Red River Books

When i ordered this product i was so excited, because i'm a huge fan of this series, i read it immedietly after i recieved it! I sped through it faster than half an hour and by the time i got to the ending, it built up so much suspence i couldn't stand it!
When it came to the last page, i didn't realize it until i turned the page and the adds followed. It was so disapointing i screamed NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!
So in result, i've desided to worn those who read or want to read this series/volume: Do NOT by this item unless you plan on reading the volume that FOLLOWS this volume!!!! This book was wonderful, and it fulfiled my thirst but left me wanting more! So be careful! Unless you buy the volume that follows this along with it, it will pain you to read this one and have to wait for three months for the next one to come out.>.<

this is my favorite manga of all time, I have the complete collection in chinese and I don't even read chinese that well.

This is a heart warming story that leaves you begging for more.
It has a well thought plot with characters you get attached to. This manga has it all, where is love, hate, war, peace even history becomes interesting at the end of each page.

I recomend this graphic novel to everyone. 110% guaranteed

I loved this manga. It's somehow different from others, maybe a little in the artwork (stunning) but mostly in the way it is written.

There are no holes in the plot as the story wraps up each loose ends as it progresses. The emotions woven into the story are so real and intense that it is impossible to put down. The sad parts make you cry and the happy reunions make you feel as if you're really there.

One more great thing about this manga: While it is about a Japanese schoolgirl, It's not about her school life. She has been transported to an ancient empire. the change of scenery in a manga is refreshing. It's nice to have a manga for once that is not about high school romance, but about a genuine prince that is impossible not to love!

My review can't do this series justice-you'll have to read it for yourself. Trust me, it's worth the money.

Road to the Rapids will prove of interest to Canadian historians and residents as well as those studying local spiritual history: it recounts the role of the Anglican Church in the social development of 19th century St. Andrews, examining the church's involvements in the community and its attitudes towards indigenous populations. An intriguing survey of church involvements in an emerging community.

A charming book with loveable characters, a fun and amusing way for my grandchildren to learn and fast becoming another favourite.

Tea - Legend, Life and Livelihood of India is a story of dedication and evolving culture. This is a multi-dimensional look at one of India's most successful industries. Carrying a message of good-will with a bold perspective, the book is conceived and written by a leading steward and insider to the trade. The seven narrative chapters--Discovering Tea, Tea is Forever, Flavour and Taste, Indian Tea - Partners in Progress, A Colourful Life and Culture, A Health Drink and The Future--cover the triumphs and tribulations of the trade since its inception as a commercial enterprise in Assam in the mid 1800's.

Topics covered are the tea plant (Camellia Assamica and Camellia Sinensis)--history of cultivation and use; a survey of the industry and its growth in India and globally; the manufacturing process--tea tasters and quality control; tea as a health drink; the culture and lifestyles of the owners/planters and workers; the evolution of labor relations (standard of living, educational and medical care facilities--a prototype for fast newcomers), and reflections on adapting to change.

Three things make this book unique and stand out from the lot; the content which is 'well researched' and yet fluid and written in poetic language by the Assamese poet Gautam Prasad Baroowah; non-fiction mixed with fiction and poetry; and stunning photography (by Dushyant Parasher) of various scenes from life in tea garden. If you want to have a mystic feeling of yourself standing on the remote Upper Assam country road looking at the fresh greenary of a tea garden on a foggy January morning when the near distant scene is half covered with fog, you should this book; if you want to feel what various poets said about tea in general, starting from Confucius to T.S Elliot to Rudyard Kipling and Rabindra Nath Tegore, you should have this this book; if you want to know how a 75 years old British Tea garden director returns to Assam seeking his roots and pays tribute to Bruce brothers and to Maniram Dewan on one hand for the indebtness of generations of tea planters to come; and at the same time how he remembers his old boyhood Assamese village friend, Bhogai, remembers the days when he spent with him eating Assamese village delicacies like 'Goroi Pwra' (grill fish), then you should have this book; if you want to know everything about the tea industry and specially about the future of the industry, then you should have this book.

"This well-designed, entertaining, and informative book deserves a place on every tea lover's book shelf. The photos are spectacular; the next best thing to actually standing in an Indian tea garden. The charming story of Mr. Bowles' return to Assam, and his visit to Charles Alexander Bruce's grave, to tell the pioneer about the continuing story of tea, around the world, is worth the price alone." writes -- Elizabeth Knight (Author of Tea in the [...]

