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Reading The Eternal Frontier might be the closest you'll get to taking a class from Tim Flannery--and that alone makes it an opportunity just too good to pass up. This ambitious retelling of North America's dramatic ecological history grew out of a course that Flannery taught at Harvard surveying the continent's ancient past up to its tumultuous near-present: from the extraterrestrial "death-dealing visitor" that struck 65 million years ago all the way through to the tidal invasions, adaptations, and extinctions that have washed over North America since, each idiosyncratically influenced by an ever-changing geology, geography, and climate.
Flannery admirably balances his twin roles as scientist and storyteller. As a thoughtful teacher, he employs memorable and effective examples to illustrate broader topics, but he's also willing to commit to theoretical explanations (with fair warning) when necessary to thread together the narrative. But Flannery's greatest strength might simply be the empathy he inspires as a fellow human being trying to sort out an intricate, often richly beautiful puzzle. It's hard not to identify with his curiosity and enthusiasm, whether he's recalling memories of late nights spent as a child reading the How and Why Book of Prehistoric Mammals (and the uintathere nightmares that followed) or just marveling over the vast American West from his window seat on a plane.
The Eternal Frontier certainly leaves you with a solid outline of the how, why, and when of North America's enigmatic ecology, and what the implications of a dwindling frontier have for our future. But don't be surprised when what you remember best are Flannery's countless details--worthy of repeating at any self-respecting pub--from marsupial sperm that swim in pairs to the reason that Native American cultures might owe their very existence to squirrels' taste in nuts. --Paul Hughes
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In The Eternal Frontier, world-renowned scientist and historian Tim Flannery tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that ended the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, to the present day. Flannery describes the development of North America's deciduous forests and other flora, and tracks the immigration and emigration of various animals to and from Europe, Asia, and South America, showing how plant and animal species have either adapted or become extinct. The story takes in the massive changes wrought by the ice ages and the coming of the Indians, and continues right up to the present, covering the deforestation of the Northeast, the decimation of the buffalo, and other facets of the enormous impact of frontier settlement and the development of the industrial might of the United States. Natural history on a monumental scale, The Eternal Frontier contains an enormous wealth of fascinating scientific details, and Flannery's accessible and dynamic writing makes the book a delight to read. This is science writing at its very best -- a riveting page-turner that is simultaneously an accessible and scholarly trove of incredible information that is already being hailed by critics as a classic. "Tim Flannery's account ... will fascinate Americans and non-Americans alike." -- Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel "No one before Flannery ... has been brave enough to tackle the whole pageant of North America." -- David Quammen, the New York Times Book Review "Tim Flannery's book will forever change your perspective on the North American continent ... Exhilarating." -- John Terborgh, The New York Review of Books "Full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America's geology, climate, and paleontology." -- Patricia Nelson Limerick, the Washington Post Book World "Natural history par excellence." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "This gutsy Aussie may have read our landscape and ecological history with greater clarity than any native son." -- David A. Burney, Natural History "A fascinating, current, and insightful look at our familiar history from a larger perspective." -- David Bezanson, Austin-American Statesman "The scope of [Flannery's] story is huge, and his research exhaustive." -- Lauren Gravitz, The Christian Science Monitor
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Very good after reading Bill Bryson's book.......2007-08-01
I bought this book after seeing it referenced a number of times in Bill Bryson's book, "A Short History Of Nearly Everything". I enjoyed it very much. To sum up, this book is a geological and biological history of North America. It relates the immigration, emigration and development of species in and out of North America - including human beings.
I particularly enjoyed reading about Flannery's support of the theory that early humans were a major factor in the decline of the mega fauna in North America (the mammoths and mastodons, to name two) and how the continent was affected by these losses.
I enjoyed the way he included the European invasion of the continent as a continuation of its history and compares it to the many things that happened in the past.
I think Flannery's perspective of an Australian helps with the success of this book. He sees this continent from the oustide looking in.
