"Licentious Liberty" in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region: Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabara, Minas Gerais

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A highly recommended study on brazilian slavery.......2000-06-12

"Licentious Liberty' in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region : Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabara, Minas Gerais" is a wonderful examination of the interactions between masters and slaves in the gold-mining areas in eighteenth-century Brazil. This masterpiece shows how the gender relations between female slaves and their white masters have often subverted the values of a hypocritical and conservative society, allowing the changing of status of black women, among which the most famous one was certainly Chica da Silva, a former slave who began to live among the members of the limited gold-mining elite after becoming the concubine of a portuguese official. This book is speacially advisable for those interested in slavery and general sociology.

History of Copper Canyon and the Tarahumara Indians: Unknown Mexico and the Silver Magnet

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History of Copper Canyon and the Tarahumara Indians: Unknown Mexico and the Silver Magnet

Manufacturer: Sunracer Pubns
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ASIN: 0961917091

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A bargain book of text and photos.......2005-11-08

Copper Canyon (Barranca de Cobre) in Mexico is comparable to the Grand Canyon in size and grandeur. It is the home of the Tarahumara Indians, famous for their long-distance running. I bought this book at the Jesuit Mission store in the town of Creel on the rim of the Canyon.

"History of Copper Canyon" contains the text of two previously-published books about Copper Canyon. "Unknown Mexico" (1902)by Carl Lumholtz describes the canyon region, its inhabitants, and the culture of the Tarahumara. The second book is "Silver Magnet" (1937) by Grant Shepard which is about an American family that owned a large silver mine in the town of Batopilas, deep inside the Canyon. "Silver Magnet" is a fascinating tale of an American living in Mexico during the violent era of dictator Porfirio Diaz and bandit revolutionary Pancho Villa. It's a saga of the old West with a Mexican flavor.

Separating the texts of the two books are about 30 excellent quality color photographs of the canyon region and its people. The inside front cover has a added tidbit of interest: the story of a Jesuit missionary and the realization of his dream to build a hospital for the Tarahumara in the late 20th century.

Given what this book offers, it's a bargain! And for the traveler, an auto trip down the canyon to Batopilas is magnificient -- and terrifying. The train ride along the rim has been called the most adventurous in the world.

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Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (The Lamar Series in Western History)

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Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (The Lamar Series in Western History)
Samuel Truett
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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ASIN: 030011091X

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Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.–Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of modern economic development. This book reveals the forgotten story of their ambitious dreams and their ultimate failure to control this fugitive terrain.
Focusing on a mining region that spilled across the Arizona–Sonora border, this book shows how entrepreneurs, corporations, and statesmen tried to domesticate nature and society within a transnational context. Efforts to tame a “wild” frontier were stymied by labor struggles, social conflict, and revolution. Fugitive Landscapes explores the making and unmaking of the U.S.–Mexico border, telling how ordinary people resisted the domination of empires, nations, and corporations to shape transnational history on their own terms. By moving beyond traditional national narratives, it offers new lessons for our own border-crossing age.

The Profits Of Extermination: How U.S. Corporate Power is Destroying Colombia

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Securing profits by preserving social inequality

The Profits Of Extermination: How U.S. Corporate Power is Destroying Colombia
Francisco Ramirez Cuellar , and Javier Giraldo
Manufacturer: Common Courage Press
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ASIN: 1567513220

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The Profits of Extermination uncovers the costs of foreign investment, privatization and neo-liberalism in Colombia. US corporations have manipulated the law and worked hand in hand with right-wing death squads and the US government to ensure profits at the cost of the rights and lives of workers, peasants and miners.

Colombia is the third-largest recipient of US military aid. According to this study by Chomsky and the Colombian mineworkers union, both US military aid and human rights violations are disproportionately concentrated in Colombia's lucrative mining and energy zones, where large foreign corporations use military and paramilitary forces to secure their investments.

Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history at Salem State College. Francisco Ramirez Cuellar is president of the Colombian mining union Sintraminercol.

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Securing profits by preserving social inequality .......2005-05-31

"The Profits of Extermination" by Francisco Ramirez Cuellar discusses struggles for justice in Colombia. The book focuses on the strategic importance of Colombia's mining and energy sectors to explain how powerful interests have conspired to wreak havoc on the lives of workers and the environment.

In the Introduction, Aviva Chomsky contends that intervention by the U.S. into Colombia's affairs is driven by the need to secure corporate profits by preserving social inequality. We learn how Colombia's corrupt ruling class has partnered with major transnational corporations to exploit its labor and resources largely for the benefit of the few.

