White Books

This collection of stories--mostly true accounts--of whitewater rafting starts out with a roar (of rapids, of course). The first story is an Into Thin Air-type tale of an ill-fated crew that tries to raft the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The crew is over-equipped (75 lbs of spices alone, and heaps of free gear donated by sponsors), inexperienced, and led by a man who thinks he is God's gift to expeditions...you can tell this will not end well. Some of my other favorite stories were by Jeff Bennet, especially the second chapter, which describes a traumatic flip, something I've become well aquainted with recently--and perhaps that understanding is why I appreciated this book so much. Other notable chapters are Pam Housten's "Selway" from her collection Cowboys are my Weakness--a woman and her lover take a harrowing trip down a treacherous river where a woman has just been killed. Also "Lava Falls at Night"--so bizarre it can only be true--a river guides' worst nightmare (besides Texan tourists, but thats another story altogether!) when her boat drifts free at night while she sleeps aboard, and floats down towards the most infamous rapid in the continental US! This is a must-read for river rats or any outdoor enthusiast, and includes a wide variety of well written stories. Some are humorous, some harrowing, true accounts and tall tales. One thing they all have in common--the river gods play their part in each.

What a phenomenal book. Essentially this is a collection of adventure packed true river stories. Some of the stories inspired me to pack my gear and leave for the river that day, while others put life, death, adventure, and risk in new perspective. If you love to paddle, dream about paddling, or just enjoy adventure, then buy this book. Some of the stories can be a bit overrun with technical river lingo, but even the novice (me) can get through it easily. I honestly had to start rationing out or limiting the number of pages I would read a night. It is a book I did not want to end.

Outdoor adventure lover or not, this book is hard to put down. Suspenseful narratives are blended with the thoughts and feelings of individuals as they face challenges that stare death in the face.

A psychological thriller for the times, this book will keep you going with twists you would never suspect. An ending to die for, no one would know it was coming.

... but I was completely caught off guard at the end. Then the surprises kept flowing and flowing!

An excellent read. I wish I could say more but I'm afraid I'd give something away.

The novel moves fast, has great dialogue, believable characters and truly keeps you in suspense. I usually go for bestseller type fiction, this was a nice change.

This book seems to be a wonderful portrayal of a Native American family and community and their culture and history. One point that I appreciate is that the author tried to stay true to the Choctaw cultural activities, arts and lifestyle in the beautiful drawings and text. The author did not meld several different tribal cultures together as a homogenous "Native American culture." The message of the book also helps young readers to respect the sacrifices and values of the tribe, as well as to question the way Euro-Americans treated them in the past. A treasured book.

(I got this book in Dublin, Ireland, recently.)

This is a truly delightful book. The drawings are lovingly created and the story is both touching and well written. What makes it even more compelling is that it is based on a wonderful true act of human generosity over 150 years ago, from one impoverished people to another, who, although worlds apart in both distance and cultures, had a common enemy, in hunger and oppression.

The author travelled to Oklahoma to research the book and has gone to great lengths to ensure the drawings are authentic as well as inspiring. I particularly like the drawings of the great-grandmother and indeed,the clever shadow of the American eagle when Choona raises his arms in the final drawing as well as the subtle, celtic symbols to be found in this same drawing. "The Long March" is a must for the millions of us with Irish-American heritage - every Irish American child should read this book!

In 1847 an impoverished displaced group of Choctaw Indians collected from their meager resources the sum of $170 to send toward food relief for the Irish Potato Famine.

Through the memories of Choona, now known as Tom, who is very, very old, we learn of how he, as a young man, at last learned of that part of his family's history about which no one would speak & yet everyone looked so wounded. The Long March, when his people were forced to walk from Florida to Mississippi all through one fearsome, killing winter.

The Long March is rich in American history & memory. The marvelous drawings create a magically real place. This is a must for anyone who loves looking at other ways to live in community; other ways of teaching the spirit to grow & learning about courage, wisdom & respecting the memories.

An amazing book - to be read & read again & again & the pictures to be studied & dreamed over. Beautifully evocative.

