As a resident of Washington state who enjoys the natural beauty of the area, I found this book to be a most helpful and inspiring guide. The authors are knowledgable about the natural history of the region, and the text is accompanied by many beautiful photographs. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone planning to visit the area for the first time, or to residents of the Northwest who want to learn more about the natural bounty that their region has to offer.

As a resident of Washington state who loves the natural beauty of the region, I've found this to be the most helpful, informative and nicely illustrated guide to the natural areas of Washington and Oregon. The book is well written, with beautiful photographs, and has not only inspired me to visit a lot of new places but has enriched my experience of those places I was already familiar with. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone planning on visiting the Northwest --- and especially to those already living here!

A wonderful tale of magic and time travel I read 10 years ago or more. I came to Amazon to search by title not remembering the authors name. This story pits a young sorcerer against the supreme, Magus Rex. If the young man can follow Magus Rex and his daughter whom he is attempting to court across time, the Magus will allow them to marry. I would settle for a used copy in an instant

I also came to Amazon to see if they had a copy of this book. I have read this book so many times that some of the pages are starting to come out. I also would love to see a sequel to this book. If you have the opportunity to pick this book up I would highly recommend it. There are many points in the book where you can't help but laugh out loud at the predicaments that the protagonist gets himself in and out of in a short span of time.

A Young magician falls in love with the supreme Magus Rex's lovely daughter against Magus's wishes. To dampen the boys ardor, he takes her back in time to the dark ages. Due to population and the psychic energy created by it; Its easy to go to the past, Much harder to get back!!! What wins love or power? Is there a sequel????

Colorado based forest ranger survives posioning of earth by alien invaders who eventally stock the earth with a variety of nasty animals from across the universe. Aliens use captured humans for labor and bait. Ranger attacts a few survivors who learn to avoid alien detection by various means. Generations pass as humans sink deeper in degradation. Eventally a great grandson of the original forest ranger sets out to explore and eventually gains the skill and self confidence to attack the alien's huge basecamp with assorted human remnants he has gathered along the way. They catch the aliens off guard and deal a devastating blow to their base. The end. It was a pretty good book by Lovejoy. I bought it years ago, the year it was published. Always thought it was ripe for a sequal.

A childrens fiction about a young witch and her adventerous nature. Living with her aunt(a wise witch)you read how trial and error learning can turn into a adventure to save the world as we know it. This book lets your imagination run wild with the concept of magic. A great book for a young reader.

This book is a stellar example of something that should have had a sequel. The cats are great, the plot twists and turns too fast for those of slow wit, so do read carefully! I picked it up at a used book store and haven't put it down. It starts out with great Sci-Fi tugs and then moves into the antics of the two cats... who remind me of every trouble-making/overly-smart cat I have ever had. It touches on the occult and paranormal interests and the good guys are all funny, if not completely odd, characters. These cats have all the right moves at only the right moments. I do believe the only reason he wrote the book was because of the cats!

I will say that if he had written it later in his career it would have been better. The bad guys are written a little flat and with assorted neurosis and paranoias. The main plot faults revolve around the irritating behaviors of the typically bungling thugs, who can't seem to outwit these very brainy cats. But, on the whole I can tell that Lovejoy enjoyed writing this book. I enjoy pulling this book out for a completely turn-my-brain-off reading night.

The book starts out describing the race Masters who breeded and engineered cats as a useful race for engineering in their spaceships. The concept and the idea was fascinating and remarkable. And the idea of using "intelligent" cats for such a purpose (small size, genetically evolved to include hands, and there agility in space) is probably the more ingenious idea I seen in an author in some time.

From the beginning, I was NOT disappointed in this book. This book was very well written and unless you are ridiculously critical of whether or not such-and-such a character fits the model-role of what a character should be, then I think you will enjoy this book immensely. There are many funny scenes involving the intelligent cats. Everything from them playing chess, and they would usually win :) To them battling the villians in the story. Very good book, and I look forward to reading more Lovejoy works involving these feline companions.

1. Comic Book/Austin Powers-like? Yes (VBG). This story reminded me of some of the early Science Fiction I read 45 years or so ago as a teenager. Heavy on plot and action rather than characterization. A fun, quick read, reminiscent of simpler times.

2. The genetically evolved "cats" were well thought out and are clearly the strongest characters in the story. The kind of main characters that would be perfect for a Science Fiction series for Teenagers. Maybe someone will pick up on that someday.

3. Lovejoy must have planned for at least one sequel to this story. At the end of the story there is otherwise unexplained dialog indicating that a picture of the "cats" was found in an ancient Tomb, and some ground laying for an archeology expedition. In fact, it was a search for that "sequel" that lead me here.

Enjoy.