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" Richard Drake has skillfully woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience into a sweeping whole. Touching upon folk traditions, health care, the environment, higher education, the role of blacks and women, and much more, Drake offers a compelling social history of a unique American region. The Appalachian region, extending from Alabama in the South up to the Allegheny highlands of Pennsylvania, has historically been characterized by its largely rural populations, rich natural resources that have fueled industry in other parts of the country, and the strong and wild, undeveloped land. The rugged geography of the region allowed Native American societies, especially the Cherokee, to flourish. Early white settlers tended to favor a self-sufficient approach to farming, contrary to the land grabbing and plantation building going on elsewhere in the South. The growth of a market economy and competition from other agricultural areas of the country sparked an economic decline of the region's rural population at least as early as 1830. The Civil War and the sometimes hostile legislation of Reconstruction made life even more difficult for rural Appalachians. Recent history of the region is marked by the corporate exploitation of resources. Regional oil, gas, and coal had attracted some industry even before the Civil War, but the postwar years saw an immense expansion of American industry, nearly all of which relied heavily on Appalachian fossil fuels, particularly coal. What was initially a boon to the region eventually brought financial disaster to many mountain people as unsafe working conditions and strip mining ravaged the land and its inhabitants. A History of Appalachia also examines pockets of urbanization in Appalachia. Chemical, textile, and other industries have encouraged the development of urban areas. At the same time, radio, television, and the internet provide residents direct links to cultures from all over the world. The author looks at the process of urbanization as it belies commonly held notions about the region's rural character.

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• Published on: 2003-09-01
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"Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2002."―

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Richard B. Drake, professor emeritus of history at Berea College, is one of the founding members of the Appalachian Studies Association.

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Appalachia Defined
By E. E Pofahl
A HISTORY OF APPALACHIA is a well-written, history of Appalachia. The introduction notes that "....there are those who reserve as Appalachia only those areas of the Southern Appalachians that are `real mountains." The author's definition is broader including "all of the provinces of the Southern Appalachian" and extends to western Pennsylvania.
The book is organized in three parts. Part 1, titled THE CONTEST FOR APPALACHIA, covers the period from the Indians through the American Revolution. The author writes "The principal class who migrated to America after 1715 were mostly folk who shared a....desire for land to support their basically simple lives." These migrants passed through the coastal area and settled in the backwoods where small acreages were cleared and became basically a predominately yeoman (farm) economy.
Part 2, THE NEW NATION AND THE APPALACHIAN BACKWOODS, covers the period through the Civil War. While Appalachia supported the Revolution, they had no representation at the constitutional debates of 1787-1789. "By 1800 quite a different European-derived society had developed along the Appalachian frontier" and the author notes that a "snug little rivalry" developed between the east and west sections of the eastern states. Appalachia supported the War of 1812 when loyalty soared in the Appalachian backwoods but divisive issues would soon appear.
The text notes "most small farmers in East Tennessee, northern Georgia, West Virginia and eastern Kentucky usually identified more strongly with the....Union." These areas were often identified with the Radical Republican during Reconstruction.; however, by 1876 the ex-Confederates had again assumed control. The text briefly discusses the feuds of the era noting many were active "before the Civil War."
The author notes that after the Civil War in the remoteness of mountain regions far from adequate transportation ", a remarkable similar way of life developed in Appalachia's most isolated sections" which resulted in increased isolation reinforcing a stereotype about a `strange and peculiar people."
MODERN APPALACHIA, Part 3, narrates the period from Post-Reconstruction to the year 2000 covering the Industrial Revolution, the Depression, the War on Poverty, and finally the dawning of the Information Age. As the text notes "Appalachia has always been a complex area." From "1865 to 1920, Appalachia was discovered" and defined "by literate America who were northern writers. The picture that emerged was often grossly inaccurate, based on stereotype and self-serving characteristics." For example, "....the word hillbilly did not appear until 1900 when a New York Journal reporter defined such people as `free and untrammelled white' citizens living in the hills' with `no means to speak of, `who dresses as he can,'drinks whiskey, and fires off his revolver as fancy takes him."
During the machine age the mineral exploitation of the area took place and in many areas of the Great Valley significant industrial developments followed the railroads with an area like the Kanawha Valley in West Virginia becoming what was called "the American Ruhr. "By 1900 all the coalfields in West Virginia....were in full production." Lumbering also became an important Appalachian industry.
Tourism was another commercial activity that invaded the cultural traditional of Appalachian society, aided by the development of the National Forests of Appalachia and the emergence of The Great Smoky Mountain National Park.. However, the exploitation of region's fossil fuels was the major industrial invasion.
The author states that Appalachia went from a plutocracy to the Welfare State and back again to the present governing by the rich and powerful. With the collapse of the country's market system during the Depression new life came into the yeoman system of self-sufficient agriculture. "Because of the great economic maladjustments in Appalachia's major industries....large numbers of people were able to qualify for welfare benefits"....with the nations welfare system growing out of New Deal reform measurers. The War on Poverty, 1964 to 1968, resulted in 1965 of the formation of the Appalachian Regional Commission which remains active today benefiting the region. Regarding welfare reform, the author makes the interesting observation that "Even yet in Appalachia, it may be that the only reform that can succeed must be seen through the lens of yeomanry."
The text notes "...the region's society is far more diversified than the traditional picture painted as a stable enclave of Anglo-Saxon, Scotch-Irish, and Germans." The 1930s and WWII brought important changes to the Appalachian culture. During WWII, there was a mass migration of Appalachians north for employment. Also, there was the wartime industrial growth in Appalachian fossil fuel extraction and the development of the chemical industry in West Virginia. Unfortunately, the text notes "The regional picture in Appalachia since the 1980s has been generally gloomy."
Chapter 13 discusses the Appalachian Mind noting that "....the area began to find its own scholarly voice soon after World War II" and states this scholarship betrays a strong anger against American corporate capitalism and "....attests to the kind of tragic picture that Appalachian history presents."
The final chapter discusses the future of Appalachia noting "As coal and agriculture,...., move into further decline, the essentially insatiable industries of education, health services, recreation, and tourism will provide the major job opportunities in the future." Regarding the future, the text concludes " There is, and in fact has always been, a place for a viable, yeomanesque-style of life that is attractive to those unwilling or unable to join the mainstream's affluence." Shades of today's politician's statements about "the family farm."
The Source listing for this book is excellent. Instead of a long alphabetical and/or type listing of sources, sources are listed separately for each chapter so that the reader can determine the author's sources plus read in further depth if desired.
The only technical error I noted is on page 200 where the author stated that the nuclear fuel for the atomic bombs was processed "At its vast Centrifugal Plant, Oak Ridge...." The fuel for these bombs was processed at the Oak Gaseous Diffusion Plant NOT at a Centrifugal Plant. An Oak Ridge Centrifugal test loop wasn't built until the 1970s

