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Grass Beyond the Mountains: Discovering the Last Great Cattle Frontier on the North American Continent

Richmond P. Hobson

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Read It! 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 8 people found this review helpful.

We own the Legacy Ranch high in the mountains of Northeastern Utah. For years we have loved the beauty of the unspoiled wilderness. Nursing newborn elk calves, watching Canadian Lynx outside their lairs, and many other adventures have cast us in the mold of lovers of the wilderness. To read the adventures of true cowboys, who started with nothing else but their "grit" and ended up with lives spent plumbing the depths of fun and hard work was one of the top literary experiences of our lives. This book, far better than the sequels, will be part o four Christmas giving this year.

Grass Beyond the Mountains 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 6 people found this review helpful.

Pan Phillips had the "Pan Phillips International Airport" at his fishing camp beyond Anahim Lake B.C. For several years, we flew into his little airport between 2 lakes. Pan told us some of the same stories that are in this book. Louis Soukup was one of the first pilots to the area. Louis would fly in, any equipment that Pan needed, on the pontoons of his airplane. This book gives the stories as though you were sitting at the feet of the men who were the first settlers in this area of British Colombia. It is really an adventure to read.

Fodor's Nova Scotia & Atlantic Canada, 10th Edition: With New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland & Labrador (Fodor's Gold Guides)

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Editorial Review:

Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.

Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Atlantic Canada!

•Updated frequently, Fodor’s Nova Scotia & Atlantic Canada provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook.

•Fodor’s Nova Scotia & Atlantic Canada features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.

•If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in Atlantic Canada.

Experience Atlantic Canada like a local! Fodor’s Nova Scotia & Atlantic Canada includes choices for every traveler, from traveling coastal cliffs on stunning scenic drives, to chowing down at a lobster boil, to spotting majestic whales, drifting icebergs, or nesting puffins.

•Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include “Top Reasons to Go,” “Word of Mouth” advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls.

Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.

Frommer's Banff & Jasper National Parks (Park Guides)

Christie Pashby

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

What to Do Where 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

The key feature of Frommer's guides is their "what to do if" pages. While I was on a tour which took us to certain attractions, there was sufficient free time to explore others. Having someone to guide you to the most worthwhile attractions depending on how much time you have available is helpful when visiting for the first time. I took some of their suggestions, but also found others just as interesting. The guide book is targeted for the mainstream adult audience rather than youth or those on a frugal budget. The pages of need to know items as well as items such as where to find bookstores and other make it very handy. The pages concerning accommodations and restaurants are as current as can be.

I highly recommend it for its target audience

Jonathan

Editorial Review:

Frommer's Puts the Parks in Your Pocket.
* Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip no matter what your budget
* The best strategies for seeing these majestic parks, whether you have two days or two weeks
* Great places to stay: luxury hotels, rustic lodges, and the best places for backcountry camping
* The best hikes, from gentle walks to rewarding climbs, plus canoeing, skiing, snowboarding, and horseback riding
* Detailed maps, plus a fully illustrated nature guide to help you spot a variety of local wildlife


Frommer's. The best trips start here.

Enjoy the best the parks have to offer.

All the up-to-date practical information and candid insider advice you need to have the perfect park vacation...in an easy-to-carry size- and at an unbeatable price!

Motorcycle Therapy: A Canadian Adventure in Central America

Jeremy Kroeker

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Good Easy Read 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This is a good, fun, easy read (only 120 pages or so). You are not going to reach any epithanies in your life from the book, but there will be times you will just plain lose it from some of its humor. Everyone I have given the book to read (they are all motorheads) have found the book a great read. I recommend it.

Fantastic Riding Story 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book was excellent! Kroeker is very funny. He rides from Canada thru Central America on a motorcycle. He is very self aware so he is able to really descibe what the trip was like, and why he reacted to certain situations.

I reccomend this book even if you are not a big motorcycle fan.

An ok read but not value for money 2 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Good humour in the book, nice for a quick read but definately not worth the $15 or so dollars for what you get.(Hence the 2 stars)

Editorial Review:

From the Canadian Rockies to the Panamanian Jungle, Motorcycle Therapy rumbles with comic adventure as two men, fleeing failed relationships, test the limits of their motorcycles and their friendship. Join the horn-honking, signal-flashing, wheelie-popping pair as they endure painful bee stings, painful snakebites and (when they talk to girls) painful humiliation.

