Yellowstone Treasures: The Traveler's Companion to the National Park
Author: Janet Chappl
The first and oldest national park in the world can be enjoyed mile by mile with this complete travel guide. Along with fascinating facts and anecdotes, readers will learn of Yellowstone's geyser basins and the frequency of the geysers, out-of-the-way hikes, and flora and fauna. Easy-to-understand scientific explanations and diagrams complement an array of short walks, the right season for camping, and the park’s campgrounds and facilities. Updated road logs highlight more than 100 historical points of interest, including the often misidentified locale from which artist Thomas Moran painted his “Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone” masterpiece and where five stagecoach robberies occurred along the Grand Loop Road. New text examines areas that have changed in recent years, including the reconstructed Canyon-to-Dunraven Pass and the newly completed North Rim Drive at the Grand Canyon. Additionally, numerous new photographs feature historical and contemporary images.
Chicago Tribune
"[H]eftier than many a travel guide to an entire country...her advice is balanced...[answers] science questions in layman's terms."
The Oregonian
For most readers, Janet Chapple's new 384-page guide to the park may be the only one they ever need . . . a knowledgeable treatise on one of America's most-loved natural travel destinations.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Tackles the park with a broad brush and is ideal for those making the ritual family vacation out West . . . [D]esigned for those traveling by car, with the pages following the roadways in and near the park. The book covers geology, wildlife, and history while giving practical advice.
Billings Gazette
Nicely organized and flows well from tips to anecdotes to blurbs on accommodations . . . The book is rich with detail, from the tiny insects to the crashing waterfalls, all of which play a part in the pastiche that makes the park so attractive to Chapple-and millions of others
solowomanrv.blogspot.com
Love Yellowstone National Park? So does author Janet Chapple, whose parents worked at the Old Faithful Inn. Her new book . . . an updated third edition, [is] a must-have for women who want to see the most and best of this 3,468-square-mile national keepsake.
Yellowstone Institute student, professional cellist, and geyser geek presents the national park in all its seasons; includes geology, geography, animals such as wolves as well as coyotes, and history, for example, of the Lava Creek Trail, which Bannock Indians used for their annual trip to Buffalo land.
What People Are Saying
Judith L. Meyer
"Love for, knowledge of, and deep appreciation for this place... readable, informative, and user-friendly."
—author, The Spirit of Yellowstone
Marlene Merrill
"Chapple's lively narrative is as perfect for touring as it is for entertaining armchair reading."
—editor, Yellowstone and the Great West
Frank Markley
"This 'result of five years of research and preparation' has earned a permanent place on the Yellowstone bookshelf."
—webmaster, Yellowstone Notebook
Sailing Alone Around the World (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Author: Joshua Slocum
Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
In April 1895, at the age of fifty-one, Joshua Slocum departed Boston in his thirty-six-foot sloop Spray, a derelict boat he had rebuilt himself. Three years and 46,000 miles later he returned, having accomplished one of the greatest feats in maritime history—to become the first person to circumnavigate the globe single-handedly. To crown theachievement, Slocum wrote this remarkable account of his voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, an instant best-seller and one of literature's greatest voyage narratives.
Despite having only a third-grade education, Slocum was as gifted a writer as he was a shipwright and navigator. In clear and vigorous prose, he paints a vivid, even poetic picture of his voyage with its many breathtaking sights and harrowing adventures—including skirting the paradisiacal South Sea islands, braving terrifying storms and treacherous coral reefs, and being chased by pirates. A portrait also emerges of the sailor himself, made up from Slocum's heartfelt simplicity, wry sense of humor, meditative reflections on solitude, and ability to find companions in his animate and inanimate surroundings.
In the fall of 1909, Slocum set sail from Martha's Vineyard and was never seen again. But his book survives as a testament to the skill, courage, and determination of the man known around the world as the patron saint of small-boat voyagers and navigators, and adventurers of every stripe. With 68 drawings and 3 original maps.
Dennis Berthold, Professor of English, has taught at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, since 1972. He specializes in nineteenth-century American literature and has published scholarly articles and books on Charles Brockden Brown, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Constance Fenimore Woolson.
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