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A place and a people apart
By Harry Eagar
From Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, on a clear day you can see most of Appalachia: See Seven States is the slogan. From my grandmother's porch on "The Brow" nearby on Signal Mountain, you could see six states.

But is Appalachia even a place? It is surely an ecological province, and a very interesting one. For its size, it has more tree species than any other part of the temperate zone, for example. But is it a specific historical zone?

Richard Drake, who was a historian at Berea College, takes this question seriously. Some other scholars have averred that Appalachia was an invention of outsiders. As an Appalachian myself, I never had any doubts that we were different from other folks, and Drake concludes the same.

Geographically, Appalachia extends nearly to Canada, but in human terms it divides fairly cleanly into northern and southern sections, and it is the southern part that is usually thought of when the word is used. For most purposes, Drake takes Appalachia to run south from Pittsburgh.

The original residents of Appalachia do not seem to have formed a distinctive zone. Indian cultures, so far as we know them, were not coterminous with the several hundred counties in 10 states that make up Drake's Appalachia. The reason, not identified by Drake, is simple. Uncomplicated Indian material culture was not constrained by rugged mountains. One could hunt, fish and grow a little corn and pumpkins as easily in the mountains as in the bottoms. (Hawaii, where I live now, shows a similar situation. Places, such as valleys on the north shore of Molokai, that today are so remote that people scarcely visit them, were populated in premodern times, because they were nearly self-sufficient.)

It was the irupution of iron, gunpowder and woven cloth into the southeast that allowed the evolution of a distinctive Appalachian cultural zone. Mountain people were necessarily going to be poorer than residents of the Piedmont. Drake distinguishes three kinds of Appalachians: the educated, politically dominant county seat townsfolk, the prosperous farmers in the bottoms and the ones he cares most about, who have been called Branchwater Mountaineers: Largely unschooled, with unproductive farms and, until radio came, spotty contact with the rest of the world.

Drake defines these backwoodsmen as inheritors of a "yeomanesque" outlook, derived from their ancestors in (mostly) Britain and Germany (although he frequently reminds his readers that Africa was the origin about about 10 percent of Appalachia's non-native population), who yearned for their own land and a chance to live on their own. They had little hankering for money income and so no inclination to commercial agriculture.

As often happens when people are in no position to become wealthy, they developed a system, of esteem and respect that was not based on money. That alone made Appalachians outsiders in the American culture.

By an historical accident, the people who settled Appalachia were largely from what David Hackett Fischer calls the British Borderlands of northern England, lowland Scotland and northern Ireland, an area without effective central government but with a culture of honor, blood feuds, primitive agricultural methods and violence. Drake specifically says these "Scotch-Irish" were good farmers, but he is wrong and Fischer is right. The Germans, largely from the Palatinate, were good farmers, but the English-speakers were, and are, not.

The biggest flaw in Drake's otherwise admirable book is his rejection of what might be called the Fischer premise (stated in his "Albion's Seed"), that Appalachia was (and is) more violent than the American general level. Drake says the stereotypical version of the feudin', fightin', cousin-marryin' highlander is exaggerated.

Not by much. As a Kentucky writer, he has to address the Hatfield-McCoy legend and some other aspects of Southern mountain violence (like the Saltville massacre), but he downplays its pervasiveness.

In order to do this, he has to overlook some serious kinds of organized and unorganized violence. The Night Riders of Kentucky in 1907-08, the Siege of Athens (Tennessee) and the Homestead strike, for example, which he doesn't mention.

On the other hand, he is right to emphasize the almost crazed land hunger that marks the southern highlander. The fierceness with which the typical Appalachian defends his property line, especially from the occasional agent of public law, is no stereotype.

Drake is also under the influence of Immanuel Wallerstein and World System Theory and tends to favor some recent scholarship that treats Appalachia as an internal colony for resource extraction in the larger country. This is defensible but unpersuasive. Drake, judicious throughout, sympathizes with the economic plight of the Branchwater Mountaineer but draws back from the forthright anger of a Harry Caudill ("Night Comes to the Cumberlands").

I find Caudill more persuasive.

"A History of Appalachia" reads as if it were written as a text for an introductory level college course, and in a few pages tries to be comprehensive. I think he underdoes mountain religion and music and overdoes the printed part of mountain culture.

Southern Appalachia is a strange and beautiful place, populated by a strange and prideful people, too exuberant, idiosyncratic and standoffish to be limned in a volume of fewer than 300 pages. But as a thoughtful introduction, "A History of Appalachia" covers, or at least touches upon, all the bases.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Informative and packed with economic details, but could have used some editing and more detail about the backwoods people
By Christopher Culver
Richard B. Drake's "A History of Appalachia" describes this mysterious part of the eastern United States from the pre-European era to the end of the 20th century. Although published by the University Press of Kentucky, this is meant for a general audience. There are no footnotes or in-text citations, and references are cited at the end of the book.

