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Explore Arizona's vast open spaces, dreamy canyons, and colourful culture with Moon Arizona & the Grand Canyon. Inside you'll find:*Strategic, flexible itineraries from day hikes in the Grand Canyon to a two-week Arizona road trip, designed for outdoor adventurers, history buffs, foodies, and more*Can't-miss highlights and unique experiences: Embark on a multi-day expedition into the depths of the Grand Canyon, discover hidden streams on a hike through high-desert forests, or find the best spots...

In Wild Acadia, Jerry and Marcy Monkman offer a stunning full-color photographic and prose tribute to the spectacular shorelines, forests, and distinctive granite domes of Maine's awe-inspiring Acadia National Park. The book's opening chapter explores the history of the region from its volcanic beginnings to the time when Native Americans first settled there, the rise of tourism, and the establishment of Acadia National Park. Using historical photos paired with contemporary interpretations of t...

Best-selling travel authors Tom Stienstra and Ann Marie Brown offer readers their informed advice on exploring California's deserts, from climbing Death Valley's towering Telescope Peak to surveying Joshua Tree's sweeping landscape and namesake vegetation. Comprehensive and easy to use, Moon California Deserts Camping and Hiking also provides "best-of" campground and trail lists including Best for Kids, Best for Wildflowers, and Best for Waterskiiing leading novice and expert outdoors adventurer...

Capitol Reef National Park was established to protect the scenic wonders of the Waterpocket Fold, a 100-mile long wrinkle in the earth's crust stretching from Thousand Lakes Mountain to the Lake Powell in Utah. This book explores this grand and colorful geologic feature and offers a look at as well as the unique historical and cultural history found in the area. "Exploring Capitol Reef National Park" is an essential adventure tool.

The UK's best-selling annually updated camping guide, fully revised and updated for 2013. Includes over 900 campsites which have been inspected and rated by the AA's professional inspectors.

Discover more than 120 stunning color photographs featuring this jewel of the Sierra Nevada. The beauty and the grandeur of Yosemite National Park beckon 4.1 million visitors each year. Some are rock climbers who come to challenge Yosemite's granite. Some, en route to the backcountry, come for solitude. But by far the greatest number come to experience the view from the valley. Author Kenneth Brower details the captivating variety of Yosemite's plants and animals. He chronicles how rivers of ic...

*Winner of The North American Travel Journalists Association's Excellence in Travel Journalism Award* Richly illustrated and exhaustively researched, Japanese Inns & Hot Springs is the definitive guide to Japanese spas and hot springs known as ryokans. It presents the finest ryokans in Japan, from historic properties like Hiiragiya in Kyoto and Kikkaso in Hakone to luxury retreats like Zaborin in Hokkaido and Tenku-no-Mori in Kyushu. In this Japan travel guide you will find: The 40 best Japa...

With a large number of beautiful, high-quality colour photographs, these guides are as browsable as the best coffee table books but also supply travellers with maps, travel tips, and extensive listings for lodging, camping, and sightseeing. Located just two hours east of Los Angeles, Joshua Tree National Park is a desert getaway that boasts some of the most dramatic and unexpected scenery in the Southwest. Stunning photographs showcase the area's unusual geology, and chapters on history and wild...

Since the founding of the National Park Service in 1916, tens of thousands of NPS employees and volunteers have devoted themselves to preserving our public lands, which today number more than 400. Each person's NPS career is unique, seasoned with daily duties, grand adventures, and everything in between! Yet there is one common element: each person has plenty of material for terrific stories about living and working in America's most special places. These 100 true stories from current and past...

Another charming, idiosyncratic Travelers' Tales collection of fine writing about a great place, with selections by Thybony, Lopez, Stegner, Zwinger, Udall, Abbey, Brower. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A delightful sampler plate of our national parks, written with charisma and erudition.”—Nick Offerman, author of Paddle Your Own Canoe From CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Conor Knighton, a behind-the-scenery look at his year traveling to each of America's National Parks, discovering the most beautiful places and most interesting people our country has to offer NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY OUTSIDE When Conor Knighton set off to explore America's "b...

This text provides a practical guide to the great American national parks, how to avoid the crowds, walking tours, facilities and how to get there. This edition has been expanded to include 49 parks, information on accommodation and dining, camping and tours. Parks detailed in this third edition include Acadia, Badlands, Capital Reef, Crater Lake, Everglades, Devils Tower, Grand Canyon, Hawaii Volcanoes, Mammoth Cave, Mt Rushmore, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Zion, Denali, Hells Canyon, Saguaro, White...

Revealing England's most stunning caravan site locations, "Cool Caravanning" presents a hand-picked selection of 60 great places to stay. Featuring both places where you can bring your own caravan and sites with static caravans for rent, this stylish book packed with great ideas means that you'll never look at caravanning in the same way again. Whether you're looking for great views, children-friendly spots, a beach holiday, a walking break, an action adventure or just somewhere to relax, "Cool...

This guide provides detailed descriptions of the twenty-eight different parks and monuments on the Colorado Plateau, color maps, suggested trip itineraries, significant photographic opportunities and archaeological sites, outstanding color photographs, and a detailed introduction to the human and natural histories of the area.