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Must be a great teacher!.......2005-05-13
Without even knowing who he is, you can tell Mr. Flannery must be an excellent teacher from the way he writes an ecological history of North America that starts with the demise of the dinosaurs. If you're into history, science, and story telling, this is a great read from a Harvard professor.
fascinating read with clear thesis.......2004-12-23
This is a riveting book that posits a clear interpretation of prehistory and history, and then sets out to prove it. Flannery acknowledges that his thesis is not the only one and that many others disagree with it. I felt as though he at least recognized other theories, even if he didn't give them as much time or space as his own (and why should he?).
If you are interested in the ecological history of this continent, you can't beat this book. It changed the way I think about that history, and certainly did a good job of convincing me that humans played a pivotal role in the megafauna extinction.
I do wish there had been a few more maps and illustrations, particularly of some of the many species Flannery mentions that are now extinct (drawings based on fossils, perhaps?). As a previous reviewer mentioned, a section of the book felt like little more than a listing of extinct species, though the idea of a natural ebb and flow of flora and fauna species across the continent with the changing climate was very effectively communicated.
I'd recommend Diamond's "Guns, Germs & Steel" as a great companion book to this one. I'm just finishing Flannery's "Future Eaters," a similar ecological history of the Australian continient. It's also a great read, but I liked "Eternal Frontier" better.
A sweeping book, but a tad too sweeping.......2004-09-12
Mr. Flannery ordered himself up a big plate with this book. If the ecological history of North America can be likened to a buffet line, Mr. Flannery took a helping of every dish. This results in a book that moves, to say the least, quite quickly.
That said, Mr. Flannery has done a very good job. He starts with the asteroid impact off the coast of what is now Central America 65 million years ago and moves on from there. Mr. Flannery describes the extinction of various animal species and goes on to elaborate about the species that replaced them. All of this is done with a very broad brush, but it is done in a way to whet the appetite, not to overwhelm the reader.
The bulk of the book deals with the ecological history of North America from the last ice age onwards. Mr. Flannery is not afraid to tell us his opinion and why he holds it. But, and this says a lot for Mr. Flannery, he never describes opposing theories in disparaging tones. He tells us why he thinks the theory is wrong and goes on from there.
Mr. Flannery puts the blame for the extinction of the ice age megamammals directly on the shoulders of the peoples who migrated to North America circa 13,000 years ago. He claims that within 300 years, all of the large mammals of North America had been driven extinct by relentless hunting. The one question that Mr. Flannery does not address is how rapidly did these peoples populate North America? It does seem to be a bit of a stretch to think that the entire continent was populated in 300 years.
Mr. Flannery also spends a great deal of time on the arrival of the latest wave of peoples to arrive on North America: the Europeans. It is here that Mr. Flannery begins to loose his objectivity. Previously, Mr. Flannery described the mass extinction at the hands of man in objective ecological terms. Now, when Europeans are at fault moral terms are introduced. I am certainly not saying that great evil was not done during the colonization of the continent, but it appears that Mr. Flannery has drunk deep from the well of revisionist history. I think it is telling that this section is the only one where he does not introduce other theories and explanations. Though this is a problem area of the book, the book is certainly worth reading.
The best aspect of this book is the thoughts and vistas that it opens up for the readers. The book opens up the grand landscape of North Amercian ecological history and the reader can find many places to go on diverting journies.