There are many definitions of Appalachia, and some scholars have questioned whether it even makes sense to speak of one such region. Drake sees Appalachia as the mountainous areas of northern Alabama and northern Georgia, the west of South Carolia, Tennessee, eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, part of the west of Virgina and finally western Pennsylvania. What unifies this whole region, Drake claims, is the feature of yeomanry: a society where a family owns and farms its own land. The earliest settlers came from portions of Great Britain and Germany whose inhabitants were hungry for land, wanting that sort of security and unwilling to work on larger commercial farms. Though Appalachian society has diversified and yeomanry involves a minority of Appalachians, Drake believes this phenomenon has continued to the present day.

The economic history of Appalachia also interests Drake. He notes that for centuries this part of the United States was fairly self-sufficient. The industrialization of the US brought the area into the capitalist system. A heavy demand for coal and timber meant that the region was exploited for its natural resources, with results that weren't entirely fair for locals. The book closes with some musings on how Appalachia can prosper economically without losing the traditional values that Drake admires.

A HISTORY OF APPALACHIA is certainly informative on many levels. Unfortunately, this work isn't all that enjoyable and doesn't live up to its potential. Another reviewer called this a "cut and paste" effort, and it's easy to see why. It reads like Drake was just copying whole bits out of earlier sources and then never went back and ironed the text out. I lost count of how many times a factoid is given and then repeated in slightly different wording on the following page. What is also tiresome is that on one hand Drake claims that the stereotype of the violent, illiterate mountain man is unfair, perhaps an invention of outsiders, but on the other hand he sometimes notes that there exist such Appalachians. He fails to give a deeper description of such people, whose psychology would be genuinely interesting to readers from other parts of the United States. Finally, the text may be dated already: the only problem backwoods folk seem to face is poverty, but the issue of methamphetamine use is never presented.

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Tropical birds scattered as Drake veered the Jeep onto an old rutted track, snapping branches and tearing away vines, plowing through the rain forest with killers in pursuit, bullets flying, a gorgeous but pouty girl in the passenger's seat, and a bitch of a headache. With only one of his arms on the wheel, the Jeep slewed to the left, and the pouty girl screamed as he forced the vehicle back onto the trail just before they would have crashed into a felled tree.

Nathan Drake was beginning to hate the jungle.

He glanced in the rearview mirror an instant before a bullet shattered it, forcing him to risk glancing back over his shoulder. There were three vehicles in pursuit, a lumbering truck that had fallen to the rear and two Jeeps just like the one he was driving; which made sense considering that this one had been parked next to them when he'd stolen it.

The jungle had closed in around them, a wild tangle of rain forest the people of Ecuador called El Oriente, which seemed to him a pretty ordinary-sounding name for a place full of things that could kill you--like brutal sons of bitches employed by pissed-off South American drug lords.

The rutted track he'd taken forced the three vehicles into single file; which was good since it meant only one carload of them could be shooting at him at any given time. Bullets tore at leaves and cracked branches, the Jeep juddered up and down, rattling his teeth, and Drake kept his head down.

"This is your idea of a rescue?" the girl shouted.

He glanced at her wide eyes and her pretty mouth and her soft skin the color of cinnamon and decided he didn't like cinnamon. It ruined a good piece of toast as far as he was concerned.

"What the hell makes you think this is a rescue?" he snapped.

She blanched a little at that, and then her eyes narrowed. "Maybe the fact that here you are, rescuing me."

Drake laughed, but then his smile vanished as he heard bullets plink into the metal rear of the Jeep. The spare tire bolted to the back blew, but that was a damn sight better than losing one of the tires he was actually using.

"Does this look like a rescue?" he asked. "You're along for the ride by accident, sweetheart."

In truth, it hadn't been entirely by accident. He'd infiltrated the rain forest compound where Ramon Valdez tended to hide out from the rest of the world, running his drug cartel from a place so remote that nobody wanted to go hunting for him there. No one with half a brain, Drake thought. That hadn't stopped him from tracking Valdez down twice in three years.

He didn't like jobs that involved outright theft, for reasons that were best explained by the situation unfolding around him that very moment. But in the case of Ramon Valdez, he'd made an exception because he had a prior claim on the item he'd been hired to steal. He'd stolen it once before.

The girl had been a wrinkle in his plan. He'd found her trussed up in Valdez's bedroom and had intended to leave her there until her efforts to free herself gave him the idea that maybe she wasn't a willing participant in her bondage. That had complicated matters significantly, because timing was vital to his plan. For a few seconds he had tried to persuade himself that he wouldn't regret leaving her there--that her struggle was some kind of playacting she'd rehearsed for Valdez's benefit--but as he had started to walk away, he'd known he was lying to himself. Drake knew a prisoner when he saw one.

"What were you doing there, anyway?" he asked, jerking the wheel to the right.

"Vacation," she said bitterly in that aren't-you-a-dumbass tone young women seemed to perfect so early. "What do you think?"

"Not really the question," Drake said.

A burst of gunfire tore up the trees to his left; the last few bullets stitched the side of the Jeep and then blew out a taillight. A macaw exploded in midflight in a bullet-riddled burst of blood and feathers.

"Maybe you should focus on driving?" the girl asked, panic in her eyes as she ducked lower in her seat. "How can you be so calm?"

"Oh, this isn't calm," Drake said, twisting the wheel to veer around a felled tree. The Jeep rumbled over brush and roots and sideswiped a giant kapok tree. "This is me terrified. I can tell by the white knuckles and the way my jaw hurts from clenching."

The girl glanced at his hands on the wheel. She must have noted the whiteness of his knuckles, because she went a shade paler than before.

"You going to tell me who you are?" Drake demanded.

"My father really didn't send you?" she asked.

Her disappointment softened him as much as a guy driving through the jungle pursued by people trying to kill him could be softened. He saw the split-trunk tree he'd been watching for, the only kind of landmark that could be expected out here, and cut the wheel to the left, crashing the Jeep through a curtain of hanging vines and onto a trail that had been trodden by hooves but rarely by tires. The Jeep bucked like crazy; it felt like it would shake apart in his hands, leaving him sitting on the driver's seat and holding the steering wheel with no car around him.

