Havens and Hideaways: Cozy Cabins and Rustic Retreats

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We live in an age when technology moves faster than we do, where noise levels are high, air is polluted - and our homes are often in the center of this frenzy. No wonder we want to escape and be free. With irresistible photography by Chris Tubbs, this book is about making that wish come true. As Jo Denbury and Ali Watkinson show, your hideaway needn't be large or grand; it needn't be far from home or expensive. What is important is that it is an expression of yourself.

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Disappointed in Nebraska.......2007-08-22

This was a large disappointment. Soooo many pages taken up with nothing on them but a photo of sky..... earth....etc... and where are the photos of Cozy cabins and rustic retreats? An old Airstream...? Gushy wordy, fluffy, puffy.I found it a feeble attempt at "poetry"...or something other than great cabins and retreats. Many, many wasted pages. All attempts at sizzle and no steak. Wish I had left it at the seller's. Also, the cover was different than what it shows here. It looks like a book on cabins and cottages, but its focus is not there.

Sherrie G

A fine survey of cozy cabin interiors .......2006-10-15

Lovely color photos by Chris Tubbs accompanies a fine survey of cozy cabin interiors and decoration schemes which make the most of small and rustic spaces in Cozy Cabins Rustic Retreats. The idea here is to customize a personal sanctuary: chapters are filled with insights supporting this concept and provide ideas for a range of styles and designs, from log cabin rustic to giving the illusion of airy expanse in limited places.

Diane C. Donovan
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Capturing light is a challenge all watercolorists struggle with. Whether depicting sunlight, backlighting, shadows, or even textures, these artists need the instruction in Capturing the Magic of Light in Watercolor to create realistic-looking paintings. By breaking down the topic into simple concepts, best-selling North Light author Susan D. Bourdet shows watercolor artists at any level how to:

-Take reference photos with exciting light and translate them into a believable composition -Develop their painting skills, including masking, washes, glazing and textures -Use color and light hand-in-hand to build form and shape -Bring light out in a range of subjects, from wildlife and gardens to interiors to everyday objects

With over 20 step-by-step demonstrations, mastering this perennially popular topic has never been easier.

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Book as gift.......2007-01-04

This book was purchased as a birthday gift for our daughter-in-law, who is an amateur painter. It arrived just in time and we thank you for the service.

Alan Platt

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The Mural Project: Photography by Ansel Adams
John Armor , Peter Wright , and Cynthia Anderson
Manufacturer: Smithmark Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1558241620

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From The Inside Flap:.......2006-01-13

During the years 1941-1942, Ansel Adams was employed by the U.S. Department of the Interior to take a series of photographs in the Western national parks. These photo-graphs were part of the Mural Project, a series of decorative murals created for the Department's new museum in Washington, D.c. at the request of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes. Ickes learned of Ansel Adams' work and decided that photographic murals would be an appropriate addition to the conventional, painted murals already commissioned for the Project. The Mural Project offered Ansel Adams a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel at government expense and photograph the national parks. By November 1942 he had completed a series of 225 signed exhibition prints; however, World War II intervened and the Mural Project was put on hold. It was never resumed after the war, and Adams' photographs were filed away, all but forgotten. This volume marks the first time the Mural Project photographs have been presented to the general public. These are monumental photographs, an impressive addition to Adams' extensive body of work on the national parks. 85 black and white images are reproduced here, using the advanced printing techniques Adams developed in the maturity of his career. The photographs are accompanied by excerpts from the wilderness writings and speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, an early champion of the national park system. A preface by the present director of the National Park Service, William Penn Mott, and an introduction by Peter Wright and john Armor, the compilers of this volume, outline the history of the Mural Project and the rediscovery of these timeless photographs. The publication of The Mural Project fulfills the promise these photographs have held for almost 50 years, and is a major addition to the legacy of one of America's greatest photographers, Ansel Adams.

