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The Times staff brings you their favorite weekend escapes in Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, upstate New York, Long Island, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. From fly-fishing to touring the Baseball Hall of Fame, from whale watching to antiquing, the best adventures and activities are captured in personal pieces that are supplemented by detailed practical tips on exploring the region for yourself. New Yorkers and visitors alike will turn to this completely updated new edition again and again to plan weekends all year round.

A study of the political career, especially the Presidency, of John F. Kennedy. Includes reprints of and excerpts from articles in the New York Times.

Upriver and Downstream gathers seventy columns about fishing--from freshwater to saltwater, from small ponds to the Great Lakes, from the Pacific Northwest to post-Soviet Russia--written for the "Outdoors" column of the New York Times. Contributors include such celebrated names as Nick Lyons, Thomas McGuane, Nelson Bryant, Peter Kaminsky, Ernest Schweibert, and Robert H. Boyle. Short, evocative, informative, and entertaining, here are pieces about fly-fishing for wild brook trout, bait-fishing for striped bass, casting into tailwaters, or angling in midwinter. The settings range from Hudson River piers to the Florida Everglades, from Iceland to the Amazon, and the fish include everything from the common sunfish to the esoteric paddlefish. These engaging essays remind us of what fishing is all about: companionship and solitude, challenge and relaxation, nature and technology, from coast-to-coast to around the globe.Rich with the particulars of water, light, and air, as well as a keen awareness of, as Verlyn Klinkenborg puts it in his introduction, "what is happening out there--in the deep, in the shallows, at the end of the line," these reflections and recollections beautifully capture the natural world and one of life's most challenging, perennial pursuits.From the Hardcover edition.