"Sorry, kid. I don't have a clue what you're talking about."

She lifted her chin, trying too late to hide her withered hope. "My name is Alex Munoz. My father is mayor of Guayaquil. He's been fighting a war against drugs in the city, and he can't be bought."

She said this proudly, and Drake didn't blame her. For the mayor of a major South American city to take on the drug cartels, he had to be either courageous as hell or absolutely nuts. Alex didn't have to tell him the rest of the story, either. Beautiful girl, no more than nineteen, bound and gagged in a drug lord's bedroom? She had been a hostage, a negotiating tactic, and probably about to become the victim of something worse.

How do I get into these things? Drake thought.

But then, it wasn't Alex Munoz's fault that he was being shot at. Sure, untying her and getting her out of the compound had given him away and slowed him down, but it had been a risky plan to begin with, and in his experience risky plans almost always ended up in him being shot at--and sometimes actually shot.

"So if Papa didn't send you, who are you?" Alex asked, her pouty look returning. "What are you going to do with me?"

Drake ignored the second question. If there was anything he'd learned over the years, it was that while running for his life with a woman at his side, it was best never to tell her you didn't have a plan. "My name's Drake. Nate Drake."

If she got the James Bond reference in his delivery, she didn't let on. "What is this?" Alex asked. "What did you do to make Valdez so angry?"

Drake gestured to the backseat. "See that?"

When Alex glanced into the back, Drake knew what she would see. The staff was wrapped in burlap kept tight by strips of duct tape. The burlap had come from the poppy farm on the other side of the compound from Valdez's house. Drake had brought the duct tape himself. He'd managed to get the display case in Valdez's study open without setting off any alarms, had bagged and tagged the staff, and had been making his exit when he glanced into the bedroom and saw the girl with the cinnamon skin. The rest was dumbass history.

"I see it," Alex said.

"Have you heard of the Dawn Tavern?"

"Are you talking about a bar or Pacariqtambo? The place of origin? Or are you talking about the lost colony?"

"You know the story?" Drake said, glad he didn't have to explain. Just the fact that they were having this conversation was absurd enough, but he figured it was better than her screaming at him not to let her die or him cursing himself out for coming down here in the first place.

"Of course," Alex sniffed. "I go to university."

Great, Drake thought. The only brat in the jungle, and she's in my Jeep.

In Incan myth, Pacariqtambo was a cave from which the first people had emerged into the world. One of those brothers and sisters was a guy named Ayar Manco who carried a golden staff that was supposed to indicate where his people should build the first Incan city. Legend said that he'd changed his name and founded the city of Cuzco, that he and his sisters had built the first Incan homes with their bare hands. To many people in the region, the story was more history than legend, which meant that the discovery three years ago of the ruins of a lost colony--supposedly an offshoot of those original Incans, going all the way back to Ayar Manco--had stirred up a serious controversy. A local tribe whose people claimed to have known about the lost colony all along insisted that the ruins were the real and actual Pacariqtambo, that after being betrayed by his siblings, Ayar Manco had returned to the cave of his birth with his wife and children and founded this hidden village. The public argument about what was real and what was myth had been raging ever since.

"Three years ago, Valdez hired me to lead a team into Pacariqtambo and bring back whatever artifacts we could find. But what he really wanted was the golden staff of Ayar Manco. After I brought it to him, he decided he'd rather kill me than pay me. I barely got out of Ecuador with my life."

Alex looked at him like he was crazy. "So you decided to steal it back?"

Drake laughed. "Are you nuts? Valdez eats guys like me for breakfast. No, I figured I was lucky to still be breathing. But the Cuiqawa--the tribe that made those claims about Ayar Manco? They figure they're probably his closest descendants, so the staff should be theirs. They hired me to get it back."

"And you took the job? After Valdez almost killed you?"

"A guy's gotta work," Drake said. "And hey, Valdez went back on a deal. That just doesn't sit right, y' know? I figured the least I could do was annoy him a little."

They held on as the Jeep dropped into a streambed, splashed through, and roared up the other side. The guns had gone quiet, and Drake took a moment to hope Valdez's goons had given up the chase. Then one of the pursuing Jeeps burst through the vines behind them, and he realized he should have known better. It was never that easy.

"Hey," Drake said, glancing at Alex as he drove, a fresh burst of gunfire blasting the trees off to his left. "Do you think your father's offering a reward for your safe return?"

She stared at him. "You said this wasn't a rescue."

"No," Drake replied, "I don't think I did. And anyway, it's a moot point, isn't it? I mean, once a guy's actually done the rescuing--"

"You haven't rescued me!" she shouted as a bullet shattered the rearview mirror on her side, showering her hair in shards of glass and metal.

"Well," Drake said. "Not yet."

He aimed the Jeep at a gap in the trees that looked too narrow, but they roared through with inches to spare on either side. Alex swore at him and covered her head, then looked up in blinking astonishment that they had not crashed even as Drake floored the gas pedal and the tires spun clods of damp earth into their wake. For a few seconds the clatter of gunfire ceased again, and as they passed through a strangely uniform alley of trees and vines, the hush of the rain forest embraced them, muffling their engine noise.

The Jeep hit a rise, then topped it, and the tires spun without traction for a heartbeat before touching down in a small clearing. Stiff-armed, Drake kept the wheel steady over the rough terrain, but they had run out of room. Thick brush bordered the clearing, and trees grew close and leaned together, conspiratorially close. The only way out was the way Drake had driven in, and Valdez's gunmen were right behind them.

"Oh, my God, we're dead!" Alex cried.

Drake drove full tilt toward the far side of the clearing, the trees rushing toward them. At the last second, he cut the wheel to the right and hit the brake, causing the Jeep to fishtail and then shudder to a stop. The engine kicked and died, ticking with the heat of its exertion.

"Put your hands up," he said.

Alex glanced at him in confusion. "What?"