Fascinating natural history of North America.......2004-04-15
In The Eternal Frontier, Tim Flannery starts his ecological history of North America with the major asteroid impact near the Yucatan 65 million years ago. He writes of the catastrophe with great verve, and the book becomes quite a page-turner. From there he moves forward through time to the present showing the changes in climate and habitat, and then how the advent of humans in North America impacted its ecology. I grew up in Wisconsin, and I had no idea what a distinct climate and ecology the central portion of North America has compared to the other continents. Because the major mountain ranges (Sierra Nevada, Rockies and Appalachians) run from north to south compared to east to west (the Alps, Urals and Himalayas), North America has a "climatic trumpet" where hot air comes up from the equator in the summer producing near tropical summers even in Wisconsin, and then cold air comes down from the arctic in winter producing a sub-arctic winter. I hadn't realized that Europe and Asia don't have areas with such major swings in temperature as the norm. Flannery also explains how this trumpet will cause global warning or an ice age to be most severe in North America compared to the other continents. Flannery presents and explores in the latter portion of his book many theses on how he thinks North Americans need to take care of their continent so that life as we know it is not jeopardized. Many may think his predictions more dire than need be, but all are worth some careful thought, and many are new ideas (such as the need for large carnivores) that most people would not have thought of. All in all, The Eternal Frontier is a thoughtful, well-written and surprisingly exciting book.
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Nessa's winter was frought with trials, but now spring has come to Prairie River - and so has her dear friend Albert. Albert is Nessa's oldest friend from the orphanage, and she had prayed that he would join her in Kansas ever since she journeyed to the small, remote town a year ago. But a year is a long time, and Albert's arrival is not what Nessa had imagined. Things are different between them, and Nessa must reconcile the changes if she has any hope of starting their friendship anew.
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Prairie River #4.......2007-03-11
I have read the whole series of Prairie River. I loved them all. I could not put them down and I am not a big reader. I am anxiously waiting more books to come out. I recommend these books.
Hope springs eternal (Prairie River #4).......2005-08-06
Hope Springs Eternal is another great addition to the Prairie River series. I feel like anyone who reads this book will be touched by the faith each of the characters have and how faith keeps them going even in the hardest of times. I am looking forward to the next book in this series to see what happens. The only bad part about this book is that it was too short.
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Little known but deserves to be read.......2007-03-23
I think this one dates from 1973. It is a very good crime story. It has always been obscure and difficult to find but deserves more light of day. I couldn't put this down when I read it. Recommended!
Schmitz was a master of short fiction.......2004-03-06
This is a comprehensive collection of short works, written between the 40s and the 70s (but mostly in the 40s and 50s). Unlike many of the short stories from that period, these could have been written yesterday.
Even the novel included in the book is very short by today's standards, and would be considered a modern "novella".
These are all non-Hub, non-Vega, non-Karres stories. Some are even not Science Fiction. But they are all great. As the co-editor Guy Gordon wrote in an earlier book, "There's just something about a Schmitz story..."
This is the sixth of a seven-book reissue of all of Schmitz's work. Get it. Get two, in fact, if you even plan to loan it out. It probably won't come back to you if you let someone else get their hands on it!
An obscure Schmitz gem.......2003-12-17
This novel is one of my two favorite Schmitz titles (the other being The Demon Breed). I last read it back in the early 80's - my hometown public library had a copy, titled "The Eternal Frontier" - and have been looking for it ever since; I'm delighted to see it back in print.
It's the story of a group of colonists on an unexplored world, who confront a mysterious and malevolent alien presence. My strongest memory of the book is the creeping sense of suspense the author builds throughout the novel.
Unlike the huge majority of Schmitz stories, [The] Eternal Frontier is not part of the Federation of the Hub cycle, so you won't see these characters in any of his other work. Still, it's one of his very best.
