Day Hike! Columbia Gorge: The Best Trails You Can Hike in a Day (Day Hike!)

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Sasquatch's Day Hike! guides are written for people who want to spend their days in the mountains and their nights back at home. The series uncovers the best trails for the newbie hiker or veteran day-tripper. Day Hike! Columbia Gorge leads readers to 57 of the best hiking trails in the Columbia Gorge. This resource features a variety of great day hikes stretching upriver from the suburbs of Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington, to the mouth of the Deschutes River in Oregon and the Klickitat River in Washington. Each trail includes an overall rating, mileage and estimated hiking time, elevation gain, trail conditions, difficulty level, best season, map references, driving directions, exploring options, permits required, special notes on hiking with children and dogs, and references for finding more information. Sharp, contemporary black-and-white photos, a quick-reference chart of season and difficult level, and hike statistics at a glance are also included. Organized by major highways and roads for easy trail finding, the book describes classic day routes — from the easy to the extreme — giving hikers the choices they want, whether visiting the peninsula for a day or vacationing with the children for a week.

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Great book!.......2007-02-10

We love this book. The rating system they use is perfect. They fit the hikes well. We know which hikes we can take the kids on and how long they are going to take. The directions to find the beginning location for each hike are wonderful. We will buy more of these for different areas!

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THE ENGLISHMAN'S FLORA
G. GRIGSON
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The Englishman's Flora
Geoffrey Grigson
Manufacturer: Phoenix House
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The Englishman's Flora
Geoffrey Grigson
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The Englishman's flora
Geoffrey Grigson
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The Englishman's Flora
Geoffrey Grigson
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The Englishman's Flora
Geoffrey Grigson
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THE ENGLISHMAN'S FLORA.

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The Englishman's Flora. Illustrated with woodcuts from Sixteenth century Herbals
Geoffrey Grigson
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THE ENGLISHMAN'S FLORA: ILLUSTRATED WITH WOODCUTS FROM SIXTEENTH-CENTURY HERBALS.

Manufacturer: Paladin
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Englishmans Flora
Geoffrey Grigson
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Featuring 12 pages of color photos and 85 illustrations and maps.

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A wonderful walking book for Amsterdam.......2000-01-13

Lost our copy in the canal when we were watching the locks fill. What a shame. Great walking tours for a beautiful city.

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The Citadel

It stands unconquered, the last great summit of the Alps. Only one man has ever dared to approach the top, and that man died in his pursuit. He was Josef Matt, Rudi Matt's father.

At sixteen, Rudi is determined to pay tribute to the man he never knew, and complete the quest that claimed his father's life. And so, taking his father's red shirt as a flag, he heads off to face the earth's most challenging peak. But before Rudi can reach the top, he must pass through the forbidden Fortress, the gaping chasm in the high reaches of teh Citadel where his father met his end. Rudi has followed Josef's footsteps as far as they will take him. Now he must search deep within himself to find the strength for the final ascent to the summit -- to plant his banner in the sky.

His father died while trying to climb Switzerland's greatest mountain -- the Citadel -- and young Rudi knows he must make the assault himself.

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Courage, fortitude and loyalty tested.......2007-04-27

Back in the days before all the peaks of the Alps were conquered, this is a story about a young man who will help conquer the last unclimbed peak. Son of a mountain climber who died on that last peak, Rudi is forbidden to climb. But it is in his blood and he obeys the call to brave the peak.

This is back in the days before polartec fleece, belaying equipment, or retractable hooks. Rudi and the other men climb sheer mountain cliffs in freezing weather with only a rope holding them together and special hobnailed climbing boots to give them steadier footing.

I'm sweating just remembering how terrible was the drop below them. It took real courage.

Rudi earns the respect of his village and the men with him, but not in the way you think. The ending is surprising, but very moving and very fitting.
This is a great, great book.

