Perkins AND Will Selected and Current Works

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Perkins AND Will Selected and Current Works
Perkins AND Will
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N7GNNS

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Aidan Meehan's original studies of animal ornaments drawn from the Book of Kells will inspire you to experiment with your own painting techniques and color schemes. Works of art in themselves, the large-scale drawings are developed from motifs from the four main categories of animal patterns used throughout the Book of Kells--cats, birds, eels, and little people--which are often incomplete or difficult to make out in the manuscript. Where the original detail is too miniaturized to allow for contour lines inside the animals' bodies, the author has applied the conventions of large-scale treatments from other designs in the Book of Kells. The folio number of the Book of Kells from which the design has been derived is given for reference to the original manuscript and its color scheme. Each design is easy to paint and frame, making this an inspirational book for artists, designers, and anyone fascinated by the Celtic legacy.

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Black and White Pictures.......2000-06-27

This book has large black and white diagrams of various knotwork figures from the Book of Kells. They are clearly presented and useful for reproduction.

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Book of Kells Colouring Book
Geoff Greenham
Manufacturer: Ossian
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0946005494

Celtic Hand Stroke by Stroke: Irish Half-Uncial from The Book of Kells

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Interesting

Celtic Hand Stroke by Stroke: Irish Half-Uncial from The Book of Kells
Arthur Baker
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486243362

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Complete stroke-by-stroke guide to creating each letter of the alphabet in the beautiful, distinctive Celtic manner. Crystal clear instructions cover hand positions, strokes, pens, inks, paper, working surface, more. Introduction by William Hogarth. Includes over 40 full-page plates, plus 8 illustrations in instructions.

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Good book.......2003-10-30

This book seems to me slightly misnamed. If you're looking for a book that describes the hand(s) used in the Book of Kells (i.e. a book on paleography rather than calligraphy), this book isn't it. Let me 'splain.

When I first started learning the celtic hand, after some early exercises (from Margaret Shepherd's excellent book "Learn Calligraphy") I decided I'd follow historical precedent and learn more accurate Book of Kells hands. (This worked well for me in Gothic capitals, for example.) So I attempted to start by copying the Book of Kells hand; whereupon I ran into my first problem: the original had 3 different scribes with different styles. So, I picked one.

My results were disappointing. After doing my best to exactly copy the hand, I found my lettering looked less "Celtic" than typical Celtic writing! For, despite the fact that the Book of Kells is considered the prototypical example of celtic celligraphy, enigmatically the hands used in the Book are actually not very "Celtic looking", at least to my modern eyes.

Thus, I modified my style to be more "modern" - more like the style described in this book, in fact, which brings me back around to the book. This book gives a brief history of the Book of Kells and then uses the Book's hands as a starting point to develop a celtic script that is very nice. Many aspects of this hand were not used (or not used extensively) in the Book of Kells - for example, the angled upper serifs. But it is a very nice-looking (to me) hand, very celtic-looking, and truer to the Book of Kells hands than most other celtic calligraphy I've seen. Well worth the small price.

Interesting.......1999-05-19

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Book of Kells Stained Glass Colouring Book (Dover Pictoral Archive Series)

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Book of Kells Stained Glass Colouring Book (Dover Pictoral Archive Series)
Marty Noble
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 048644810X

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Sixteen splendid drawings, all striking reproductions of great works of early Christian art, include haunting images of celestial figures, winged creatures, a menacing mythical beast, and other dramatic configurations — all framed by traditional Celtic ornaments. A great opportunity for coloring book fans to reproduce masterpieces from one of the Middle Age's most beautiful books.

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Magic Lantern Guides: the most popular, most respected camera manuals in the world.

"If you can't find the instruction manual for your camera, or just want to learn more about it, Magic Lantern Guides...are available for many current and out-of-production SLRs. [They] provide information on the camera, how to use its features, accessories, and general how-to-information on photography, all in a convenient 5 x 7.5 inch package."--Photographic

"Packed with diagrams, instructions, and tips."--Outdoor Photographer

"These books are essential gear, whether you own the equipment, are thinking about buying it, or just want to know how it works." --Shutterbug Magazine.

More informative and user-friendly than any manufacturer's instruction book, the Magic Lantern guides show the way to sophisticated picture-taking. This latest entry in the series focuses on the brand-new Canon EOS Rebel Ti (EOS 300V outside of North America).
The Rebel series of autofocus SLR cameras is already popular, and this new model is even lighter, faster and easier to operate--perfect for amateurs.