Toronto (City Guide)

Charles Rawlings-Way, Natalie Karneef

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Toeing the line between being staunchly Canadian and culturally American, Toronto shifts between both worlds with verve and open-mindedness. This comprehensive guide is your entrée to its many facets: the culinary scene is as deliciously diverse as its population, the artistic community breaks conventions on a daily basis and its great outdoors are awash with options - from cycling and skiing to hiking and hockey. Socially enlightened, multicultural and uniquely Canadian - welcome to T.O.!

Save The Date - expanded arts and city calendars clue you in to Toronto's best festivals and events.

Torontonians Talk! - interviews with locals reveal the city's hidden haunts and favorite hotspots.

Charge It - craving couture or vintage? Get your fashion fix with our enhanced Shopping chapter, penned by a true fashionista.

Take The Fall - experience the iconic force of Niagra and other nearby wonders with our Excursions chapter.

Go Green - book-wide information on making your urban adventure an ecofriendly one.

Insiders' Guide to Portland, Oregon, 5th: Including the Metro Area and Vancouver, Washington (Insiders' Guide Series)

Rachel Dresbeck

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A Great Book About The Portland Metro Area 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 12 people found this review helpful.

INSIDERS' GUIDE TO PORTLAND, OREGON, 5TH is a great guide to the cities of Portland and Vancouver, as well as their surrounding suburbs. Besides such information as house values, attractions, and the quality of schools in the area, the book also features detailed listings of the radio stations in the area, as well as in-depth discussions of what types of healthy-eating ideas and ethnic cuisine you can find in this metroplex. The book lacks a deep discussion of shopping malls in the area, preferring instead to focus on the other types of stores where a guy can find things to keep his woman happy, including CDs to dance to with her and clothes to help him look his best for her, which seems to indicate that independent stores are often the way to go to keep such promises, especially in a high-culture area such as Portland/Vancouver. Despite the lack of information on local malls, however, it's a wonderful book.

Editorial Review:

With more microbreweries than any other city, the nation's largest bookstore, and the most beautiful Japanese garden outside of Japan, Portland is an ideal place to live or visit. Highlighting the best of the city's arts, recreation, and dining, this guide is essential for anyone wishing to get the most out of what Portland has to offer.

Ten Million Steps: Nimblewill Nomad's Epic 10-Month Trek from the Florida Keys to Quebec

M. J. Eberhart

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Wow! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Wow! That's really "Hit the road Jack". I live near the Florida Trail but swamp wading with the snakes and the gators? No way Jose! But I am totally enjoying it from my armchair. Go get them. You are a better man than me Charlie Brown!

Editorial Review:

M. J. Eberhart, aka the Nimblewill Nomad, was a 60-year-old retired doctor in January 1998 when he set off on a foot journey that carried him 4,400 miles (twice the length of the Appalachian Trail) from the Florida Keys to the far north of Quebec. Written in a vivid journal style, the author unabashedly recounts the good (friendships with other hikers he met), the bad (sore legs, cutting winds and rain), and the godawful (those dispiriting doubts) aspects of his days of walking along what has since become known as the Eastern Continental Trail (ECT). An amazing tale of self-discovery and insight into the magic that reverberates from intense physical exertion and a high goal, Eberhart’s is the only written account of a thru-hike along the ECT. Covering 16 states and 2 Canadian provinces, Ten Million Steps deftly mixes practical considerations of an almost unimaginable undertaking with the author’s trademark humor and philosophical musings.

Top 10 Montreal & Quebec City (EYEWITNESS TOP 10 TRAVEL GUIDE)

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Overall good guide to accompany your trip to Montreal/Quebec 4 out of 5 stars.
24 of 24 people found this review helpful.