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The Mural Project
Ansel E. Adams
Manufacturer: Day Dream Pub.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 5552063236

The Mural Project / photography by Ansel Adams ; selected and with an introduction by Peter Wright & John Armor ; [edited by Cynthia Anderson]

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The Mural Project / photography by Ansel Adams ; selected and with an introduction by Peter Wright & John Armor ; [edited by Cynthia Anderson]
Ansel (1902-1984) Adams
Manufacturer: Santa Barbara : Reverie Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VT0MXU

The Mural Project Ansel Adams (A Postcard Book)

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The Mural Project Ansel Adams (A Postcard Book)

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The Mural Project. Photography by Ansel Adams.
Peter and ARMOR,John WRIGHT
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The Mural Project: Photography by Ansel Adams
Ansel; Wright, Peter; Anderson, Cynthia; Armor, John Adams
Manufacturer: Day Dream Calendars
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Ridiculous, xenophobic attempt to fight manga.......2006-05-10

I thought that it wasn't possible to go lower than "Ast?rix et Latraviata" and "La Rose et le Glaive", but again Uderzo outdoes himself. As a lover of the original series and even some books of the "new" series ("La Gal?re D'Obelix" and "Le Fils d'Ast?rix" come to mind), this new adventure of Ast?rix has distressed me.

Even for BD professionals the idea that the ocident must unite and fight the japanese manga writers seems idiot to me. But worst, it shows Uderzo as a bearer of the worst stereotypes the french are known about: their racism, their xenophoby and their ignorance. This is even stranger as Goscinny coped without problems with all european nations and even with the egyptians and native americans - treating all of them with the due respect. (D**n, at "Le Domain des Dieux" one of the most dignified characters was an african man!)

And finally, topping over one of the worst scripts I've ever read on the world of BD, there is the hommage to Walter Elias Disney. When taking a look on this book for the first time, before reading it, I found it most strange. However, after going through "Le Ciel..." it is very appropriate - perhaps even unavoidable. (No, this is not a praise.)

The only thing that remains from this is a enormous headache - after all, after reading this I feel as the sky had fallen over my head. I would give it zero stars if it was possible; as it is not, it gets the lowest rating possible.

What's going on here?.......2005-10-20

This is no longer the Asterix we have come to known over the past few decades. This is something... weired!

Instead of fighting Romans or travelling around the world, Asterix meets a bunch of aliens and... Superman clones. This is so terrible. Albert Uderzo has succesfully damaged his lifework by putting this volume of Asterix' adventures on the market.

Admitably, Uderzo is not the first European comic book artist to seek a new approach to well established characters. Even Hergé did so in one of his last Tintin books, "Vol 714 pour Sydney", or "Flight 714" as it is known in the US. Yes, there was an UFO in "Flight 714", but that story did work -- in contrast to this one.

As that golden bowl decends to Asterix' village, a threat even scarier than Cesar's legions looms over the gaul's world: unimaginative storytelling, boredom and idiocy...

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If one had to choose just one of Michael Reynolds's five volumes on Hemingway, The Final Years would probably be the best choice. Beginning with the fanfare surrounding the publication of For Whom the Bell Tolls on the eve of the Second World War and ending with Hemingway's suicide in 1961, the book puts all that had come before into perspective even as it probes these last two decades of its subject's life. The amount of detail is staggering--and sometimes, particularly in the case of his troubled fourth marriage to Mary Welsh, painfully discomfiting. (Long before Mary interrupts a conversation between Hem and Lauren Bacall to show Bacall a bullet she keeps for anybody who makes a move on her husband, the reader has figured out that the marriage was not exactly happy.)

