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Four young Americans are entangled in a web of deceit and corruption while doing anthropological research in a Campa Indian village. Living among the natives of the upper Ucayali River turns deadly as the Shining Path, a group of Communist guerrillas, shows its true colors, wreaking chaos and destruction on the village and its inhabitants. Determined to stop the brutal group of killers, Mark Erwin abandons his academic pursuits and sets his si...

Chase asserts that Yellowstone is being destroyed by the very people assigned to protect it: the National Park Service. Named as one of "ten books that mattered" in the 1980s by Outside magazine and a book of continuing crucial relevance. Index, map.

The veteran "Wall Street Journal "science reporter Marilyn Chase's fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today's headlines. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in 1900, at the end of the city's Gilded Age. With a deep understanding of the effects on public health of politics, race, and geography, Chase shows how one city triumphed ov...

To escape the horror of violent abuse, the two-year-old child "went to sleep" and created the inner world of "the Troops, " the 92 voices that shielded her from pain, but that she didn't know existed until adulthood. Now in paperback, this is a journey through the fragmented world of the multiple personality--told by the Troop.

A "strong, fluent, and valuable" (New York Law Journal) look at the evolution of the American legal system.

Dedicated to the art of creating wonderful rooms, this volume illustrates the wealth of decorating approaches, from the minimal to the ornate, whether formal or casual, classical or whimsical. 190 color photos.

In a Dark Wood presents a history of debates among ecologists over what constitutes good forestry, and a critique of the ecological reasoning behind contemporary strategies of preservation, including the Endangered Species Act. Chase argues that these strategies, in many instances adopted for political, rather than scientific reasons, fail to promote biological diversity and may actually harm more creatures than they help. At the same time, Ch...

This book-a guide to intensive preparation for taking a modern sailing vessel to sea-is the distillation of Carl Chase's famous course in nautical science given at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and aboard the schooner Westward. For those who are going to sea for the first time as well as for those who have some experience, the book offers an introduction to all the knowledge needed to become a truly qualified sea-...

First published by now-defunct New Orleans publisher Robert L. Crager in 1949, the book remains funny and informative, generally accepted as a standard reference about the Crescent City.Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children, and Other Streets of New Orleans! details the interesting stories of the developers and families as well as the infamous and famous people, places, and events from which the city's names and character are drawn.

John Chase has taken what in lesser hands would have been a dull recounting of fact and made a delightfully accurate yet breezy book." -New Orleans Times-Picayune"History in its most painless form . . . lightened not only by cartoons but by narrative approach."-New York Herald TribuneThe history of New Orleans is a street-level story, with names like Iberville, Terpsichore, Gravier, Tchoupitoulas, and, of course, Bourbon, presenting the city's...

Montville is situated along the Thames River, stretching inland over a landscape of uplands that some insist accounts for its name. The town's origins lie in the English settlement of the Mohegan Fields, beginning in the late seventeenth century. Today, it is both a populous suburban community and home to one of the world's largest Native American gambling establishments. Nearly two hundred vintage images appear in Montville, from Colonial hom...

From the Design Book of Marcelline Noirot:The allure of the perfect gown should be twofold:ladies would die to wear it . . .and gentlemen would kill to remove it!Brilliant and ambitious dressmaker Marcelline Noirotis London's rising star. And who better to benefitfrom her talent than the worst-dressed lady in the ton, the Duke of Clevedon's intended bride? Winning thefuture duchess's patronage means prestige and fortunefor Marcelline and her s...