Invaluable collection of obscure Schmitz stories.......2002-10-03
_Endless Frontier_ is the sixth book in Eric Flint and Guy Gordon's project to return James H. Schmitz' work to print. From my perspective this has been a successful and welcome undertaking. This book is particularly welcome, not because it is the best (it is not, not by a long shot), but because it contains some of the most obscure of Schmitz' stories. Fans of Schmitz, like me, spent much time in used book stories finding his work before the recent reprint series -- and in that way it was relatively easy to collect most of the Telzey stories, the Trigger stories, and books like _Agent of Vega_ and _The Demon Breed_. But it was much harder to find stuff like "The Ties of Earth", a long novella only published as a two-part magazine serial, or "Captives of the Thieve-Star", a novelette which prefigures in some way Schmitz' later female characters, but which was only ever published in a 1951 issue of the classic pulp Planet Stories. But _Endless Frontier_ collects all of Schmitz' short fiction that had not previously been reprinted -- including some stories from mystery magazines. It also includes Schmitz last (and by far weakest) novel, _The Endless Frontiers_. My rating for the book is based more on its appeal to its intended audience -- Schmitz fans -- than on its intrinsic merits. It's fair to say that the earlier Baen reprints gathered the bulk of his best work -- it's easy to see why some of these stories haven't seen the light of day in a while. But for those of us who have learned to love his work, this is an invaluable way to get those tantalizing few stories we haven't yet found.
That said, there are some very fine pieces here. The above-mentioned longer stories, "The Ties of Earth" and "Captives of the Thieve-Star", are both very uneven, but even if they don't work completely, they have some nice bits. And among the shorter stories are some first-rate pieces. Many of these are in the section the editors have called "Dark Visions" -- Schmitz usually went for fairly conventional happy endings, but in these stories the horrific implications of some of Schmitz' ideas are fully explored. Especially good is "We Don't Want Any Trouble", a very neat SF horror story about an alien invasion. Another fine alien invasion story is "These are the Arts". Schmitz wrote some crime fiction as well, often for the SF magazines, but also in mystery magazines. Stories like "Ham Sandwich", about a slick operator running a psi scam, and "Where the Time Went", about a very different SFnal crime, are clever and enjoyable.
Even the lesser stories here are generally breezily enjoyable. This book probably isn't a good choice for your first Schmitz book, but if you try the more famous ones and find you like his stuff, it's a worthwhile purchase.
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Time travel, a millennium-spanning romance, and rousing action in modern African jungles and the untamed prehistoric wilderness ignite this classic adventure tale from the pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Nu, a warrior from the Stone Age, is buried alive in an earthquake while stalking a saber-toothed tiger. Awakening thousands of years later on Tarzan’s estate in Africa, he gives his heart to Victoria Custer of Nebraska, a visitor to the estate, who is the reincarnation of Nu’s Stone Age love, Nat-ul. But other men treacherously compete for the love of Victoria in modern Africa and for the heart of Nat-ul in the distant past. Set in both a terrifyingly dangerous primeval setting and the beloved world of Tarzan, The Eternal Savage movingly reveals whether eternal love is strong enough to triumph over undying adversity.
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NU, THE son of Nu, his mighty muscles rolling beneath his smooth bronzed skin, moved silently through the jungle primeval. His handsome head with its shock of black hair, roughly cropped between sharpened stones, was high held, the delicate nostrils questioning each vagrant breeze for word of Oo, hunter of men.
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The Eternal Lover.......2006-03-26
This book by Edgar Rice Burroughs was originally published in two parts, in 1914 and 1915. It is about a caveman named Nu. In the first story, Nu time travels to the early 20th century and meets a girl who is the reincarnation of his old girlfriend. Tarzan actually appears as a minor character in this story. In the second story, Nu ends up back in his own time period. This being Burroughs, Nu goes through various hardships before he ends up with his lady love. This is a minor Burroughs book, but it's fairly entertaining.
ERB tries a bit of O. Henry twist in this early pulp yarn.......2003-09-25
"The Eternal Savage" is an interesting off shoot by Edgar Rice Burroughs of his most famous creation, Tarzan. "The Eternal Savage" was originally published in two parts, "The Eternal Lover" in "All-Story Weekly" and "Sweetheart Primeval" in "All-Story Cavalier Weekly." "Nu of the Neocene" was ERB's original working title for the first part of the story, which does have John Clayton (Tarzan), his wife Jane, and infant son Jack as part of the story, but do not try to make it fit into the chronology of the Tarzan series because Jack's age is going to mess things up when it comes to being of age during World War I.