The sections on Hemingway's wartime exploits, both in Cuba as a volunteer U-boat hunter and in Europe as a correspondent, are fascinating. But even in these moments--hell, even when he won the Pulitzer and the Nobel--Hemingway was subject to what he called "black ass" bouts of depression, an inherited condition that (as Reynolds notes) wasn't helped by his drinking or his tendency to put himself into dangerous situations in which he could suffer yet another severe concussion. Reynolds has traced the great writer's psychological decline so thoroughly that, when Hemingway puts the shotgun in his mouth in the final chapter, it is not as if the expected conclusion has finally arrived; rather, the reader has been made to feel an even deeper sense of the inevitability of the act. --Ron Hogan

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Hemingway's triumphs as a writer during the 1940s and 1950s accompanied a life of risk and danger. Michael Reynolds discovered the truth about Hemingway's activities during the war years, which included running a counterintelligence operation in Havana. The postwar period was the most productive of Hemingway's writing life, when he authored the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Old Man and the Sea and received the Nobel Prize. Even as Hemingway graced the cover of Life magazine, his physical and mental health deteriorated while his public image as hunter and sportsman continued to demand the strenuous life. In 1961 he committed suicide, leaving behind the stuff of which American myths are made.

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A Worthy Finale for a Scholarly Giant.......2001-07-10

There is little I can add to the above reviews. Long before this final volume of Michael Reynolds' masterpiece came out, he had already taken his place as our finest Hemingway scholar and one of the five or six greatest literary biographers of our time. This last volume merely confirms his position. Tragically, he succumbed to cancer shortly after this book appeared, but he left us a daunting legacy as a scholar. I doubt anyone ever understood the infinitely complex Hemingway as well as Professor Reynolds did. It is a cause for celebration when a major writer and a great biographer come together; these volumes will never grow old.

Literary Lions, Political Tigers, and Papa Bears.......2001-01-05

Reviewed by TOMA 1999

Here's one to add to your Hemingway collection. Michael Reynolds tells us the story of Ernest Hemingway's last score years from the era of World War II to his suicide in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961. We have here the Hemingway hero we love and wish we personally knew: the articulate man full of high sentence, the man among men, the behemoth drinker, the virtuoso hunter, the dedicated idealist to his craft, the continent jumper, the fun-loving and cherished father especially to his three boys, the husband now going on his third wife in Martha Gellhorn and the literary lion in his last years where the Victor finally reaps the spoils of a lifetime pitted against the dragon called writing. Icon would be too small a word for such a colossal figure. Hemingway through all his own growling, fist-fighting, taunting of literary figures, strutting in and out of wars, promenading through world events, and arguing with his own publisher in Charles Scribner remains like the figure of the Greek Odysseus, the figure as Tennyson put it who set his life "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." This is why many admire this American son while others see him as full of sh--, a braggart, and fraud for having never truly experienced the larger than life adventures he immortalized in his war books: For Whom The Bell Tolls, To Have and Have Not, and A Farewell To Arms not to mention his slew of other relevant stories set in exotic locations. At the date marking the century of his birth and with the latest Hemingway piece-meal work to be drawn together by his son Patrick in True at First Light, and the dozen or so other "timely" biographies, fancy-covered reprints, and photobooks presented during the summer of 1999, Reynolds does his duty to his subject with skill, organization, and insight. Although sentiment is not always unbiased, for it is obvious this research has been a labor of love, this book marks Reynolds' fifth and apparent last volume in a series of the chronologically-based Hemingway biography. In this final version, Hemingway is never idolized but shown in the somewhat balanced color of black and white where Hemingway can not but create his own shadow like some vibrant oak towering above Finca Vigia in Cuba or with his skeleton crew of "agents" monitoring the inland waterways for German submarines or as the bespectacled ancient literary lion much like his own tiger at Kilimanjaro, worn and heavy, resting within the expanse of Idaho country far below the mountains at his Sun Valley Lodge. Other exotic landscapes nicely slip into view along the journey: Hong Kong, Venice, Paris, Key West, New York, and Mombasa like a set of snapshots upon a reel. We find the sensitive Hemingway trying to keep together a marraige that seems over just as it has begun. We have a vivid image of Martha Gellhorn, the reluctant housewife and bonafide journalist torn between the woman Hemingway wishes and the one she desires to be. We feel him sparring with Scribner's over language in his novels and courtroom battles. We get a feel for the atmosphere of Finca Vigia with its bug-ridden sunburnt rooms, and for the silent, pine-washed Ketchum ranch where the echo of a rifle blast stills remains today. Characters saunter in and out of the story like locals into their corner bar. The quoted material from various personages of the times has been expertly chosen to move the Hemingway legend along its way. These haunting voices create such atmosphere and setting that the imagination has little to do but continue to create a story that unfolds in cinemagraphic slow motion. Moreover, we seem to capture a panoramic view of our literary past so important to reflect upon as we step over the century divide. This is a joyous read especially for summer reading not only for the enthusiast but for the academic who wishes to gain a fuller insight into the one of our greatest literary figures this nation has ever produced.