The Prologue by Javier Giraldo is a passionate indictment of the violence inflicted upon Colombian human rights and labor activists by the Colombian military and private paramilitaries. Mr. Giraldo paints a damning portrait of an entire nation that appears to have lost its moral compass through its wholesale servitude to the interests of capital.

Mr. Cuellar's description of how native peoples have been dispossessed of their lands is reminiscent of the movie "The Rundown". Multinational corporations have been granted privileges by the Colombian state within specially-designated economic zones where civil liberties have been suspended and rule is enforced by paramilitary force. Through such arrangements, international investors and corporations such as Conquistador Mines, Exxon-Mobil and Harken Energy have been allowed to extract Colombia's wealth at criminally low tax rates.

Mr. Cuellar urgently requests support from the international community to help end the violence in his country. The author notes that U.S. military aid has been mainly directed to the mining and energy economic zones, suggesting that the so-called Drug War is in actuality a front for the repression of human rights. As the President of Sintraminercol, a union representing workers in Colombia's mining industry, Mr. Cuellar provides many pages of footnotes, documentation and statistics to help support his claims and lends credibility to the story.

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"This is a book about money." (quote from the preface)

The Spanish Treasure Fleets
Timothy R. Walton
Manufacturer: Pineapple Press (FL)
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ASIN: 1561640492

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"This is a book about money." (quote from the preface).......2000-03-31

It is indeed! It is a book about the unbelievable efforts made to transport gold and silver from New Spain and Peru to Spain between the 15th and 18th century, how these precious metals initiated worldwide commerce, about the rise and fall of the Spanish/ Habsburg empire and how it helped European countries to become economic and political world powers. Waltons book moves through three centuries of world history in an appropriate pace, without leaving out interesting details. It simply is a fascinating book!

Silver Mining and Society in Colonial Mexico, Zacatecas 15461700 (Cambridge Latin American Studies)

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Silver Mining and Society in Colonial Mexico, Zacatecas 15461700 (Cambridge Latin American Studies)
P. J. Bakewell
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521523125

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An examination of silver mining and society in Colonial Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating upon Zacatecas, the centre of the principal silver-mining region. In the first half of the book, the author describes the discovery of the mines, the establishment of the town, its role in the northward advance of the Spanish occupation of Mexico, its administration, and the sources of its supplies of essential food and materials. The remainder of the book is devoted to an analysis of the mining industry of the Zacatecas district. The author discusses techniques, labour and raw materials. He also provides statistics for silver production, suggesting reasons for their fluctuation, and explores sources of capital for the industry. Based on detailed study of archives in both Spain and Mexico, Dr Bakewell is able to provide an entirely new chronology for the development of Zacatecas and the Mexican maining industry up to 1700.

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So Sad.......2006-03-30

So sad, that such a glorious and rich history as that of Zacatecas in its formative years should be treated as a desert wasteland by Dr. Bakewell who, indeed, is a true scholar, but despite great linquistic ability and a superb vocabulary, is unable to write that which is readable. He writes without feelng and although he's great perception, cannot convey in a palable manner.

Contested Communities: Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1951 (Comparative and International Working-Class History)

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Contested Communities: Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1951 (Comparative and International Working-Class History)
Thomas Miller Klubock , and Thomas Miller Klubock
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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ASIN: 0822320924

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In Contested Communities Thomas Miller Klubock analyzes the experiences of the El Teniente copper miners during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Describing the everyday life and culture of the mining community, its impact on Chilean politics and national events, and the sense of self and identity working-class men and women developed in the foreign-owned enclave, Klubock provides important insights into the cultural and social history of Chile.
Klubock shows how a militant working-class community was established through the interplay between capitalist development, state formation, and the ideologies of gender. In describing how the North American copper company attempted to reconfigure and reform the work and social-cultural lives of men and women who migrated to the mine, Klubock demonstrates how struggles between labor and capital took place on a gendered field of power and reconstituted social constructions of masculinity and femininity. As a result, Contested Communities describes more accurately than any previous study the nature of grassroots labor militancy, working-class culture, and everyday politics of gender relations during crucial years of the Chilean Popular Front in the 1930s and 1940s.

