5 comments about Stuck At The Airport: The Very Best of Services, Dining, and Unexpected Attractions for Travelers.

1. Very disappointing and of little practical use. Where are the many important international airports?



2. This book is highly practical. It is essentially a guidebook to many important airports and the services and amenities they offer for the delayed traveler. It is a unique and clever book. It is clearly written and easy to use. I hope to see more guides of this type from this lucent author.



3. This book is very good. Gave great information about airports. I loved this book while I was in Honolulu because I found so many things to do waiting for my 2 and 1/2 hour connection to Maui.



4. This book is great. I've used it a lot and it is very helpful. Each chapter is a different airport. There is information on the layout, shopping, dining,airline gates, relaxing, websites, children's activities, and more. She even mentions some of the best places to eat and shop. I live in Pittsburgh (and the Pittsburgh airport is in this book) it used to be US Airways' biggest hub. Then two years ago US airways cut 400 flights!!!! I was mad, so now I have to transfer because they cut so many non-stop destinations. Then I saw this book and I thought differently I am actually excited to transfer because I can visit a new place and I can explore the airport and use the suggestions in this book! She has great suggestions and best kept secrets. Some airports included are: Amsterdam, Atlanta, Chicago O' Hare, Cleveland, Detroit, Las Vegas McCarran,London Gatwick and Heathrow airports, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, New York Kennedy and Laguardia, Orlando, both Paris airports, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Toronto, and Washington Dulles and National. If you frequently fly with an airline that has connecting flights through one of these airports, this would be a good book for you.The only other thing that I think could have been added is a map of the airport. Overall this is a perfect book for anyone, from business travelers to families on vacation.



5. This book is unfortunately limited in scope (to domestic airports) and out of date; things change fast as travelers are spending more time at airports. Not very useful any more.

No comments about Colourguide Nova Scotia (Colourguide Novia Scotia).

1 comments about The Xenophobe's Guide to the Canadians.

1. First of all, his name is "Roste". not "Roster". Please change
   that on the website. Thanks. Having noted that, I'm pleased to
   say that I find this book delightful! It is informative, humourous as well as full of good humour, and has just enough ascerbic wit to keep it tangy. The style could be called typically Canadian - and that's certainly suitable! - in that
   it blends an obvious national pride with a certain self-effacing
   manner. Vaughn has managed to peg some of the vulnerabilities of
   various places, peoples, and perspectives in this great land and
   do it in such a way as to bring smiles instead of frowns - to this reader anyway! By the way, this reader is from the States (a
   Canadian resident for 16 years)and all Vaughn's references to that land south of the Canadian border are taken as they were made, in good humour. Anytime he has come close to a bit of subtle criticism, I've agreed anyway!

   I recommend this book to all Canadians who will undoubtedly learn
   even more about their country, to people in the U.S. who might
   pick up something valuable for the first time(!), and to anyone
   planning a trip to any part of the Great White North. What he has
   written has prompted me to check out several other books in the
   Xenophobe Series AND to order a good many copies of this book to
   give to friends. Now....how do I go about ordering?! Get set for
   several printings!

2 comments about Roadside Geology of Southern British Columbia (Roadside Geology Series) (Roadside Geology Series) (Roadside Geology Series).

1. Roadside Geology of Southern British Columbia may be the most detailed and information-dense title in the Roadside Geology series. The two authors carefully describe the province's convoluted geology with clear explanations and engaging references to early settlement by Europeans. The reader learns how this magnificent landscape formed and a lot about geological processes in general. It's a great read, even for someone who never visits British Columbia.



2. A good review of the geology in BC. You should be a geologist or have a good knowlege of geology to understand it.

No comments about Culture Shock! Vancouver At Your Door.

No comments about Seven rivers of Canada: The Mackenzie, the St. Lawrence, the Ottawa, the Red, the Saskatchewan, the Fraser, the St. John.

No comments about Getting Into Canada.

2 comments about Northwest Passage Solo.

1. A very intresting book regarding a extraordinary journey. A travelers tale of a difference.



2. With the world seemingly becoming smaller each day, with less room for new adventures and discoveries, David Cowper's journey will invigorate those who have a yearning for the olden days of the explorers. The Northwest Passage still has a romantic mystic attached to it, and the difficulties of crossing it are well described in this book. Enough detail and description is included to give the reader a genuine feel for the Passage and the scope of the trip. Even if a reader has no interest in the North, the book offers a glimpse into the human spirit's desire for adventure and challenge. Yet, and perhaps the nicest thing about it, Mr. Cowper retains humility and never self-aggrandizes.

1 comments about Unforgettable Canada: 100 Destinations.

1. The book has many good pictures, and enough text to explain the photos.
   It makes for fascinating armchair read. The book is less beneficial as a practical guide, since many of the destinations are hard to get to for the average traveler....

4 comments about Oak Island Gold.