Take A Bow, Mr. Reynolds.......2000-08-04

In all respects -- in terms of research, sensitivity, perception, analysis, and style -- Mr. Reynolds has written the finest biography of one of the most fascinating and complex personalities the world has ever known.

Three citicisms, if I may: First, though very well written, there are occasional lapses in editing. Second, Mr. Reynolds owes it to his appreciative readers, as well as to himself, to provide somewhat more in-depth and revealing final thoughts than he has. My final "gripe" is admittedly extremely trivial. It irritated me, though -- in such a superbly researched endeavor, such a silly mistake should have been easily avoided. Hold on to your hats, ladies, because here it is: At one point, Mr. Reynolds mentions that Hemingway met Barbara Stanwyck and her husband, Robert Montgomery. Well, Robert Taylor, not Mr. Montgomery, was Miss Stanwyck's husband. A trivial mistake, to be sure, but why make it?

Despite the mix-up with the Roberts (which can be easily made right in future editions), this is an outstanding biography, which I heartily recommend.

An excellent biography, although by no means definitive.......1999-08-25

Michael S. Reynolds' "Hemingway: The Final Years" is excellent and a worthy addition to any library, as are the previous volumes. I have read every Hemingway biography (I even have such paperback quickies as HEMINGWAY: LIFE AND DEATH OF A GIANT and THE PRIVATE HELL OF HEMINGWAY that were published shortly after Papa's death) since my father, twenty-two years ago, gave me a copy of Carlos Baker's 1967 authorized biography (which I also recommend; it gives you the a great overview of Hemingway's life and work and is very readable), and I have found Reynolds biographies to be wonderful and informative.

Brilliant.......1999-08-20

The story of Hemingway's last years lets you enter a world of desillusion, faked grandeur and, ultimately, madness.

It seems as if the reader was present at the scenes which are brilliantly depicted by Reynolds.

Getting to know the life of Hemingway lets you add a supplementary dimension to the reading of his works.

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Hemingway: The Final Years. (book review): An article from: Yearbook of English Studies
Victoria Bazin
Manufacturer: Modern Humanities Research Association
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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Hemingway: The Final Years.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Hemingway Review
J. Gerald Kennedy
Manufacturer: Ernest Hemingway Foundation
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This digital document is an article from The Hemingway Review, published by Ernest Hemingway Foundation on March 22, 2000. The length of the article is 1747 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Date: March 22, 2000
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Hemingway: The Final Years
Michael Reynolds
Manufacturer: W.W. Norton
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IMOEI4

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An integrative approach that moves beyond Western medicine to promote health and healing

Embarking on the path to true health requires more than merely staving off illness. So why does todays Western model of health care neglect the restorative aspects of the human mind and spirit? For many of us who yearn for other dimensions of healing, moving beyond a strictly science-based health care system is the key to achieving a state of whole health. In this inspirational guide, pastoral counselor Mary Farr turns to ancient traditions to show us how to successfully integrate the spiritual, physical, and emotional components of our inner selves to find the essence of true health.

Whether youre experiencing fatigue from draining encounters at work or in relationships, suffering from an acute, life-threatening disease or a chronic illness, or longing to rejuvenate your sense of well-being, The Heart of Health can help you rethink the way you look at health and healing. Exploring the role of spirituality in medicine, Farr reveals the healing gifts each of us can bring to our lives, and offers an insightful balance of personal vignettes, parables, and down-to-earth guidelines to help you establish the vital sense of well-being that can foster true health. From a conscious mindfulness about the way we live, care for ourselves, and interpret the mysteries surrounding us, The Heart of Health shows how you can forge a path to wellness and gain a deeper understanding of health.

