Float

This book should be named Cahaba River Canoe Rides & Float Trips. It focuses primarily on the Cahaba and deals little with the rest of the state. We were disappointed and are still looking for a good book on canoeing the entire state of Alabama.

The maps in this book are worth the purchase price alone.

The book was origionally published in the mid 1970s, so some of the information about put in and take out points is out of date. The rivers and streams themselves have changed very little, so the detailed maps in the book will give you a blow-by-blow description of what to expect on you adventure.

While there is a lot of information about the Cahaba River, none of the other Alabama rivers and streams are neglected...the Cahaba River is just a great river to canoe, and it rightfully claims an appropriate amount of space in the book.

I purchased this book before I ever baught a canoe, and it has helped me to enjoy trips down the Cahaba Rive, the Sipsey Fork, the Little Fork, and the Mulberry Fork to name a few.

If you own a canoe and live in Alabama (or are just interested in the subject), BUY THIS BOOK.

In this book, Foshee gives scouting reports of many rivers and creeks in Alabama. It includes maps to put ins and take outs, and brief comments on difficulty of put in and take out. Also included are distances of each section of each river reviewed as well as river maps showing the "big stuff." For each section, Foshee describes possible problem areas. These are very helpful in planning a trip and can save you from exposure to numerous hazards. In each section, Foshee gives brief descriptions about scenery.

The only problem with this book is that many of the road maps are outdated. Some put ins and take outs are no longer accessible while many areas now have better ins and outs than those in the book. And many road names have changed since the book was written. Despite being a little outdated, maps are still very helpful, espcially when used along with a more detailed topo map. Of course, the river maps pretty much still apply becuase many of the rivers haven't changed all that much.

This book will help you find new places to go and will help determine distances of trips. Anybody who goes canoeing in Alabama should own this.

Lots of detail, and tons of info. Has all rivers or streams worth floating in the state, with the infl needed to float them. Also includes maps. Would have given book five stars except maps being very detailed are a bit small and hard to read.

This book was a great read. The story mainly centers around a youg biologist who is sent into the Arctic to study the behavior of the wolves, and prove that they are the reason why the caribou population has drastically diminished. Of all the lessons this book teaches, I think the most important one is tha that we humans don't know as much about the wilderness as we think we do. While this book at times may be boring to some people, I found it completely entertaining and could not put the book down! Farley Mowat has a great sense of humor and often uses this to poke fun at the government or even his own mistakes. There are many funny parts, such as the native's reaction to when Farley eats mice and when he goes on a 6 mile chase after wolves completely naked. If you are interested in animal behavior, this is definitely the book for you. You learn so much about how they stereotype about wolves could not be further from the truth, that they are gentle, caring creatures not too different from humans. I recommend this for all animal lovers out there.

We bought this book for our son when he was about 2 1/2 years old because he loved boats. He is now 5 1/2 years old, and he still loves it. It is one of his favorite books. It is one of the most requested books in our house, especially during boating season! It tells about different kinds of boats, submarines, and other floating items and explains, in "kid language" the hows and whys of how these different items float. It is book that a parent will want to read, share and review again and again with their child. A great book for children who really love boats!

The book was given to me when i first started doing my seaplane rating and i must say, it does cover every aspect of float flying... the beginning aspects. It is a great introduction into the wonderful world of float flying. I definitely recommend everyone to read this book before beginning a float rating.

While the information in this book is somewhat dated (published in 1971) it contains good cut-away pictures and explanantions of basic everyday methods of transportation (boats, planes, cars) as well as telephones, rockets, etc. that are easy to understand for the younger child (not toddler). My children thoroughly enjoyed this book when they were growing up and I am replacing their worn-out copy for my grandson who is also enjoying it.

I started reading this book after I found it on the Barnes and Noble book club list. I just got done reading a very depressing book and I was in the mood for something light and happy and that is just what I found. Lili Wright has an awesome writting style that reminds me of one of my favorite shows, Sex and the City. Lili reveals her past relationship flaws and insecurities she has in order to find more about herlself and about love. She travels to all the places that she spent time with past flames and doing this she feels she will gain closure. This just creates more confussion and she realizes she needs to find out about herself and not about the past men in her life. I enjoyed this book but at times her life seemed a little too much like a soap opera. Read this book if your in the mood for a crazy romantic tale but I wouldn't recommend this book to someone who doesn't like a lot of drama. I would give this book 3 stars.

When I picked up this book at a little bookstore at the beach, I was on a week-long vacation from a job I disliked and trying both to relax and to do some soul-searching. As Lili says, there are those people who have their personal lives in order and whose professional lives are a mess and those whose professional lives are in order but their personal lives are a mess. I had always lived in the second camp - but, at the time, I was facing chaos in my professional life and needed a break from reality.

