In Pursuit of a Legend: 72 Days in California Bigfoot Country

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Backpacking into the heart of California Bigfoot Country, a wildland firefighter and a struggling writer seek evidence of the legendary Bigfoot. They hope to solve the mystery-for themselves if for no one else. An early track find of 21-inch footprints offers as much intrigue as it does doubt. Are they even prepared to believe in the creature that may have left the tracks? And what to make of grunts late into the night and rocks being smashed together? This is their true story unlike any other. It is a side of nature-and mankind-unknown to all but a very few.

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In Californian Bigfoot country without leaving your house.......2006-05-11

I felt like I was hiking with the author in the CA wilderness, it was great. This book is detailed and thoughtful and told by a conservationist and wildlife lover who is truly concerned about the environment and what man has shamefully done to it in a very short period of time. One review said this book was about camping as much as anything else which is partly true but it wasn't boring by any means and doesn't get into beginner lessons on how to start a fire etc.(in fact TA Wilson doesn't use fire in the wild). The only thing I didn't like was the use of fictitious names for places because I like to envision where I am as a reader and even pinpoint it on the map sometimes, but I understand why he did it. He loves the land and doesn't want people tramping all over it because of his book. I don't want to give anything away, I just want to say that it was a pleasure to read and I really hope that it is completely true because I want to believe it very much. I hope Wilson does a sequel or even a series of books on Bigfoot because this one was exhilarating to read and takes you to a place out under the stars that is a mystery to most of us 9 to 5 couch surfers.

Great read, not the typical bigfoot book........2006-02-23

I had my doubts when buying this book, I really enjoy the sightings type of bigfoot book but this was a pleasant surprise. The day to day description of the author's trips into the wilderness make for very interesting reading! Although he does not use the real names for any locations (to protect them) you still get a good feel for the forest's of California. The story kept me interested up to and including the end with many harrowing moments. I will not give anything away but just take my word for it, if you are interested in the bigfoot/sasquatch phoenomena, this would make an excellent addition to your collection.

A very enjoyable read........2006-01-13

I didn't really know what to expect when I picked this book up and started reading, which may have been good since I didn't go in with any preconceived notions.

I found the book to be thoroughly enjoying, and thought Mr. Wilson did a wonderful job of taking the reader into the far reaches of the wilds in search of sasquatch, allowing one to journey far into the California wilds without leaving the comforts of home.

His encounters with what could possibly be a North American Primate are few and far-between and since this is a non-fiction book, that should be expected. I have spent countless hours in the Oregon wilderness and have never seen one, so I would have been highly suspicious if Mr. Wilson's experiences with the creature were more than what was described in the book.

While I enjoyed the feeling created by the writer, that I was with TA and JT, hiking vicariously through the Sierra right alongside them, I did have trouble with TA referring to his failures as a writer a little too often. Sometimes it was needed to describe his frame of mind, but at others it detracted from the adventure a bit.

I also know by travelling through Oregon's wilderness areas that man can be a destructive force on the landscape. However, I also feel that many more outdoorsmen and women have a great respect for nature than Wilson realizes, and that his contempt for many things human was somewhat misplaced. Many of us have found ourselves in the situation of having to pick up trash in the wilderness left by careless others, but we've also seen other conscientious people doing the exact same thing. At times it seemed like Mr. Wilson felt that he and JT were the only ones with the right to journey into these areas.

Overall though, a good read and one I'd read again sometime.

An entertaining travelogue centered around this great mystery.......2005-11-06

This is a really excellent book, a great read for a cold fall evening. First-time author Wilson weaves a story of a 72-day jaunt into the backwoods of the California Sierra Mountains and points further north. He and his friend, a firefighter named JT, encounter a strange set of tracks, 21 inches long, that do not appear to be of bears. After JT leaves to fight a raging forest fire, Wilson has several strange encounters on the trail alone, including a strange call in the middle of the night, a dung sample he cannot identify, some strange happenings on the trail and a possible sighting of his own. Wilson's style of writing is comfortable and easy to read, and the book really takes us deep into the territory he is exploring. We can almost picture the trails he takes into the mountains of the High Sierras and the other points he explores. This book is highly recommended even for those who are non-believers. It can be ordered through amazon.com

I would recommend book though it is more about camping.......2005-10-21

The author makes his personal problems and opinions of paramount importance in his book. He seems to hate human beings, horses (or atleast their riders), campfires, and publishers. He does have a realistic view of bigfoot, in my opinion, and his adventures are somewhat drawn out but interesting. He provides abundant details into his personal life which is unusual so his honesty is somewhat refreshing and interesting.