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Very Helpful.......2004-05-21

This book covers all the camera controls plus tells you how various settings relate to the finished picture. I found it much more helpful than the instruction book which was rather cryptic. I would recommend this if you want to really get the most out of your camera.

Good guide...but could have been better!.......2003-10-19

I recently purchased this book as a gift for my mother-in-law (who owns a Rebel TI)...When the book arrived, I couldn't resist the temptation to rip open the shrink wrap and see how it compares to my Canon EOS 5 Magic Lantern Guide.

Compared to the Canon owner's manual this book is terrific and an invaluable resource. Compared to other Magic Lantern guides I have read...it's a bit of a let down.

The book gives a great, concise explaination of how to use all the camera's functions...however it's writing style is a bit stiff and not user-friendly enough to make a developing photographer want to keep picking up this book. Perhaps this book needs a collaborating writer to help it along. I think a revision of the text by a 2nd writer could definitely help this book reach out to its readers.

If you own a Rebel TI and want to better understand how to use the camera to take professional pictures...this book is a definite must...just be forewarned that it reads a lot like a textbook.

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Magic Lantern Guide to Canon T2, K2 Ti

Magic Lantern Guides: Canon EOS Rebel T2: EOS Rebel K2, EOS Rebel Ti, EOS 300X, EOS 3000V, EOS 300V (A Lark Photography Book)
Artur Landt
Manufacturer: Lark Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Canon Rebel T2 35mm SLR Camera with the EF 28-90mm f/4-5.6 III Zoom Lens

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Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition)

The PIP Expanded Guide to the Canon EOS 300X/Rebel T2 (PIP Expanded Guide Series)

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ASIN: 1579907393

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The EOS Rebel series brings together everything photographers want in a 35mm camera--they're simply the most advanced SLRs in their class. To find out how best to use these masterpieces of form and function--Canon EOS Rebel T2, EOS Rebel K2, EOS Rebel Ti, plus their European counterparts--look into the Magic Lantern Guide. With loads of diagrams and user-friendly instructions, it covers every aspect of these fully automatic 35mm Autofocus SLRs: their 7-point High-Speed, Wide-Area Selectable AF with Advanced 35-zone Metering; Safety Shutter-Release Lock and Camera Shake Warning; and Advanced E-TTL II Autoflash and Enhanced Built-in Flash.

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Magic Lantern Guide to Canon T2, K2 Ti .......2007-01-26

Alot of the info seems to come out of the Canon supplied manual itself. Which in itself isn't very good.A good part of the book is taken up basically giving you specs of lenses and flash units. With no recommendations weather they are good or not so good products. IMHO you get very little more than you would get out of the Canon manual. Which isn't very much.

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Warm and bright.......2005-01-16

Rumiko Takahashi -- of "Ranma" and "Inuyasha" fame -- got her start with the sci-comedy series "The Return of Lum Urusei Yatsura: Lum in the Sun." With its lecherous-boy-meets-alien-girl storyline, Takahashi came up with all sorts of screwball comedies with a tint of romance.

Sexy, smart High Priestess Sakura is back... as the new school nurse. All the boys at Tomobiki High (EXCEPT the lecherous Ataru) are desperate to be "treated" by her -- until demonically possessed germs strike the school. Later, Sakura has to deal with an estrange umbrella and stormcloud, Ataru acccidentally gets xeroxed, and the not-so-fearsome school spook has a dance with Lum.

Then it's off to the seashore, at Shutaro Mendo's beachhouse. Freakoid monk Cherry makes a reappearance, and teaches Mendo and Ataru about the purifying influence of surfing. (I kid you not) Then the gang hunts a swimsuit thief (who may or may not be Cherry), does some unconventional yoga, and engages in a monstrous eating contest.

"The Return of Lum: Urusei Yatsura" is a bit different from Takahashi's later work -- it's not action based, or romance based, or any mix of the two. It's comedy with a tinge of sci-fi, romance, and Japanese folklore. While the opening chapters were a bit thin and clumsy, Takahashi had hit her stride by this time.

The series is a bit like a high-school sitcom, with absurd storylines and plenty of strange physical humor (especially since Ataru chases anything in a skirt, without success). The comedy is a bit on the fantastical side, with a swimsuit-snatching octopus and a talking umbrella. Not to mention Takahashi's interlocking love triangles, with rivals for Lum's affection and plenty of repressed feelings.

The tone is pretty light, and so is the character development. Sakura comes across as the most mature and intelligent person here, despite her sickening lack of weight gain. Ataru and Lum get a bit more laid-back by the sea -- their relationship really doesn't progress at all -- while the arrogant Mendo encounters an old baseball-playing rival who still wants to settle the score.