The Peruvian Mining Industry: Growth, Stagnation, and Crisis (Series in Political Economy and Economic Development in Latin America)

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The Peruvian Mining Industry: Growth, Stagnation, and Crisis (Series in Political Economy and Economic Development in Latin America)
Elizabeth W. Dore
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Large Mines and the Community: Socioeconomic and Environmental Effects in Latin America, Canada, and Spain

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Large Mines and the Community: Socioeconomic and Environmental Effects in Latin America, Canada, and Spain

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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Mining Industries (Corporate Social Responsibility Series)

ASIN: 0889369496

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For centuries, communities have been founded or shaped based upon their access to natural resources and today, in our globalizing world, major natural resource developments are spreading to more remote areas. Mining operations are a good example: they have a profound impact on local communities and are often the first industry in a remote region. However, whereas an enormous amount has been written about the macroeconomic effects of the mining industry, there has been practically no in-depth analysis of the comprehensive effects of large mines on their host communities, especially in developing countries. In this book, researchers from Bolivia, Chile, and Peru present and analyze the environmental, cultural, and socioeconomic effects of large mining operations in their respective countries, as well as the processes that led to the observed effects. It presents a case study of the longest continually operating mine in the world – the Almadén mercury mine in Spain. It also presents an overview of the experience of mining communities in Canada, one of the most important mining countries of the 20th century. A synthesis chapter draws together recommendations for best practice, intended to provide guidance to communities, companies and governments for future and ongoing mining and other natural resource developments.

In Quest of Mineral Wealth: Aboriginal and Colonial Mining and Metallurgy in Spanish America (Geoscience and Man)

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In Quest of Mineral Wealth: Aboriginal and Colonial Mining and Metallurgy in Spanish America (Geoscience and Man)

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Boy Meets Bird.
Boy Gets Bird.
Boy Loses Bird
An Urban Folktale.

One day in the dead of winter, New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes looked out the window into his backyard in Queens and saw a chicken, jet black with a crimson comb. Wherever it had come from, it showed no sign of leaving, and it quickly made a place for itself among the society of resident stray cats. Before long, the chicken became the Chicken, and it began to arouse not only Grimes's protective impulses but also his curiosity. He discovered that chickens were domesticated first as fighters, not food; that egg-laying is triggered by exposure to light; that chickens were a fashion statement in Victorian days. He began to probe the mysteries of gallinaceous behavior, learning to distinguish a dust bath from a death dance and how to cater to his guest's eclectic palate. And when the Chicken began to repay his hospitality with five or six custom-laid eggs per week, Grimes had an answer to the age-old conundrum of which came first: the Chicken.

And then one day, obeying some bird-brained logic of its own -- or perhaps the victim of fowl play -- the Chicken vanished, leaving Grimes eggless but with this funny, enlightening, and heartwarming tale to tell.

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A Friend Like No Other.......2006-01-07

My Fine Feathered Friend
By William Grimes
North Point Press 2002
$15 USA, $24.95 Canada
85 pages, illustrations
ISBN: 0-86547-632-2

Reviewed by Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns

"I looked at the Chicken endlessly, and I wondered. What lay behind the veil of animal secrecy?"

My Fine Feathered Friend is a bittersweet tale that leaves you aching after you put the book away. In part this is because the main character, a large handsome black hen who appears mysteriously one winter day in the writer's yard in Queens, disappears as mysteriously as she arrived. This is a true story. The author, William Grimes, a restaurant critic for The New York Times, is intrigued, fascinated, and finally haunted, by this hen. He perceives her as a kind of Earth Goddess, as solid as a tree trunk, rugged, compact, able and enduring, yet elusive, vulnerable, and, ultimately, as ephemeral as a fairy princess. She vanishes when he comes to love her. He calls the hen, simply and archetypally, the Chicken.

When I first started reading My Feathered Friend, I was put off by the tone. Grimes refers to the hen for a number of pages as "it," while referring to his and his wife's cats as "hes" and "shes." His style is pat with similes and cultivated assurance. I thought, okay, Grimes wants to make sure that no one, including himself, gets emotionally involved with this chicken. He's keeping the lines drawn. But I was wrong. The story reflects his growing tenderness for the Chicken, moving through levity and wonderment to love, sorrow and loss.

The Chicken has an aura of the "familiar" in folklore, an enigmatic being regarded as both a homely acquaintance and a supernatural spirit embodied in an animal that links that animal to a particular person while retaining an inviolable otherness. Grimes's Chicken is like a visitor from another planet (exotic and ineffable) who probably escaped from the local poultry market in Queens (squalid and local). She is a hero and a survivor -- "a brave little refugee"-- who flouts false stereotypes about chickens. "I'd look out back and see a cat chasing the Chicken across the yard," Grimes writes. "Ten minutes later I'd see the Chicken chasing a cat." She is at once endearingly personal and profoundly impersonal. She has her own projects. She is self-possessed. She projects an arch authority, like the author himself. She dominates Grimes's yard, his cats, and his consciousness. She is, he confesses protectively, "a hard read."