Stewart Edward White was many things- lumberjack, cowboy, novelist, biographer, even a writer of a psychic phenomenon series,and though this is the first book of his that I have had the immense pleasure of reading, I must say that after reading the Long Rifle, I believe that this, out of his almost sixty books, was the one he enjoyed writing the most. I think most writers have a favorite that they have written, because it is the one that they have put the most of themselves into, yearning to almost be the imagined character themselves, or to live in the world that lives in their mind. I would not be surprised if the life of a mountain or frointiersman is the kind of life that White would have loved to have led.

There are a number of reasons that I can find for saying this. First, with his vivid, sweeping, almost panoramic descriptions, you are thrown into the true *wild* west, long before it became the wild west of the cowboy days and the countless novels of the *western* genre. The only peoples that you would be fortunate enough to see (or unfortunate as the case often was) was lots of Indians, the rare Spanish settelment, or the even rarer fellow Mountain Man. The mountains and the valleys are written as if White were sitting there with them right in his view. Perfect. Breathtaking. Untouched. Majestic. So full of wildlife that, in the words of Joe Crane, *You needn't hardly aim yer rifle, and you've downed yer dinner*. This is the land that is so beautifully described.

Second, in this age where it is culturally acceptable (at least in most of the western countries) to be a New Age guru or a Catholic monk, Agnostic or Christian, Hindu or practioner of the far-east disciplines, we are at least used to the idea of normal, everyday people being any of these things. But in the 1930's? Spiritualism outside of Christianity was not as accepted by mainstream American culture as it is now. Despite this, White still puts traces of his beliefs (his wife, Betty, channeled mystical teachings, giving him the material for his three psychic phenomena books,) into the character of Andy Burnett. These are written about in a way that can be interpreted as just instinctual reactions, but a careful reading declares them to be more of a spiritual understanding of what is going on around him.

The third can be found in the central figure of this book, the previously mentioned Andy Burnett, the fictional inherator of Daniel Boone's long rifle, giving the book its name. Andy has not been steeped with what our more modern minds think of as *hero* characteristics. He is not superhuman, he doesn't war with himself about what the right thing to do in a situation is. He is not given to heavy drinking, chasing women, (the one time he did try completely scared him out of his wits,) engaging in brawls, or causing commotion; all things that a rather large chunk of the modern heros in movies are found to do. Interestingly enough they are also all things that Andy's fellow mountain men would be ashamed not to take part in, earning him a lofty if somewhat frowned upon image from his companions. No, Andy has more of the character of something that White was very familiar with. A cowboy. Self assured and of strong character, he knows that morals aren't something that you should have to try to live by, but that they should come naturally, with a desire to respect your fellow man. Andy carries this with him everywhere, even in his dealings with Indians. Through his strong love of other people he eventually becomes a member of the Blackfoot tribe, a tribe that no one, Indian or white man has ever been on good terms with. Andy can handle himself in any situation by just being calm and of uncompromising character. These qualities would benefit anyone, and I'm sure that White belived this. In fact I'm also sure that he modelled Andy on what he himself would like to have been. White wrote about him so passionately that I found myself quite often wanting to be in Andy' life.

Now let us move on to the book itself. We begin by reading of a young Daniel Boone (on a side note, while this is a fictional account of Boone, White does have some historical facts on his side, as he should, being the author of the highly acclaimed biography of Boone,) entering a shooting contest with a new kind of rifle that is at first laughed at, as are most new ideas when you're set in your ways, at least until the accuracy of the idea is proven, in this case Boone showing that you can shoot straighter, faster, and cheaper, break all previous records, take first place, then dissapear and become one of the most famous men ever to explore the wild frontier. Narrativelly this is no small feat for the first fifty pages of a book, and you are left wondering how this is going to be topped, carrying a fast paced adventure through three hundred more pages. Then like a plunge into shockingly cold water we are thrown into the boring life of a young teenager about to have destiny come crashing down on him.This is the young Andy Burnett whose grandfather was given that same rifle by Boone as a wedding gift for saving his life. The rifle eventually is passed to the niave Andy who runs away, leaving behind an uncaring step father, and his grandmother, whose last wish was for Andy to escape the farmers life and become the man that he was meant to be, which in her mind is a frontiersman.