1. William Crooker delves into the ever-deepening mystery surrounding the alleged treasure trove on Oak Island in Nova Scotia. He follows the 200 year history from the discovery of a depression in the ground under a solitary tree to the present devesation and attempted preservation of the most baffling puzzle ever discovered. He adds new insight and debunks some very popular theories about the origins of the "Money Pit." Crooker's native roots lend credibility and authority to his investigation. If you are a fan of mystery and intrigue, this tale of pirates, ghosts, and booby-traps is a MUST READ! The gold foil-embossed cover alone will knock your socks off!



2. Crooker's research travels the reader through time; time spent by individuals who lost their resources and lives in search. He is not defiant of those myths and stories that give possibility to what lies below but is observant to these fables as a tool in which to build and solve the puzzle of "the money pit." Crooker's research into the sacking of Havana during the seven year war indicates a keen and logical approach to the "who," "what," and "when." This is a must read for those with interest in lost treasure and the unfathomable chase of their childhood dreams. Edward J. Palmer, VA, USA



3. I grew up just down the road from Oak Island (in Bridgewater, N.S.), so have always been passingly familiar with the legend of buried treasure on the island. The folk wisdom in Lunenburg County is that there is a pirate's treasure trove buried on the island, probably Captain Kidd's (as evidenced by the proliferation of that particular buccaneer's name in restaurant and gift-shop titles). That it has an immense value is also "self-evident" because of the booby-traps set up to foil treasure hunters - and the traps have had the upper hand for the last 230 years!

   Crooker takes us through the various searches on the island, starting with the original find in the latter 18th century. Interspersed are chapters dealing with the various legends surrounding the island, including some of the superstitions (pirates would bury someone with the treasure so their ghost would guard it, for instance). Oddly, he does not repeat the local legend that the treasure will not be found until 10 lives (I think that's the number) have been claimed, or until all the oak trees on the island are cut down. He convincingly debunks the idea that pirates could be responsible (they wouldn't be disciplined, educated, or have the time to construct such elaborate traps). He then procedes to present and eliminate a host of other theories - conquistadores, Incas, Templars, Marie Antoinette, etc. He eventually settles on a favourite of the English king George III as the most likely suspect - why and how I'll leave for you to discover.

   Unfortunately, the book is somewhat dry - Crooker is an engineer and the description of the various digs are analysed as an engineer, complete with the number of holes drilled, depths, distances from landmarks, etc. In addition, the Oak Island mystery is going to leave a reader unsatisfied because the treasure hunt has not been solved, and is currently bogged down with lawsuits and ownership battles. Crooker does his best to make such wranglings interesting, and in fact the last few chapters are by far the best of the book.




4. William S. Crooker has written an extremely interesting chronicle of the public "treasure hunt" on Oak Island, Nova Scotia which dates from the end of the 18th century. This is not a dry scholarly account but the narrative of a man obviously very familiar with the local Nova Scotia situation and acting as advocate for the "powers of the island". From the earliest accidental discovery of antiquated subterranean construction on the island to the modern bulldozer level operations, Crooker describes in detail punctuated with exclamatory, humorous asides the saga of "experts" in sequence who attempted to excavate and probe the mysterious underground structure and lost lives and fortunes in that contest with the unknown.
   Notable in this book is the inclusion of unsolved aspects of the Oak Island quest which may relate to the supernatural, other unexplained environmental causes and a larger view of the strangely punishing enigma located there. Mr. Crooker, a trained surveyor and engineer who died of pulmonary fibrosis in 2005, was canny enough to objectively observe the odd subtext of the Oak Island situation. He includes in his book the instance of Harold T. Wilson of London, England who wrote a fictional book about the privateer Captain Kidd published in 1937. Wilson, who later claimed to be the reincarnation of a pirate, had not been aware of the actual existence of Oak Island, NS but had drawn as a book illustration a fictional "pirate map" so close to the actual scale of Oak Island that it was used as a possible source of information for real treasure hunters. In his narrative of this odd dilemma, Mr. Crooker captures, as other writers on the island's enigma have omitted, the sense of supernatural (rather than conspiratorial) connectives extending into social and political contexts beyond the region of Maritime Canada. He was by all accounts the only reporter to date who has been able to obtain unique information on Nova Scotia surveyor Fred Nolan's mystical involvement within a nexus of serendipity and accident involving ownership of a key area of the island. The reader will be most intrigued to contemplate how Mr. Nolan actually came into possession of the Oak Island property by a clerical omission which singularly indicated as free property a certain area of land later surveyed by Nolan as containing significant archeological markers. It seems also from other occurrences as narrated that the island itself may be indicating "areas of interest" and blocking certain excavations in a mysterious way.
   Perhaps the fate of maritime explorers who stumbled upon and roundabout Oak Island is closely linked to an unspoken historical subplot in the fate of nations. Whether or not one agrees with Mr. Crooker's recent opinion that an unexplained subterranean structure on Oak Island , NS, relates to intrigues between rival commanders then under the British Crown or his earlier view, detailed in a previous book, that an early civilization with advanced technology wished to conceal something on the island, this book gives an intelligent panorama of the "treasure hunting" situation and should be read by serious scholars. Certainly, the realistic, detailed accounts of underground cavities given in this book have provoked in the present reviewer inquiry related to limestone caves beneath Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia which may figure in the larger enigma.