so great I bought him the book for xmas and we have used it several times for deer, turkey and the great recipes.

The photo of the vension roast on the cover make you wish you had a vension roast in the freezer for tomorrows dinner.

The book has everything you need to know about getting the wild game from bagging it, dressing it out, hanging and aging, equipment you will need, do's and don'ts, and proper handling of wild game meat. Now this may sound like something anyone who hunts may know, but there is lot's of info even the long time hunter will find useful.

One of the best pieces of information I found was his suggestion that we wear rubber gloves (like you use to do dishes) when dressing an animal out to make cleaning up easier. And he also covers issues like state laws i.e. some require proof of the animals gender to be visalbe and intact. If you have to ask what this means, go ask you parents !

The recipes are awesome and cover birds, rabbits, deer, elk etc. This is not only a great book to own but to give as a gift.

The information on dressing wild game would be very useful to a novice hunter. I am a veteran hunter, and it is the recipes that I applaud. These are real wild game recipes, not chicken and beef recipes converted for use on game birds and venison. I have tried several of the recipes in the book and every one I tried produced gourmet results. We especially like the Basque Pheasant and Pheasant Pot Pie. The color photos would make even a vegetarian's mouth water.

This is an exceptional book. Biblical, practical, lots of examples and useful tools. This book is excellent, not only for raising children who have anger problems, but great for raising any child.

The subtitle says "Practical" and the advice really is! Not pie-in-the sky psychobabble, but direct, concrete, specific steps toward figuring out what lies behind the anger and knowing how to address it. I especially appreciate how the book doesn't waste time trying to place blame or point fingers. It just helps the parent get to work addressing the attitudes and behaviors that need correction.

I have three little boys and I was concerned about some of their behaviors. Fighting, yelling, getting really mad at each other. This book answered so many questions for me it was great. He backs up everything he says with Bible verse and there are examples to help also. A lot of books hint at what could be the root of the problem but this guy lays it out in a way that is easy to understand and I have seen great improvement in my boys just in the first few days. It isn't just a book for children it is for anyone that needs to deal with an anger problem. I have felt a lot better after reading it. It heled me to see what actions I was taking that were upsetting the kids and giving them a bad example. It isn't a book that makes you feel you are a bad person. It just points out things that everybody does to some degree and just taking time to notice which things apply to you is a great help. I think everybody should get at least two of this book because it is the kind of book you want to give to a friend. If everybody read this book the world would be a better place to live in.

Henry always gets five stars from me, but when I was a kid my favorite thing about this book was the very idea of building a real clubhouse. It seemed like such a fun and cool thing to do. I like that the kids in this book take the initiative to have fun rather than expecting adults to provide all of their amusements, as so often happens today.

I used to read this all the time and sometimes I still do.When i was young like Henry I thought about how girls shouldnt beallowed too, and even though i know its silly now, I remember. And thats why its good. I was a lot like Henry Huggins. And thats good characterisation. But i didnt have a dog. But I had a clubhouse. It was my garage and it smelled like paint.

This book is the best! I will buy it for all my kids someday, if they're boys. Girls arent allowed! ... just kidding girls.

I read Henery and the Clubhouse by Bevrely Cleary.And I want to tell you that it was great! This story is about Henery Huggens and his friends, Robert and Murph who ars building a clubhouse in Henry's backyard. Henry, also has a paper rout to look after. Will Henry be able to build his clubhouse and deliver his papers? Well I am not telling you, you have to find out by reading this book!

My grandfather collected and owned every original Lous L'Amour western novel. When I was 15 he passed the collection onto me. While this is not the best example of L'Amour's work it is certinaly my favorite. Another favorite of mine is "Last of the Breed", but "Fair Blows the Wind" is the book that I come back to read over and over time and again. I would recommend this book to anyone. No book collection is complete without this.

I thought that this book was very well written. I really liked the way Lamor described the fight scenes and the characters in extreme detail. This really gave me the idea of what it was like in those times. People made a lot of money through trade just like Chantry. If you like the art of fencing, this book is for you.

If you're going to write a review, please make sure you know what you are talking about beforehand. The hero of this book is Tatton CHANTRY, the first CHANTRY to come to America. I have no idea how anyone could have gotten the idea it was about Barnabas Sackett. the two characters actually meet each other in To the Far Blue Mountains. they are definitely two different people. And, uh, try not to give away the endings of books. These reviews are supposed to be for people who have NOT read the book yet. Thank you!