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Gets to the heart of health care problems........2000-03-31

THE HEART OF HEALTH is a first-rate look at one of the major disconnects between the givers and takers in today's health care system. I especially urge doctors and other health care professionals to read this book because it reflects their struggles as well as those their patients face every day. The author recognizes that the system needs and is capable of meaningful and much-needed change and proves it with real examples from her own vast reservoir of insider experience. Ms. Farr treats her subject with sensitivity and humor. I highly recommend THE HEART OF HEALTH to thoughtful readers.

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Please visit to Hiroshima,Nagasaki, and listen to the survivor's voice.......2005-08-29

Hibakusha's age(the survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where is only city fell atomic bombs in the world) is getting to be older recently. Their age will be over 70 years old in many cases. At the same time, the young people in Japan who don't know about Genbaku in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at that time well is increasing. That will be uneasy truth for the mean that the fear of atomic bombs disappear. But when August comes in Japan, many Japanese remember about atomic bombs in H and N (Hiroshima and Nagasaki), why? Because the atomic bombs fell down in August 1945.

Even now, in Japan at August many TV programs are broadcasted. The deads were over 100000 in Hiroshima, 70000 in Nagasaki. People over 95% that lived inner 1km from the center where the bomb fell were killed immediately and some people that lived inner 2km had heavy skim burn in their all body. The fear of atomic bomb is not always only the number of the victim. The burn is never the same of the bomb victim in ordinary mean, that is, because when the atomic bombs exploded the temperature was over 3000, they had heavy skin burn over our imagination. In addition to that, their scars never disappeared till their death, called Keroido, for the heat ray made when the bomb exploded included radiation. Their radiation destroyed their skin cells. The burn never disappeared till their death. Off course, that meant that the burn was fatal mental point for young girls who spent fresh daily life in those days. Can you imagine about the girl's despair and agony that dared to choose the suicide killing for the cruel daily lifes after they injured heavy burn on all the body? I never have the thinking that I want to blame for American by explaining and expressing such cruel things. Certainly, the atomic bombs might be good choice for finishing WW2, however the weapon has dreadful factors over our imagination like I have written already.

If you have the chance that you go to Japan, I recommend going to Hiroshima at any cost, going to many Genbaku bomb memorial place, especially to Genbaku Peace Memorial Museum. Apart from the factor whether county have the responsibility of the war, by watching the cruel photograph or the clothes that they put on those days, you must feel a kind of shock absolutely, may feel a kind of the sympathy for them at that time, or may feel the anger for the war. And in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there is the event of Hibakutaiken Dan, the act that Hibakusya (the survivors of H and N) tell about the peace by talking the dreadful scenes to travelers. I recommend that you listen to their talk when you go to Hiroshima or Nagasaki. There are the talkers who can tell with easy English for them, too.

I pray that all the atomic weapons on earth disappeared as Japanese, the first and last atomic victim county.

Thank you for reading poor English till last sentence.

I was overwhelmed by this book........1999-01-03

I bought this book while visiting Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, in November 1998. Even if I had not been to this incredible place, this book alone would have affected me greatly. The accounts are brief and striking. My heart ached for the children, whether they were the Hibakusha (Bomb Survivors)telling the story as an adult, or whether they were describing a horrific scene involving these innocents. This isn't a dry historical account with scientific information and political overview. It is a recollection of activities, emotions, and devastation experienced by real people on and since August 6, 1945. I wish there were more books along this line, written as well as this one.

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Short but powerful

From Eastern Europe to the Northern Plains of America ....................

