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As what the other reviewers have said, this book is hot! The sex scenes were unforgettable and abundant. The author really has a way with words when describing each scene. You really feel like you are there and experiencing what each person is feeling. And what do you know? The story is actually good! Rosamund's exploits from beginning to end are really captivating. Her encounters with Geoffrey and Ralph are contrasted so well: tender and sweet to rough and hot! If you can get your hands on a hard-to-find copy, you will surely treasure it and read it over and over again.

WHITE ROSE ENSNARED is my favorite erotic novel of all time. Set during the War of the Roses, this revolves around the beautiful Lady Rosamund de Verney, a beautiful woman who is both innocent (only having been with her husband) and strangely turned on at the thought of being bound and dominated. When her castle is besieged and her husband slain, Rosamund is pursued by two men: Geoffrey Lymington, a young soldier who falls in love with Rosamund at first sight; and Sir Ralph Aycliffe, the treacherous knight who wants Rosamund's land -- and awakens her most deviant desires...

WHITE ROSE ENSNARED is beautifully written, with great characters and truly wild sex. While the frequent non-consentual sex may be too much for some, this novel explores the dynamics of lust and domination very well ("the mind can hate but the body can still enjoy") and even at the worst the "tortures" involve amazing sex. If you want an intense novel that blends historical romance with sexual conquest, get WHITE ROSE ENSNARED. And prepare to read it over and over and over...

man oh man this is one sexy read. liked the historical stuff too. the sex scenes were like..... whoa! mindblowing! man oh man oh man.........

Lady Rosamund de Verney has never known true pleasure. She is married to an elderly man and has been repressed all of her life. But all of that is about to change when her husband is killed during the war. Sir Ralph Aycliffe resurfaces after an incident in which he almost forced Rosamund to succumb to his seduction five years ago. He wants the de Verney's lands and will do just about everything to obtain them. He also wants Rosamund to pay for having rejected him all those years ago -- so he humiliates her again and again by subjecting her to the most unconventional sexual games ever imagined. He wants her to become his slave in every sense of the word. But there might be hope for Rosamund. Geoffrey Lymington will risk his life to save the woman he loves. There are various twists throughout the novel.

This is one of the most beautiful erotic novels I have read. The Mediaeval setting -- 1461, during the War of the Roses -- is absolutely captivating. Juliet Hastings makes this erotic delight shine with rich descriptions of this obscure time period coupled with a compelling story and smoldering erotic scenes to boot. The characters are also great. Sir Ralph Aycliffe is someone you'd love to hate, yet you can't help but be turned on by this rough alpha male. He is a cross between Captain Alexei Rostovich from The Captivation (one of my all-time favorite Black Lace historical novels) and Lucas from Pleasure's Daughter (another unforgettable Black Lace historical erotica). He is one of those cruel, disarming, yet infuriatingly sexy anti-heroes that you cannot help but have mixed feelings about. He is not as scrumptious and compelling as Alexei or as hateful and insatiable as Lucas, but he is a fascinating character in his own right. There are other great characters here as well. I enjoyed Margery, Rosamund's very uninhibited personal maid, and Isabella, Rosamund's best friend. Geoffrey is good as well, but he sort of reminds me of Nicholas from The Captivation -- the good guy who is not quite as memorable as the anti-hero. All in all, White Rose Ensnared is one of the best Black Lace novels I've read in quite a long time. I loved the setting, loved the sexual descriptions, loved the story, but I especially loved the characters. I cannot recommend this gem enough!

Read it in the 4th grade and still have the book in my collection. A truly wonderful read as told through a gentle old pony to sleeping children. I still remember many parts of the book after all these years. If you can get a copy, then keep it and read it to your children. The Authors Son even came to our school and the Teacher even had me draw an illustrated version of the book which he loved. Even 30 years later I treasure this book.

As a child in the 6th grade, my teacher read this book to her class. To this day, 30 plus years later, I remember the gentle spirit of White Saddle and the many adventures. I look forward to sharing this book with my granddaughter.

This book is wonderful. Having had it read to me as a child, it has remained a favorite for my sibling and children for years.

A lovely old pony whispers her life story to children asleep beneath an apple tree and what a tale it is. Made even more special because White Saddle was a real pony. Your children will fall in love with "White Saddle" subtle lessons and real excitement with a heart warming ending.

