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posted by admin on Apr 11

Editorial Reviews

Fishing Alabama is the essential guide to fishing in this surprisingly diverse southern state.

From the Back Cover
With the second largest inland waterway system of any state, the Heart of Dixie is famous not only for its bass but also for its crappie, bream, catfish, and trout. It is also home to such saltwater species as amberjack, redfish, grouper, red snapper, and fighting tarpon, the state fish. From the Appalachian Mountains and the Tennessee River Valley of the north, to the swamps and bayous of the coastal south, Alabama takes a backseat to no other state in its wealth of angling opportunities.But how do you know when and where to fish, how to get there, and what gear to use? The answers are all here in Fishing Alabama—the most accurate and up-to-date angler’s resource available on the state’s choice sport-fishing destinations. Local angler Ed Mashburn knows these waters, and he shares all the information to help you fish Alabama with success. He provides detailed descriptions of fifty fishing hot spots and gives you expert advice on everything you need to know before setting out. Inside you’ll find:
• A listing of the game fish at each location
• Tips on lures, flies, bait, tackle, and techniques for each location
• Directions and information on camping facilities
• Words to the wise on weather and dangerous critters
• Maps and photos

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posted by admin on Mar 11

Editorial Reviews

Bringing together more than ten years of hard-earned fishing experience in the Heart of Dixie—from the mountains of the north to the Mobile Delta and the Gulf of Mexico in the south—Fishing Alabama is the essential guide to fishing in this surprisingly diverse southern state. Alabama, which has the second largest inland waterway system of any state, is not only famous for its bass, but also has plenty of shad, walleye, and trout on offer; and it is home to a great variety of saltwater species, from amberjacks and redfish, to groupers and fighting tarpon, the state fish. Ed Mashburn selects the best spots, allowing anglers to use their limited fishing time to their best advantage. And he provides plenty of useful advice, including specific techniques and rigging hints for particular places.

About the Author

Ed Mashburn has fished in many places across the United States in both fresh and salt water. Whether at the pond side on foot to kayak fishing in bayous and rivers to big game fishing in sixty foot power craft, he has cast a line for just about anything that swims. He has caught a few fish, too. In the past ten years, he has seen just about all of Alabama, and he has fished in most of the wet places in the state. When not fishing, Ed is text editor for Florida Sport Fishing Magazine and also Destination Fish magazine. He has published articles on fishing, gardening, and sailing topics, and he is also a longtime photojournalist. When not fishing or writing about fishing or building wooden boats, Ed is an English teacher at Baldwin County High School in his hometown of Bay Minette, Alabama, and an adjunct instructor at Faulkner State College in southern Alabama.

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posted by admin on Mar 11

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"Alan Liere collects close encounters of the piscatorial kind and sets them down with a wry sense of humor and a sympathy for fishermen that arises from 50 years of sharing their special kind of madness. His work is proof that the funniest things in life are generally the truest." –Chris Madson, editor, Wyoming Wildlife

"Not many writers can write short and well. Even fewer can write short and well and move the reader. Al Liere does all three and, with the fewest possible keystrokes, touches the heart." –Paul Quinnett, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and the author of Pavlov’s Trout

"The tapestry of Alan Liere’s writing isn’t just the main thread of fishing. Nor is it the tight weave of family, conservation, or place. It’s not even Liere’s knife-edged humor. It’s all those things flowing together like a river through his stories of life. This is writing at its best." –Scott Stouder, Western field director for Trout Unlimited

Fish Tales is a collection of adventures, misadventures, and reflections by humor writer Alan Liere. All who spend time on the water can relate to Liere’s outdoor outtakes. Fish Tales, a collection of the 80 funniest "Fish Tales" featured in Northwest, Southwest, and Eastern Fly Fishing magazines, is the perfect gift for anglers of all ages.

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posted by admin on Feb 28

Editorial Reviews

Join the author on a bicycle ride that you won¡¯t easily forget. As he leaves behind all the ties of metropolitan Southern California, he rediscovers the simple joys of life, childhood and human nature. He takes you along on his solo tour across the United States, traveling the northern route from Seattle to New York City. The author relates, first-hand, his impressions of urban and rural America. His tape-recorded thoughts and descriptions take you to the very place and time, from the early selection of equipment and routes, to the final entry into metropolitan New York.