Memorable pioneer autobiography

An extraordinary ordinary woman

My family knew this family in north dakota

Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains
Rachel Calof
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Short but powerful.......2006-02-05

This is a short account by Rachel Bella Calof of her childhood in Russia, her emigration to America for an arranged marriage, and much of her adult life homesteading in North Dakota. The account is succinct and yet tells volumes about her life and the hardships she endured with only her superstitious mother-in-law and other family members for support. Woven into the tale of endurance is the additional interest of how the Calof clan maintained their Jewish culture and heritage in the face of the early years of starvation and illness. The bulk of Rachel Bella's narrative focuses on her life with her husband Abe farming on the prairie and as a primary historical document, it is of major interest. Following the narrative is an epilogue by the youngest of Calof's nine children and then two academic essays to place her story in a larger context. While I enjoyed her story, the academic gobbeldy-gook was well nie worthless (and one of them entertainingly states "And the cost of the experiment was especially high for families in which parents lost children because of a lack of rudimentary medical attention..." Hmmm. And I'd always thought a lack of rudimentary care was a good thing!). Rachel Bella Calof's story didn't need placement in a larger framework to be moving and interesting. If you read this one, I recommend skipping the final two essays.

From Eastern Europe to the Northern Plains of America ...........................2005-09-16

Written later in life by an immigrant to the sparsely populated Northern Plains, this true story of a life of hardship, and at times, bare survival, depicts the daily grind of this non-stereotypical woman and her family. Only a small percentage of Jewish immigrants engaged in agriculture atall, because they were not allowed to be land owners in their 'old country.' That fact, and the hardships that they encountered here, in a harsh climate, are a testament to the courage, hope, and stamina of these early settlers.

Memorable pioneer autobiography.......2001-10-23

On finishing Rachel Calof's autobiography, the reader should spontaneously count his blessings, regardless of current circumstance. Virtually forced to enter a marriage arranged in her Russian homeland, Calof survives a brutal pioneer existence on the featureless prairie near Devils Lake, North Dakota while bearing child after child.

The brief memoir could easily be assigned to high school or college students. A short afterward by the translator, Calof's youngest son, completes her story, and an essay by the editor, J. Sanford Rikoon, sets the experience of Jewish pioneers in North Dakota in historical perspective. The other academic essay included is of no value.

An extraordinary ordinary woman.......2001-01-05

This book has several parts, the most important of which is "My Story," by Rachel Bella Calof. This remarkable memoir was written in 1936, by a 60-year-old woman who was recalling her early life, particularly her years as a homesteader in North Dakota at the turn of the century. She was not rich or famous and would probably be the first to say she was just an ordinary person. But her story strikes one as extraordinary, indeed.

This is followed by an epilogue by her youngest son, Jacob Calof; and two essays from historians placing her story in context of the time it took place.

The best past is unquestionably Rachel Bella's own story.

The tale of one tragedy after another is punctuated by moments of beauty, joy, and tenderness. This is a woman whose hard life was a triumph over circumstances. It was constant source of amazement to this reader that she survived at all-let alone that her nine children, born and raised in primitive circumstances-also survived. It is a testimony to superior genetics and incredible strength of will.

It is also fascinating to read. The author's style is straightforward and unpretentious, but also shows evidence of the true storyteller: suspense, humor, romance, and wit. Personal relationships come alive as Calof describes herself, her family, and the people they met along the way. There are some times when we know that Calof is going to some lengths to soft-pedal the less than noble aspects of human nature, but we get the point.

The two sections written by scholars are academically dry and are simply as not interesting to read. However, they do contain some helpful background information.

My family knew this family in north dakota.......2000-09-03

My family lived close to the Calof family as well as to the other Jewish settlers in this area. I remember my Father speaking about the settlement in nothing but the fondest terms, but he also discussed with us the hardships these people lived. Their cemetary was built on land that is owned by my uncles family.I read this book ,therefore, with knowledge of the history of the settlement..I can only say, talk about history becoming alive. this is one of the rare true stories of courage,love, faith and determination that we as lovers of our nations heritage will have the priviledge of reading. It is completely absorbing and I feel that it would make a wonderful production for a movie or theatical event. Read this story, It by passes any fictional story for reading ,this is how the west was settled. Some people had great success but many, many, had to strive to keep hope and life alive.

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