It has been several years since I read this book by Sarah Lamb. The characters are still alive in my memory, and I would like Ms Lamb to return to India to update the lives she decribed. She is an Anthropoligist wrriting with warmth, who creates a lasting impression.

I am using this for a class on ethnography and I really only skimmed it before ordering it for the course. I am very impressed by the depth and breadth of the author's knowledge and the resonance it has with our own issues concerning aging in North America and beyond. As an anthropologist who has worked in India I also found it to be a vivid trip back to a much-loved land.

This book not only provides a fascinating, rich account of the ways people in West Bengal, India experience aging, but it really makes one think in new ways about the kinds of assumptions permeating aging and dying, family and gender, in our own society (North America). The author, an anthropologist, has spent several years in India. The stories she tells of her own experiences there are some of the most engaging in the book. Particular individuals come alive as well, such as Khudi Thakrun, the oldest woman in the village (at 97 years), who doesn't yet want to relinquish life and the wonderful attachments and pleasures derived from eating sweet mangoes, wandering the village to spread news, and loaning out money to increase her wealth. The book centers on village life but includes as well interesting accounts of old age homes in Calcutta and Indian popular cultural representations of old age. It complements well Lawrence Cohen's NO AGING IN INDIA. This book focuses more on experience, everyday life, and gender.

Ms. Lamb has produced a sensitive look into aging in a particular society, but in the process has touched on people of all ages. In observing the people of India I am able to compare to our value system and to touch values of real significance in living. Ms Lamb writes as an anthropologist and pictures real people dealing with adversity and demonstrating positive outlooks. I found the book uplifting and I look forward to more from Ms. Lamb.

what we have here is the new and selected collection from the editor of norton's postmodern anthology (and that should tell you something about the poems inside). It's a good collection, though his new poems i found to be much weaker than his older work. There is an excerpt from his long poem "Novel", which i feel is a must read. The poem's taken from his collection _Viridian_ were wonderful, i haven't read viridian, but i'm sure it is an awesome collection of poems.

Paul Hoover's career as a linguistically innovative, philosophically challenging, and bold poet is well represented in TOTEM AND SHADOW, where the reader is treated to samples of his books since 1979 including excerpts from his long poem, THE NOVEL, and his startling collection, VIRIDIAN. The new poems that comprise the first section of the book provide the reader with a deeply satisfying glimpse of his recent work that attains new heights of innovation not for its own sake but in pursuit of complexity and connection. These new poems have retained all that Hoover's poetry had before achieved--intellectual depth, language dexterity, range, humor, and a strangely satisfying candor. Add to these an unfailing eye for the unusual, an astute ear, and a thoughful rigor that allows the unseen to appear before our eyes as if it were there all along. Paul Hoover's work is necessary and clarifying: "Behind the news that can't be printed,/ a cold rain falling, for this is not the world/ and this is not the dark. This is the word as mark,/ where high in the attic of introspection/ you can smell the chimichanga." This is the awesome power of Hoover's poetry to reconfigure the world for us and thereby change the very way we read our lives. Whenever I read Paul Hoover's poems, I feel reassured that poetry can continue to "make it new" with such reverence for language, music, and truth.

Paul Hoover is an experienced and successful poet having published six earlier books of award winning poetry. Totem And Shadow: New and Selected Poems continues to document his impressive talent wedded to an innate knack for memorable imagery. After Miss Graven's Remarks: Boy, my left eye cries when I see kids/play violins and things. How did they get/so young? And I can't stop my fractures/when they strike toy xylophones in a song/too sentimental, mechanical sugarplum fairies./It's brutal of them t kill me with growing up/like this, and Mrs. Pollen, who tends them,/why is she so kind under her matronly woolens?/What is so appealing in a clumsy, fuzzy/third-grader, ghostly in polyester as any/sad adult? Sure, there's no god to do it,/but they should have bright violent minds/to brace them for a while, and one tough look/keep them when Christmas isn't the mood.

The poems in Totem and Shadow, especially the newest work by Hoover, are so strong that style seems to drop away, as complex truths are given to the reader. This is a poetry of great intensity and brilliance.

