The enduring 1954 holiday film White Christmas has a devoted following and is an "evergreen" title, continuing to draw strong audiences through perennial airings on television, streaming services, and disc sales. In addition to its unabashedly sentimental story line, it was a technological marvel for its time, being the first technicolor film made ......
From the Mississippi bottomlands in the east to the hill country of the Ouachita and Ozark mountains in the west, Arkansas offers a wide range of excellent, four-season opportunities for the outdoor enthusiast. This guide features 45 of the state's best hiking trails, leading readers through historic sites, state parks, mountain ridges, and scenic ......
A Guide to 100 of the Region's Best Rockhounding Sites
New England is one of the best regions in the country for rockhounds to hunt for minerals, gems, and fossils. The complex geology of the region hosts a stunning variety of material from gold-bearing placers to fossiliferous limestone; from gem-bearing pegmatites to rocks containing some of the rarest minerals on Earth. This book provides detailed ......
The Great Smoky Mountains are home to over 100 official hiking trails just waiting to be explored. But did you know that these mountains also hold a surprising number of myths, legends, and reported incidents of ghost activity? You heard right, the Great Smoky Mountains are filled with a diverse array of ghost stories, mythological tales, and ......
The 50 Easiest, Safe, and Delicious Wild Edible Mushrooms
The word "choice" is widely used in the mushroom foraging community to describe an edible mushroom that is of the best quality and taste. Hence, Mushroom Forager's Choice introduces readers - especially novice foragers and those seeking to learn more about edible mushrooms - to 50 "choice" edible mushroom species that can be found, foraged, and ......
A Field Guide to Harnessing the Power of Creativity, Purpose, and Legacy in Midlife
In Variations on Life After 50, author Jill Timmons provides a new road map for those entering the middle stages of their lives, melding simultaneously the conscious experience of liminal "in-between" space with building an authentically joyous life of meaning, purpose, and legacy. By challenging the traditional notions of what it means to enter ......
The Life of Journalist and Aviatrix Harriet Quimby
Before Amelia Earhart, there was Harriet Quimby--the daring journalist turned aviatrix who conquered the skies. Harriet Quimby was once one of the best-known women of the early twentieth century. An international celebrity, she achieved many firsts during her life--a San Francisco columnist first captivated with the new artists of Monterey; the ......
A Complete Illustrated Guide to Understanding, Selecting & Enjoying Wine
For those new to wine or for dabblers who could use some help deciphering foreign labels, Wine Basics brings unprecedented clarity to the world's most ubiquitous libation. Whatever your wine IQ, keeping a handle on all the essentials of the world's most captivating beverage is a sobering challenge indeed. Enter Wine Basics, written by a ......
Mark Twain for Book Lovers is a collection of witty and insightful writings about almost everything connected with them by one of the world's greatest writers. The breadth of such a volume is assured by the fact that Mark Twain was intimately involved in every aspect of books--from reading, writing, producing, and critiquing to even marketing ......