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Illinois orchids in a nutshell.......2007-02-16

Winterringer's contribution to the Illinois literature on native orchids is fairly useful to those of us who want to learn more about our native orchids. This small volume contains carefully-drawn line drawings for each species listed, brief botanical descriptions of the plants with their scientific and common names, general information about distribution (no specifics), habitat requirements, flowering times, and predominant flower colors. Two indexes, one of common and one of scientific names, makes it easy to find entries. One beautiful color photo as frontispiece and twenty-eight pages of black and white photographs add to the value of this volume, all of them by people significant in Illinois and midwestern native orchid conservation.

For a more full accounting of all species present or historic, minus the line drawings and photographs, get Charles Sheviaks' An Introduction to the Ecology of the Illinois Orchidaceae, published by the same.

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Sample local award-winning wines, take a ferry to the San Juan Islands for whale watching, bask in the sunshine of British Columbia's Okanagan country, or select from twenty-nine other itineraries for two- or three-day getaways in the Pacific Northwest.

Guide to Western Canada, 7th (Guide to Series)

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Guide to Western Canada, 7th (Guide to Series)

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Vancouver: The Ultimate Guide - 7th Edition

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Vancouver: The Ultimate Guide - 7th Edition
Judi Lees
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Fodor's Vancouver and British Columbia, 4th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)

ASIN: 0811836142

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A great place to ski, sail, take in beautiful vistas, visit world-class museums, and enjoy international culture and cuisine, Vancouver is one of the West Coast s most spectacular destinations. Now freshly updated, this popular guidebook offers visitors everything they need to know to plan a delightful stay. Written by longtime Vancouver resident Judy Lees, this new edition features chapters on restaurants, hotels, museums, entertainment, shopping, excursions to nearby wilderness areas, and fun things to do with children, all accented by photographs, illustrations, and maps. For anyone planning a trip to the jewel of British Columbia-and one million Americans do each year-"it would be difficult to imagine a more complete and useful guide to Vancouver than this" (Travel Books Worldwide).

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You will feel like an insider.......1999-05-22

This travel book is very good and easy to read. It covers basically all the major attractions in Vancouver and it even gives you a list of the top ten activities not to miss. For every single attraction, you will find detailed description on how to get there (either by car or by taking the public bus), the admission fee, hours of service, and a phone number. The book includes about ten maps that are absolutely great. You will also find the information on restaurants very useful. They organize them by location, by cuisine, and by price range. This book is a great travel planner you will like to read before visiting Vancouver. And, do not forget to bring your umbrella and your rain jacket!

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`History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 2` is the second volume of the most explosive and astounding tractate on history ever written - however, every theory it contains, no matter how unorthodox, is backed by rock solid scientific data. The book is easy and pleasant to read; it is well-illustrated, contains hundreds of charts, graphs and illustrations, copies of ancient manuscripts, and countless facts attesting to the falsity of the chronology used nowadays. You will be amazed to discover: - That the chronology universally accepted today and taken for granted is simply wrong; - That ALL methods of dating of ancient sources and artefacts known today are erroneous or non-exact; - That there is not a single document that could be reliably dated earlier than the XIth century; The Author refers to the Middle Ages as the Antiquity and proves mutual superimposition of the Second and the Third Roman Empire, both of which become identified as the respective kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Furthermore, he asserts that the famous reform of the Occidental Church in the XI century by Pope Gregory Hildebrand was the reflection of the XII century reforms of Byzantine emperor Andronicus who in his turn identifies with Jesus Christ. The Trojan war counted by Homer happened only as late as of the XIII century A.D. and the great poet actually lived in XIV century A.D. No stone in history of Antiquity is left unturned. Literally. This book is the beginning of a major correction to the chronology we live with.

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Check and see.......2007-06-21

I don't care what other people say of this book. Those affirmig it's fake, they hadn't ever read it. Or have some special reasons to do so. "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see..." This book won't make you feel comfortable. It'll make you feel free. It'll make you feel you're "not the only one" to feel you'd been lied to for centuries.

Suprise! Suprise!.......2007-03-22

Here is a serie of books which turns "the whole world" upside down. I learned a lot of it and I hope that a new book from A.T. Fomenko will follow very quick. A absolute must for everybody who is interested in history or even a little bit from it.