Alien princesses, teen lechers and surfing priests... on summer vacation. It doesn't get much more entertaining than that.

Summer Days.......2004-03-04

The theme to this volume is summer, and you'll wish you were there with Lum, Ataru, and the rest of the guys.

The first chapter starts off with Ataru accidently making a deal with a devil's associate. Later, germs take over the school; Lum introduces her alien copy machine; and Mendou's baseball eating rival, Tobimaru Mizunokoji, is introduced for the first time. After all that weird fun, Lum, Sakura, and the guys hang out at Mendou's private beach resort, participate in an insane eating contest at a hotel, and finally practice Cherry's odd yoga.

Spend summer with Lum and the guys, and you'll never forget it!

Another fantastic book in this perfect series!.......2000-08-26

Lum in the Sun is the third in the Urusei Yatsura series, and now that it's hit its stride the book tears along at break-neck pace. The stories are divided between school time and the gang's holiday at Mendo's private beach. It's as funny as ever, especially the bikini chase throughout Sportsworld, or the incredible "All you can eat" lunch for Sakura.

Once again Rumiko Takahashi manages to turn the normal world inside-out and upside-down, and in doing so creates another hilarious set of adventures.

A big summer vacation ON ACID!.......2000-02-14

Still more bizarre adventures with the pretty young alien princess in those funky tiger stripes! And this time the whole gang goes off to spend a long, extragant holiday at the beach. Lots of crazy fun! However, there are quite a few things in this manga book that makes me sorry that the immensely talented creator happens to be a woman. For instance, there's this one scene where a mysterious binkini snatcher forcibly rips a swimming suit right off a female victim, leaving her in tears as the boys all laugh and gawk at her naked body. I truly understand that Rumiko Takahashi is living in a very male society, but this does border on gender problems. However, other than that, I say hats off to one of the greatest manga cartoonists ever lived for her very fertile imagination and her endless supply of the most fabulous characters and creatures ever to grace her pages!

You've Never Seen Ataru Quite Like This!.......1999-12-08

Wait, Ataru? Acting unselfishly to save a broken hearted woman from her own attempt at suicide? Well, not exactly. . . The first story in this book shows Ataru's noble side. . . briefly. It also features an interesting look at Mendo's darker side. Also in this book, is a story that any Phantom of the Opera fan (Like myself) should read. Who is the cloaked figure who lurks within Tomobiki High? Read on and find out! But wait, there's more! Sakura crying? Ataru and Lum go on a date? Surfing? Bathing suit thieves? An all you can eat challenge? The dangers of Yoga? Lum in a one piece outfit! yes, all that actually fits into one book, it's one of the best Uresei Yatsura books I've read. . .and I've read most of them! I reccomend this one to anyone who likes Rumiko Takahashi or Uresei Yatsura!

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That's a girl on the cover, y'all.......2006-08-27

After reading her wickedly satiric THE SERIAL, I decided to spend some time with some other authors before diving into this. This one's the Pulitzer nominee, so I assumed something even more hilarious. Instead, I got reality. Still wickedly witty, but factual rather than satiric.

(Same thing? Maybe. Don't make me think too hard or I'll never finish this review.)

It's a very different animal, showing us that McFadden has quite a range. She lived a very interesting life with a very interesting family, and here it is. She's observant, insightful, clever, and well worth reading.

I've read many memoirs and enjoyed them while I read them, then forgot them a week or a month later. Heck, I can't remember most of my own memoir these days. But this is a memoir I will remember. It's a great book. That's all I have to say. If you want to know why, read some other review. I know they're out there. I'm just agreeing with them, okay? It's what I do.

McFadden's Masterpiece.......2005-04-15

It's about time this book was back in print. In my opinion, "Rain or Shine" is the gold standard for memoir writing. I read it back in 1986 when it was first published (and a finalist for the Pulitzer that year) and reread it again just recently. Even though I have little or no interest in rodeo announcing, trick-riding, or the old (or even recent) west, I have an addiction to good writing. "Rain or Shine" is so luminous (and humorous) that it immediately captured my attention. And held it. This one's a sleeper. It would make a great movie. It reads like one already.

