No comments about Rand Mcnally Easy to Fold! Kansas City Streets: Missouri/Kansas (Rand McNally Easyfinder).

1 comments about Student Study Guide & Map Exercise Workbook, for Traditions & Encounters Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1500, 3rd edition.

1. i Guess i would have something to review if I had actually received my book, if i knew that this would be a problem in getting this book I would have never came to amazon and trusted them to buy my book I AM OUTRAGED MY THIS SITUATION I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER ITEM FROM SITE.!!!

No comments about In a Place with No Map: New & Selected Poems.

2 comments about Rand McNally 2008 Greater Kansas City: Street Guide (Rand Mcnally Kansas City Street Guide).

1. This KC atlas seems very detailed and is a great help in finding your way around the city and suburbs.
   The only problem I found was that it's not always easy to find the page you want quickly. They have added map numbers on all four corners of each page, indicating what page to go to next as you progress north, south, east or west. But then you have to thumb through a long ways sometimes to get to the next portion of the map, and you may have already missed your turn! But I can't think of a better solution - maybe just have your pages marked before you set out...



2. If you have a fair idea of what part of town you are going to the front flap has a grid map with the relevant page numbers.
   
   There is an extensive index in the back and the map pages to continue onto another page are marked on all 4 sides of each map.
   
   The print and road lines are clearly marked and visible making a quick glance at the page a breeze to find your turn.
   
   The only down side is the map can and will fall apart on you after a couple of years of heavy use.
   
   I bought one two years ago and am just now getting another due to the pages falling out.
   
   I am a local LTL truck driver and I would/could not do my job without this valuable tool.

No comments about Rand McNally Kansas City Street Guide (Rand Mcnally Kansas City Street Guide).

1 comments about Driving Across Kansas: A Guide to I-70.

1. What a delightful book to take with you when you are driving I-70. I used to think going west on I-70 was so boring. Not anymore! This book tells you something about almost every exit. Keep your eyes on the road but let your passenger read passages from this book as you ride along. You will have your own private tour guide!

No comments about Rand Mcnally Easy to Read Kansas: State (Rand McNally Easy to Read!).

1 comments about Rand Mcnally Kansas City, Missouri / Kansas Local Map (Rand McNally Folded Map: Cities).

1. I bought this map for a refugee family from Southeast Asia who speak little or no English. Right away they could use it to to find rheir house, their church, and my house. It seems to be reasonably up to date but does not show all the suburbs.

5 comments about PrairyErth (A Deep Map): An Epic History of the Tallgrass Prairie Country.

1. We move too fast; our senses are daily bombarded with loud (but shallow) noise. When one comes in contact with a book like "PrairyErth", it requires a shift of mind, a change of gears.
   
   Heat-Moon walks slowly and digs deeply. There are sentences in this book that have great weight- they didn't come easy, and they speak softly. It is a heavy book, but one with which you will develop a lasting relationship. I don't know of any book like it, surely a credit to Heat-Moon's formidable skill of turning land and time into words on paper.
   
   I have read this book every year since it came out and have walked on the same ground, talked to some of the same people, known the same dirt roads. I encourage you to do the same, and feel the same pull.
   
   This is an important work. A rewarding read. A book that gives back.
   
   A deep map, indeed.
   Gary Gackstatter, St Louis



2. ...so I figured I'd like PrairyErth, but I gotta agree with the other three-star reviewer. In fact, I confess I quit after a few chapters, so unfortunately I never met the feminist rancher or the last remaining Kaws, and it's a shame. In fact, I didn't meet a single human being, and if I recall correctly, didn't even meet an animal. I listened to L-H M staring at handfuls of soil and blades of grass. While I respect L-H M's writing and get his purpose, it was just plain too much contemplation and too little dialog, not to mention action.
   
   By the way, I'm also a native Kansan, and recall an enjoyable novel set in the Flint Hills (can't recall the title). Not a great work of literature, but well researched and I learned much more about the Flint Hills therefrom than I did from PrairyErth.



3. This was a wonderful read although it was never easy. It inspires me to do a "deep map" of Otsego county in NYS.



4. Like many I bought this book based on WLHM's book Blue Highways. I have absolutely no interest in the history of Kansas or the midwest for that matter. Regardless, I found in Prairyerth a book with rich detail that saunters along through the recent, and sometimes ancient, history of one Kansas county. While reading Prairyerth, I looked forward to escaping into Chase County each evening; exploring it's buildings, talking with townfolk, and walking the vast prairy with Heat-Moon.
   
   What a great read and book that I'll be adding to my permenant collection.



5. In reading several books by John Janovy Jr. about Keith County, Nebraska, I soon discovered that Nebraska was certainly not a boring state, especially to a biologist. That this should be evident to anyone in the field almost goes without saying, but the dull image of the Midwest grasslands still lives on. Here there are no tall forests, no majestic mountains or spectacular sea beaches and cliffs. Still this country has its charm and often a lot of history and lore if truth be told.
   
   I was convinced to read "PrairyErth" by a botanist who specializes in grasses. This book has been recommended to his class in grass systematics every year as suplementary reading, but so far none of his students has ever taken him up on this recommendation. This is certainly a great pity as William Least Heat-Moon has produced a masterpiece of over 620 pages that would open the eyes of the readers to the real wonder inherent in even such closely circumscribed areas as Chase County, Kansas, which is the main subject of the book.
   
   The author certainly delivers on his minutely detailed examination of almost every aspect of this nearly square county a little over 150 miles of the geographic center of the continental United States. We learn about the grassland, the Native Americans, the development of the railroad, the local colorful characters, the murders, the geology, and in short William Least Heat-Moon gives us the heart and soul of a county that turns out to not only be not like the gray Kansas of the "Wizard of Oz", but a living and fascinating piece of real estate, right down to the roots of the tall grass prairie and the cottonwoods along the creeks.
   
   If you would really learn about our country, I would suggest you start with this book. I can give it no higher recommendation.

5 comments about Kansas Atlas & Gazetteer.

1. I was born and grew up in Kansas, yet there is much of the state I've never seen. I recently began driving the back roads of Kansas to get from my house to my daughter's on the western side of the state. I am learning to appreciate the undervalued beauty of Kansas. This atlas, showing all the roads in Kansas, including county roads and minimum maitenance roads is an excellent resource for finding my way around the state. It's fun to look in the atlas and find the little dirt road that runs by the cemetery or to see the gravel road that edges the pasture owned by a friend. I didn't realize map reading could be this fun!



2. Once again, Delorme atlases won't lead you astray. Living in Kansas City, I often take excursions into Kansas when I want to get out of the city. With this atlas I can head onto almost any back road and not get lost. These maps are great for finding places that the basic road maps can't show. Whether you're birding, hunting, or camping, you'll find this atlas useful. You can get to Lyon County Fishing Lake, Quivera NWR, Morton County or any place in Kansas easily. Highly recommended!



3. They have done a good job on this Gazatter. I has been a few years since it was updated but can get you where you are going. They give Latitude and Longitude in Decimal and Degree,hour & minutes, which is a plus.



4. This is a book that contains a very detailed state map broken up over 60-80 pages. It shows practically every road in the state, even unnumbered dirt roads. It shows railroad tracks, power lines, and even dry stream beds, so you absolutely can't get lost (if you are a halfway decent map reader). I bought this book to use while storm-chasing. It was a must-have. We always knew exactly where we were on the map. It is not the kind map book you would need if you are just zipping through the state on an interstate. It's more for people who will be traveling off the main roads.



5. This was a frustrating atlas because so many road names and roads were inaccurate. Thought I would rather explore Kansas with this atlas than without this atlas.