You will find and appealing sense of humor, a recollection of childhood years in Wisconsin, and the insights of a man with age and wisdom on his side. He tells of the joys of a tailwind, the hardship of a headwind, and the deep appreciation of Mother Nature in all her forms. Your are given an intimate look at this man and his love of his country.

About the Author
Raised on a farm in Wisconsin, Harold Wagoner relocated to Southern California in his early 30’s. It was during his work in the aerospace industry that his bicycle riding began in earnest. His love of outdoor recreation is shown through kayaking, hiking, fishing and camping.

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posted by admin on Feb 28

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Moving to Majorca is the true, humorous story of an American couple who motor scooter 700 miles across Europe one winter in search of the sun. Fighting roller coaster roads, high winds and higher mountains, their quest takes them halfway to Africa to the island of Majorca. Moving into a coastal villa with no running water they learn how to survive paradise one day at a time. What makes their adventure such a moveable feast are the humorously helpful characters met along the way. They range from the “helpful” pension lady in Italy who put warm wine bottles in the foot of their bed and stuffed newspapers down their coat fronts for warmth, to houseguests who have to be tricked to leave, and the incomparable “Pap” on Majorca who with his faithful dog “Fugly” try to land the island’s largest, most uncatchable fish, and almost lose their lives doing it. This book is Provence on wheels. A total delight!

About the Author
Robert F. Burgess grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan and as a youth often trout-fished the same creeks and streams as Ernest Hemingway. He served with the U.S. Army Ski Troops in northern Italy in WWII. After the war he returned to Europe to study foreign languages at universities in Italy and Switzerland, then completed his education in the field of Journalism at Michigan State University. He became a Florida magazine editor, then returned to Europe with his wife to travel and write for various magazines there and abroad. While living and writing as a freelance in Spain he met Ernest Hemingway who inspired this book. Burgess’ over twenty published books range from foreign language phrasebooks to those dealing with cave diving, sunken treasure, underwater archaeology and living on Majorca. He and his wife currently live in north Florida.

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posted by admin on Feb 28

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Novelist Delbanco ( Sherbrookes ) offers a record of his sojourns in Provence in the past three decades, variously shared with a friend, a lover, his wife and, later, his wife and two daughters. Too scanty on evocative description to serve as a travelogue, and lacking a unifying organizational plan, the book suggests a diary directed to an indulgent friend. Dwelling in the land immortalized by the Impressionist painters, the author alludes to them frequently, and affects an impressionistic style in prose, but his bemused, wandering attention fails to strike fire from the idea. His eagerness to display the breadth of his cultural knowledge (including excessive French phrase-dropping) seems at odds with Delbanco’s apparent modesty about the loss of momentum his life has suffered in middle age. The self-portrait is neither attractive, full, nor particularly convincing, and portraits of Delbanco’s friends–with the exception of the late James Baldwin, revealed as richly human–are reduced in scale and scope by callow characterization.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal
For over a century, Provence has been a magnet for artists and writers–e.g., Cezanne, Van Gogh, Picasso, Maugham, and Lawrence. Delbanco, a successful novelist himself, explores the lure of the Provencal landscape in this graceful blend of travelogue and memoir. Delbanco’s account of his trip in 1987 with his wife and two daughters alternates with memories of earlier sojourns there: It was in Provence that he had his first serious love affair and wrote his first three novels. Throughout, Delbanco displays a keen eye and a facility for piquant observation. The proprietor of a bed-and-breakfast inn is described as “a redoubtable woman in blue who kept a Gauloise on her lower lip and an eye peeled for incompetence among the staff.” Written with style and grace and leavened with humor, this is an elegant depiction of the effect of time on character and place.
- Laurence Hull, Cannon Memorial Lib., Concord, N.C.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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posted by admin on Feb 28