The story of Ms. McFadden's parents, Cy and Pat Taillon, comes to life immediately and everything they do seems fraught with such passion and abandon that we know, before they even realize it themselves, that this couple will not end up in rockers at 80 talking about the good old days together. He's a rodeo announcer who likes a drink. She sublimates her own ambitions and becomes a trick rider to be with him. Early on, we are told by members of the supporting cast (chiefly, Pat's sister, Ila Mae, and Cy's best friend, Roy) that Cy and Pat Taillon are starcrossed and mismatched, recklessly piloting their Packard down Satan's driveway and taking their vulnerable little girl with them. However, we don't quite see it that way, as young Cyra is always in her backseat bedroom (they live in the car on the road), humorously showing us that there may be a little envy involved as Cy rises to the top of his game early and stays there. Slowly, the family begins to enjoy some measure of success. Inevitably, setbacks occur.

The couple's eventual flameout is a shock, even though it isn't particularly unexpected or spectacular. One day, Cy Taillon simply unhooks his Packard from the family trailer and drives away, leaving mother and daughter sitting by the side of the road. As the Packard disappears on the horizon, Cy's "best friend" Roy materializes and hooks the trailer up to his car, taking both mother and daughter home with him. Roy has an ulterior motive. He and Ila Mae have been diligently attempting to wrest Pat away from Cy so that Roy can have Pat for himself. It works -- Pat's emotions and security are in disarray. She needs a steady hand, something concrete in her life. Cyra, on the other hand, is never fooled by Roy's betrayal and ulterior motive. She's astonished at how easily he stuck the knife in her father's back. Soon Roy and Pat are married and thus begins one of the most hilarious sections of this memoir -- life with Roy. In a reversal of lifestyles, young Cyra must now adhere to a strange set of rules and regulations intended to foster good health, including the proviso that each bite of food is to be chewed exactly 28 times "to get all the goodness out of it." It is clear, in her shaky state, that Pat has settled for Roy, who is about as boring as he is devious. But is Cy completely out of the picture? Ila Mae and Roy's plan to snatch Pat away and save her from eternal damnation looks like it has run into some kinks.

Cyra McFadden was Cy Taillon's first born child, his namesake, a female replica of him. She was blessed with his almost-impossible-to-feminize name (pronounced "Sigh'-rah"), which is actually quite nice. He loved her and she adored him. Who wouldn't? Not only was he a respected, handsome man, he had the most soothing voice west of the Mississippi, possibly even west of the Atlantic. As a little girl, Cyra could be found at his side, a minature version of him in custom made cowboy boots, her father's jacket over her shoulders to keep her warm as he announced the cowboys. By the 70's, however, Ms. McFadden was marching for peace in San Francisco while her father was promoting the Vietnam war from the crow's nest at rodeos. They hardly spoke. When they last saw each other, father and daughter argued about racial intermarriage, politics and the whole range of topics that fractured families in the early 70's and still does today. After a long estrangement, they made up. On his terms, of course. Cy was a stubborn man, as stubborn as his daughter, and he now had a wife and two sons who treated him in a way his daughter couldn't, with blind respect. It seemed that, in the end, Cy Taillon settled for less just as his first wife had. I found it heartbreaking that, when he died a wealthy man in 1980, he erased his only daughter out of his life so thoroughly that his will, in which she was left nothing, arrived at her home postage due.

Far from depressing, "Rain or Shine" is absolutely hysterical. Ms. McFadden seamlessly weaves actual correspondence into the text that not only advances the plot -- Ila Mae sends out a stream of letters full of moral judgment and condemnation -- but is screamingly funny. When it turns out that Ila Mae isn't exactly a tower of moral rectitude herself, the reader wants to say "I told you so!"

Fans of Cyra McFadden remember "The Serial" from the mid-70's (a rich and enlightened left hook to the rich and enlightened folks in Marin County). She brings the same humor, airtight prose, and bullseye characterizations to the proceedings here as well.

"Rain or Shine" is simply a classic.

Like nobody's loved you. . ........2004-06-27

The reference in the title is to the dedication of the author's father, a celebrity rodeo announcer, who never missed a day's work because of the weather. It's also a shorthand reference to the old song "I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you. . ." Her book is not only a tribute to her famous father but an account of a difficult father-daughter relationship that soured from worshipful love to bitterness and eventually to a kind of grudging respect in his last years before dying in 1980.