You should read this book.......2007-03-31

I just finished reading Banner in the Sky and really liked it. It was a quick read and hard to put down. Some of the things I found exciting were, without giving away the story, the setting and characters. They made the story exciting. The setting was in the Swiss Alps in 1865. Rudi Matt lived in Kurtal and wanted to climb the Citadel. In real life Kurtal is Zermatt and the Citadel is the Matterhorn. One of the main characters, John Winter, is a lot like Edward Whymper, first man to climb the Matterhorn. The way the author told the story was realistic, because he was a mountaineer himself. He climbed Mount Everest in 1965. My two favorite characters were Captain Winter and Rudi. They both wouldn't give up when they ran into problems. I recommend this book to anyone who likes adventure books and mountain climbing.

Banner in the Sky.......2007-03-29

The Disney movie, Third Man on the Mountain, was based on this book, so I had to read it. Excellent read. While the movie had extra plot line, characters--the book goes into the thoughts and feelings of this young man who is going to climb the mountain that his father died on. The memorable moments for me were when he took shelter in the cave his father died in while heroically trying to keep his friend from freezing. And the prayer of course that drove away the terrors of the mountain. The local climbers believed that demons ruled that mountain.

Im 12 and I just felt like reviewing this.........2006-12-22

Well, in my school we had to pick out from a pile of books what book we want to report on. I picked this one, read in one weak, and it wasnt too bad. I mean it wasnt great or anything and it wasnt horrible it was like a sit back and relax book. Also I would not buy it because it wasnt that good, if you want to read it, i would just get it at the library. Also I wrote this review because I was bored.

Old fashioned coming of age story.......2006-10-01

This book is so well written and has such good character development that the reader can forgive the melodramatic, predictable story line. The novel takes place in Switzerland and centers on Rudi a sixteen year old boy whose father,a famous mountain guide, died during Rudi's babyhood while trying to reach the top of "The Citadel" ( a fictionalized Matterhorn). Rudi's mother wants a safe life for her only child and sees a career for him in the hotel business. Rudi of course dreams of conquering "The Citadel" and fulfilling his father's interrupted destiny. This book is a good choice for fifth graders and up looking for an adventure story with an interesting setting and memorable characters.

Third Man on the Mountain (Original Title: Banner in the Sky) (A Cardinal Edition)

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Third Man on the Mountain (Original Title: Banner in the Sky) (A Cardinal Edition)

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Banner in the Sky

Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
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Banner In The Sky
Ulllman
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BANNER IN THE SKY
ULLMAN
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BANNER IN THE SKY
James Ramsey Ullman
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BANNER IN THE SKY
James Ramsay Ullman
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Banner In The Sky
James Ramsey Ullman
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Banner In the Sky
James Ramsey Ullman
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Banner in the Sky
James Ramsey Ullman
Manufacturer: New York Washington Square Press 1968.
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ASIN: B000O1XKF2

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The primary goal of this volume is to advance the conceptual unification of primatology and the other evolutionary sciences by addressing the evolution of behavioral flexibility in the Primate Order. One of the first lessons learned in introductory statistics is that events in the world vary. However, some species exhibit a greater range of phenotypic plasticity, including behavioral flexibility, than others. Primates are among those taxa advanced to display an uncommon degree of behavioral diversity. The proposed volume would explore the behavioral ecology and evolution of behavioral flexibility in primates in relation to the optimization of survival, (inclusive) reproductive success, and phenotypic influence.

Behavioral Flexibility in Primates: Causes and Consequences proposes that genetic conflicts of interest are ubiquitous in primates who may employ force, coercion, persuasion, persistence, scrambles, cooperation, exploitation, manipulation, social parasitism, dispersal or spite to resolve or manage them. Where one individual or group imposes severe costs to inclusive fitness or to the phenotype upon another individual, the latter may adopt a counterstrategy in an attempt to minimize its own costs. Counterstrategies may, in turn, impose costs upon the original actor(s), and so on, possibly yielding an evolutionary "chase" ("interlocus contest evolution"). The evolution of phenotypic plasticity in primates may often pertain to attempts to mitigate genetic conflicts of interest, and classic work in behavioral ecology leads to the conclusion that for females ("energy-maximizers"), conflict will pertain primarily to competition for food (that can be converted to offspring) while, for males ("time-minimizers"), conflict will pertain primarily to competition for mates. These related and novel perspectives are developed in this new volume.