White Tombs by Christopher Valen is a great new crime novel introducing John Santana, homicide detective for the St. Paul Police Department. Originally from Columbia, Santana is a smooth, tough and somewhat mysterious detective that we slowly get to know better over the course of the book. In White Tombs he becomes embroiled in the investigation of three murders - of three members of St. Paul's close-knit Hispanic community - that are connected. But only Santana suspects what the true connection between them might be.

Santana's investigation, set in the snowy, icy cold of a St. Paul winter, takes on increasing complexity as he digs deeper into the lives of those murdered, and those that knew them. The hard, unforgiving edge of winter complements the solitary path John Santana must take in his investigation, and the cold penetrates the novel even as it surrounds his life. The flavor of Hispanic culture also infuses the book, with the occasional Spanish phrases and detail adding to the authenticity; deftly woven into the story without detracting to the non-Spanish reader.

Christopher Valen's direct prose and detailed description is softened with elegant metaphors that elevate his writing above that of a simple dime detective novel. We also get to know detective Santana slowly, his story unfolding over time, which lends a richness and depth to his character that leaves the reader wanting to know more about him. Many of the characters in the book are the kind that one expects in a crime novel - the beautiful woman suspect, the cop you love to hate, the old flame - but they're described nicely and written believably, and after all - isn't that why we love crime dramas? Occasionally Valen's writing style is a little choppy, especially at the beginning of the novel - sentences too short, more detail than necessary slowing the flow of the narrative - but on the whole the style works, and makes it a crisp, believable story. This is a solid start to what could be a terrific series of books. There is plenty to mine in Santana's story for future use, and the Hispanic viewpoint presents a fresh way to approach this genre.

St. Paul Police Detective John Santana left Columbia knowing assassins will come one day to Minnesota to kill him; his regret and guilt for leaving his homeland is his sister who is left behind to perhaps face the wrath of his enemies. He and his partner Rick Anderson currently investigate the murder of Julio Perez, owner of the monthly Hispanic newspaper El Dia, in his home. After searching the crime scene, the two cops visit Rafael Mendoza because the victim's rolodex is open to the card of the immigration attorney.

They arrive to witness Mendoza fall off his balcony with a man running from the scene. Anderson shoots and kills the fleeing person Ruben Cordova, who turns out to have worked for El Dia. They search Mendoza's loft finding evidence of fake visa applications and the photo of two John Does in a sexually explicit pose. Meanwhile Internal Review investigates the shooting pulling Anderson and Santana off the investigation as they were getting closer to solving the case. Santana's boss decides Cordova killed the other two men so has no qualms with reassigning the official investigation to Detective James Kehoe for final cleanup. Santana disagrees with the conclusion and also knows Kehoe will not dig any deeper than he has already done so he keeps investigating on his own time and at his own expense.

WHITE TOMBS is a superb police procedural starring a fascinating lead detective who has a history in his homeland. Santana is a wonderful new addition to the sub-genre as he cares about victims, even dead ones, but especially their grieving loved ones; in this case he pledges justice to Julio's widow. Alcoholic Anderson is as dedicated in his own way. Readers will appreciate this strong whodunit with a stunning late twist that no one will see coming as Christopher Valen argues that a person's collective past makes the person's present as experiences lead to current actions and reactions.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson for Reader Views (3/08)

A while ago, I decided to leave the information on the book cover or book jacket for last, since I did not want to be influenced by it while reading the book. There are things that one can easily forgive if the author is new, but with the more seasoned authors one tends to be more demanding and more critical. Imagine my surprise when I finished reading Christopher Valen's "White Tombs," a detective story that I found extremely solid and well written, and then discovering that this was Mr. Valen's first novel. I found the quality of his writing amazing, and well beyond expectations for a fiction debut.