The book is also a family memoir, characterizing the lives of those awkwardly related to her by blood or marriage: the author's mother and stepfather, an older aunt and her husband, and her father's second wife. Each of them is as vividly drawn as the larger-than-life Western luminary at the center of the story - Cy Taillon, whose golden voice and gentlemanly manner won the devotion of rodeo cowboys and fans from San Francisco's Cow Palace to Madison Square Garden from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Not surprisingly, what the author's story reveals casts her father in a somewhat different light, first as the hard drinking, gambling, womanizing ne'er-do-well who married the author's singer-dancer mother after a one-day courtship. Following the rodeo circuit out of a home base in Montana, they fought and loved each other passionately, a Scott and Zelda of the Western plains, and then broke up. Following a spectacular crash at an air show in Great Falls in 1946, at which Cy used the microphone to calm the startled crowd, he became the hero he was destined to become. Assuming a life of rectitude with a new devoted wife and two new sons, he was finally launched in the career rodeo people will always remember him for. Meanwhile, his first wife languished in a miserable second marriage, and his daughter grew up, loving her absent father deeply while stubbornly unwilling to come to terms with the man he had become.

Thanks to the University of Nebraska Press for reprinting this wonderful memoir. It offers a fascinating window into the world of the rodeo circuit, at least as it once was. For rodeo-going readers, it does much to explain the evolution of the role and persona of the rodeo announcer and the elevation of rodeo cowboying into a kind of gallantry. It's also an entertaining story told by an author with a gift for both sentiment and satire. With her eye for the absurd detail, she can unerringly find the irony in an often rueful story. The many family photos are also a wonderful addition to the book.

Childhood on the Western reaches of memory.......2000-01-07

Yay! Cyra McFadden's memoir is back in print! I had snapped up all the used hardcover editions I could find a few years ago when I heard it was out of print. But why?

Because this slim memoir is the kind of story that unfolds in the reader's head like a gorgeously-shot film, one that's perfectly cast and shot on locations that evoke the internal emotions of its characters to stunning effect. Cher once actually owned the movie rights on this book, then I heard nothing more of it. Her instincts were right on. If there was ever a book that cried out to be adapted into a film or a play, this is it.

McFadden grew up in the West, the daughter of Cy Taillon, a legendary rodeo announcer and his wife Pat, a one-time showgirl with charisma enough to match her husband's. Cyra grew up a little cowgirl gypsy, as the family roamed the Western rodeo circuit together by car in the 1940's.

McFadden's eye for detail in regard to smells, sounds and her childhood consciousness is extaordinary, as is her realistic depiction of her parents' tumultuous love for one another that is the basis of the story and McFadden's adult questing. The smell of cattle, the sonorous voice of her father, the taste of all-hours road food and the touch of sequins on her mother's old costume gowns....this book is filled with details that will linger in your imagination for years. Old family photos accompany the text and they are intimate and haunting. All is told in a voice that is unsparingly honest, as well as sympathetic. McFadden cherishes her vagabond childhood and gives us a technicolor look at the richness of its place and time.

Buy this book if you love a well-written memoir. Or buy it because you love the West. Buy it because you love cowboys and showgirls and all-night trips down dusty highways. But buy it, and many copies of it, because you will want your friends to experience its cinematic poignancy after the movie in your head ends.

Obviously, one of my all-time favorite pieces of writing. Woefully under-read and underappreciated, I encourage English teachers to consider this in a curricula on memoir writing. It is lasting stuff.

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Rain or Shine: a Family Memoir
Cyra McFadden
Manufacturer: Flamingo
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHCVYC

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Randy Martinez and Joe Hernandez are best friends. They met in 1979 and quickly recognized they had lots in common. They were good students, they enjoyed sports, they were practical jokers, and they both liked the music of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

They were born and raised in the working class neighborhood of La Puente, a community of about 80,000 located near East Los Angeles. After graduating from Bassett High School in 1985 and 1986 respectively, they each went off to different universities.

For six years, they hardly saw each other and spoke only on occasion. They made new friends and joined various social and fraternal organizations. In 1989, Randy earned his degree and moved to San Francisco. In 1991, Joe earned his degree. To celebrate, they made plans to travel to Europe together, figuring that such an adventure might allow them to go back to something they had lost along the way. So, they saved their money, loaded their backpacks, and headed out.

This is a story of two young men yearning for adventure, and finding the truth about their deep, abiding friendship.

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Takes the diary Martinez kept during his first trip abroad and captures the action and insights for teens and adults.......2006-09-09

Spine lettering would've made this slim paperback an even higher recommendation, overcoming shelving challenges but it still should be considered for its rare story of two young men who met in 1979 near Los Angeles, parted ways during college, and eventually made plans to travel to Europe together, thinking a shared adventure would help their friendship. This is their story, and Ten Days To Get To London: A European Backpacking Adventure takes the diary Martinez kept during his first trip abroad and captures the action and insights for teens and adults.

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