Adrian Louis's Ceremonies of the Damned seems to have been written over a relatively short period of time. Louis writes in direct, aggressive and emotional voice, making extensive use of line breaks to emphasize words or phrases. He incorporates slang and profanity into his work and, while this is sometimes excessive, generally he chooses specific words or phrases because they communicate exactly the idea or emotion he wishes to communicate -- not for their shock value. His writing appears to be well-disciplined and well-focused. Louis demonstrates an ironic sense of humor. This humor, while enjoyable, is clearly used to make a point. For example, in "Dead Rez Land Dream" (47-48), Louis lays a scenario of an Indian man surrounded by cavalry who are shooting at him from all sides. He gleefully relates, "I only have a bow, but then a miracle happens./ I whip out a Thompson submachine gun/ with a huge wheel clip and start to/ mow the bluecoats down." This boyish wish to beat impossible odds is related in a humorous way, but it communicates the despair that would be felt by the Indian trapped by cavalry without a machine gun. Ceremonies of the Damned is a tightly-focused, well-constructed poetic work. The writing style is well-disciplined, coherent and easily understood. His manner is aggressive and emotional. His writing is rich in meaning and rewards careful reading.

Ceremonies of the Damned by Adrian Louis is truly a collection of poems that is wrought with moral destruction. Louis leaves a lot to the imagination. Did he really sleep with his student Serena? He never really answers this. He lets the reader's imagination run. And what about his wife's Alzheimer's? How do you blame a man for being unfaithful to a woman who is just a shell of the woman he once loved(?). This collection of poetry is some of the best poetry that I have ever read. Louis paints a horrifying picture of reservation life that is decorated ever so slightly with a love for his wife that keeps his guilt alive and strong. I read this book beginning to end several times. Spellbinding!

Ceremonies of the Damned literally knocked the air from my lungs. One of the harshest and most beautiful poetry books I have ever read. Get it!

I received this book as a gift recently. Once I picked it up, I could not put it down. The title of the book implies that it is a novel about St. Benedict, but he is actually just one of many characters in this historical novel. DeWohl does a wonderful job describing the Roman world at the time of St. Benedict, making it come to life.
If you are a fan of historical fiction, read this book. If you are a fan of Louis DeWohl, read this book.

Until I read this gem by de Wohl, all I knew about St Benedict was that he founded a Catholic order of priests now known at the Benedictines. He certainly was close to God, and God must have inspired him to write his rules for living together. After 1,500 years, the Order of St Benedict is still operating.

The book got me interested in Theodoric, the Ostrogoths, and Boethius, and it's been fun reading about them on the Internet and seeing how well de Wohl knew his history.

The novel Citadel of God is one of the finest works I have read about St.Benedict. While keeping St.Benedict as the main subject of the book, de Wohl also includes the chaotic war between the Goths and Byzantium. In doing this de Wohl unites the almost opposite "plots" through wicked Peter's visit to Monte Cassino and conversation with St.Benedict at Cassino while also remaining historically accurate.

In all this book is a must read for those who are interested in history and most importantly for a look at one man's journey to God.

Henri Bergson's seminal ``Creative Evolution'' starts off with the flowing movement so prevalent in his philosophy of the organism, one idea flows into the next in a smooth undivided motion. Not only does Bergson explain his work with analogies and examples supported by the biology of the time, thereby distancing himself from the purely intellectual pursuit of most philosohpy, trapped in the world of the mind, but he demonstrates his thought in the very way of exposition he uses throughout the book. One feels his thought is produced like a Mozart symphony, all at once with no corrections needed. This aptly demonstrates the idea of duration and time he proposes in this book. His influence is profound in thinkers such as David Bohm and Alfred North Whitehead which so to speak ``run with it'' in the parlance of baseball. This is a book worth reading twice for its rich display of creativity and also to reread sections not followed the first time. One does feel however that at times the flow is interrupted by disturbances in his mode of thinking leading to disjointed reading. Nonetheless, not only does he open a whole new way of thought free of dualism and the old patterns of mechanism, but he also expalins the reason for mechanistic thought itself.