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It sounds like a pilot for a new Fox network live broadcast: a self-searching Manhattan kayak salesman teams up with a rowdy Australian male model to circumnavigate Australia by kayak. Thankfully, though, chest beating and contrived conflict are absent in Eric Stiller’s true account of his attempt to kayak the 10,000 miles around Australia with Aussie Tony Brown. What we get instead is a look at the tedium, death-defying stamina, and hilarious blunderings of two men with little experience to prepare them for their chosen expedition. “The Australian coastline is a nightmare of tightly coiled inlets and rocky coves and sheer rock cliff faces and bays as huge and forbidding as Saharan deserts,” Stiller muses while he kicks off his training with Brown by paddling around Manhattan. Raised in a family that sells Klepper kayaks, the German-made folding expedition kayaks known for their resilience in violent conditions, Stiller is an expert on the technical details of the equipment. He is not, he admits, accustomed to spending more than three months in a 17-foot-long kayak with anyone, much less Brown, a natural athlete filled with joie de vivre whose navigational strategy is simply, “Just keep Australia on your left, mate.”

The curious pair encounters an impressive variety of harrowing sea conditions. The first month is a daily battle against capsizing during beach landings amid Australia’s legendary skyscraper-high waves. Marathon paddling sessions through maddening back-eddies rip open their hands and scrape their torsos. The inhospitable Tasman Sea is rife with deadly creatures, including crocodiles, sharks, and sea wasps, a toxic jellyfish with tentacles several meters long. At one point the two must cross the Gulf of Carpenteria, the most arduous leg of the trip, requiring seven days on the water with no land in sight. For all their travails, however, there is relief in the form of friendly hosts (nearly everyone they meet is happy to have a smelly kayak team at the dinner table), striking scenery, wild nights in isolated cities, and the personal reckoning that comes with an effort of this magnitude. –Lolly Merrell
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Publishers Weekly
Idea meets action in this remarkable, though overlong, story of an attempt to paddle around Australia in a two-man kayak. Although ostensibly incompatible teammates, professional New York fitness trainer Stiller and his Australian companion, fashion model Tony Brown, seize the challenge of moving from dream to reality and discover the vertiginous abyss that often separates the two. In their grueling expedition around what many consider one of the most beautiful and treacherous coastlines on the planet, Stiller and Brown are blasted by 12-foot waves, pelted and waterlogged by heavy rain, roasted by the glaring and ubiquitous sun, assailed by sharks, blown off course and benumbed by dank, frigid temperatures. Loneliness, exhaustion, frustration and bickering are finally compounded by the ultimate realization that no amount of rigorous training could have prepared them for this endeavor. Stiller and Brown undergo the most demanding emotional and physical experience of their lives. More than 20 years of kayaking experience shine through in Stiller’s myriad detailed, technical descriptions of the physical and mental priming needed for the journey and of the unpredictable imbroglios that arise when maneuvering a two-man kayak on rough seas. However, at times Stiller’s hyped descriptions of pinnacle moments and near-calamitous situations fall short of their intended impact. (Aug.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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posted by admin on Feb 28

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‘Pearson is funnier than Bill Bryson … a prize onion of a tome that’ll leave you streaming at the eyes with merriment’ INDEPENDENT ‘Just as much of a hoot [as THE FAR CORNER]. The title explains his remit, but can’t do justice to his one-liners and digressions’ MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS

Pearson has been called an English Bill Bryson, and those who read his previous book, The Far Corner, will know they are in for another treat. A dazzling cornucopia of hilarious country stories and experiences, as Pearson bravely exposes himself to the vagaries of farming communities. The enduring bonds of country folk contrast starkly with the increasingly fractured nature of urban life, which Pearson’s insight acutely observes. (Kirkus UK)

Harry Pearson vowed that his next project would be about the summer—specifically, about a summer of shows and fairs in the north of England. Encompassing such diverse talents as fell-running, tupperware-boxing, and rabbit fancying (literally), and containing many more jokes about goats than is legal in the Isle of Man, Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows must be the only book in existence to explain the design faults of earwigs.