Drake threw his gun on the floor of the Jeep and climbed out, raising his arms in surrender. "If you don't want to get shot, put your damn hands up!"

The first of the pursuing vehicles roared into the clearing. Several shots rang out, but Drake started shouting out his surrender in both English and Spanish, lifting his hands higher to show he meant it. He stepped away from the Jeep as Alex finally put up her hands and slipped out, imitating him as best she could. She had started to cry.

Drake thought it was a bad idea to smile, but he had to struggle to keep a straight face. Fear did that to him. He figured Valdez had ordered his thugs to retrieve the girl and the staff of Ayar Manco, and it seemed pretty damn likely that he'd ordered them to kill the thief who had stolen both--which would be him--but he thought surrender would confuse them. Hoped it would, anyway.

The second carload of killers arrived in the clearing as the first came to a shuddering stop twenty feet away from him, their weapons trained on him and Alex. The big truck would be lumbering along somewhere behind. In one of those vehicles would be the guy in charge, some bastard smarter than the other bastards, and in their moment of confusion the killers would wait for him to make the call. If Drake was surrendering, did that mean they should take him back to Valdez alive, or were they still supposed to shoot him?

While they were waiting, they climbed out of the two Jeeps, all of them shouting, spreading out in a circle around Drake and the crying girl, who didn't seem to understand that they would take her alive to preserve her value as a hostage. Or maybe that was why she was crying, Drake thought. Maybe being taken alive scared her more than dying.

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This is a "can't miss" for fans of the series
By DDC
This is the first book from the Uncharted IP. In the interests of full disclosure, I guess I should say that I'm a big fans of the first two games and I have pre-ordered the third.

Fans of the games really should check out The Fourth Labyrinth. Without spoiling the story, Drake and Sully embark on a worldwide adventure with Sully's "niece." In this respect, the book sticks pretty close to the format of the games: Drake, Sully, treasure, and a girl. The pacing, however, is a lot different from the games. While the games are fairly combat heavy, this book focuses a bit more on the exploration and cloak & dagger aspects to the adventure. This really isn't a bad thing, because it provides a lot of insight into how Drake thinks and operates; insight that simply isn't available in the games. Drake's relationship with his own family is briefly explored (and I mean brief) and his relationship with Sully is really explored. The combat does pick up a bit towards the end. Overall, the book is a real page turner and a quick and fun read.

Even better, since the author worked closely with Naughty Dog and Amy Hennig, this story (I think) can be considered part of the Uncharted canon. Of course, that's probably another reason to pick it up.

So, why not five stars? First, this book isn't likely to interest anyone not already drawn into the series. For example, Drake's physical appearance is actually never described in the book. For those of us that have spent numerous hours guiding him through the games, this is no big deal. But, if I just picked up the book without the benefit of the games, my only clue to his appearance would be the cover art (which is not great). Second (and more frustrating for fans of the series), this book does nothing really to advance the IP. As a fan, you could skip this book entirely and you wouldn't be any worse off in terms of understanding the Uncharted mythos. It's not as if this book explains (or links to) anything in the games. Thus, it's really just a stand alone adventure, albeit it with characters we're really invested in.

All this being said, if you consider yourself a fan of the series, I'm sure you really will enjoy this book. I highly recommend it.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
You have to be a fan of the game series.
By Grawbad
In order to get enjoyment out of this you really need to be a fan of the game. There really isn't any character development at all. Having played the games I know the character and like the setting, so in turn I did enjoy this story. I guess I can't say you wont enjoy it if you have not played the game, but it will just be mediocre to you in my opinion at least.

For fans of the series your treated to a nice little story that doesn't really affect the games at all and can be read at any time. It kind of sort of reminds me of National Treasure and the like.

The pacing felt correct and the characters were likable, but again, I like the series, what you get out of it could be different if you haven't played the games because you haven't built up a liking towards them.

In the end if your a fan, pick it up, you will be satisfied. If your not, I think the overall story would be fine for you if you like things like National Treasure, just don't expect to be blown away.

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Great Story, Continues Drake's Legacy
By CG
I really enjoyed Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. They're like unlicensed Indiana Jones games with astonishing graphics and adventure gameplay, but compelling characters. The storylines in the games were never particularly deep, but Drake and Sully still feel like familiar old friends.

I don't usually read novels based on/inspired by video games, but I enjoyed the Uncharted games enough that I thought I'd give this one a shot. It contains a lot of historical references and depth of story, something very much needed in a purely text-based novel (as opposed to graphic). The story sees you traveling to various places around the world, alternately pursued by a wealthy megalomaniac and shadowy figures.

I would definitely read another book by this author, and this was a great way for me to get my Nathan Drake fix until Uncharted 3 comes out!

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This is an introduction to those aspects of linguistics broadly described as the sociology of language. The topics discussed include societal multilingualism, diglossia, language attitudes, language choice, language maintenance and shift, language planning and standardization and the use of language in education. Written by a leading sociolinguist, this immensely popular textbook is both more comprehensive and more authoritative than any other available text.

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"If his second volume is as thoughtful and as informative as his first then he will have made a major contribution both to the teaching of sociolinguistics and to its coming of age as a discrete field of study." Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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This is an introduction to those aspects of sociolinguistics broadly described as the sociology of language; the effect of language and dialect differences on society.

Beginning with a general description of the social consequences of several languages being used in one society, Ralph Fasold moves on to discuss 'diglossia', the phenomena by which social functions are assigned to languages and dialects in a predictable manner. Other aspects of the subject covered here include social attitudes towards various languages and dialects, the social forces which influence multilingual people to use different language sin different situations, and wholesale shifts by social groups from one language to another (and the converse, retention of particular languages. The theory and practice of language planning, and the significance of language in education, are examined and explained. In addition, the book deals with qualitative and quantitative methods of analysing multilingualism and includes a helpful chapter on statistical techniques.

Written by a leading sociolinguist and teacher, this textbook is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the field. With the beginner in mind, the author writes in a clear, relaxed style, explaining current theories and giving many examples from all parts of the world. The second volume of this book, The Sociolinguistics of Language makes up the definitive introductory account of the subject for students throughout the world.