I first came across Ibsen's monumental work when reading 'Tropic of Capricorn' by Henry Miller. Despite my complete lack of evolutionary and biological knowledge, I found Ibsen's eschatology mind blowing. Several times I was forced to leave the book for days in order to fully contemplate the philosophical ramifications of his insights. From this great stride forward into the fringes of human understanding Ibsen states: 'A conduct that is truly our own, on the contrary, is that of a will which does not try to counterfeit intellect, and which, remaining itself - that is to say, evolving - ripens gradually into acts which the intellect will be able to resolve indefinitely into intelligible elements without ever reaching its goal. The free act is incommensurable with the idea, and its "rationality" must be defined by this very incommensurability, which admits the discovery of much intelligibility within it as we will. Such is the character of our own evolution; and such also, without doubt, that of the evolution of life." No one, despite their educational backgrounds or lack thereof, should feel intimidated by the possibility of transcending one's very own intellect.

Despite Lord Russell's criticism that "intuition works best in bats, bees, and Bergson," in this work Bergson not only finishes the uprooting of the Western and Platonic disembodied intellect (a deconstruction taken only so far by Kant), he presents us with the spectacle of unbridled life creatively shaping, not only its world, but itself in accord with its own telos: the need for eyesight creating the eye, so to speak. Difficult in places but a treasure, although one could wish he gave more credit to Nietzsche's obviously great impact on him. Jungians would do well to peruse Bergson too.

Book deserves all the praise it has gotten. At age 18 I was an aerial gunner who flew 28 missions out of Italy. This remarkably accurate book brought me back in haunting ways to times that seem like a dream to me now. Falstein's hero knew what he was fighting for. He felt others did not. In fact, however, like Falstein, a big percentage of WWII airmen I knew were idealistic in the better sense of that word. A mad man was tying to enslave the world and they in their own way were trying to stop him. That simple! Great book.

As an earlier review said, this is a straight memoir, not a novel per se. And as such, it is thoroughly clear-eyed, insightful and moving. A "Old Man" (34 year-old) B-24 Liberator gunner rides crew with the young boys who rapidly become old men as well. Falstein's ruminations show the men as they ineluctably crumble on the inside with each successive mission in their vulnerable, lumbering bombers -- not knowing exactly what they are fighting for, but knowing, simply, that they must go on. A stunning memoir, one of the finest out there; worth more than many others put together.

Face of a Hero is a book i first read back in 1951 when i was a teenager and WW2 was still fresh in my adolesent mind and altho at that time there were many things i could not fully fathom, it was a book i never forgot, but the book never again was to be seen until a recent visit to a bookstore almost 50 years later. Having now once again read it as a senior citizen I realize why i never forgot it. This war story carries an impact that i personally feel Catch 22 does not, that of a mans feeling down deep inside and certainly not one of heroics. If you look for a flag waving novel filled with statistics of how many planes (we) shot down or bombs dropped, read something else. But if you wish to share a mans terror at 10,000 ft. or the smell of death in a hospital room. This i feel is a class A read

Now in a completely updated fourth edition, Louis CasaBianca's First-Time Europe continues to be a premiere, "user friendly" travel guide for the novice traveler to Europe. All aspects of preparing for a trip are covered including getting a passport, securing economical air transportation, selecting rail passes, what to pack, and planning ahead of time on where to go and what to see. While in Europe, readers will have access to invaluable, practical information on best value accommodations, navigating the sights, and traveling from city to city. The informative text is enhanced with eight pages of color maps and all the major rail routes. First-Time Europe is replete with money-saving tips, as well as advice for staying health, keeping out of trouble, staying in touch, itinerary suggestions, and more! If you are planning your first trip to Europe (or a second, third, or fourth!), begin by browsing through Louis CasaBianca's First-Time Europe!

This book is a must for travelers of all ages, first-timers, and old-timers!!! I will be making a trip to Europe this summer, and this book has covered everything, what to do and what not to do, and also has several funny and serious first-hand accounts of things that the author had gone through from his travels to Europe. THIS BOOK IS A MUST HAVE!!!!!!!!

While planning my first time trip to Europe, I bought several guidebooks: Frommer's Europe, Rick Steve's Europe Through the Back Door, Lonley Planet's Europe While all of these are excellent guides, this one is the best if you are planning your first trip abroad or even to learn new things and gain a better perspective of budget travel. After you read this book, you must read Rick Steve's Europe Through the Back Door. Rick's book is equally as good with a little more depth and a different perspective. Side note - buy your rail tickets from Rick Steve.(ricksteve.com) He sends you one of his books at no cost and sends a video on how to use your rail tickets. His website is the best for travel to Europe that I have found so far. Anyway, buy this book - it will save you hundreds in Europe or abroad and totally prepare you for your trip!!!