This guide book is filled with colorful pictures and list top-10 tourist spots in Montreal and Quebec, it almost list top-10 tourist spots, dining, shopping, night life etc in different sections of the cities. Overall it's an excellent guide book to accompany one's trip to Monteral/Quebec.
The only problem is after visiting some of the top-10 spots I find myself disagreeing with the choice of the author. While some interesting spots were left out of given less attention. Some information is also outdated or incorrect, such as museum opening hours.
For example, while the cross on Mount Royal has historical significance, the steel structure itself is unimpressive and I doubt whether it's worth walking half-way through Mount-Royal Park just to see the cross.
Another example is the Museum of French America in Quebec city, which houses many interesting exhibits but it wasn't even mentioned in the guide.
Apart from tourists spots, I also find myself disagreeing with some top-10 restaurants picks. For example, the Alphenaus restaurant (in downtown Montreal) recommended by the guide is located in a kind-of-run-down neighbourhood and AAA only gives it 2 diamonds. There are some good picks though, like Le Latini in Montreal.

One last glitch about this travel guide is the inclusion of some seemingly irrelevant information. While it's good to know about Celine Dion or the separatist movement, I'm not sure how useful that information is to my trip.

Summary:
The good:
Clear, concise, numbered list of tourist attractions, restaurants, etc. Also some travel tips. Most attractions lists are show on mini-map and nearest metro station, which makes the job of finding that attraction/restaurant a lot easier.

The bad:
some out-dated information, some top-10 picks questionable

The bottomline:
This is an excellent guide to accompany anyone travelling to Montreal/Quebec city

Editorial Review:

From the top 10 festivals to the top 10 places to eat, shop and sleep ­ this guide will lead you straight to the very best Montréal and Québec City have to offer.

Sisterchicks Down Under (Sisterchicks Series #4)

Robin Jones Gunn

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Editorial Review:

Kathleen joins her husband for a three-month trip to New Zealand when he’s hired by a film studio in Wellington. Leaving behind all that is familiar in her comfortable corner in Southern California, she realizes that the past twenty years have been so tightly woven into the life of her only daughter that she’s not sure who she is on her own or with her husband. In her isolation, Kathleen begins to contemplate reinventing herself, but before her crazy schemes take flight, she meets Jill at the Chocolate Fish café. Even though the two women are very different at first glance, they find they share a common Sisterchick heart and instantly forge a friendship that takes them on a journey where both Kathleen and Jill find that God has returned to them the truest part of themselves that was set aside so many years ago.

Topsy-Turvy Down Under

SISTERCHICK TM n.: a friend who shares the deepest wonders of your heart, loves you like a sister, and provides a reality check when you’re being a brat.

When Kathleen and her husband, Tony, pack up and fly off to New Zealand for Tony’s three-month film job, Kathleen discovers more than her geography has flip-flopped. In the land down under, comfort food comes in a jar labeled “Vegemite,” gardens sprout hobbit statues, and, if you’re not careful, you just might venture into the Chocolate Fish café with feathers in your hair.

Of course, the feathers could open up a conversation with fellow diner Jill, also a California girl and an instant SISTERCHICK. Together they take in a performance at the Sydney Opera House; hold “hands” with a mama kangaroo and greet her in-pocket joey; watch dolphins surf the New Zealand waves; and discover that, in a topsy-turvy land where “Bob’s your uncle” is a statement that actually makes sense, one’s heart is likely to fall head over heels into a deeper sense of God’s love.

Story Behind the Book

“My motivation for the Sisterchicks™ books came from being involved with so many women who get halfway through life and shipwreck their faith or their families in search of themselves. I wanted to write a book that extols faithfulness and shines the light on God’s plan for a woman’s life, which is always more gigantic and more mysterious than she ever first believed. On the edge of my heart sits a constant prayer for the reader who lifts the covers of these books and snuggles in for a cozy read. My prayer is that she will be filled with hope and will come closer than ever to the One who loves to sprinkle His wonders over our days.”

Lonely Planet British Columbia, 3rd Edition (Regional Guide)

Ryan Ver Berkmoes, John Lee

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Editorial Review:

Discover British Columbia

Hop over to Vancouver's Chinatown and bargain for a bucket of live frogs.
Work those shoulders as you paddle alongside BC's pristine and rugged shores.
Play cowboy on a ranch in the vast and mighty Cariboo-Chilcotin region.
Cruise fabled highways to experience the Yukon's perfectly pristine wilderness.

In This Guide:

Two authors, 96 hours on 21 ferries, 14,866km traveled
76 maps, including custom skiing and wine-touring maps
Full-color Outdoor chapter illustrates all the blood-pumping activities you can handle
Interviews with colorful locals - from vintners to miners to gourmet chefs
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