This volume is the companion of The Sociolinguistics of Language. Together these books will make up a definitive introductory account of the subject for students throughout the world.

About the Author
Ralph Fasold is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He is Advisory Editor to the Blackwell series Language in Society.

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Four Stars
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Although "older" this text is a classic for beginners in sociolinguistics.

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Surprising, but not in a good way.
By M. Anderson
When I first looked at this book (after opening the package from Amazon), I thought it would be perfect... it's not a hefty 1000-page cookbook... and seemed like it would be just the perfect level of detail to rein in the broad topics into something coherent. In fact, the book does a decent job with the overall picture, but has some major flaws in style, presentation, and bias that renders it a groggy, often un-informing, experience. I stuck with it, because I had no alternative at hand, and a tight timeframe, so I can speak as a reviewer that has actually read the book.

The Good: This book contains a decent overview of SOA components and does tie them together in a good overall picture.

The Bad (part I): This book was written by an IBM Senior Architect. The technical editor for the book is an IBM Architect. The forward was written by an IBM Fellow. The back cover contains endorsements from two IBMers, one of which is the VP for WebSphere Marketing. Much of the book contains unbiased information on industry standards. However, much of the rest of the book is an over-the-top promotion of IBM products. For example, the capstone of this work is the chapter on Enterprise Service Bus. This chapter reads like glossy marketing literature for IBM products at best and like an informertial at worst. That chapter is only 30 pages long, but uses the word "WebSphere" 24 times by my count. Conversely, the non-IBM Weblogic is mentioned exactly 0 times in the same chapter, and rarely throughout the rest of the book. This book calls IBM's WESB "the prime example" of an application server based ESB and goes on to list, in bulletized form, its "features and advantages". In another section, the author states, "IBM offers the most complete product lines in this area."

The Bad (part II): This book is poorly presented. It can't decide if it is a 40,000 ft overview or a detailed description of various technologies. For example, SOAP is covered in 22 short pages. That's obviously not enough for anything more than an explanation of what it is, how it is used, why it's good, and a few examples. Yet the author tries to dive into the structure of a SOAP message to the point of who-cares detail for a book like this. In the 22 pages covering SOAP, for example, the author states FIVE TIMES that if the header element is present, it must precede the body element.

In addition, the author uses a highly verbose and repetitive style. It often seems that about 20% of the book is either telling you what it's going to tell you or telling you what it's already told you. The book could have contained the same amount of useful information in about 200 pages. This overly verbose and repetitive style gives the book a sense that the author, a PhD, does not know how to communicate effectively with lesser intellects and frequently overshoots his simplification. The result is that the work often, but inconsistently, reads a bit like a "for dummies" type of book.

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Excellent Book for Integration Through SOA
By Rao B. Korimilli
Waseem did a great job of explaining the concepts of SOA for a novice, as well as providing the details needed for actual integration efforts, as best as can be done outside the context of the needs of any specific business entity.

Waseem was a colleague of mine, and is a friend. After I received the book from Amazon for the purpose of reviewing, I could find time only recently to go through the pages of this book on a long flight from DC to California. I am extremely impressed with the overall content of the book, as well as the way Waseem presented it; in particular by the way he bridges the gap from concept to practice.

I can relate to the content in this book from my own experience over the years. I have had the opportunity to create enterprise-wide SOA strategy as a lead architect at some of the largest corporations and industry leaders in the world, and led their implementations. Integration has inevitably been one of the essential aspects of these SOA implementations, due to the many mission critical legacy applications and platforms in various line of business at these large corporations, and due to their need to integrate with business partners. These needs for integration spanned a wide variety of hardware platforms (from the largest mainframes to the latest smart phones), many operating systems, a variety of middleware platforms, as well as several application platforms (like ERP systems), all from different vendors. Indeed for some of these corporations, integration is the entry point into SOA, while others could embark on a broader implementation of SOA. I also had the opportunity to conduct reviews of projects at a few other corporations; some of these projects that I reviewed were successful, and some not so successful, for a variety of reasons. This book undoubtedly covers many of the integration techniques needed for successful integration, starting with SOA concepts and related standards, and proceeding to a good amount of detail.

There are just a few details where I might differ, but that pales in comparison to the overall value of the book. I strongly recommend this book to all those who may be interested in integration through SOA. Great job, Waseem!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A Pleasant Surprise: Great Book on SOA and Enterprise Integration
By John Woodard
When I first started reading the book, I thought it would be just another SOA book, with lots of fluff/propaganda and little solid material on SOA. However, I was very pleasantly surprised by the contents of the book. The book does provide a great overview of SOA and the associated distributing computing technologies such as sockets, RPC, distributed objects, and messaging but, in addition, it provides code examples for each of SOA-based integration patterns, which makes it extremely useful book for practictioning IT professional such as IT Architects and developers.

Furthermore, a very appealing aspects of this book is that it provides a complete description of the SOA and SOA-based integration patterns by addressing gaps in these areas which exists in the current literature. Thus, in addition to describing web services and how to develop them, it contains detailed chapters on the enterprise service bus and integration of mainframe based applications. I especially liked the chapter on the Enterprise Service Bus - I have not found such a comprehensive treatment of the Enterprise Service Bus in any other book on SOA.

In the end, I have learned a great deal from reading this book and I highly recommend this book to any IT professional who is interested in the subject of SOA and Enterprise integration. The book would serve as a great reference for IT architects, senior developers, and IT managers.

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED • A companion novel inspired by Star Wars: Battlefront, this action-packed adventure follows a squad of soldiers caught in the trenches of the ultimate galactic war between good and evil.

The bravest soldiers. The toughest warriors. The ultimate survivors.