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Meta-authorship and the stochasticity of scholarship.......2007-09-01

As the author of Behavioral Flexibility in Primates: Causes and Consequences (BFP), I have decided to comment on my own book. I have been a scholar of social evolution in heterogeneous regimes since the early 1970s. Major early influences concerning the effects of environmental heterogeneity upon animals (including humans) were Bradbury, Emlen, Dilger, Loftus-Hills, Stearns, and, later, Lewontin. The book under consideration resulted primarily from reading, writing, and thinking initiated during my postdoctoral year in Lewontin's laboratory (1981-1982). Lewontin was the first biologist I had encountered who described events in the world as a physicist would. His conceptual skills reinforced my own primitively developed facility for spatial problem-solving. The conceptual frameworks informing BFP derive primarily from theoretical treatments--some elegant, some less so. What these treatments (e.g., Maynard Smith & Price, 1973; Parker, 1974; Lewontin, 1974; West-Eberhard, 1979) have in common is an appreciation for phenotypes encountering environmental challenges--"hard" challenges and "soft" ones. BFP is not a perfect book. There is at least one statement in it (pg. 104, paragraph 2, sentence 3) that is potentially so confusing that one would have needed to be within my brain at the moment of writing to see it clearly. Many other statements should be supported by mathematical models. Nonetheless, if you are interested in the evolution of behavior from the perspective of mainstream evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology, this book will not fail, at minimum, to provide many stimulating ideas that you can employ for your own benefit. Some of the statements are controvertial; however, all derive from basic research. You will, I think, complete this slim volume with a better understanding of "why there are so many kinds of behaviors" and of the importance of "phenogroups", not only for population and community processes but, also, for potential population differentiation. Also stressed, is the relationship between flexibility and sociality, within and/or between individuals. A simple mathematical treatment of dispersal is attempted based upon the work of Stu West. BFP was fun for me to write and will be, I hope, fun for you to read. Enjoy.

Not a starter book for primatologists.......2006-03-25

I'm not sure what to make of this book. It is difficult to read and packed with jargon that is currently fashionable. After finishing this book I had real trouble figuring out if I was more or less illuminated about primate research. Throughout the book, Jones takes a lot of her own research on howling monkeys and tries to anchor it deep into the latest theoretical studies published in Am. Nat., TREE, Evolution, TPB, etc. There are a lot of references to some theoretically sophisticated studies, but Jones fails to flesh-out these references in the text in order to explain her arguments. As a result, there is the poor articulation between the primate examples and the complex theoretical studies that she cites. For example, Jones cites Moran's 1992 article on the "Evolutionary maintenance of alternative phenotypes" stating that "The work of Moran...strongly suggests that, in heterogenous regimes, selection on sensory, perceptual, memory, learning, and other cognitive mechanisms may have been strong since the potential (fitness) benefits yielded appear to be high." My reading of Moran is quite different since Moran was talking about simple models concerning two phenotypes in two different environments in which the switch to the "appropriate" phenotype is irreversible; if anything, Moran's results show that generalism is more appropriate for primates than polyphenism.

Such misreadings of the primary literature are occasionally found throughout the book and thus some of the references in the text seem out of place. This left me with the feeling that Jones doesn't really understand the content of the theoretical studies she cites in her book. Often, the reader is left to divine the main point Jones is trying to make between some small aspect of howling monkey behavior/ecology and some broader (and in my mind, mostly oblique) theoretical topic. From her study of branch break displays in male howling monkeys, we learn that the displays represent "an extreme case of a signal of endurance (Payne and Pagel, 1996a), in which the signal is a cumulative sum of the elements, accounting for any variation in intensity. The findings are also consistent with the "best-so-far" model (Payne and Pagel, 1996b), in which the signal is the intensity of the most recent element only." And on it goes. Apparently, the main point here is that there is some variation in branch break displays among males based on reproductive competition, but Jones buries this point in a mish-mash of jargon and circumlocution. It really doesn't need to be this complicated, really.