Andy is taken under the wings of two genuine mountain men who teach him the ways of the wild. He is quickly thrown into adventure after adventure, as White writes Andy into the real life histories of mountain men. Meeting and traveling with many famous men of the era, he helps discover the first pass over the Contenintal Divide, making a path where the Oregon Trail will eventually ride, helps the Rocky Mountain Fur Company in its begining years by being a good friend of the owners, and also becomes one of the first white men to see the Pacific Ocean from an inland route. Along the way are famine , thirst, hostile Indians, ruthless trappers, and death. But all of this serves to make Andy stronger, culminating in an ending that shows the true misfortune of white mans encroachment upon the wild.

My only problem with the book was that near the end the writing switches back and forth from Andy's life to a more epic, wide-angle lens stlye of writing that shows the sweeping changes being instituted in the land, with years passing by as landscapes and lifestyles change, and then back to an older and wiser Andy, and then back again. But by the end you can see the reasoning as it was needed in order to build up the climax, an immenent tragedy that shows how callous the world is to personal suffering and what motivates people for right or wrong.

In the end we are left with the notion that not only have we lost a national treasure in the eventual taming and destruction of our wilderness, but that an entire lifestyle has been eradicated in the name of progress, and all we have to show is legends of men who could never be equalled.

Yes Mr. White, I too would have loved to have been alive at that time, and I also am aware of what has been lost everytime I take a trek into the majestic Rocky Mountains, following the paths of people just living a simple life surrounded by beauty. Your book is a bittersweet taste of how a man can live his dreams, through good and bad.

A great tale of the early west. A brave young man goes west with the early fur trappers. The long Rifle saves his bacon many times. He meets and traps with many of the famous old trappers and they share many wonderful adventures. Fiction at its best for youngsters. I read it first in 1953 and I still love it.

This is an excellent book for a young person because it teaches some great lessons about history, personal responsibility and cause-and-effect. The characters are incredibly life-like and the writing is spell-binding. This book is a "pager-turner". However, don't be shy of picking up this book if you are an adult, either. It's a great read. A belated "Thank You" for this book, Mr. White!

LOSS WITHIN LOSS is a most appropriately titled reminiscence of the black hole AIDS blasted in our art community. Edmund White, always the sensitive observor and writer of tender memoirs, takes on the role of Editor here and has selected some very fine writers to personalize the contributions and deaths of their friends. He has also written minibiobraphies of not only the artists who have been lost but also of each of the biographers. Selecting artist/bigraphers to highlight in a review of a book of this total force seems almost incongruous, yet Chris DeBlasio is so beautifully defined by William Berger, and the polarities of the lives and deaths of Paul Monette and James Merrill who died within four days of each other are so adroitly observed by their mutual firend J.D. McClatchy, and Felice Picano's warm eulogy for Robert Ferro and all that surrounded the Violet Quill Club are all so fine that they shine especialy brightly.

The unexpected joyful aspect of spending time with this extraordinary book is discovering how much we didn't know about so many artists in every field - from poetry, to novels, to puppets, to architecture, to dance. Yes, the names ring distant bells, but when the artists are put into context with the time in which they were creating AND that they were creating knowing that their corporal time was limited, the effect is staggering. I do not find this book at all morose; if anything it is celebratory. And the method of presentation and quality of writing leaves the reader with one primary question: What if AIDS hadn't destroyed so many brilliant minds, so many unborn ideas? As a document on the effect of a devastating disease on the arts and as a resource book of what was happening in the forefront of culture in the 1980s and 1990s, this book will be the gold standard. Highly recommended reading - on so many levels.

LOSS WITHIN LOSS is a major collection of biographical short stories: tributes to friends, lovers and colleagues who have died from AIDS.

Several of the contributing writers are quite famous: the lecturer/poet/teacher Maya Angelou, the playwright/screenwriter Craig Lucas ("Prelude To A Kiss," "Longtime Companion"), the novelist Allan Gurganus ("Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All"), the writer Andrew Solomon ("The Noonday Demon") et. al. Several of the dedicatees lived the lives of celebrities: the poet James Merrill, the film makers Derek Jarman and Howard Brookner, the writer Paul Monette. But it is not their fame which is celebrated in this book: it is their love and friendship and, most importantly, their art which is now lost to the world forever because of a disease, the deadly power of which, was and still is, underestimated. The styles of the stories are as diverse as the styles of the individual writers: some read like the poetry they are; some like straight-forward fiction and some like excruciatingly honest, almost farcical diary entries.