Colombian-born detective John Santana is investigating the murder of Julio Perez, the owner of the largest Hispanic newspaper in St. Paul area, El Dia. While investigating his murder, Santana discovers that Perez's Rolodex is open to the name and address of Rafael Mendoza, a well-known local lawyer. Santana and his partner, Rick Anderson, head over to Mendoza's to ask him some questions, but they arrive too late or rather just in time to see Mendoza fall to his death from the balcony. In the ensuing chase Anderson shoots a man, believing that he was trying to pull a gun on him. The dead man is Ruben Cordova, an employee of El Dia. He is pronounced to be the killer of Mendoza and Perez. Santana does not think that Cordova was the perp, but the investigation is taken away from him and given to Kehoe, an investigator Santana has very little respect and even less liking for. Although most clues point to some kind of illegal aliens visa scam as the reason for Mendoza's and maybe even Perez's murders, Santana is not convinced and he pursues other clues, fitting the pieces of a nearly impossible looking puzzle neatly together and solving the crime.

While I certainly do not wish to give the ending away, let me just say that Mr. Valen touches and addresses a very wide range of extremely relevant social issues in "White Tombs" and that this book goes well beyond being just a detective story.

Mr. Valen's characters are fantastically well developed, and finding more of their layers gradually through the developing story makes them particularly fascinating. Just like in real life, there is more to every character than what first meets the eye. Christopher Valen deftly shows the influence of one's surroundings as well as past events on a person's life. Nothing in his story sounds unbelievable, nothing too far-fetched, yet the story keeps surprising us until the very end. The writing is solid and elegant, without unnecessary detours, yet with enough background information to further the reader's insights into what shaped the heroes and villains of the "White Tombs."

In spite of very obvious targeting of the Hispanic audiences, this intriguing detective story should have a much broader appeal. Any lover of solid writing should enjoy it greatly. "White Tombs" also screams out for a sequel - or better yet, sequels. I'll definitely be on the lookout.

Meet Detective John Santana of the St. Paul Police Department. He is not a man you will soon forget. Santana is a native of Columbia. He left under a cloud and to this day fears that assassins will eventually find him even as far away as Minnesota. Life was not easy on Santana when he arrived in the United States but he survived to become a respected detective in St. Paul.

Julio Perez is found shot to death in his home. Perez is the owner of El Dia, a monthly Hispanic newspaper in Stipule. His rolodex was open to the name of Rafael Mendoza, an immigration attorney. After leaving the Perez residence, Santana and his partner pay a visit to Mendoza but they are too late. The two arrive at the loft just as Rafael Mendoza falls to his death from his balcony. Santana rushes to Mendoza's loft and gives chase to a man running away. Santana's partner shots the man thinking he has pulled a gun. The man who is shot and killed turns out to be an employee of El Dia.

When Mendoza's loft is searched, files are discovered that point to a racket involving phony visa applications. A sexually explicit photo of two unidentified men is also found hidden in the loft.

Santana begins to try to fit the puzzle together and figure out if the three deaths are connected. Before Santana gets too deep into the investigation he is pulled from the case by his superior and James Kehoe is put in charge of the murder investigations.

Santana has little respect for Kehoe and his investigative abilities and at the risk of his job, he continues trying to put the pieces together on his own. He even travels to Mexico at his own expense and without the knowledge of the department.

As the connections between the victims are established, the picture becomes clearer and clearer. I was very surprised when the whole story was finally revealed. The outcome of this investigation touched many lives. The book is a great read and Santana is destined to become one of my favorite detectives.

Armchair Interview says: Truly a 5-star read from this author.

Massachusetts resident fifteen years old Miranda Popescu continues to be yanked in two directions since she was drawn into the German occupied Roumania, a world where she is a princess instead of a mall teen and alchemy is a working science. In Roumania, two factions skirmish over controlling the American as her Aunt Aegypta Schenck tries to keep her safe while the power hungry Baroness Ceaucescu and her ally evil alchemist Elector of Ratisbon.

Accompanying her from her old Berkshires world are Peter Gross known in Roumania as Chevalier de Graz and the shape-shifter Lieutenant Prochenko formerly a female named Andromeda. Meanwhile Miranda just wants to return to being a normal New England teen even though she begins to understand the mage like powers she possesses like when she studies the souls of animals (Penguin Island aside). However, normalcy can never return for someone battling the likes of the wickedly astute Baroness Ceausescu, as Miranda soon learns when Miranda meets her biological mother as both are captives of their adversaries.