Jones should pick a better model system (i.e., one that can be manipulated) if she wants to study behavioral flexibility in the theoretically rigorous context that has seemingly wooed her. To be fair, this book is not bad, just convoluted.

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The work of Hans Lewy (1904--1988) has had a profound influence in the direction of applied mathematics and partial differential equations, in particular, from the late 1920s. Two of the particulars are well known. The Courant--Friedrichs--Lewy condition (1928), or CFL condition, was devised to obtain existence and approximation results. This condition, relating the time and spatial discretizations for finite difference schemes, is now universally employed in the simulation of solutions of equations describing propagation phenomena. Lewy's example of a linear equation with no solution (1957), with its attendant consequence that most equations have no solution, was not merely an unexpected fact, but changed the viewpoint of the entire field. Lewy made pivotal contributions in many other areas, for example, the regularity theory of elliptic equations and systems, the Monge--Ampère Equation, the Minkowski Problem, the asymptotic analysis of boundary value problems, and several complex variables. He was among the first to study variational inequalities. In much of his work, his underlying philosophy was that simple tools of function theory could help one understand the essential concepts embedded in an issue, although at a cost in generality. This approach was extremely successful. In this two-volume work, most all of Lewy's papers are presented, in chronological order. They are preceded by several short essays about Lewy himself, prepared by Helen Lewy, Constance Reid, and David Kinderlehrer, and commentaries on his work by Erhard Heinz, Peter Lax, Jean Leray, Richard MacCamy, François Treves, and Louis Nirenberg. Additionally, there are Lewy's own remarks on the occasion of his honorary degree from the University of Bonn.

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Sensationally wicked masterpiece!.......2007-08-22

A best-seller in its day, Quaker City is a violent and surreal look at the life of the citizens of Philadelphia in the 1840s. Anyone who likes Edgar Allen Poe or the Marquis de Sade will find this an interesting read; written off by critics as blatantly pulp, before such a term existed, they considered its mass appeal a sign of weakness, and by 1900, it had vanished from most lists of important American novels. I'm glad that critics are reconsidering its position, and I look forward to more of Lippard's novels coming back to print. Devil-bug, the mastermind of evil, is a great villain, and he looks ahead to Jarry's Pere Ubu, Faulkner's Popeye and many of the great surreal or superreal villains of the twentieth century.

A Long Forgotten Author.........2006-12-25

George Lippard was born on 1822 April 10 near Yellow Springs, in West Nantmeal Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, on the farm of his father, Daniel B. Lippard. The family moved to the city of Philadelphia two years later, shortly after his father was injured in a farming accident. Young Lippard grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Germantown (presently part of the city of Philadelphia), and Rhinebeck, NY (where he attended the Classical Academy). After considering a career in the Methodist religious ministry, and rejecting it because of a "contradiction between theory and practice" of Christianity, he began the study of law, which he also abandoned, as it was incompatible with his beliefs about human justice. He then commenced employment with the Philadelphia daily newspaper Spirit of the Times. His lively sketches and police court reporting drew readers and increased the paper's circulation. He was but twenty when the Saturday Evening Post published his first story, a "legend" called "Philippe de Agramont".

He called his historical fiction stories "Legends" as they were not so much about what happened, as about what ought to have happened. Some of his legendary romances include: The Ladye Annabel (1842); The Belle of Prarie Eden (1844); Blanche of Brandywine (1846); The Nazarene (1846); Legends of Mexico (1847); and Legends of the Revolution (1847). One of the particular Legends of the Revolution was called "The Fourth of July, 1776," though it has come down to us under the name "Ring, Grandfather, Ring". It relates how the persistent ringing of the Liberty Bell proclaiming the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the 4th of July caused its fabled crack, something that manifestly did not occur. Another misrepresents somewhat the beliefs of Johannes Kelpius and his community of followers along the Wissahickon Creek; John Greenleaf Whittier relied on Lippard's legend about Kelpius for his long poem Pennsylvania Pilgrim. Another of Lippard's legends, "The Dark Eagle," about Benedict Arnold, was received uncritically by later readers, though few of its contemporary readers would have done the same. Many of the legends were republished in the Saturday Courier; another edition Legends of the Revolution was published 22 years after his death in 1876.

