No comments about The American Alps: The San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado (Coyote Books).

1 comments about Rand McNally 5th Edition Albuquerque & Santa Fe street guide including Las Vegas, Los Alamos, and Taos.

1. I had four days to see Albuquerque and make sure I really want to move there. This map was easy to use and very reliable.

No comments about Distinguished Inns of North America: A Collection of the Finest Inns of Select Registry.

No comments about Viaje por sendas purepechas (Travels on the Paths of the Purepecha).

1 comments about Under the Sea of Cortez: (early underwater exploration and spearfishing).

1. This is an interesting series of stories about diving in the Sea of Cortez in the 60's and 70's. Moment by moment accounts of diving the area in a variety of conditions, including encounters with sharks, manta rays and other wildlife in the area. Written in first person with tons of pictures. Really takes you there.

No comments about Mexico D.f.: Lecturas Para Paseantes (Ediciones Especiales Turner).

No comments about San Juan: Ciudad Sonada (THE AMERICAS).

No comments about Southern Lighthouses: Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.

5 comments about New Mexico Campgrounds: The Statewide Guide.

1. Excellent review of campgrounds on public lands (Forest Service, BLM, National Parks, and State Parks..) in New Mexico. I've visited many of these sites and her information is very accurate. This book is a must for those interested in camping in New Mexico.



2. This guidebook is a model for all camping guidebooks to follow. The book divides the state into a dozen regions, and lists the campgrounds in a logical order within each region. The campgrounds are rated with objective criteria on scenery, facilities, etc, and good descriptions are given. There is even advice about which campgrounds are likely to be late-night hangouts. From Forest Service to BLM to state parks, the book is a comprehensive resource.
   
   My minor complaint is that there is limited advice about which campgrounds are more popular. Last summer, we found some campgrounds to be jammed while others were quiet, and it would have been helpful to know to to go for a peaceful campsite.
   
   I give 5 stars for the logical presentation, the objective & accurate reviews and the comprehensive listings.



3. Good info, we take it on every trip. The only gripe, it leaves out a lot of places.



4. New Mexico has long been one of our favorite camping/RVing destinations. We consider "New Mexico Campgrounds: The Statewide Guide" to be the "MUST HAVE" reference to the state's wonderfully varied non-commercial campgrounds (Corps of Engineers, BLM, Forest Service, State and National Parks, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, and various Indian reservations).
   
   "New Mexico Campgrounds" divides the state into 12 regions and provides detailed information on 175 campgrounds. For most of these campgrounds, you will find a color photo (there are 216 photos in the book). The book also provides a list rating each campground on scenery, desirability as a destination for RVers and for tenters, shade, privacy, facilities, campground activities, area activities and wheelchair accessibility. (The ratings are on a scale of 1 to 5 stars.) A convenient summary at each listing gives the campground's general location, elevation, number of sites, recommended RV length, season, nearest supply center, access road information, map references, and directions. Additionally, each listing includes a narrative description, a note as to whether or not the campground accepts reservations and phone numbers.
   
   Admittedly, this is not the campground guide for the RVer seeking the sorts of facilities available only in commercial campgrounds. If swimming pools and full hookups are at the top of your list of campground priorities, you will be better served by other guide books. For the rest of us, this one is a MUST HAVE reference!



5. This is a great guide. I can't vouch for its accuracy yet, but I was very pleased with the presentation and the level of information. Not too much info and not too little. Great photographs. It's a great help

2 comments about Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization, 1839–1939.

1. "One may view this book as a study of American attitudes toward the city as revealed in one of its most important media or as an ongoing history of an urban art form," writes Hale, a professor of art history and director of the American Studies Institute at the U. of Illinois - Chicago. The nearly 250 photographs relating to American cities from the pre-Civil War decades to the eve of WWII are roughly divided into the four stages development, maturity, transformation, and diffusion. Earliest photographs from the 1830s and '40s capture plainly the crude, clustered buildings sprouting up in open spaces, as in uncomprehending witness to what was unfolding. Photographs from the latter 1800s reach into the impoverished, fragile, hectic lives of immigrants flooding into the cities. Jacob Riis's photographs figure prominently in this period. Into the 20th century, the photographs again change in subjects and perspectives to go along with modernism's tenets of Promethean, prodigious, growth, large-scale enterprises, and celebration of technology and design. Springing from the "discipline [of] American cultural history," this revised and expanded edition of the 1884 publication not only contains additional photographs, but also related added text reflecting the growth of government sponsorship, mass-market reproduction, the place of women and African-Americans, and the diminished presence of "individual studio practice." Yet despite this last new topic, Hale also in one part brings out the "photographic studio as itself [in italics in original] a part of the developing American urban fabric." Like the earlier edition which has now become a collector's item, this revised edition is patently the leading study on photography as it took cities as subjects and reflected evolving attitudes toward them.



2. Students and enthusiasts of photography and its history have long considered Peter Bacon Hales's SILVER CITIES indispensable. First released in 1984, it was one of the first, most readable, and most visually interesting, of a crop of new histories of photography that saw the medium as part of a larger sphere of cultural history. This new edition is really welcome-- much longer, even more lavishly illustrated, dramatically revised, beautifully redesigned. Hales has incorporated many of the ideas and discoveries of writers since the book was first published; he has added many new illustrations and changed the old ones, and he has pushed the book well into the 20th century, treating photographers like Walker Evans, James VanderZee, and Edward Steichen. The writing is better, too-- more conversational and fluid, easier to read. If you have a copy of the old SILVER CITIES, you'll have to buy this one, too. If you don't, this is a real eye-opener of a book.