The Chicken tracks through the universe by way of a residential patch of earth -- a "pocket paradise" reclaimed from a "wasteland of weeds" in New York City. She captures the eye of a beholder who becomes a Witness driven to Inscribe Her Being. Grimes attempts to fit what he "knows" about chickens (he eats them and makes his living writing about them as food; otherwise he says "the humble chicken was foreign to me") with his deepening perception of, identification with, and ultimate yearning and mourning over this particular hen. She moves him. He is affected by her "air of mystery," her "appetite for play," her "brilliant evasive maneuvers," her "genuine courage," her "character," her "willful high-spirit," her evocation of what the poet William Wordsworth inestimably versed as "something ever more about to be."

Grimes reads up on chickens, passing on to us pieces of information (some accurate, some not) about Gallus domesticus in folklore, history, and poultry manuals, as a backdrop to, an explanation of, the Chicken, a creature so definite, and infinite, so solid and numinous, she eludes classification. He muses:

"Was it pure coincidence that she liked to sneak up on Yowzer, the cat most likely to develop a nervous twitch when caught unawares? Time after time I saw the Chicken trot up delicately when Yowzer had his back turned, squawk a couple of times, and then watch as the cat leaped a couple of vertical feet. The Chicken, after a successful ambush, would run off jauntily, with a cackle that sounded suspiciously like a chuckle."

At other times, "I'd see Bruiser and Crusher snoozing in the basket, Yowzer draped along a nearby wooden bench, and the dark, shapeless form of Midnight filling out the sagging seat of an old sea grass chair we had bought for a couple of dollars at a yard sale. And in the midst of the group, perfectly content, sat the Chicken. It was a heartwarming sight."

One night a police helicopter hovers over the yard, causing the pine tree in which the Chicken is roosting to sway violently under a wind of hurricane force. "Somewhere, deep in the branches," Grimes writes, "the Chicken was holding on for dear life. I couldn't begin to imagine what was going through her tiny mind. By now, I figured, she had either suffered a fatal heart attack or had been dashed to the ground. But no. The next morning, amid wreckage out of Apocalypse Now, the Chicken reappeared, brimful of vim and vigor."

But one spring day, the Chicken is gone. She does not return. Grimes and his wife Nancy look everywhere. They wrack their brains trying to remember if there were any behavioral signs they failed to notice. "The previous afternoon I had watched her resting comfortably in her nest beneath the pine tree," Grimes writes. "I searched for signs of violence but did not find any. The only trace of the Chicken was a single black feather near the back door. The Chicken was definitely, profoundly missing."

It is hard reading the final pages of this book. The depression Grimes describes is not roguish but real, though he tries to make light. "We had grown to love the Chicken," he says. We believe him: so had we. "She really was a big presence in the backyard," Nancy sighs. You go back to the book cover and study the jet black sweet bird face with its rosy comb and pert expression, framed in an oval mirror. If you know chickens, you know the look of that bright round eye, so attentive yet pensive.

My Feathered Friend is like an exquisite blade sliced across your bowels in the midst of a light-hearted romp that won't heal. The book ends with unappeased longing and unsettled questions (unhappy questions on many levels), not "closure," nor should it. Though Grimes says the story is "at an end, at least for us," still, he wonders and hopes, maybe the Chicken will come back. Maybe she's on a journey. He bought things for her. He and Nancy wait for her. They keep a light in the window. Maybe he'll wake up one morning, look out the window, and see "a large feathered form bustling around the patio, scattering cat food and clucking."

But for now, as Alice Walker said about a horse named Blue, in her excruciating essay, "Am I Blue,"* let us not let the animals whom we piercingly perceive become for us merely "images" of what they once so beautifully expressed and are. The Chicken is every chicken. One like no other. Take the next step.

*In Living By the Word: Selected Writings 1973-1987. This book of Walker's essays also includes "Why Did the Balinese Chicken Cross the Road?" ("[T]o try to get both of us to the other side.")
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Karen Davis, PhD, is the founder and President of United Poultry Concerns, a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl (www.upc-online.org). She is the author of Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry; A Home for Henny; Instead of Chicken, Instead of Turkey: A Poultryless "Poultry" Potpourri"; More Than a Meal: The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual, and Reality (Lantern Books, 2001); and The Holocaust and the Henmaid's Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities (Lantern Books, 2005).