Lippard's most notorious story about big-city immorality is set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Monks of Monk Hall, almost immediately pirated and reprinted as The Quaker City (1844), is a lurid and thickly plotted exposé of Philadelphia vice, a weird, gothic story filled with lust, murder, ghosts, and political diatribes. The book aimed to expose the hypocrisy of the Philadelphia elite, and is partly based on the March 1843 New Jersey trial of Singleton Mercer, who was found not guilty of the murder of Mahlon Hutchinson Heberton aboard the Philadelphia-Camden ferry vessel Dido on 1843 February 10. Mercer alleged that Heberton only five days before the murder had lured his sixteen-year old sister into a brothel and raped her at gunpoint. He also entered a plea of insanity. The trial took place only two months after Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart, a story based on other murder trials employing the insanity defense; Mercer's defense attorney openly acknowledged the "object of ridicule" which an insanity defense had become. The verdict of not-guilty was rendered after less than an hour of jury deliberation; the family and lawyer of young Mercer were greeted by a cheering crowd at the Philadelphia wharfs while disembarking from the same Philadelphia-Camden ferry line on which the killing took place. Lippard employed the seduction aspect of the trial as a metaphor for the oppression of the helpless. The Monks of Monk Hall outraged some readers with its lingering descriptions of "heaving bosoms", but such descriptions also drew readers, and he sold many books. Though many were offended by the story's lurid elements, the book also prompted social and legal reform and may have led to New York's 1849 enactment of an anti-seduction law.

He became a popular lecturer, journalist, and dramatist, renowned both for his story writing and for relentlessly advocating social justice, both in his stories and in his actions, including participation in the National Reform Congress (1848) and the Eighth National Industrial Congress (1853), and his 1850 founding of the Brotherhood of the Union. He was not, however, immune from some of the particular prejudices of his day. The Monks of Monk Hall (also published as Quaker City) portrays a malevolent hump-backed Jewish character, Gabriel Van Gelt, one who forges, swindles, blackmails, and commits murder for money. Lippard's portrayal of blacks also reflects some of the meanest stereotypes of his day; this is certainly hinted at in the lengthy full title of one of his sensational crime novels: The killers: A narrative of real life in Philadelphia : in which the deeds of the killers, and the great riot of election night, October 10, 1849, are minutely described : Also, the adventures of three notorious individuals, who took part in that riot, to wit: Cromwell D. Z. Hicks, the leader of the Killers; Don Jorge, one of the leaders of the Cuban expedition; and "The Bulgine," the celebrated Negro Desperado of Moyamensing. A bulgine is a derisive term for a nautical steam engine or a small dockside locomotive; the term is recalled in several folk songs, including the capstan shanty "Eliza Lee", also known as "Clear the Track, Let the Bulgine Run".

George Lippard married Rose Newman on 1847 May 14. In an unconventional ceremony they were married outdoors under evening moonlight while standing on Mom Rinker's Rock above the Wissahickon Creek.

In 1850 Lippard founded the Brotherhood of the Union (later the Brotherhood of America), a secret benevolent society aiming to eliminate poverty and crime by removing the social ills causing them. His legend-like vision was that such an organization would establish a means for men to sincerely follow a living religion. The organization grew and achieved a membership of 30,000 by 1917, but declined some time thereafter, ceasing to exist in 1994.

His friendship with Edgar Allan Poe is notable. Poe gave Lippard credit for rescuing him from the streets on several occasions. He was more reserved about Lippard's artistic merits; possibly Poe's own artistic standards were too high to admit praise of Lippard's writing. This is ironic, because everything we generally associate with Poe was even more intense in Lippard's style. Lippard wrote an effusive obituary after Poe's untimely death.

