No comments about Mapsco 2008 Dallas Street Guide (Mapsco Street Guide and Directory : Dallas).

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2 comments about Lone Star Guide to the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Revised (Dallas Fort Worth and the Metroplex).

1. This is a good starting point for someone who is planning a Dallas/Fort Worth trip. It includes info on the surrounding suburbs as well. The lodging section is lacking; room quality is seldom mentioned, and the information given is no more helpful than the hotel brochures. This is a "just the facts" guide; no author's opinions or insider tips.However,there are good maps and getting around hints.



2. This is a thorough guide to the metroplex, at least u feel the authors have actually been to the region, which is not always the case in books of this kind. If you are planning a trip to dallas, then i believe this guide will give you a good overview of the city and environs..there is actually a great deal to see in the metroplex, expecially Dallas' Nasher Collection and NorthPark Mall..yes, this mall is worth a visit, this is dallas after all..and Fort Worth's Kimbel Museum, and Carter Museum, oh and the zoo..yes, fort worths zoo is superior to dallas'..all that money and dallas still has a mediocre zoo..anyway, consider picking up this guide if ur headed to the area..

1 comments about Texas Almanac 2008-2009: The Source for All Things Texan Since 1857 (Texas Almanac).

1. Every two years for decades, the Dallas Morning News has published the Texas Almanac.
   
   The almanac includes a brief look at Texas history. It also includes information about weather, politics, elections, state government, crime, agriculture, education, the environment/natural landscape, business, population figures for each town and county, and statistics about many, many different topics. It even contains a pronunciation guide for many commonly mispronounced names and places in Texas.
   
   Perhaps the most famous part of the almanac is the section containing individual maps of each of the Lone Star State's 254 counties. These maps include many Farm-to-Market roads that do not appear in road atlases. This is a valuable book to take along on trips for that reason.
   
   This almanac contains almost everything worth knowing about Texas.

2 comments about Streetwise Dallas Map - Laminated City Street Map of Dallas, Texas - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated Dart & Trinity light rail lines & stations.

1. These 3 panel laminated maps by Streetwise are very handy for your vehicle for those times when you want to take a quick glance at a map and either cannot or do not want to fumble with the traditional unfolding maps or thumb through a map book looking for your desired location. However, due to it's compact size, this map is only detailed in the immediate downtown area. The remainder of the map shows major highways in the metropolitan area. So it's great to use to map out highway to highway but not good for use on your pizza delivery job.



2. These guides are highly functional, but they are limited to certain area's of the city. In the case of dallas, the map focuses heavily on north dallas, which of course is where most everything is, but if you are looking for something in east dallas or south dallas, or even far north dallas then you won't find it on this map. If however you are looking for something in downtown, or highland park or preston hollow then ur in luck, personally i love these maps and since the part of dallas i travel in is covered on this map, i use it all the time..use your judgement on what you need a map of dallas for, before making a purchase. FYI, these maps are very well constructed and the font is easy to read.

5 comments about Rounding the Horn: Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives--a Deck's-eye View of Cape Horn.

1. This is a wonderful book. Dallas Murphy weaves the history of Western contact with the strange and wonderful world at the bottom of South America, the intriguing story of its aboriginial inhabitants, and his own sailing experiences there with consummate skill. His narrative style is a delight. As a reviewer in the Seattle Times put it: "I can't remember the last time I had so much fun reading, curling up comfortably for such an articulate adventure."



2. With the wind in its sails, this book glides like a clipper ship. Otherwise, in sailor terminology, it can be the doldrums.
   The author took it upon himself to experience firsthand the hardships and rigors of Cape Horn and then interweave these wanderings with its history, flora/fauna, climate and geography.
   I found the historical accounts of Magellan, Drake, Darwin and many others in this harsh environment extremely fascinating. Especially gripping and understandably predictable, were the numerous failed attempts of missionaries to establish themselves amongst the indigenous people.
   His own meanderings, although descriptive and worthy, are somewhat overplayed and a disappointment after such colorful portrayals of past explorers and events.
   Overall a good read of a very unusual and mysterious geographical region.



3. We are faced with so many books on problems - whether it's Iraq. or a neurotic hero of heroine trying to make the best of a bad situation, or how to make (or save) a buck or any one of a thousand problems which help to sell books - it's a joy to read a book like this where a very literate author sits back and tells us in excellent and descriptive prose a fascinating story about Cape Horn and its environs, its geography, what it's like there, its history, its native people and how it is to sail a small boat in these stormy rockbound deceptive dangerous Patagonian waters.
   