These are not simply sad stories; they are beautifully written, funny, charming, intelligent, very candid rememberances of lives past passed. Besides the stories, there are some photographs of the artists and their works, biographies of the writers and their subjects, a wonderful photograph by John Dugdale on the cover and an introduction by Edmund White
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

This powerful, superb book is peopled with a sampling of the great and graceful artists who have been swept into eternity by AIDS. All of the essays are moving. Especially touching is the memoir which gathers together the angelic Paul Monette and the ferocious James Merrill. Brad Gooch contributes his best writing to date in his touching remembrances of his lovely partner Howard.

This book will break your heart and make you smile at the same time. It's truly a work of art.

Readers of Loreth Anne White's Silhouette Romantic Suspense novels have come to expect quality entertainment and nail-biting suspense from this talented author. Manhunter may be Ms. White's most exciting book yet. I was captivated by this story of a serial killer hunting a RCMP officer in the icy northern Canadian territory from page one. The tension and excitement never lets up and the tender romance between Silver, a woman with a dark secret to hide, and Gabe, a cop who has a score to settle with a killer, is truly touching and emotional. If you haven't tried a book by Loreth Anne White before, you are missing out! Manhunter is a fast-paced, emotionally complex read that is sure to please.

Kurtz Steiger, a serial killer dubbed the Bush Man, hasn't forgotten the man who put him in jail. And now he's coming for Sergeant Gabe Caruso....

Gabe is a haunted man, haunted by the murder of his fiancé and his own anger at the Bush Man. Has he lost the idealism necessary to remain a Mountie? Gabe retreats to the wilderness of Black Arrow Falls to bury his pain. Tracker Silver Karvonen captures his interest- and that of the Bush Man. Who will survive when dealing with a MANHUNTER?

Stop what you are doing right now and go pick up this book. Yes, it's THAT good! MANHUNTER is the sort of headlong rush that doesn't stop until the very end. The action in this edge of your seat thriller is both fast and furious, with nary a dull moment. I just couldn't put this book down!

Loreth Anne White pits man against beast both metaphorically and literally. Not only are Gabe and Silver defending against a serial killer, but both have their own inner demons to fight. And let's not forget Broken Claw! Loreth Anne White does a beautiful job at depicting the inner struggles of her characters as she takes readers on a journey that is sometimes dark, definitely chilling, but with that bright rainbow of hope and happiness at the end. Highly recommended!

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This book will keep you reading until the end and the suspense will make you wonder how there can be a HEA. Will Gabe and Silver survive being hunted by a serial killer who is determined to kill them? The killer will kill anyone he needs to in order to kill the person he is really after and he enjoys the hunt and the kill. Loreth made him come alive with her venture into his mind. The depth of the characters make them real and make you feel like you are with them in their race against death. The story kept me awake and reading until I finished it and that was after midnight. I wonder if I'm going to have nightmares? If you enjoy the type of story that keeps you on the edge of your seat read "Manhunter" by Loreth Ann White. I wonder what she will come up with for the next book in the series?

Sergeant Gabe Caruso first met Kurtz Steiger (a psychopathic serial killer the media dubbed Bush Man) when he was stationed in Williams Lake in British Columbia's interior. Kurtz had been hiding out in a Quonset hut on a farm on the outskirts of town. Kurtz had been on the loose for three years after had fled into Canada to escape a US court martial. He had been killing and torturing hunters, campers, hikers and anyone else he came across just for the thrill of it. The mounties had surrounded the Quonset hut where Kurtz had been hiding but he had managed to escape by killing several of them including Gabe's fiance. Kurtz was finally caught and imprisoned and Gabe was sent to Black Arrow Falls where he met Silver Karvonen who was fighting her own devils. Silver was a renown tracker who lived in the area. Kurtz escaped from prison and headed for Black Arrow Falls planning to engage Gabe and Silver in the hunt of their lives and he would kill anyone he needed to in order to win the game he had planned.

This is a great book

Exalted dragon-Blooded 1ed wos great but 2ed just as good fire aspect so get this book if you wot a Dragon-blooded.

Ok somehow the guys and girls at white wolf already know how to do excellent books and superb things. This is a great book. The first edition also was excellent but this second edition rulebook is AWESOME.

