Nevada Books

If you visit Las Vegas, a trip to the Valley of Fire is a must! I bought this book because I wanted a reminder of how beautiful this area is and because my photos didn't do it justice. The photos in this book are beautiful and the history and background provided about the Valley makes me wish I'd had the book with me when I was there.

A wonderful book! I am far from my home in Nevada and swear I can smell the sagebrush, cattle and mountain streams as I turn the pages. This book brings the Silver State alive! I have had many comments from visitors who pick up the book and are amazed. Most are unaware of the beauty in this area generally thought of as a desolate "wasteland". Just like the State song, this book really showed that "Home Means Nevada" to me!

Valuable asset for adherents to late David Brower's promise to restore Glen Canyon as wild river. Read Scott Slovic's 21 page afterword...& understand that Glen canyon Dam may soon be by-passed,standing, as a concrete artfiact to man's defamation of nature. (See Cadillac Desert, late author-Reisner)

This set of articles, originally written for magazines and catlalogues, is one of the most eloquent collections of mountain writing I've yet come upon. The book is divided up into chapters such as 'Climbing with Style', which features articles about "the whole art of natural protection" written at the the start of the clean climbing revolution, and 'Further Aborad' which includes the authors account of a climb on Ama Dablam.

One of the features I most enoyed about the book was the introductions to various historical figures such as Smoke Blanchard and Royal Robbins. And the memoir style accounts of what it was like for a small band of climbers to live in the mountains away from civilization getting their kicks out of the "simple joys" and living in bare subsistence, long before climbing turned into the popular sport which it might be called today.

Doug Robinson is well qualified to write what he does, and his style is nice and clear without being base. Most of it is written in an autobiographical style, dealing with developments on the climbing and skiing scene for wenty odd years. If you are partial to a bit of Dharma Bums then get this book. Also anyone interested in the history of the Sierra Nevada.

Norman clyde was a unique individual, a one of a kind! His mountaineering accomplishments with primitive technology is staggering. Hob en nail boots and hemp ropes would be laughed at today but in Norman's day it allowed him to do over 100 first accents which is a feat in itself, many done solo! Norman was more than a mountaineer, he could read in five different lanuages(to the best of my knowledge) and often carried numerous books on his journeys in his infamous 80 pound packs. I have spent thirty years of my life in the wilderness of the sierra's, guiding, backpacking, skiing, and climbing (some of the routes he established) and Norman Clyde was my inspiration from the first time I picked up this book in 1974. If you are a backpacker, adventurer, mountaineer, this book is a must read, his 29 essays will enlighten you, entertain you, and inspire you to explore and challenge one of the most beautiful mountain ranges in the world (my opinion). Any of you who have stood at Iceberg Lake in the Ansel Adams Wilderness and have stared at Clyde Minaret(Named in Norman's honor) or have climbed it know what I am talking about!

The Northern Sierra Peaks Guide is available online at the THOUSAND PEAKS website. Please do a search on '"thousand peaks."

The guide is available at no charge, although we ask you to read and agree to the disclaimer, and read the explanations. Once paper copies were available, but the desktop publishing agreement we had was later disapproved.

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I enjoyed this book very much. The people that shared their stories were open and you felt as though you know the people. The book is easy to read yet very informative about weight loss surgery from the physical and emotional aspect. It is a "must read" for anyone contemplating or waiting for surgery, a family member of a weight loss surgery patient, and any post-operative weight loss surgery patient. It has something for everyone that they can relate and understand. I highly recommend this book. Thanks to the authors for sharing their experience and expertise by this book.

Amazing the advaced commercial thinking of the era. Most of the laws were protective in nature and seem logical from a modern point of view.

I had never heard of the author or the book when I picked up a British edition at a used bookstore. I had hoped that anyone writing a novel on Orwell would possess Orwell's virtues of directness, frankness, and lucidity while offering up some ideas. Caute succeeds on all fronts, and in some matters of technique he is clearly Orwell's superior. He also has a sense of humor and his characters - including Orwell himself - are more nuanced than any Orwell character.

The book's story is about Orwell researching Animal Farm. He finds the book's narrator - a boy named Alex - hanging on at the family farm after his Mum and Dad have both abandoned it. There are pigs and other animals whose names will be familiar to the reader. Alex fills us in on his contributions to both Animal Farm and 1984 and his continuing relationship with Orwell. The last page of Alex's narrative contains a surprise which is perhaps intended to show that - as Orwell says in the novel - Orwell is often wrong.

Caute himself has written 8 other novels and 10 non-fiction books, including several on the left, communism and fellow travellers.

Character, integrity, friendship, loyalty, morality, ethics, romance, personal responsibility and sacrifice -- you name it, this book promotes the highest standards in all of these areas. The author explains two very important historical events occurring in 1859-1860 in western Nevada (Utah territory at the time), the Virginia City gold and silver rush, and the Pyramid Lake war involving miners and settlers and the various tribes and bands of Paiute Indians. He intertwines a beautiful story of personal tragedy, hardship, romance and triumph with historical events to paint an accurate picture of the lives and times of the men and women during that era. This is a book that can be read to the whole family to spark wholesome conversation and discussion of values by which we should strive to live, especially those values respecting the wisdom, intellect and dignity of all races and cultures.