Prescient St Augustine?.......2006-02-05

We can so far divide the New Chronology into the following three parts:

a) The verifiable theory that proves consensual chronology wrong with the aid of astronomy, statistics and mathematics;

b) The new chronology hypothesis based on a new understanding of known historical facts and the most likely logical explanation of the most obvious inconsistencies inherent in the official version of history;

c) The history conjectures, that is experimental historical reconstructions based on assumptions that the authors believe to make sense in the light of their research and linguistic parallels - void of ironclad factual support to date.

Fomenko's theory complies with the most rigid scientific standards as a whole:

It gives a coherent explanation of what we already know.

- It is consistent: independent lines of inquiry all lead to the same conclusion.

- The predictions it makes are confirmed empirically.

Fomenko goes by the following axioms:

- Chronology is the basis of history;

- Human evolution has always been linear, gradual and irreversible;

- The "cyclic" nature of human civilization is a myth, likewise all the gaps, duplicates, "dark ages" and "renaissances" that we know from consensual history;

- The accumulation of geographical knowledge as reflected in cartography is a gradual and irreversible process;

- The chronological distance between a given manuscript and the events described therein is proportional to the amount of distortions it contains;

- There is no "useless" information in authentic ancient sources.

Why the mainstream historians do not shower mathematician Academician Dr.Prof Fomenko with thanks and laurels?

The Russians:

Because Fomenko asserts that there was no such thing as the Tartar and Mongol invasion followed by three centuries of slavery, providing a formidable body of documental evidence to prove his assertion. The so-called "Tartars and Mongols" were the actual ancestors of the modern Russians, living in a bilingual state with Arabic spoken as freely as Russian. The ancient Russian state was governed by a double structure of civil and military authorities. The hordes were actually professional armies with a tradition of lifelong conscription (the recruitment being the so-called "blood tax"). Their "invasions" were punitive operations against the regions that attempted tax evasion. Fomenko proves that Russian history as we know it today is a blatant forgery concocted by a host of German scientists brought to Russia by the usurper dynasty of the Romanovs, whose ascension to the throne was the result of coup d'état, charged with the mission of making their reign look legitimate. Fomenko proves Ivan the Terrible to be a collation of four rulers, no less. They represented the two rival dynasties - the legitimate rulers and the ambitious upstarts. The winner took it all! Over some 30 years of controversy, Russian historians have made a most remarkable transition - they were initially accusing the young mathematician Fomenko of anticommunist dissident activity and attempts to deface the historical legacy of Soviet Russia; nowadays the middle-aged mathematician is accused of adhering to "pro-communist Russian nationalism" and defacing the proud historical legacy of Great Russia.

The Westerners:

Because Fomenko blows consensual Russian history to smithereens, successfully removing a crucial cornerstone from underneath the otherwise impeccable edifice of World History. Fomenko adds insult to injury, wiping out one by one the Ancient Rome (the foundation of Rome in Italy is dated to the XIV century A. D.), the Ancient Greece and its numerous poleis, which he identifies as the mediaeval crusader settlements on the territory of Greece, and the Ancient Egypt (the pyramids of Giza become dated to the XI-XV century A. D. and identified as the royal cemetery of the Global "Mongolian" Empire, no less). The civilization of the Ancient Egypt is irrefutably dated to the XII-XV century A. D. with the aid of the ancient Egyptian horoscopes cut in stone. He was the first one to decipher and date all such horoscopes, coming up with mediaeval dates in every case. English historians rage at the suggestion that the history of Ancient England was de facto a Byzantine import transplanted to the English soil by the fugitive Byzantine nobility. To reward the English historians who consider themselves the true scribes of World History, the cover of the present book portrays Tintoretto's Jesus Christ crucified on the Big Ben.

The Chinese:

Because Fomenko wipes out the Ancient History of China outright. No such thing. Full point. The compilation of the so-called Ancient Chinese History is reliably datable to the XVII-XVIII century only. It is perfectly recognizable as the Ancient European history, reworked and transcribed in hieroglyphs as yet another historical transplantation, this time performed on the Chinese soil by the loving Jesuit hands. The Chinese are the next in line to go berserk. Chinese history is inevitably bound to get both more ancient and more eventful, proportionally to the growing involvement of China in the world affairs. Chinese historians will keep on finding valid proof of prehistoric Chinese spaceflights until the Politburo orders them to shut up.