From the moment I started reading "Learning to Float," I literally could not put it down. Lili speaks to readers like an old friend - airing her dirty laundry and taking us through the painful, yet liberating, process of trying to figure out what she needs to do to be happy.

"Learning to Float" is a deeply personal book. Yet, for others who are facing - or have ever faced - a time in life when we have to reassess our priorities and figure out what we need to do next, "Learning to Float" reassures us that we are not alone and provides inspiration that we, too, can find our way.

For anyone who has struggled to find, and hold on to, love (and who among us hasn't) this book is a great read. The author searches her soul (and psyche) and gives you her view from the drivers seat on the rollercoaster of love. The ups and downs of her love life are adventurous, sad, comical and utterly all to familiar.

She acknowledges her own shortcomings, as well as those of her suitors with grace and humor. We laugh with her as she flounders through her 20's and into her 30's. And ultimately Lili makes the journey we've all had to take. As she shares her experiences we can all see a little of ourselves in her travails. She's honest and funny. Read this book and recommend it to a friend who's also going through this struggle, they'll laugh, appreciate it and hopefully they'll be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel as well.

My women's college alumnae book club read this book last month and we were uniformly disappointed. I guess the writing is better than the writing in many mystery series, but nothing else was particularly interesting about this book. The murderer was blatantly obvious, many of the references were pedantic, and the characters seemed too braodly drawn. Our biggest complaint, however, was that the setting seemed so wrong--it should have been set in the 50s and not the late 90s. To begin with, the women (ages 20-45ish) are named Rosemary, Blanche, Madge, Gertrude, Leslie, Martha, Louise. All the women we know in that age range are named Michelle, Karen, Jennifer, etc. Then there was the language--you can't tell me a 35-year-old American women uses the phrase "I daresay" in normal conversation. Rosemary Stubbs is supposed to be 35 but she acts 55. And British. A male president of a women's college? Not in the 90s. It was just all out of place, and that distracted us from the under-developed plot. It's too bad that this book is just another example of women's colleges getting press as a bunch of arcane, repressed, anacronistic institutions. You'd think Conway and Kennan could have given a more realistic portrayal.

This is the first entry in a proposed series featuring Rosemary Stubbs who gave up a lucrative job as a CFO to attend Yale Divinity School and then take a job at a small liberal arts college in Vermont.

In this outing, Stubbs no sooner arrives on campus than dead bodies start appearing. Stubbs finds the woman who recruited her dead in the new gym's swimming pool. She sets out - kind of - to find out who killed the woman while trying to settle into her new job.

It is obvious that this book was written by two authors (Jill Ker Conway and Elizabeth Kennan writing as Clare Munnings) because one author uses polysllabic words where a one syllable word would suffice - I found it jarring and disruptive. I'm not opposed to polysllabic words, I just don't like seeing them used for the sake of using them - it's as if the author wanted us to know that she could use the words. It is this same author who could have used a strong editor because some of her sentences were very hard to understand in the context of the paragraph and the events occurring in the book. Also there isn't a smooth flow of time in the book. One minute Stubbs in on the streets of New York and the next she's driving up I-91 in Vermont.

I'll read the second book in this series, but I won't read beyond that if the problems mentioned above continue.

As the other reviewer has already mentioned, Rosemary is not convincing as a young woman - she definitely seems as if she is a widow in her fifties, not in her thirties. Also, the authors obviously know a lot about school, but very little about the ministry. They don't even mention whether Rosemary is ordained or not until the book is nearly half over, and it is alluded to in the most casual of ways, and we never know what denomination she is! Ordination to the ministry is a pretty significant event! I've also never heard of a chaplain being called "Dean," but that might have been the case at their schools. Finally, that Rosemary might find one or more love interest in a small college town amused me.

The murderer was fairly obvious, to me, at least, and the book was nicely written and entertaining, but I am glad I got it from the library rather than buying it. I'd give it two and a half stars if I could.

This book is aobut a family of cavepeople. One morning it rains a huge flood and all their stuff goes out the door but when grandma jumps in after she gets swept away by the curents. The whole family trys to find whys to get to her.You will love the crazy ways they try to save their grandma.

It is written by Felicity Everett. Just like her other books this one will be fun for you to read when your children are having trouble sleeping.

This is a great idea--a floating book that a baby can gnaw on, bring to the bath, and so on. The problem is that the seam all along the edge of the book is quite sharp, so that whenever our little one would try to mouth it, his face would get scratched up. I'm also a little worried about what would happen if he caught the edge in his eye, so there is no way that we would let him play with it unsupervised. All in all, this is too much of a concern for me to recommend this product. It says "newborns and up"--I don't think this is a good toy for a newborn.