Among the stars and across the vast expanses of space, the Galactic Civil War rages. On the battlefields of multiple worlds in the Mid Rim, legions of ruthless stormtroopers—bent on crushing resistance to the Empire wherever it arises—are waging close and brutal combat against an armada of freedom fighters. In the streets and alleys of ravaged cities, the front-line forces of the Rebel Alliance are taking the fight to the enemy, pushing deeper into Imperial territory and grappling with the savage flesh-and-blood realities of war on the ground.

Leading the charge are the soldiers—men and women, human and nonhuman—of the Sixty-First Mobile Infantry, better known as Twilight Company. Hard-bitten, war-weary, and ferociously loyal to one another, the members of this renegade outfit doggedly survive where others perish, and defiance is their most powerful weapon against the deadliest odds. When orders come down for the rebels to fall back in the face of superior opposition numbers and firepower, Twilight reluctantly complies. Then an unlikely ally radically changes the strategic equation—and gives the Alliance’s hardest-fighting warriors a crucial chance to turn retreat into resurgence.

Orders or not, alone and outgunned but unbowed, Twilight Company locks, loads, and prepares to make its boldest maneuver—trading down-and-dirty battle in the trenches for a game-changing strike at the ultimate target: the very heart of the Empire’s military machine.

Praise for Battlefront: Twilight Company

“A novel that ties in to a video game based on a sprawling sci-fi franchise shouldn’t be this good. . . . Battlefront: Twilight Company effortlessly thrusts readers onto the frontlines of the Galactic Civil War in a gripping tale.”—New York Daily News

“Compelling . . . an entertaining journey through a galaxy in turmoil . . . Battlefront: Twilight Company explores what happens to the cannon fodder fighting and dying in the background of space opera’s cinematic action sequences. Focusing on the life of a few low-ranking Rebel grunts caught up in a vast interstellar conflict, the novel is an enjoyable tale of interstellar adventure and drama.”—IGN

“Satisfyingly complex, immersive and moving . . . a war story unlike any Star Wars book that’s come before it.”—Roqoo Depot

“A military thriller [with] some pretty impressive actions scenes [and] the lived-in, gritty feel of the original trilogy . . . [Alexander] Freed shows us the military side of the Star Wars universe in a way that we haven’t seen much before, while also giving readers new perspectives on classic characters and moments.”—Tech Times

“Twilight Company is one of the greatest Star Wars stories ever about someone doggedly, cynically coming to understand why acting according to the light side is important.”—Den of Geek

“The strongest canon piece of Star Wars literature thus far . . . sure to be a fan-pleasing favorite . . . Explosive action scenes and dark humor only punctuate this character-driven tale [with] heavy world-building and cameos from other characters throughout the Star Wars pantheon.”—Alternative Nation

• Sales Rank: #24097 in Books
• Brand: Del Rey
• Published on: 2016-06-28
• Released on: 2016-06-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.50" h x 1.07" w x 4.19" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

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“A novel that ties in to a video game based on a sprawling sci-fi franchise shouldn’t be this good. . . . Battlefront: Twilight Company effortlessly thrusts readers onto the frontlines of the Galactic Civil War in a gripping tale.”—New York Daily News
 
“Compelling . . . an entertaining journey through a galaxy in turmoil . . . Battlefront: Twilight Company explores what happens to the cannon fodder fighting and dying in the background of space opera’s cinematic action sequences. Focusing on the life of a few low-ranking Rebel grunts caught up in a vast interstellar conflict, the novel is an enjoyable tale of interstellar adventure and drama.”—IGN
 
“Satisfyingly complex, immersive and moving . . . a war story unlike any Star Wars book that’s come before it.”—Roqoo Depot
 
“A military thriller [with] some pretty impressive actions scenes [and] the lived-in, gritty feel of the original trilogy . . . [Alexander] Freed shows us the military side of the Star Wars universe in a way that we haven’t seen much before, while also giving readers new perspectives on classic characters and moments.”—Tech Times
 
“Twilight Company is one of the greatest Star Wars stories ever about someone doggedly, cynically coming to understand why acting according to the light side is important.”—Den of Geek
 
“The strongest canon piece of Star Wars literature thus far . . . sure to be a fan-pleasing favorite . . . Explosive action scenes and dark humor only punctuate this character-driven tale [with] heavy world-building and cameos from other characters throughout the Star Wars pantheon.”—Alternative Nation


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About the Author
Alexander Freed is the author of Star Wars: The Old Republic: The Lost Suns, as well as many short stories, comic books, and videogames. Born near Philadelphia, he endeavors to bring the city’s dour charm with him to his current home of Austin, Texas.


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117 of 123 people found the following review helpful.
The Best Star Wars War Story Out There
By Skuldren
Over the years, we’ve gotten a lot of different types of Star Wars books. From Goosebumps to straight up horror novels, to romance and mystery to prison and time travel. Amid all those books, warfare has been a common theme, after all it’s in the title of the movies. But very few have presented themselves as war stories. The Medstar duology dabbled in the genre by taking a stab at M.A.S.H. The New Jedi Order books delved into warfare, but it was a matter of space battles and lightsaber fights. Yet Battlefront: Twilight Company doesn’t side step the war by focusing on a hospital unit. Nor does it Star Wars it up with lightsabers and dogfights with starfighters. Instead, this book feels like an account of a real war. These are ground troops slugging it out on unremarkable alien worlds, watching their comrades die, and not seeing an end in sight for the war. The heroes of the rebellion are legends that are talked about but rarely glimpsed. It’s grim, it’s tense, it’s realistic, and through the battles and conflicts, the characters become real people with real stakes. This is Star Wars drama at it’s best. It shows the grim faces of the war that populates the films we love so much. It raises questions about all sides of the battle through varying perspectives, thus giving light to angles we don’t often see. In short, this is a book you need to read. It’s not often that a Star Wars story expands our view of the Star Wars universe.