The third Roumania fantasy (see THE TOURMALINE and A PRINCESS OF ROUMANIA) is a fabulous entry in one of the better genre series. Miranda, her fellow "displaced" pals, her enemies; and her relatives make the worlds of the Berkshires and that of alternate Europe seem real as each key player feels genuine. The action never lets up as Miranda, Peter and Andromeda learn more about just who they are even while trying to survive a devious brilliant opponent.

Harriet Klausner

I'm aware of the extreme praise this series of books has gotten. I was disappointed with the first book, A Princess of Roumania. In the second book, The Tourmaline, I started to see the light a little bit. But it wasn't until this third book that I finally found what the critics apparently knew all along. This is an extremely imaginative, rich fantasy that is a delightful mirror to our own world, an "alternate history" presented in a way that I've never seen before.

So, the world itself is interesting...my gripe is with the characters. Besides one very important exception, I feel no connection with the characters in this book. If, at any moment, any of the main characters (except one!) were to be killed, my only reaction would be an interested "huh".

There's 4 main characters who form the bulk of the reader's viewpoint. Of the 4, Miranda - the main character - is, unfortunately, the most boring. It's interesting to see how a "typical teenager" from the USA deals with this incredible world and the responsibilities it entails for her, but her extreme "RUN AWAY" attitude irritates me. This is the attitude she has regarding everything from the people's beliefs in the White Tyger (a political position) to her own birth mother. Just...run away.

Her two "best friends" are slightly more interesting. Both are actually, as we discovered in The Tourmaline, legendary soldiers who once served her father. They were sent to the made-up USA (OUR world) as Miranda's high school friends, to fulfill the oaths they made to protect her, and there they lost all memory of who they truly were, and came to believe they really were the high school students Peter Gross and Andromeda. It wasn't until they left that imaginary world that their true personalities awoke.

It's semi-interesting to see the duality between the gruff warrior Pieter de Graz and the poetry-spewing Peter Gross, and we're supposed to be sad because Peter Gross is the high school student we knew from the series' beginning, and Pieter de Graz is a stranger to us. But I can't manage anything other than a 'huh'. It is obviously an interesting idea, though.

Andromeda is more interesting, although I still don't really understand what's going on here. Andromeda the high school student was a female, but Sasha the soldier (her true identity) is a male. And, just for kicks, when s/he first came back to the world, s/he was a dog. So this one character has 3 different identities swarming around inside, although in this book it's Sasha the entire time.

Finally, the last character, and the most interesting by far - the Baroness. I won't go into detail here. The jacket of the book calls her a character of Shakespearean complexity and depth, and I won't argue that. Sometimes it seemed like she was the only reason I kept reading these books. She is the one character who'se death would actually affect me...I can't imagine reading this series without her. Not only because of the strength of her character, but because, without this central "villain", the books seem like they would dissolve into some political struggles between faceless government officials and countries. Here's hoping she hasn't had her Final Act just yet.

So, overall - I definitely recommend this book if you're read the first two. It develops the characters and opens up the world even more. If you haven't read the first two yet, I suggest you make your way through A Princess of Roumania, because this is a series that is certainly worth the read.

In these virtuoso Princess of Roumania novels Paul Park successfully undoes the tropes and themes of the fantasy genre at the very moment that he is making use of them, leaving them to unravel behind us as we move through the narrative. A classic equivalent is Rousseau's brilliant, defiant Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, after the publication of which no one could ever tell another "State of Nature" story again in the same way, if at all. For this reason alone, these are books to be taken seriously.

What I liked best about the third volume, The White Tyger, is the relationship between Sasha Prochenko and the Baroness. It is, to my mind, the psychological center of gravity of the story thus far. It's compelling, shot through with sexual and dramatic tension as it is, and it's also interesting. Amidst the many different characters in this story, and their many different mirrored and fragmented selves, the pairing of these two is essential. At a minimum, Prochenko is the Baroness' only perceived equal. He is her twin, her undamaged alter-ego - and it is in virtue of the ways in which they are the same that he holds the kind of power over her that she holds over others.

The book is great. Buy it.