   I don't know how I found it, but I had read a part of it when it was first published and had put it down for some reason. Then, just the other day, I picked it off the shelf and read it. Finished it last night and now I can't wait to tell you to go out and buy it and read it too. It's a delight. You'll freeze in the sleet and wind of Cape Horn weather. You'll be right there with the explorers who found a passage there and then you'll see and feel the worst with the resolute skippers who drove their ships into the teeth of the worst weather in the world to succeed or perish in an attempt at transit. If you're really interested it's got a great bibliography too. Go get it and read it. No kidding. Unless you're some kind of a wimp you'll love it!



4. This is one of my favorite books of all time. Similar in style to Tony Horwitz's "Blue Latitudes" and "Confederates in the Attic;" the author weaves the awe inspiring beauty of the place and it's important and poignantly tragic history together with his own personal experience exploring it in a chartered sailboat.



5. Great description of a current acount of sailing around Cape Horn, interspersed with historical accounts of journeys around the Horn. It's amazing that people in small wooden boats without modern navigational aides would attempt such a harrowing journey

2 comments about Dallas Then and Now (Then & Now).

1. Great book for those who are interested in the ever, rapidly-changing skyline of Dallas.



2. This is so not a five star book, not even close. The reviewer below is easily impressed I suppose. This book is interesting on some levels, like seeing how Dallas' skyline has changed, but most of the pictures are so close up, it's hard to get perspective. This author has made quit career out of these very mediocre books, I think he has one for every city in America...frankly, I'm waiting for, Cut and Shoot then and now. These book could have been very good, if the archieval photos had been of more interesting areas and if they had gone a bit out of downtown Dallas, I mean how many pictures can you have of Elm or Main Street. These books arent bad, but my advice is pick them up in the bargin bin if you must, but dont be an idiot and pay full price for THIS.

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3 comments about Newcomer's Handbook Neighborhood Guide: Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and Austin (Newcomer's Handbooks).

1. I used the listing on this book for Austin. It was very useful and quite accurate. I visited a lot of neighborhoods in and around Austin using this book.



2. Ah, how luck changes. I once lived with my favorite person in my favorite neighborhood in my favorite city in the world: Austin, Texas. It was just the two of us. Quiet, peaceful and weird.
   
   I also lived in what used to be my favorite apartment; it was perfect, until I unknowingly took in a flock of hungry, loved-starved fleas. Since that happened I have been fighting a constant war against these parasitic vermin. And it's not just me. Every neighbor I know has the same problem--and many do not even own a pet, which leaves us all, for better or worse, scratching our heads and everywhere else for a solution.
   
   And this is why I'm on a quest for a new home in a new neighborhood - one free of fleas - a space with no more inhabitants than my husband and me, with a wish that I can, once again, wear short shorts without being embarrassed by the bite marks on my legs. So, let me be the first to say that studying the Dallas-Forth Worth, Houston, and Austin Neighborhood Guide was paramount to me. As the marketers write in the cover, these guides are "designed to help you find the community that is right for you."
   
   It's the first book in the series, and it's chock full of valuable information about community publications, police departments, post offices, hospitals, libraries, schools, parks, websites and public transportation. It coverage includes the ins and outs of neighborhoods near and far, and it even speaks to the scintillating suburban areas of Dallas-Forth Worth, Houston, and Austin; fair suburbs, I raise my strip-mall purchased glass to thee! The book also chronicles the history of each different area, albeit from the perspective of a white, middle-class, male-leaning perspective.
   
   The authors undoubtedly favor families, too, and though I have yet to help overpopulate the planet myself, I really have found its scrupulous details helpful in my new home search. The deft research deserves applause, but the book might be more enjoyable if it offered information about the shops, restaurants, and cultural aspects--you know, the things that make a neighborhood, well, a neighborhood.
   
   While it's not an even mildly entertaining read, the book might prove useful. So, if you're living in or planning a move to Dallas, Houston, or Austin, it will give you an idea of your new surroundings. But you might, by serendipity, find a pub in one of the neighborhoods described and enjoy a nice beer in place of the cost of the book.



3. I purchased this because we are considering a move to Austin. I had hoped to get the down and dirty information about the different neighborhoods, but instead got only the standard Chamber of Commerce type descriptions (all pros, no cons). It did help me to identify several neighborhoods that I didn't know the names of before.

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