Battlefront: Twilight Company explores several different viewpoint characters, but the focal point is Sergeant Namir. Namir is a squad leader in the Rebel Alliance’s 61st Mobile Infantry, also known as Twilight Company. As a grizzled veteran, he knows how to fight and strives to keep his people alive. Yet everything changes as they capture a high value Imperial target. With the Rebels retreating from the Mid Rim prior to the Battle of Hoth, this Imperial asset gives them a chance to strike back at the Empire and turn the tables. It leads to battles on far flung words and grueling campaigns in alien environments. The book puts the readers in the trenches with the soldiers as they sweat and bleed to stay alive. With Namir at its center, though, it’s not a rosy look at a band of freedom fighters striving to topple an evil empire. For Namir, fighting for the Rebel Alliance is just another war. He doesn’t have any stakes in the fight except to protect his people. He’s a soldier, it’s all he knows, and he’s good at it. Through the story, readers will get to learn more about him, his backstory, and what it is that makes him tick. The vast difference between him and big three—Luke, Han and Leia—makes his story rather refreshing. He’s not a wide eyed farm boy with Force skills, a scoundrel with a heart of gold, or a true believer of the Rebel cause. Instead, he’s something quite different.

Aside from Namir and several of the members of Twilight Company, the book also explores the Imperial side of things. On the planet Sullust, there’s a female stormtrooper named SP-457 who is used to show what it’s like for ordinary citizens who decide to join the ranks of the stormtrooper corps. SP-457’s story is interesting because it does not glamorize the Empire. They’re as complicated as any group, and with people like her, it shows how they’re not all mindless evil doers out for selfish kicks. Then there’s Captain Tabor, an Imperial instructor brought out of retirement by one of the Emperor’s favored servants, a prelate named Verge. Together they show a different viewpoint of the Empire, one that illustrates the differences between the old ways and the new. Verge is the prime example of what the Emperor’s New Order is creating. He’s as much a creature of their excess as he is a victim. On top of all of that, there’s the Imperial asset that Twilight Company captures who adds yet another viewpoint to it all. From all of the different perspectives, the entire picture slowly comes into view. But the surprising thing isn’t that they all show one crystal clear picture, it’s that they show just how complicated and messy the whole thing is. In the war between the Empire and the Rebels, there are a lot of shades of gray, and allegiances are not set in stone.

It’s worth noting that the book does jump around a bit. The main storyline follows Twilight Company in their present battles, goes through the Battle of Hoth, and then shows the battles that follow leading all the way up to Sullust. Scattered throughout that are flashbacks of Namir’s past life on a backwater planet riddled by war. Those scenes help reveal clues about his character. The book also jumps around from the different viewpoint characters. So while most of the book focuses on Twilight Company, you get a handful of chapters on SP-457 and her experiences on Sullust, which ties in later in the book. There’s also Tabor and Verge who get another handful of chapters as they hunt down Twilight Company. Everything comes together in the end and the format works well to break things up and showcase the different views of the war.

The highlight of the book, however, is how well Alexander Freed nails the feel of a war story. I’ve read a lot of war biographies, and Battlefront: Twlight Company feels like a soldier’s account of his campaign in the Galactic Civil War. The little details of battle, the discussions between the soldiers in their downtime, the bond between them, and the violence of war, it’s all captured brilliantly. This feels real. There’s no better way to put it than that. Yet it’s not just they way Freed captures a soldier’s story, but how he uses it to illuminate the complexities of the conflict. Everyone in this story has a different motivation for what they do, and none of them are straightforward. They’re all products of their experiences and mysteries for the readers to explore and discover. Even by the end of the book, not all of those questions about the characters are answered, but there are a enough clues for the reader to make their own conclusions. It’s satisfyingly complex, immersive and moving. If you’ve ever wondered what it must be like for a soldier in the Rebel Alliance, this is the book you need to read.

Having read over two hundred Star Wars books, it takes a lot to stand out and make an impression. What’s really impressive is that this is Alexander Freed’s first novel. With Battlefront: Twilight Company, he tells a war story like we’ve never seen before in Star Wars. It’s gripping, stirring storytelling that throws readers straight into the trenches with the soldiers of the Rebel Alliance. Who will live? Who will die? It’s all another step forward in the war against the Empire. I give it a five out of five.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Action-packed and thought provoking
By Buck
When I picked up this book, I had no real expectations that it would be good, or all that enjoyable. I am not a gamer, so I haven't played the game this ties into. I was rather surprised to find that I loved this book, and even more surprised to see that it was the author's first novel.

I have missed this particular aspect of the Star Wars EU since the final Republic Commando novel. There hasn't been a proper war novel in some time, and I love to read stories from the perspective of boots on the ground. Showing the troops as hungry, dirty, tired at every turn was spot on. The curt exchanges between the main characters and the gallows humor were very accurate and not overly cheesy.

The best part of the book was the main protagonist Namir. He is a battle weary war junkie. He doesn't believe in the Rebel cause, but he fights for the man or woman or alien at his side. As with most combat vets he doesn't care for the ideologies of the people in charge or their politics. He just wants to keep the people closest to him safe. What happens when he is put in charge?

I also saw how the new Star Wars canon is fitting together more seamlessly. The book hints at what could happen if the Alliance were in fact to defeat the Galactic Empire. Of course the story doesn't end with Return of the Jedi. Of course the destruction of the second Death Star and the death of the Emperor doesn't mean the end of the war.

This book also shows how a certain group of characters from a certain show could be alive and we just haven't heard of their exploits. But that is pure speculation on my part.

Overall, I felt that this was the most thought provoking book to come out of the Star Wars EU in many years. I will definitely re-read it in the future and hope that Freed will write another book for Star Wars in the near future. This book was a worthy addition to the Star Wars lore.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Finally, A Star Wars War Book!
By Austin
This books is not like the Battlefront game at all (especially considering that the game has no story mode). This book takes what you know about Star Wars and implements it into a classic war story. A group of Rebels go through the gritty parts of war during the Galactic Civil War to fight off the Empire. But it's not that simple. Each character in the book fights for a different reason. No one's views are cut and dry. Some don't even know what they're fighting for. The face of the Rebellion looks "good," but many "bad" people fight in it.

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