You All might Still be Able to Find a Copy or Two, on the Shelf of your typical Borders or Barnes and Noble.

Go to the Sports Section. Survival / Outdoors / Camping / Firearms / Hunting and Fishing / Etc are Each Major and Respectable Subsections there! This Gem will Obviously, if there, -be Found within the Survival Subsection.

Failing it's Prescence, -You Still may be Well Able to Order it! Unless perhaps They Too've Got the Same Bad News your Navy Surplus has! Give it a Try though! There's still a Good Chance you may Be Able to Land this Book!

And to Polak 187, -Yes Indeed, -Geography's Now been Long One of our Sorriest, Most Pathetic Areas within our General American "Educational" System! Thay Along With Some of our Most Elementary, Basic, and Expected of Things! Concerning our Very History! Along with Many High School "Graduates", -Who Can't even Read their Own Diplomas! I'm Talking Things like Not Knowing that Washington was *Even* a President of Ours!, -or our Nation's Capitol!, -Let Alone our First!

I Used to (and Continue To) Regularly Hear Kids Respond Essentially!, -"I Don't Know and I Don't Care!", -With a "Who Are You to Even Ask!?", Sneer on their Faces! This is Much of the Story of our 80s, 90s, and now 2000s!

Things like Not even Knowing that Atlanta's One of our Own Cities, -or that Alaska is One of Our Own States! I Mean Really Pathetic No Brainers like That!!!

The Same with World Cultures, Customs and Peoples! At Least Towards Having some Basic, Nodding Acquaintence of Such! Including on those Valuable Cultural Do's and Don't's, -as a Number of Good Books have been Written on. As Well as What you'd Often Find in a Lonley Planet, or in Other Travel Guides! Those Often Crucial Enuff Cross Cultural Items and Awarenesses!, -are All Too Often Entirely *Not* even an Item on their Menus or Plate! In a World that *Is* More than just America and Americans, -We've Got to be Better of Ourselves than just That! To Know Something of the Europeans, the Latin Americans, the Arabs and Others of Islam, the Asians, Those of the Indian Subcontinent, Sub-Saharan Africans, the Larger Third World Out There, Hindus and Buddhists, Primitive Tribes!,....Not Just our Limited Own! Ok, -That Soap Box Rant now Completed.

The Same Story with Foreign Languages! Of Knowing Something of at Least One, -Other than our Own. Other Than just our Own English! (And Even That's Often Mangled Up or Disrespectingly Debased Pretty Bad!).

We for Decades and More Have Had Spanish and French, in our Secondary and High Schools, as a Regular Matter of Course. For College Bound Students.

Millions upon Millions of Americans have so Taken a Language. It's Often just as a Required Course though, -for Other Brighter Pastures they are Trying to Get Into! This Latter One a Point I Don't Entirely Fault.

But it's Not Exactly Like Most or Many Americans have Become Multilingual! It's Not Like we Havn't Had the Oppurtunity! At Least Here regarding Spanish and French. And of course Millions of Other Non-College Bound Students, -Have Not Had even That.

And Spanish, at least, -is Becoming Very Important! In How we are Rapidly Becoming a Bi-Lingual Country, -with All the Many Millions of Spanish Speaking Immigrants, Who've Joined U.S.!

Even Without That, -Spanish would be Very Important, -Just Out of it's Near Proximity! As Well as Out of it's Sheer "Volume Importance", -on the Scale of World Languages!

Yet so Many of my Typical, Average Fellow Americans, -Just Blissfully Carry On, -Thinking All They've Got To / Care to Know, -is their Own English! Alone!

I'd Respect my Average Fellow American in This here! If Only They'd at Least Carry their High School Spanish or French Along with them! I'm Not Expecting or Asking More. But They Often Can't or Won't even Swing or Manage That!

So if Many of U.S. Can't Even Read our Own High School Diplomas, -How are we Gonna Swing Arabic Script or Chinese Characters!?, -If Ever we Needed To?! If Some of U.S. are Utterly Lost in our Own English Language! Then They'd hane No Hope, -Should it Come to Chinese Characters or Arabic Script!

And These Two World Languages are at Least as Important!, as our Nearby Spanish, -in Today's World!

Similarly, -How is Many an American Gonna Know that Baghdad and Basra is in Iraq!, and Kabul and Kandahar's in Afghanistan!, -If They Don't Even Know or Care!, -That Peoria and Pennsylvania are in their Own United States?!?!?!?

Many of U.S. Really Do our Geography / History / and Language Acts!, -Pretty Pathetically and Laughably Bad! And I'm Sure that Much of the Surrounding Outside World, -Including that of our Very Real Enemies, -*Does* So Laugh at U.S.! I'm Sorry to Have to Saty it!, -But They've Genuinely Got One There! Some of U.S. have Really So Handed it to them!

Thats How Some of it Sorrowfully Enough Goes!, Polak, -Regarding some of our Typical American Geography and Etc of Scenes!

Its Not All Bad! Not All Americans, or American Students are Like That! We've Got our Bright Shining Areas too! But it's Ruefully Undeniable!, -That we've Got a Good and Sizeable Ball Dropping One! In These Areas and Ways as Well!

Remember, -Back to the Other Topic of this Thread, -Check Out your Local Borders or B & Ns! -For that Collins Survival Gem! [color:"black"] [/color] [email]leemann[/email]