The White Tyger is just as wonderful as the previous two novels in Paul Park's Roumania sreies. The novels are profoundly character driven in a way that few genre novels are; they deliberately and specifically refuse to conform to a conventional quest narrative. No-one knows exactly what they're supposed to do; they're making it up as they go along. All of the main protagonists (and some of the minor ones) are in some sense or another doubled; their selves are split in two so that they have difficulty in explaining their motivations to themselves. The book is less a conventional fantasy story in which the story is external to the characters, determining who they are and what they do, than a working through of the ways that individuals make up their own fantasies, spinning out ex post narratives to explain their actions to themselves and others. The main protagonists don't know themselves.

This is most obvious in the character of Baroness Ceaucescu, who sees herself as the heroine of an opera, smoothing away the grubby and selfish motivations for her actions and reconfiguring them as the essential elements of a grand and inexorable tragedy, where she has no personal responsibility for what she does. She steals every scene that she's in. The three novels are vertiginous, and a little jarring. They don't have the feeling of safeness and stability that most fantasy novels do. All that is solid melts into air. Yet nor are they self-consciously or coyly reflexive (their contingency doesn't seem playful to me; rather it appears like a very serious attempt to talk about how the world is). I don't want to say more about The White Tyger for fear of ruining surprises; I do want to recommend it (and I can't wait to see what the fourth and final novel does).

nature : men still has to learn wolf : learn men how to understand nature a must for wolf-lovers

Brandenburg's experience shows the wolf as a loving and compassionate family-oriented animal that is as wild at heart as they come. These highly intelligent creatures seemed to stay a step ahead of their distant watchers. This leads to some hilarious encounters and a tear jerking ending. Follow this up with "Brother Wolf."

This is an excellent book on artic wolves. I enjoyed reading about their lives. If you are not in the mood to read the photos are worth the cost of the book.

This is a wonderful book with lots of amazing wolf and landscape pictures. While some people might be disturb by some of the dead animals in the picture, as a animal lover I reckon this book had shown the reality of the nature truthfully, and I really love this book.

As an African American CPA since 1980, this book is very comprehensive in describing the trials and tribulations of our entry into the accounting profession. My father was born in 1927 and had wanted to become a CPA after hearing about Jesse Blayton. Due to the limitations described in this book, he never realized his dream. Because of his interest in accounting, I studied bookkeeping in high school and became hooked.

In 1974, I got very lucky and was admitted to the accounting program at North Carolina A&T State University. There I studied under Dr. Quiester Craig who is chronicled on page 111 on the book. Just as Craig said in his story, at that time, all our students were naive; however Dr. Craig established that the program at NC A&T would be geared toward preparing every accounting graduate to pass the CPA exam.

This book is a must read for every African American CPA and potential CPA and should be textbook material in every HBCU accounting program in the country. Again, against all odds, we have achieved remarkable things.

Hammond chronicles the stories of the remarkable individuals who blazed the trail for African-Americans in the accounting profession. Or I should say, began blazing the trail, because as Hammond points out it is still by far the most segregated profession. When most people hear "accounting" they think of something very dry and technical. But this book is far from that. You learn about the profession and how institutional racism operates, but always as a context for the amazing stories, struggles, and personalities that Hammond conveys. She obviously spent many hours interviewing these pioneers and she tells their stories with academic rigor, but also with compassion, respect, and a sense of humor.

From my vantage point as a black CPA, this book is at once inspiring and uplifting yet heartrending and depressing. After having read about the trials and tribulations of the pioneers of my profession and of my race(who were/are heroic in some sense), I feel compelled to take advantage of today's opportunity out of respect for what they've done to pave the way for those who have followed.

The author does a fantastic job of taking an erstwhile research paper and making it extremely enjoyable to read. This book is must reading for CPAs in general and black CPAs in particular.

Ok, so maybe I haven't read the book, but since I doubt this is going to break best seller records, I figured I could give some information about the author.

She was my accounting professor last semester in a class called Accounting Information Systems. Theresa is funny, engaging and most importantly a very passionate individual, especially about the struggle for racial equality.

She is undoubtedly the first person to do any research on the subject, and in her powerpoint presentation of the book she unravels an interesting tale of the business world's most caucasian profession. The African americans which are the subject of her narrative show themselves are driven by their interest in this niche profession long after all hope has vanished. The quirky personalities of her story tell a story that sheds light upon the grit of the human spirit.

