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For more than twenty years, the Insiders' Guide series has remained the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information. Written by locals and true insiders, each guide is packed with useful tips on places to stay, restaurants, events, attractions, fun thnigs to do with the kids, nightlife, recreation, shopping, local history, and much more--as well as a comprehensive appendix called "Living Here" that offers information on real estate, education, health care, and more.

The rich history of North Carolina's Outer Banks is reflected in the names of its towns, geographic features, and waterways. A book over twenty years in the making, The Outer Banks Gazetteer is a comprehensive reference guide to the region's place names-over 3,000 entries in all. Along the way, Roger L. Payne has cataloged an incredible history of beaches, inlets, towns and communities, islands, rivers, and even sand dunes. There are also many entries for locations that no longer exist-inlets th...

This book includes a chapter detailing Washington's history and culture, 13 itineraries and excursions taking in sights ranging from the White House to the world-class museums of the Smithsonian Institution, leisure-time suggestions, and a comprehensive information section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus dozens of top-notch photographs and maps, including a detailed pull-out map.

You say the two of you have lived in Savannah long enough to have forgotten how to have a good time? Or maybe you're taking your first trip to the area - in tandem? Don't waste precious time looking in all the wrong places. This true insider's guide reveals great nightlife, romantic adventures, intimate restaurants, secluded country retreats, and much more. Whatever your style, taste, and budget, you'll find the perfect places in and around sultry savannah.Follow detailed and entertaining itiner...

The stark yet beautiful barrier islands along the coast of North Carolina--with their well-preserved beaches, abundant wildlife, and rich history--offer natives and summer visitors many things to do both indoors and out. Discover the Outer Banks' newest tourist attractions, as well as limitless opportunities for fun, shopping, and recreation in this land where the Wright Brothers took their historic first flight 100 years ago.

Not for Tourists Guide to Atlanta 2011, half anti-guidebook, half urban manual, is the ultimate little black book. It reveals everything from the best art galleries, park areas, restaurants and shopping hotspots to where you can catch a movie, find great coffee and much more! Whether you've called Atlanta your home for decades or just arrived last night, you ignore at your peril this new 2011 edition with its caustic neighbourhood summaries and refreshing, politically incorrect descriptions....

Charleston Icons celebrates the Holy City through full-color photographs and evocative essays highlighting fifty of the best places, foods, buildings, institutions, and inventions that Charleston has to offer. From the four corners of law to sweetgrass baskets, the Spoleto Festival to shrimp, grits, and boiled peanuts, this book showcases what makes Charleston special.

food lovers' guides Indispensable handbooks to local gastronomic delights The ultimate guides to the food scene in their respective states or regions, these books provide the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Engagingly written by local authorities, they are a one-stop for residents and visitors alike to find producers and purveyors of tasty local specialties, as well as a rich array of other, indispensable food-related information including:...

Developed with families in mind, Fun with the Family "TM" books are the ultimate guides to family fun and adventure. Written by parents for parents, these state-specific guides include hundreds of ideas for families with kids from ages 2 to 12.Featuring visually appealing at-a-glance icons, reader-friendly sidebars, and comprehensive end-of-chapter listings of family-friendly places to stay and eat, these guides to hundreds of fun -- and many free -- things families can see and do are an invalua...

Insiders' Guide to Jacksonville is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to this beautiful city. Written by a true insider, it offers a personal and practical perspective of Jacksonville and its surrounding environs

A brand new series from Insight brings you the "Smart Guide" for smart travellers. The unique and innovative A-Z format of "Smart Guides" allows you to plan your trip to Orlando according to your own personal taste. Themed headings cover over 400 amazing things to see and do from bars, cafes, history, and museums, to hotels, nightlife, shopping, and of course thrill rides, for a truly tailor-made, individual travel experience. Area overviews conveniently highlight the best each district has to...

The Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and still standsas the bloodiest single day in American military history. Additionally, inits aftermath, President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous EmancipationProclamation. In this engaging, easy-to-use guide, Carol Reardon and TomVossler allow visitors to understand this crucial Civil War battle in finedetail. Abundantly illustrated with maps and historical and modern photographs,A Field Guide to Antietam explores twenty-one sites on an...

Scott Mason is the Tar Heel Traveler and he loves to eat hot dogs, cheeseburgers, barbecue, biscuits, and ice cream served in crumbling cinder-block buildings and ramshackle dives along the back roads of North Carolina. As a full-time feature reporter for WRAL-TV in Raleigh since 2007, Scott has discovered that North Carolina is filled with many amusing characters and out-of-the-way places, all of which are part of his Tar Heel Traveler television segment that airs Monday through Thursday on WRA...

This colorful guide to National Parks provides cardinal information on special park passes,camping reservations, toll-free numbers, when to visit, how to get there, climate, activites, lodging and dining.

46 day hikes and overnight trips in Virginia and West VirginiaComplete with elevation profiles, topographic maps, descriptions of terrain, and notes on landmarks, side trails, and sheltersIncludes directions to trailheads and information on available parkingCompletely revised and updated to reflect recent trail changesIndexes sort the hikes by difficulty and length