"The well-designed book with captivating photographs to supplement it is a well researched story of the bud and two leaves...this book is sure to attract the attention of producers, buyers, sellers, brokering houses and last but not the least, the government, as his (Baroowah's) recommendations are subtle and authoritative: a very powerful combination." -- The Hindustan Times March 2006

If you are a Tea Lover, you should definitely like to have and keep this book in your home

This book, which won the 1999 Minnesota Book Award in the "nature" category, is a literate and thoroughly readable description of the history and current state of tallgrass prairie in Minnesota and North Dakota. In addition to talking about the prairie as it was, and identifying the places where pieces remain, the book talks with and about preserationist farmers and landowners. I was fascinated and rewarded when I read the book.

Ashby Bland Crowder has done a fantastic job recreating the life and times of an elusive novelist, who was at once proud and ashamed of being a Texan. Since his death, William Humphrey's reputation has gone into a tailspin. Crowder gives all the work a sympathetic reading, and makes a case for Humphrey as a novelist of great power and skill, on a par with William Faulkner. The individual readings are extremely lengthy, however, and many readers will skip twenty or thirty pages to get right back to Humphrey's fascinatingly exasperated life. An indifferent teacher (at Bard College) and an Anglophile on the order of Madonna, Humphrey was something of a heterosexual drama queen, often taking offense at minor slights or the converse, trampling over others' individual rights. Perhaps as a consequence, his last days were a nightmare of Kafka proportions, and Crowder doesn't flinch from painting a bleak picture. As a study in contradictions, "Wakeful Anguish" gets it right.

One caveat, I cannot understand those, like Crowder, who downplay the film Vincente Minnelli made of Humphrey's 1950s novel "Home from the Hill." Crowder pegs it as trash, but he should be more sympathetic; indeed, Minnelli's Home from the Hill is wonderful in ways Humphrey's novel never aspires to. Both are worthwhile, and the film is a masterwork.

But don't let that stop you from acquiring a copy of this book, one of the most enthralling literary biographies of the year.

This 8" by 11" volume contains illustrations of drawings by two extremely talented artists who were among the Fort Marion prisoners from 1875-1878; Making Medicine, a 33 year old Cheyenne and Zotom, a 24 year old Kiowa. The drawings are a full page size and the colors are beautiful and intense. The drawings combined with the commentary by Joe and George Horse Capture provide wonderful insights into the history of these two native nations as well as a better understanding of the Indians' experiences at Fort Marion. It also provides further awareness of the factors that motivated Col. Pratt to establish the Indian school at Carlisle.

As river go the San Juan, which orginates in the southern Colorado mountains, snakes across southern Utah and finally joins the Colorado river, is not technically challenging to river runners or lusted after by dam builders. It is not generally known outside its geographical region in widespread myth and legend, as is the Colorado through the Grand Canyon. Ah, but to those fortunate few who have navigated its meandering course by boat or foot it is truly a special place with scenes reminiscent of uncut diamonds.
Recently, while visiting a bookstore in Flagstaff, I discovered a writer that is generally unknown outside the geographic region of the four corners area but that exhibits special qualities worthy of the readers time, not unlike the San Juan.
Waterlines is a wonderfully written book of poetry about the author's fifteen years experience on the San Juan River in particular and the Colorado Plateau in general that will immerse the reader in an area that you will not soon forget. This slim volume is unique not only for its exquisite writing but for the attention to detail provided by the author. Walka not only is a keen observer of the River proper but also of the "...names and histories and relationships of the locals-the rocks and river channels, plants and animals...native and newcomers, settlers and adventures..." Thus, the reader is treated to an unusual vies of the landscape and "...local gossip, of the spirit and teachings of a place." In reading the book I was reminded of noted author Gretel Ehrlich's comment of landscape: "I like to think of landscape not as a fixed place, but as a path that is unwiding before my eyes, under my feet. To see and know a place is a contemplative act. It means emptying our minds and letting what is there, in all its multiplicity and endless variety, come in."
Walka has done that with this book. This is a writer with special talents and a perfect example of a small publisher finding and publishing a first rate writer. Highly recommended.