Nu, son of Nu, is a troglodyte who is out hunting a sabre tooth tiger in order to prove himself as being worthy of Nat-ul, the daughter of Tha. But during an earthquake Nu is buried alive in a cave and then a hundred thousands years pass. At that point, Victoria Custer and her brother Barney are visiting Lord and Lady Greystoke at their African estate, where they are enjoying a big game hunt. Victoria has a fear of earthquakes, even if she sees signs of one that happened a long time ago. She has also been having dreams of a strong manly figure that has captured her imagination. She is about to accept a proposal of marriage from William Curtiss, who has traveled halfway around the world to propose, when there is an earthquake and she faints. Of course, the earthquakes opens up the sealed cave and Nu comes walking out to find things have change (the monkeys do not know his tribe). At this point the only other thing you need to know to have a good idea of where this one is going is that Victoria looks exactly like Nat-ul.
Actually, what will come to mind when you read "The Eternal Savage" is going to be the O. Henry type-twist that ERB springs on his readers halfway through "The Eternal Savage." At that point the title will actually start to make sense to you. The twist is what elevates this pulp fiction yarn to at least average potboiler status. You have to keep in mind that this is still early Burroughs and that he is still trying to find a way of getting beyond his basic primal male going after the civilized female plotline. It is in his science fiction series, especially the John Carter Martian novels, that ERB is his most imaginative, but there is a touch of that here. "The Eternal Savage" is a minor Burroughs novel, but worth a look at for his fans.
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More than just a collection of recipes, Lebanese Cuisine offers a richly detailed portrait of the crown jewel of Middle Eastern cuisine. Short-listed for the prestigious Andre Simon award in England, it has garnered rave reviews from both sides of the Atlantic.
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easy to read and varied selections.......2007-01-15
This was a gift for a friend and arrived very quickly. The recipes were quite varied and easy to read.
the most authentic recipes.......2005-08-28
Having lived in Lebanon and gotten cooking tips from many great "home cooks" I was delighted to find this book. The recipes and their introductions are so true to the character of real cuisine that I recommend this book to whomever asks me about Middle East cooking. Anyone who can make a M'lookhiyeh taste good enough to want seconds is tops! It is helpful to known something about the cuisine to fully appreciate the wisdom in Ms. Helou's advice.
Great help for the novice in this cuisine !.......2005-05-17
Good recipes and great food ! Recently many medical studies have revealed that eating mediterranean cuisine has a direct correlation on improving health.
I would recommend this book for anyone that is interested in health and good taste....
Good Source for Authentic Recipes. Weak on cooking technique.......2005-02-12
`Lebanese Cuisine' By Lebanese / British culinary author Annisa Helau, author of the more recent and more widely popular `Mediterranean Street Food' is a good, if somewhat flawed presentation of an important cuisine of , in the author's emphasis, the `true' middle east.
For starters, this book is much better than some works on local cuisines of, say, Poland, Hungary, the Philippines, and Latvia which were written twenty to fifty years ago and may still be lurking on the shelves of your library in rebound, dusty editions with nothing more than one skimpily described recipe after another. One of the benefits of the renewed interest in traditional food is that the bar has been raised for writing about all ethnic cuisines, primarily by the very important works on Italian regional cuisine and works on African and Middle Eastern cooking by Paula Wolfert and Claudia Roden. And, while Ms. Helou obviously has an enormous amount of respect for Ms. Roden's important `The New Book of Middle Eastern Food', Ms. Helou takes issue with Ms. Roden on including Egypt, properly part of Africa rather than being in western Asia, the `true' middle east.
