Eyewitness Travel Arizona & The Grand Canyon

"Three-dimensional cutaway illustrations and floor plans of key landmarks complement these richly illustrated, fully updated travel handbooks that also include enhanced maps, street-by-street guides, background information on a host of popular sights and an expanded traveler's survival guide providing tips on hotels, restaurants, local customs, transportation, medical services, museums, entertainment and more."  (Publisher Description)
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Insider's Guide To Williamsburg and Virginia's Historic Triangle

By Sue Corbett

"Insiders' Guide to Williamsburg and Virginia's Historic Triangle  is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of the cities and the surrounding environs."  (Publisher Description)

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Delhi; Adventures In A Megacity

By Sam MillerDelhi, writes BBC correspondent and full-time Delhi resident Miller, is a sprawling urban area of 15 to 17 million people, both ancient and modern. To know the city is to walk it, and so Miller did.........  Miller is a delightful tour guide, capturing this "monstrous, addictive city" as it stumbles toward the future.    Check Our Catalog

Eyewitness Travel Dublin

By Tim Perry

"DK Eyewitness Dublin" travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions this diverse city has on offer. Packed with photographs, illustrations and maps of Dublin the guide includes in-depth coverage of Dublin's best attractions from the historic Trinity College that houses the richly decorated "Book of Kells" to the James Joyce Cultural Centre and Old Jameson Distillery in the north of the city, and unearths all the best walks, landscaped parks and pubs in between. With comprehensive full-colour maps you can explore every corner of Dublin. Specially devised walking tours take you to the heart of Dublin with sights, markets and festivals listed. Whether you want to wander around the Irish capital's many museums and cathedrals, shop on O'Connell Street or sample the Guinness, the DK Eyewitness Guide to Dublin is indispensable."  (Publisher Description)

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Monastery Guest Houses Of North America

By Robert Regalbuto
"This book is your guide to guesthouses at convents and monasteries throughout the United States and Canada. Each chapter includes contact information, directions by car and by public transportation, accommodations offered, meals provided, charges, each place's history and description, nearby points of interest, and special notes; illustrations and a helpful index round out the book. Locations range from Midtown Manhattan to the Pacific Coast, Chicago to Florida's orange groves.The cost of these lodgings is surprisingly low--ideal for budget travelers. The monasteries and convents featured span a spectrum of Christian traditions, yet each is open to pilgrims of any faith."  (Publisher Description)
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Ghost Towns Of The Mountain West

By Philip Varney "The Rocky Mountain and Great Basin states are the heart of ghost-town country. Once-bustling pioneer outposts, mining camps, lumber towns, and railroad villages stand today as reminders of the glory days of gold rushes, industrial progress, and that pioneering spirit of the Old West. This book guides readers to the fascinating and scenic ghost towns of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Nevada. Varney highlights popular tourist destinations as well as out-of-the-way spots unfamiliar even to natives of the region. Maps, historical background, and stunning color photographs bring to life dozens of ghost towns and provide practical information for exploring this fascinating chapter of American history."  (Publisher Content) Check Our Catalog

New England Waterfalls; A Guide To More Than 400 Cascades And Waterfalls

By Greg Parsons
"This greatly expanded edition describes more than 200 new waterfalls and provides extensive trail and road updates. Waterfalls through outeach of the New England states are described according to type, height, trail length and difficulty, water source, and the ideal seasons to visit. They are also rated for their inherent beauty so you can decide how best to spend your time.
Chapters are organized by state, and each includes a map to help you easily identify other waterfalls nearby. With special appendixes of the best swimming holes, multi-waterfall daytrips, and long-distance waterfall hikes, New England Waterfalls delivers a wealth of information for seekers of these regional treasures."  (Publisher Content)
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The King's Best Highway; The Lost History Of The Boston Post Road, The Route That Made America

By Eric Jaffe
"Journalist and first-time author Jaffe travels the fabled stretch of road connecting New York and Boston.The Boston Post Road, writes the author, is best envisioned as "a lasso tossed from Manhattan toward the Bay, its knot landing at New Haven, wrangling southern New England." With a purpose larger than pinpointing a particular path, he tells a three-pronged tale about transportation, commerce and communication that stretches over four centuries. Jaffe examines the ancient Indian footpaths followed by colonial messengers who wore a trail through the wilderness sufficiently established to support regular mail service by 1673. The muddy, rutted paths had by 1789 become a "loosely pebbled splendor" later trumped by turnpikes and expressways. The "King's best highway," once the conduit for quill-penned letters and newspapers that galvanized the American Revolution, by the 1990s featured cell-phone towers above and fiber optic wires beneath. Famous names—Winthrop, Franklin, Adams, Washington, Revere, Lincoln, FDR, P.T. Barnum—figure prominently here, but most interesting are the sketches of lesser-known characters who contributed to the highway's legend. These include Levi Pease, the stagecoach entrepreneur and "Father of the New England Roads"; Samuel Slater and Francis Lowell, whose carding machines and power looms fueled the Northeastern industrial explosion; Albert Pope, bicycle manufacturer and agitator for better roads and highway reform; Hiram Maxim, who engineered Pope's bicycles into horseless carriages that briefly turned the area into the world's automotive center; and Lester Barlow, whose revolutionary idea for expressways transformed the corridor forever. Jaffe provides revealing anecdotes about the postal service's emergence, the vogue for turnpikes, the region's short-lived canal fever, the Boston-New York rivalry, the underrated importance of the bicycle craze, the railroad empire's rise and fall and the political battles pitting people against highways.An unusual, often delightful piece of cultural history."  (Kirkus Reviews)
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