The Arabs:

Too bad. Islam with all its key figures is datable to XV-XVI century A. D. Arabic historians may find consolation in the crucial historical role of the Ottoman Empire in the XVI-XVII century. The trouble is that this empire was initially a Christian state, with Hagia Sophia identifiable as Temple of Solomon, according to Fomenko! We can only guess if the acquisition of Alexander the Great (a Macedonian and a Christian) as the founder of the Muslim World Empire will make Fomenko's theories more acceptable to the Arabic mainstream. He certainly does not spare any holy cows at all, claiming The Stone of Qa'Aba in Mecca to contain the lost Arch of the Covenant.

The Divinity:

Despite of reiterated statement that his theory is all about chronology and not Religion, Fomenko stirs up a whole condominium of wasp nests. His collection of anathemas, fatwa, and other condemnations from all parties concerned is already considerable. Little wonder, considering that the history of religions à la Fomenko looks as follows: the pre-Christian period (before the XI century and JC), Bacchic Christianity (XI-XII century, before and after JC), JC Christianity (XII-XVI century) and its subsequent mutations into Orthodox Christianity, the Catholicism, Islam, Buddhism, and so on.

According to Fomenko we know strictly NOTHING about the events that predate the X century A. D.

St Augustin was prescient when he spoke unto us: "be wary of mathematicians, particularly when they speak the truth."

Something of a disappointment.......2005-09-09

After having read the first volume of this expected series of 7 volumes I was triggered by the thesis of these authors that ancient Greek and Roman history did in fact take place in the Middle Ages. So I started studying medieval history of the Middle East - also known as Islamic history - to find out if the opponents of the ancient Greeks and Romans - the Acheamenid Persians, Sassanids, Scythians, Egyptians, etc. - also have their duplicates in medieval history. My search was disappointing: none of the many medieval Islamic dynasties seemed to correspond to the ancient middle eastern rulers.

However, I did find a close correspondence between Herodotus' Persian kings and medieval events:

- the defeat and capture of an Anatolian king - the Lydian Croesus - by the Persian conqueror Cyrus is identical to the defeat and capture of another Anatolian king - sultan Bayezid - by the Asian/Mongol conqueror Tamerlane;
- the Persian conquest of Egypt by the cruel tyrant Cambyses reds almost exactly as the Ottoman conquest of Egypt by Selim the Grim (note the nickname!);
- Darius the Lawgiver of the Persian Empire looks very much alike to Sulayman the Magnificent, the Lawgiver in Islamic history;
- Xerxes, whose main claim to fame is to be defeated by the Greeks at the naval battle of Salamis, looks like Selim II (the Sot) whose main claim to fame is to be defeated by a Spanish-Italian alliance at the naval battle of Lepanto.

I should have expected Fomenko et al. to arrive at similar conclusions, however, they claim that the Persian kings are the alter egos of the Angevin kings of Sicily whose biographies do not contain the exploits of the Persian kings.

The similiarities I indicate lead to the conclusion that Herodotus must have written his Histories at the close of the 16th century. But this is extremely late, given that Herodotus is "the Father of History", so therefore all other "ancient" histories must have been fabricated even later. Yet, the founders of modern chronology - Scaliger and Petavius - laid their foundations also at the close of the 16th century and had the full corpus of ancient histories already at their disposal.

It seems to me that Fomenko has to address these inconsistencies, maybe in the forthcoming 5 volumes?

Another critique of their book is that the correspondencies between different rulers are often based on a superficial comparison of the biographies; upon a more thorough comparison many details appear that do not correspond at all.

Finally, the authors rely heavily on the works of Gregorovius (1821-1891!!) - his medieval histories of Rome and Athens - as the source of medieval history; these works are - at least in the West - hoplessly outdated and have been superceded by more up-to-date works (for instance, Julius Norwich's trilogy on Byzantine history is not even cited).

Romulus courts Helen, Paris founds Rome, Moses goes to Troy.........2005-07-30

If you agree with Fomenko that Roman chronology is basically the foundation of the entire edifice of global chronology; you would also certainly agree that despite its numerous gaps and inconsistencies, Roman history is the best-documented field of ancient history, and thus a reference scale. But how well is the actual date of the Eternal City's foundation known?

Firstly, Rome is supposed to have been founded by the Trojans who had to flee after the fall of Troy. Some claim Rome to have been founded by Aeneas and Ulysses shortly after Troy had fallen; others are of the opinion that there was an entire dynasty that ruled for 500 years between the fall of Troy and the foundation of Rome.