Ms. Annisa Helou begins her book with a brief but nice outline of Lebanese history. The land began as the home of the Biblical Canaanites, who became the great merchants and alphabet inventors, the Phoenicians. Since then, they have been the proverbial welcome mat over which walked the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and French. With all these landlords, the conclusion is that the Lebanese cuisine is one of the most interesting in the region. The cover, in fact, proclaims this as `250 recipes from the most elegant Middle Eastern cuisine'. I confess that it may be one of the most varied, but the degree to which hands are required as cooking and eating utensils tends to keep me from enlisting in this idea. And, while the author claims that the recent 25 year French protectorate of Lebanon laid the typically immense imprint of French cuisine on Lebanese cooking, I cannot easily see if from the recipes in this book. It seems to have much more in common with its Arab neighbors, including Egypt, than with the land of Escoffier.
On reading the first three chapters on `hors d'oeuvres', salads, and soups, I began to think there was simply nothing special going on here. So many things seemed like variations on Italian and Greek dishes such as the bread and tomato salads so reminiscent of panzanella. Things started picking up in the chapter on savory pastries. While any pop food commentator worth his salt will point out that stuffed dough dumplings are found the world around, the fact that we find them in an important niche of Lebanese cuisine is very interesting and a good source of recipes worthy of an earnest foodie conversation. In Lebanon, the roles of Ricotta and pork of Italy are taken by yogurt and lamb. While the author points out that until recently, the majority of the population of Lebanon has been Christian and not Arab or Jewish, there are very few recipes in this book, which include pork. In the index, I count only two, while I count 29 references to lamb, some with occurrences on many different pages.
Then, I got to the chapter on eggs, and I began finding a few genuinely distinctive dishes. Here, I found a style of omelet which is genuinely different from French or Italian models. It is a sautéed egg mixture done in such a fashion that you can easily make several servings in a single pan, in very much the same way as you may make pancakes or English muffins on a griddle. The novelty of this dish is doubly interesting as it makes use of a really unusual ingredient, the liquid squeezed from the pulp in the middle of a zucchini. Most of the other egg dishes are pretty standard combinations of European style scrambled eggs with Middle Eastern ingredients. Be prepared to bone up on your egg technique before trying these recipes, as there is no good instruction on how to achieve light, uncolored cooked eggs.
The real star of Lebanese cuisine appears to be `kibbe' Anglicized from `Kibbeh', which may easily be to Lebanon what pasta is to Italy and cous cous is to Morocco. Like both of these dishes, it is characterized by an extreme simplicity of ingredients, using only bulgar, chopped onion, and lamb, combined in a great variety of ways, with a great variety of sauces and accouterments. An entire chapter is devoted to the subject, but Kibbe dishes pop up in other chapters, just as pasta shows up in soup, salad, and appetizer recipes. Kibbe is baked, sautéed, and braised in balls, cylinders, and circles the size of piecrusts.
After Kibbe, we are back in familiar territory with a chapter on Kafta, the proper Lebanese name for shish kebabs. Next are stuffed vegetables, which seems to be at least as important to Lebanese cuisine as it is to both Italy and my central European ancestors from the banks of the Danube.
The book also covers the classic breads of Lebanon such as pita, although advance knowledge of bread baking and yeast may be needed to work through the recipes.
Other than a family interest in Lebanese tradition, the primary reason to check out this book would be for the rich source of healthy recipes including bulgar wheat, yogurt, nuts, lean meat, and fruits and vegetables. The writing and editing is not that of a scholar. There are many word usages which are simply the result of the author's less than perfect grasp of English and there is disorganization's in parts of the book which detract from a careful study of the volume.
But, this is still a very worthwhile coverage of a truly interesting and rewarding cuisine.
Lebanese Cuisine/More than 250 Authenic Recipes.......2001-12-13
The recipes in this book will add an exotic touch to any dinner. You will impress your guests with the wonderfully tasty dishes as well as find recipes you can easily prepare everyday. One of my absolute favorites is the greenbeans with tomatoes this is the perfect dish with our August tomatoes. And I love the way the honest flavors of the foods shine with the Lebanese touch.
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