Full of great charms, rules, animas even better, more things to do and have.
The story is full of possibilties, every House is great and all trademark characters have been redefined. WOAW.

A must have. Trust me.
Worth every cent! [or pesos]

All in all, I'm enjoying the 'recasting' of Exalted, and this book is no exception. This book greatly expands on the first edition book, and with the Realm setting shunted off into a companion volume (Compass of Celestial Directions 1: the Blessed Isle), the extra room is well-used in presenting Dragon-Blooded society, along with great ideas on how to run a DB-based campaign, as well as how to leverage DB's in a Solar-based campaign.

This entire series is great. I have been reading this series since book one in 1979. Even though it is out of print, if you can get copies of the books, do so. This series gives you great insight into the Seneca tribe. You feel as if you are there as the events unfold, the author is very detailed and at the same time keeps the stories interesting and fresh.

I have read the whole series of the White Indian and would recomend it to everyone to read. It is a breath taking story and you feel like your right there with Renno and his tribe.

Although this was one of the saddest of the series, I celebrated Renno's life with him and grieved his passing. The whole series is a wonderful way to learn about the Seneca and some of the basics of Native Americans. This book and the series brought about a more personal glimpse of the first Americans.

I've used this 19th Century book in a health seminar. It is a pioneering work, and its truths have been adopted with little credit given by the wholistic health movement in general. Ellen G. White was one of wholistic health's earliest proponents. This book is still modern; nothing in it is out of date. Kloss cites the Author Ellen G. White as a major influence, in his book Back to Eden. Ministry of Healing presents a wholistic approach to health, emphasizing a simple lifestyle and fundamental health habits. Ellen White, the author, is a good wordsmith. She avoids tangents, and sticks to the basics that provide 99 percent of what is necessary to live a healthy, fruitful life. She presents clear discussions of family values, community approaches that preserve community health, exercise, whole vegetarian foods, food preparation that preserves food values, avoidance of vices including alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, and stimulating foods like black pepper and mustard, avoidance of unnecessary medicine, simple layman healing methods (she pioneered the use of water, hot and cold and sunlight as an adjunct to healing), and she searches the scriptures to find clear modern-day applications to health issues. You can heal yourself with the truths in this book. There is a health institute, Weimar Institute in California, that is based on the teachings of this book. As you read this book you'll experience an atmosphere of incredible light, both spiritually and physically. Her writing style is excellent, and very loving. She's helped me with my health, and I've passed on the truths she taught to many others.

The book, "Ministry of Healing" is not only a book which helps to cure sicknesses, but it prevents sickness. This book is clearly an inspired book which centers on spiritual sources of power for all healing. This book is the first, alternative to the bare New Age healers. This book centers on God as the sole source for power, and offers a 100% guarantee that all problems will be cured if taken to God. That guarantee in the book has urged many readers to read the other books by E.G.White. Her books are excellent sources of strength. All of her books are available at Amazon.Com

This book is the most practical layman's book on health I have ever read. It's not a silly home remedies book. Nor is it a hard to understand technical manual. It gives plain and simple advice on how to live a healthy life. Everything from how to care for yourself and others when ill to what simple steps you can take to keep from getting ill to what kind of diet is best to how to take care of yourself when you're pregnant.

Examples: Did you know it is best not to mix fruits and vegetables in a single meal? Do you know what difference in diets manual laborers and mental laborers should be for optimum results?

Whomever you are, whether a searcher for physical health, mental health, or spiritual health, you will find this book both fascinating and easily applicable to your life. This book even contains practical advice for medical doctors!

the other missiles of october: eisenhower, kennedy, and the jupiters, 1957-1963

In the wake of the Iraq invasion, it is wise to remember an international incident nearly 40 years ago that also involved a third world country with weapons on mass destruction. Professor White shows that both the Kennedy and the Khrushchev adminstrations, after fumbling at the start, were able to balance and sort out a very deadly game of nuclear chess. The recent film Thirteen Days shows the American side, but White expands to show the game being played in the Kremlin as well.

Professor White writes in a very lean manner and his conclusions are well grounded. There is no better introduction to the issues behind and the events unfurling during the missile crisis.

the other missiles of october: eisenhower, kennedy, and the jupiters, 1957-1963