George Lippard's wife died on 1851 May 21, shortly after the March death of their infant son. A daughter had died in 1849. Always frail, he died of tuberculosis on 1854 February 9, shortly before attaining the age of 32. He was buried at Odd Fellows Cemetery at 24th and Diamond Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but his remains and impressive burial monument were later removed along with many other graves from this cemetery to Lawnview Cemetery, an Odd Fellows Cemetery in Rockledge, Pennsylvania, just outside of Northeast Philadelphia.

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Lippard acknowledged the influence of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) on his writing and dedicated several books to him.

Lippard's writing has occasional glimmers of style, but his words are more memorable for quantity than for quality, and his writing for its financial success than for its literary style. He proved that one could make a living by wordsmithing. If he is remembered at all today, it is more for his social thinking, which was progressive, than for his language and literary style.

Nonetheless, years after Lippard's death, Mark Twain mentioned him in a letter to home. During the short time Twain spent in Philadelphia working for The Philadelphia Inquirer, he wrote: "Unlike New York, I like this Philadelphia amazingly, and the people in it . . . . I saw small steamboats, with their signs up--"For Wissahickon and Manayunk 25 cents." Geo. Lippard, in his Legends of Washington and his Generals, has rendered the Wissahickon sacred in my eyes, and I shall make that trip, as well as one to Germantown, soon . . . ."

Probably the most famous person to quote a historical romance by George Lippard as though it were actual historical fact is the late President Ronald Reagan, in his commencement address at Eureka College on June 7, 1957. Reagan derived his quote from George Lippard's "Speech of the Unknown" in Washington and His Generals: or, Legends of the Revolution (1847), which relates how a speech by an anonymous delegate (often assumed to be John Hanson) was the final motivation that spurred delegates to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The story and speech are entirely fictitious.

Nowadays George Lippard is mostly forgotten.

America's first best-seller........2000-08-04

Anybody who enjoyed Matthew Lewis' 'The Monk' will appreciate George Lippard's "You ain't seen nothin' yet" style. The plot revolves around an American version of England's famous 'Hellfire Club' located in Philadelphia's Southwark region (Historians differ on rather or not 'Monk Hall' actually existed. Some claim that such a club did exist from the late 1700's until the 1820's. Other claim that the club sprang from Lippard's very fertile imagination) and features such goodies as white slavery, trap doors, and wanton booze & oyster abuse (now you know why the Republicans picked Philly for their convention). This is one wild read. Lippard once attempted to produce it as a play, but angry protesters threatened to burn down the theater. 'The Monks of Monks Hall' was America's first, real best seller. Read, no doubt, by people who kept uttering "Immoral...shocking...filth..." as they eagerly turned each page. Pick up this piece of history now.

A Peculiar, Enticing Novel.......2000-04-16

This is a long, sprawling, peculiar novel, but one that I always enjoy going back to. I forget, every time I reread it, how wonderful and strange an adventure it is! Lippard is a minor figure in American letters, inspired by early American masters such as Charles Brockden Brown and popular French novelists such as Eugen Sue. The Quaker City is certainly a flawed work, but it is only more human, engaging and approachable because of this fact. Lippard was no master of plot structure or narrative technique; in fact, he wasn't much of a craftsman at all, regarding the nuances and fine textures of language. However, he was a writer gifted with a dizzingly original, and sometimes grotesque, imagination. The Quaker City is the kind of book that you can't pot down, although part of you sometimes wants to. His tale of the intrigues and iniquities lurking beaneath the surface of Victorian Philadelphia will shock and amaze. I especially recommend this novel for fans of Caleb Carr, Egdar Allan Poe, and Robertson Davies.

The Quaker City,: Or, The monks of Monk-Hall : a romance of Philadelphia life, mystery, and crime

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The Quaker City,: Or, The monks of Monk-Hall : a romance of Philadelphia life, mystery, and crime
George Lippard
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