This book is an excellent resource for the Georgia bird enthusiast. It is perfect for identifying the birds we sometimes tend to overlook...the ones in our own back yards! I absolutely recommend this guide.

This is the best book on the American Revolution I have every read. The writeing style of Kenneth Coleman is easy to read and understand. I highly recomend this book for anyone interested in the Revolution and the early days in the state of Georgia.

I feel a certain closeness to this tome, for I live in this little Georgia town and operate the Restaurant featured in the tale. Michael and his wife have been my land persons for over 10 years . . . This gifted writer has the ability to take an impossibility and build it into a charming character. His habaline grew so believibly in every aspect that I felt a kinship to him and echoed his emotional experiences as they occured. If this is his statement of personal philosophy, Michael Bishop is a very strong and admirable person! Treat yourself to a well-written story that will leave a lasting impression with you.

What an enlightening perspective on the magnificent joys of trekking in the north woods of the great state of Georgia. I read it nightly to cleanse my soul in preparation for a pleasant night's sleep. My family and I exalt the book and its detailed maps adorn our living room walls. Our most heartfelt appreciation to the man who composed this mighty work.

This is a book not just for Atlanta residents, present or past, but also for anyone interested in history, or in remembering a simpler time. From the small-town roots described here, Atlanta has grown into a major metropolitan city. Learn the origins of the top-secret Coca-Cola recipe. Go behind the scenes at the premiere of the classic Gone With the Wind movie in Margaret Mitchell's hometown. Definitely worth the price of admission.

ATHENS, GEORGIA: CELEBRATING 200 YEARS AT THE MILLENNIUM is an elegant look at an elegant city. Athens is, as Conoly Hester writes, the town that education built. Home of the oldest state-chartered university in the nation, Athens honors the ideals of the Greek heritage echoed in the name it chose for itself. With sumptuous photographs by Terry Allen, this book brings to life a community rooted in the Old South but striving always,with great self-assurance, to reach for ideas that will generate the future. Through thoughtful sketches of the enterprises of Athens, Al Hester shows what continuity and creativity cam mean to civic life. Just as important have been the arts and athletics, and Conoly Hester weaves them into the lore of the town. Perhaps it is the anchoring presense of the University of Georgia that has given Athens the confidence to build from its past on the wrong side of the Civil War an enlightened city that incorporates into its psyche all the complexity, anguish and joy of 200 profoundly useful years. The Hesters have done so well by Athens that every city in America will want them to write its profile too.

Harold H. Martin, continuing the work of Franklin Garrett, offers a wonderful survey of Atlanta from 1940 to the mid-1970s. Martin selects anecdotes to beautifully evoke each period he discusses--Margaret Mitchell rallying recruits for World War II; youth reading comics in the basement of a church-sponsored hangout; gawkers driving to a hippie enclave in the late-sixties and early-seventies. Martin draws heavily, but not exclusively, from contemporary newspaper accounts to create a richly-textured chronicle. This is a vivid depiction of an era and a city.

This is an excellent book. The author has done a great job in pulling together the elements which spell success in the quest for employment. I recommend it.

Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D., author of "The Accelerated Job Search" docwifford@msn.com

I was looking for a map that encompased the Greater Atlanta area including the suburbs and I found it in this map. The pages are big and well laied out. All streets are easy to find regardless of which town you are looking in because of the street listing in the back of the atlas. I bought a second atlas to keep in my car because you just don't know which Peachtree Road you might be traveling on! If you need a map of the Atlanta area and outliying suburbs, get this Atlas! It has maps of the downtown area, surrounding towns inside and outside the Perimeter (I-285) and other sightseeing sites near the Atlanta area. It's a great Atlas!

This book is immaculate. It contains beautiful pictures of all the major regions in Atlanta. It also gives an in-depth description of these areas. If you don't feel as if you should move to Atlanta after reading this book, you haven't read close enough.