White-Man-Runs-Him is an easy to read biography that includes a comprehensive history of Plains Indian tribes and a vanished way of life. The story of the Crow and US Army relations is poignant and revealing, though some of the truth has come out in other tellings of the Indian Wars stories. Well written and well documented.

This book provides unusual insight not only on the Battle of Little Bighorn, but also on the culture of the Crow Indians. It's very fact-filled and interesting. For all those who think that they understand everything that went on at the battle of Little Big Horn, and for those who are intriqued by the Crow Indians and their alliance with the U.S. military, this book is an exceptional read.

This book challenges the white male patriarchal version of events, but perhaps does not do so to a sufficient extent. However, this book is a valuable effort; highly recommended.

This well researched and fact based exploration of the Little Big Horn Battle presents alternative ways of understanding the event and its place in American history. The account is based on oral histories of the five Crow who were with Custer that day.

After reading Whitetail Wisdom authored by Dan Schmidt who is the Editor of Deer and Deer Hunting magazine I have to say that it is the most informative no BS factual approach to whitetail hunting that I have ever seen. The field proven facts Dan discusses are presented in an entertaining easy to read format that anyone regardless if they are a veteran hunter or if they have never spent a day in the woods can understand and learn from.

I especially like the way Dan speaks from authority without being overbearing, and the manner in which he has woven his great respect for the whitetail and his love of hunting into his writing. It's not often today that I hate to lay a book down but this is one of those rare cases. I think Dan Schmidt has a winner here and fell that Whitetail Wisdom should be read by anyone who hunts or is planning to hunt whitetails. There's no doubt in my mind that everyone who reads this book will learn something from it, I know I picked up several pointers that I cant wait to try this fall.
A very informative and enjoyable read, well worth the purchase price.

H. "Bumper" Bauer

"Whitetail Wisdom" by Dan Schmidt, editor of the top whitetail magazine Deer & Deer Hunting, is one of the few deer hunting manuals both simple enough and comprehensive enough to be called a true handbook. Its subtitle is "a Proven 12-Step Guide To Scouting Less and Hunting More." No question about it -- that gets the attention of any serious deer hunter who has lots of claims on his time.

Schmidt advocates a non-obsessive approach to deer hunting. That's not to say that Schmidt undervalues a serious game plan -- any knowledgeable hunter can list countless details that need to be analyzed and taken seriously. But Schmidt keeps hunting in its proper perspective. He recognizes that any hunter scratching out a living while raising a family doesn't have the time or money he'd like to devote to hunting.

Schmidt offers one statement that suggests the enormous respect he has for the everyday hunter in an age when many are obsessed with high-scoring antlers: "No hunter in North America, especially the so-called celebrities, could regularly kill mature deer from most of the properties most of us hunt.... Most of these guys are merely blessed to have access to great land and unpressured deer." At last -- someone has said what I've long believed.

Another emphasis is on enjoying freedoms -- freedom to appreciate all aspects of the hunt, freedom to hunt without the pressure of living up to someone else's standards of accomplishment, and the freedom of simplicity in an approach to hunting. He prefers a few well-organized cargo pockets rather than a backpack overstuffed with gear that gets little or no use. A bonus of minimalism is the clearing of clutter from the mind.

He brings what he calls a "5-point pyramid" to all scouting. It includes weather, food, habitat, human pressure and deer biology. A scouting effort that includes these basics will always outperform one that doesn't.

Whitetail Wisdom is a 224-page primer (complete with photos) on deer hunting that will school the hunter who's just getting started. It's also a digest of principles for the veteran with many seasons under his belt. And it's organized around a realistic philosophy of hunting that recognizes few hunters will become pros. Like any good guidebook, it's well-indexed and will give you many opportunities to thumb through for the information that almost guarantees you will become a better hunter.

If you hunt public land and enjoy hunting harder than the average "Joe", then this book will help you beat the odds and bag bigger deer. The common sense approach complete with experiences make this a great read.

The busy deer hunter seldom has time to read all the books on the market providing tips on deer hunting strategy: but if only one book were recommended, make it the '12-Step program' of Whitetail Wisdom: A Proven 12-Step Guide To Scouting Less And Hunting More. From insights on how to fool mature bucks to assessing modern hunting gear and using the bow and rifle to better advantage, deer hunters will find Whitetail Wisdom a 'must' for improving their odds.