A mysterious arrival and departure, a story of friends........2005-06-27

A poignantly told memoir of a season spent in the company of a somewhat bohemian chicken. I gave a copy of this book to my vet after we tried for several months to save the life of one of my pet chickens. She hadn't much experience with chickens, more so with the fanicier hookbills often found in one's the parlor, so I wanted her to know what it was like to know a chicken on a more personal level. The author accomplishes this very well, sharing valuable chicken lore with his affectionate and often respectful look at the life of a chicken and life from The Chicken's point of view.

A very quick and light-hearted read.......2003-03-04

I ran across this book at the library looking for substantive books on chickens--the cute cover caught my eye. This is a very entertaining and enjoyable read!

I'd recommend this book as one you'll finish quickly, share with a friend or two, and want to read again yourself one day.

Great gift book.......2003-02-16

This extremely short book really qualifies as more essay than "book," and as much as I enjoyed it, I wondered who would shell out hard-earned cash for its slim contents.

Then I found myself handing it around to people as I would share a cartoon or funny email. "Zip through it over lunch," I said, "Take it instead of a magazine while you're waiting for your oil change or dentist appointment."

And so I learned what this book is best for: for a few bucks, you can pass a smile around to your friends. The eye-catching cover is hard for anyone to resist, and the illustrations are great. If you know someone who's been adopted by a stray animal, this is perfect for them. But if not, pass it on anyway. It's a light, funny read that will make anyone smile.

In Grime's hands this unusual bird manages a truly universal appeal. I loved the pleasure it seemed to take in sneaking up behind a skittish cat and sending the cat vertically airborne with a sudden cackle. Then there's the pet store employee who tries to explain that they don't carry chicken feed, because a chicken is not a "particular animal." Grimes has an eye and ear for gem moments like these.

One heck of a chicken...........2003-02-03

This is an absolutely adorable story about a man who comes to know and love a chicken who suddenly appeared in his backyard. I first read the authors article about the enigmatic and willful chicken in the New York Times and I actually saved that article because I enjoyed it so thoroughly. My Fine Feathered Friend is just as charming as that article was and better since the author is able to elaborate more on the chicken's fantastic personality and the personalities of the numerous cats that interact with the tenacious bird. The author really knows how to describe animals and the cats encounters with the chicken are truly vivid and terribly amusing. You will not forget this chicken. Its personality lingers long after the final page. The book is a joy and I highly recommend it. Thank you, Mr. Grimes, for sharing such a delightful story!

The Fine Feathered Friend of My Very Best Friends

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The Fine Feathered Friend of My Very Best Friends
Brenard Bonhomme and Nicole Claveloux
Manufacturer: Harlin Quist
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ASIN: B000IFOFUI

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My Fine Feathered (and Furry) Friends
Marianne Marullo
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ASIN: 141378660X

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Welcome to "Birdland!" We think you'll enjoy this collage of true, humorous, and sometimes heartwarming stories about the birds, chipmunks, and a surprising groundhog named "Gus." It's amazing how many friends you can make with just a little food, love, and concern. As Marianne says, "You learn to expect the unexpected with birds and animals. They have personalities just like we do and when you get to know them, they endear themselves to you." This light reading is just what the doctor ordered in a world that's full of stress. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the view.

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M. DeLaine's Review of Marullo's First Release.......2005-10-23

Ms. Marullo's book is a delightful read. Her adventures with her new-found friends moves along well and engenders many smiles at the humorous antics of birds and animals she encounters. Marianne's writing is at once endearing and entertaining and will immediately appeal to children, as it has already to adults. Parents may safely consider this book for quality bed time with their young ones, as it will gently nurture fertile little imaginations and foster closer bonds as parents answer the curiously sweet questions only children may ask.

Critter-watching becomes great fun through Marianne's writing--for example, the story of Gussy/Gussie the groundhog is simply darling. Hopefully, everyone reading this book will stop and observe the excitement that is happening all around us. The peace of the natural world is just an eye away.

Ms. Marullo's book will be a treat for you and a warm gift to friends.

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The Fine Feathered Friend of My Very Best Friends
Bernard & Nicole Claveloux Bonhomme
Manufacturer: Belgium: Harlin Quist, Inc. 1971
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ASIN: B000Q3WCUW

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