The photography in this book is spectacular. Gillison spent years getting to know the Gimi people of PNG and it shows in the photography. Subjects are casual and acting normally; you won't find photos like this by any photographer briefly (read less than a couple years) visiting PNG. This book is a window into the lives and ceremonies of PNG people that few outsiders are fortunate enough to see and even fewer talented photogaphers capture. This is not the standard travelogue with snapshots,

The text is equally exceptional. Gillison obviously knows his subjects and writes crisply and to the point. The text matches the art for giving the reader an insight to the lives of Gimi people-- a group of people with fascinating traditions, ceremonies, and culture. Gillison has witnessed the staggering transition that the Gimi are going through as the 20th century world intrudes in their rainforest and garden paradise. It gives the reader a different perspective from which to examine our own culture and traditions.

The price is a bargain. 168 pages, almost every one with at least one well-reproduced color photo. This could be a "coffee-table" art book selling for 4-5 times the price. I collect books on New Guinea and live in the country. This is one of the best books for my shelf in many years.

This book not only enables the amateur to identify birds from common to "lesser spotted" but shares interesting info too. More habitual birders will agree that this is truly the "birding bible". No one can argue with Ken Newman.

This is a great book, with photographs from Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt. The Nile in Egypt is what we are used to see photographed, so it is interesting to see other sides of this great river. The photos are simply stunning!

I already knew Neal Petersen before he wrote this book but I never knew what he had to go through to build a boat and navigate from South Africa to Europe with a sextant. Or race in many trans atlantic raeces. Piers would call him crazy for dreaming of a boat and sailing around the world alone. But he did and proved that in live there are NO BARRIERS. This is truely a book writen for readers that love sailing. You will become deaply moved from the begining to the end.

Many short stories bound together. EZ reading that will keep you reading for hours.

This book is a must read for all of African descent. It is a very easy read; very interesting too.

Levin and Weiner cover all the issues in this book, from food to soils to land use to participatory land reform. A critical and uncompromising look at the land reform process in South Africa. Up to date, precise, well written - without question it will become one of the key documents on the land reform process. Participatory research at its best. Bravo!

This book has been in my collection for many years, as I buy alot of books before I eventually get around to reading them. I'd read "My Traitor's Heart" by Rian Malan, and "Move Your Shadow" by Joseph Lelyveld. This one is also an excellent account of the brutality and injustice of Apartheid in South Africa. The latter was written much earlier than the other two and is told by a South African born lawyer. The stories of the many cases he took and causes he upheld is exciting, suspenseful but at the same time tragic. The book had me spellbound until the end where his very life is so threatened that he is forced to leave his country. This book portrays much of what blacks had to endure, pass laws, detention, prison, brutal torture without any recourse. In reading "No Neutral Ground", one can really appreciate the fact that most of the evils of this government has been crushed. I say "most" because life is still no bed of roses for the blacks of the land. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has the least bit of curiousity about what life was like there at that time. I just wish I had not waited so long to finally take this wonderful book out of my bookcase and read it! Thank you Joel, for all your compassion and dedication to helping to make life better for all humanity.

Each poem is a looking glass through which Dr. Meek tries to convey the beauty of Batswana and the dimensions of human experience. Her use of language is as stunning as it is beautiful. Very impressive collection! Highly recommend!

I found Paul MacKendrick's book a fantastic comprehensive overview of Roman Africa and its monuments. He covers all the major and minor sites and descibes everything in an interesting manner. I love his style of writing engrossing and maintains the readers interests. I think his book would be interesting to professionals and laymen alike. The maps and photos were great and went well with the text. I loved this book and didn't want it to end.