Well, that's just an innocent 500 years long misunderstanding compared with what heretic Fomenko says, asserts, proves in his second volume: Second Roman Empire, Third Roman Empire, Biblical Kingdom of Israel, Biblical Kingdom of Judah, Holy Roman Empire are stories about basically same events, written from different points of view at different times. The underlying events have actually taken place during xii-xv cy. These histories have been written and perfected by multitude of highly talented humanist and clerical writers of xiii-xvi cy disguised as "ancients" with glorious names like Homer, Pluto, Thucydides etc..Chronology 2.0 beta..

Historians are kindly invited to report the bugs.

Deleware's Buried Past: A Story of Archeological Adventure

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Deleware's Buried Past: A Story of Archeological Adventure
C. A. Weslager
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New and enlarged edition includes recent Indian discoveries in Delaware and New Jersey.

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The Story Of Archeology In The Americas
Elting And Folsom
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The Story Of Archeology In The Americas
Folsom
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The Story of Archeology in the Americas
Mary and Franklin Folsom Elting
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The Story of Archeology in the Americas
Mary Elting and Franklin Folsom
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Story of Archeology in the Americas
M. Elting
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The Story of Archeology in the Americas
Mary Elting and Franklin Folsom
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Intercellular Communication in Plants provides an overview of intercellular signaling systems, capitalizing on the results of contemporary molecular biology. Many biological phenomena are controlled by intercellular signaling systems, initiated by messenger molecules. For example, intercellular communication channels are thought to be associated with a plant's growth and dormancy development - an important adaptive strategy for the survival and regrowth of temperate perennials. This volume is directed at researchers and professionals in plant biochemistry, physiology, cell biology and molecular biology, in both the academic and industrial sectors.

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In this lecture note the authors give an introduction to certain global analytic and probabilistic aspects of string theory. It is their intention to bring together, and make explicit, the necessary mathematical tools. Researchers with an interest in string theory, in either mathematics or theoretical physics, will find this a stimulating volume.

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unreadable to general public.......2002-02-27

authors never mention about the prerequisites but the book is not accessible to ordinary graduate students of math or physics. reader should be able to use a research library which contains references listed in the book. the title must be mathematical aspects not introduction. i recommend preprints of hep-th rather than this highly specialized monograph.

A truly magnificent work.......2000-09-14

it is admirable how the authors managed to introduce such a quantity of material in 85 pages ... a good introduction to contemporary research in the field.

Especially impressive is the the description and use of the Faddeev-Popov procedure in chapter 6.

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An essential collection from one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters. The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, and Oracle Night presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings, and collaborations with artists, as well as occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers, including The Invention of Solitude his "breathtaking memoir." (Financial Times Magazine London) Ranging in subject from Sir Walter Raleigh to Kafka, Nathaniel Hawthorne to the high-wire artist Philippe Petit, conceptual artist Sophie Calle to Auster's own typewriter, the World Trade Center catastrophe to his beloved New York City itself, Collected Prose records the passions and insights of a writer who "will be remembered as one of the great writers of our time" (San Francisco Chronicle).

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Compliments him work well.......2005-04-21

Prior to the publication of this book, I had read most of Auster's non-fiction work. However, it had been spaced out over many years. Now, having read all of it again over the course of a week or two, one gets an even clearer sense of the common themes and symbols that reappear through out Auster's fiction and non-fiction alike. I had the pleasure of seeing him speak at Pace University a few months ago, and he is always insistent that his fiction is strictly fiction, but regardless, the reader is able to see where certain ideas in his work had their beginnings in his life. Any true Auster fan will take great pleasure in this work as a companion to his other novels, and it will give you a deeper appreciation for his work. The first book, The Invention of Solitude, deals with the death of his father, and how, after his father's death, he struggled to have a sense of the man no one really knew during his own life. "If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small degree, it is only to the extent that he is willing to make himself known." The next book, Hand to Mouth, deals with his struggles early in life to become a writer. Then there are critical essays, true stories, prefaces, and random writings that he has amassed over the years. You get to see him grow over time, as a writer. The works are different enough, stylistically and content wise, that one doesn't get bored, even though the book is over five hundred pages. I'm glad that these works have finally been collected, and hopefully, more people will now dive into the unique world of Paul Auster.

Well worth it..........2005-02-27

...provides an unfiltered perspective, regardless of how similar it is to the common themes and philosophies embedded in much of Auster's work. If you enjoy his work, this collection will only complement your appreciation.

Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, and Collaborations With Artists

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Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, and Collaborations With Artists
Paul Auster
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