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Featuring more than 40 of Northern Virginia and Maryland's greatest mountain bike rides. Includes GPS-Quality, digitally-designed shaded relief maps detailing each ride; helpful ride locator maps get you to the ride without getting lost; accurate route profiles show the ups and downs of each ride; fascinating 3-D surface maps with dramatic views of the surrounding terrain; in-depth trail descriptions with difficulty ratings; detailed route directions; schedules, local attractions, eateries, and...

Author, editor, and TV host Joanne Michaels, a longtime resident of the Hudson Valley, brings families with young kids a wealth of opportunities to have fun and explore this playground so near to New York City as well as dozens of attractions upstate and in the Berkshires. From picnic spots to cruises, Joanne finds activities that kids love and parents can enjoy. * Educational sites, including parks, kid-friendly museums, historic sites, and nature centers * Wintertime fun *...

The best New York has to offer - in your pocket. Pocket Rough Guide New York City is your essential guide to the cultural capital of the USA, with all the key sights, restaurants, shops and bars in an easy-to-use format, and a full-colour, pull-out map. Whether you have an afternoon or a few days at your disposal, our itineraries help you plan your trip, and the Best of New York section picks out the highlights you won't want to miss, from MoMA's incredible modern art collection to towering sk...

There are dozens of published guides to New York City, nearly all of them covering the same well - trodden territory of pricey restaurants, major hotels, and shopping at pick - your - pocket prices. Here's a tourist guide with a difference. New York insider and Village Voice columnist Robert Sietsema has assembled a topic - focussed book: "Secret Metrocard," for example, explains how to get the most bang for your buck from this new transit card. It tells you how to turn a free transfer into a fr...

The ultimate New York city travel guide! Known as the city that never sleeps because there is always something going on, New York welcomes many millions of visitors every year. Made up of five boroughs Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island it is Manhattan s many attractions, from world-class shopping to celebrated restaurants and superb museums, that draw the crowds. Winters here are blustery, summers are hot, spring and autumn are temperate, but the Big Apple offers attracti...

First published in Philadelphia in 1859, History of Independence Hall combines Belisle's meditations on the hall as a sacred part of our nation's history with biographical accounts of each signer of the Declaration of Independence and a meticulous catalogue of the contents of the hall. The author states his hope that the publication will serve as more than just a mere guidebook, but rather will "inspire a deeper love for the Temple wherein our nation's infancy was cradled and defended."The autho...

Pauline Frommer's highly-personal guide to her own home city has, in previous editions, won prestigious awards as "Best Guidebook of the Year". Though she deals with luxury choices as well as bargains, she makes a special effort to overcome New York's reputation for stratospheric prices, ferreting out scores of moderately-priced options in lodgings, meals, entertainment and more. Like all Easy Guides, this freshly-researched and popular best-seller is "Quick to Read, Light to Carry"--and colo...

Offers three-dimensional photographs of New York from the 1860s through the 1930s, including views of the Manhattan skyline, the boroughs, and landmark buildings.

These history travel guides provide an introduction discussing the history and preservation of the present-day site and facilities and include a detailed, walking tour interspersed with first-hand accounts about the cemetery and events that have taken place there. A timeline runs through the walking tour giving descriptions of key personalities who conceived, planned and designed the area with brief and colorful biographies. Also included is information that visitors to the site need to know abo...

Includes 21 tours throughout southern PA, central and western MD, the eastern panhandle of WV and all but the extreme southwestern part of VA.

This guide offers kayakers and canoeists hundreds of miles of relaxing, scenic excursions in Long Island sound. Each launch site is described in detail: its address and location (as latitude and longitude) are given, plus driving directions, where to park, whether fees are charged, where to launch at the site and whether special precautions should be observed, and suggested routes to try once on the water. each trip has been tailored to avoid dangerous areas through which large vessels, powerboa...

If you want to know what it's like to pull up a stool with the likes of Hemingway, Updike or Capote, are curious how Jay McInerney takes his martini or where to find Colson Whitehead's favourite local bar, this is the guide for you. For well-read drinkers and boozy bookworms comes Storied Bars of New York, a photographic and historical celebration of the best literary pubs, cocktail bars and taverns of New York City. Every chapter profiles an influential bar and comes with photographs, a list of...