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posted by admin on Feb 28

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Author Max Wood served his apprenticeship on one of the very last commercial voyages of any cargo square-rigger. Sailing Tall is a piece of living history, in which he documents in great detail work practices and a way of life now totally gone by. It is also a vivid and honest account of the “true” sailors.

A natural storyteller, modest and good-humored, Wood tells it all as it really was: the exhilaration, the camaraderie, the constant hard work, the fears, the occasional terrors, the frequent boredom, the sexual frustration, the immense fatigue…and also the pride of being one of those determined few who, throughout the ages, have heroically challenged the awesome forces of nature for little reward but a spartan life.

These memoirs constitute an invaluable document of an extinct breed, as well as a moving portrait of a boy’s coming-of-age, as Wood leaves his family and learns about the world and himself.

About the Author
Max Wood served his nautical apprenticeship on one of the very last commercial voyages of any cargo square-rigger.

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posted by admin on Feb 28

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JOACHIM JOESTBN STALWART SWEDEN DOUBLEDAY, DORAN AND COMPANY, INC. Garden City, New York STALWART SWEDEN CHAPTER I The Medal Has Two Sides WHAT will Sweden do This question, long of secondary interest, may soon be come one of paramount importance. On the answer may well depend the success or failure of at least one phase of the concerted assault on Hitlers For tress Europe the counterinvasion of Norway. Only the king and the government in Stockholm can provide the answer, or even anticipate it on a better basis than conjecture. All others, in trying to foretell what Sweden will do if and when the Allies land in Norway, are faced with the problem of the jumping cat. In such a situation it would seem to be a dictate of ele mentary prudence not to take anything for granted and to prepare for all possible contingencies. There is, however, a widespread tendency in America to dismiss such caution and to count on Sweden as a sure ally to-be in the coming struggle. While events may justify this optimism, they may also bring bitter disappointments. For a sound approach to the question of what Sweden 2 STALWART SWEDEN may be expected to do in a given situation, we must care fully study what she has been doing up to the present. What has her role been in the first four years of the war The American public in general is little informed on this point. This kck of knowledge is due pardy to the traditional Cinderella role in world politics of the northern countries, but in even greater part to the misinformation deliberately spread here by Swedish propagandists. There is a Swedish myth in America, just as there used to be a Finnish myth whose shabby remains still linger in many peoples minds. In all respects but diplomatic protocol Finland today is our enemy. She is formally at war with our two principal allies Britain and Russia she is fighting alongside our mortal enemy her ports shelter the submarines, and her air fields serve as bases for the bombers that sink American ships in the Arctic. Yet all this notwithstanding, numbers of people here still are prepared to excuse and cover almost anything Finland does on the grounds that she is a democratic country who quite accidentally happens to fight her private war at the sides of the fascist aggressors. The people who continue blandly to credit this danger ous nonsense usually are also the stanchest believers in the Swedish myth. This myth has sprung from various sources. Its roots reach back to the early thirties, when roving reporters and social tourists discovered Scandinavia, which had been, for centuries, almost ignored by the world. The foreign visitors, searching the globe for a place where people lived peacefully and prosperously in an at THE MEDAL HAS TWO SIDES 3 mosphere of social progress and international co-operation, found Scandinavia, and, in particular, Sweden, came very close to their dreams. They were enchanted by what they saw and heard, and they eagerly rushed their findings into print. That was the era of Sweden The Middle Way, and similar eulogies. Overnight a little-known and neglected country rose to the rank of a world sensation. Here, be tween latitudes 55 and 69 North, was Utopia. The glowing picture which the enthusiastic Utopia seekers drew of Sweden and her neighbors in the North at the time was, on the whole, justified, though many of the books were written in a spirit of uncritical admiration for everything Swedish. As the years went by, however, the picture almost im perceptibly changed the light lost much of its luster, the shade expanded and grew more opaque. But the Middle-Way enthusiasts never even noticed the transformation. The lengthening shadow that fell over the Swedish pic ture was Hitlers. The tourists and the fiction writers did not notice it, but the statesmen and political observers did or at least some of them did. They began to wonder how Utopia would stand up in the great test to come…

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