Bill Bryson, known in England as "the funniest travel writer alive," returns to the States and walks the Appalachian Trail, starting in Hanover, New Hampshire.
From the author of "Notes from a Small Island" and "The Lost Continent" comes this humorous report on his walk along the Appalachian Trail. The Trail covers 14 states and over 2000 miles, and stretches along the east coast of America from Maine in the north to Georgia in the south. It is famous for being the longest continuous footpath in the ...
In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. "The Survival of the Bark Canoe "is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric ...
Thoreau's account of his travels and explorations on Cape Cod is considered his most genial book, and one of his most appealing. Published in 1865 after his death, Thoreau's CAPE COD remains an indispensable guide to the area.
Celebrating 100 years in print, this new edition of the AMC "White Mountain Guide" is the most trusted resource available to the trails of the White Mountain National Forest.
You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go -- they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to provide you with honest and thorough details, saving you time and ...
You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with "Frommer's". It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go - they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series ...
Everything you need to see the best of New England by car! Let Frommer's take you to: * The picture-postcard villages of Cape Cod and the Berkshires * Mystic and the maritime towns of the Connecticut coast * The settings that inspired Wyeth, Rockwell, Melville, and Thoreau * Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, New Hampshire's White Mountains, and the ...
A travel guide for nature lovers. Features thousands of sites of ecological and geographical importance and beauty, hidden trails, and scenic destinations. A comprehensive resource including color relief maps, itineraries with directions, addresses and phone numbers of sites, advice about outdoor activities, and 150 color photographs.
From the sandy shores of Cape Cod to the distinct ridges of Vermont's Mount Mansfield; from Connecticut's Quiet Corner to the Kancamagus Highway through the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire; and from tiny Lubec, Maine, at 'the Beginning of America', to the 'Graveyard of the Atlantic' at Point Judith, Rhode Island, thirty of New ...
This is an America's number 1 bestselling travel series. Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, "Frommer's Complete Guides" help travelers experience places the way locals do. These are more annually updated guides than any other series. There are 16-page color section and foldout map in all annual guides. They include ...
New England Butterflies and Moths is a portable reference guide featuring over 70 species of birds found in the New England area. This richly illustrated and detailed guide is printed on durable material and folds for easy handling. It is an indispensable resource to identify species in your backyard or out in nature.
This classic work on the landscape, architecture, and people of Nantucket is at last available in a full-color edition, with 430 full-color photographs.
You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go - they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series ...
Whether travelers prefer a short journey or a daylong excursion weathered buildings or wave-swept beaches they will find a drive to their liking among the twenty-eight described in this guide to the scenic wonders of the six New England states
New England has long been known for its rich history and for the stunning diversity of its natural wonders: Vermont's dense forests, Maine's rocky shores, and Long Island Sound's untouched marshes, to name just a few. This guide assists tent campers in their journey of discovery among these beautiful sites, detailing campgrounds in Maine, New ...
1923. Illustrated by the author with 304 pictures covering all the counties in Massachusetts. The volume's photographs are as eloquent as its prose. In the over 300 reproductions the numerous picturesque cottages and haunts of Massachusetts, many never shown in any book, are presented. The interior as well as the exterior of stately houses and old ...
The thousands of readers who have delighted in We Took to the Woods (p.19), will welcome this sequel, written when Louise Dickinson Rich had lived in the ruggedest part of western Maine for 12 eventful years. Happy the Land has a more bittersweet tone than the first book, because by then Rich had lost her husband: "Then the bottom dropped out of ...
The years from 1690 to 1765 in America have usually been considered a waiting period before the Revolution. Mr. Bushman, in his penetrating study of colonial Connecticut, takes another view. He shows how, during these years, economic ambition and religious ferment profoundly altered the structure of Puritan society, enlarging the bounds of liberty ...
Massachusetts is home to a splendid diversity of hiking terrain. Follow the footsteps of the "hermit of Gloucester," who lived in a log cabin in Ravenswood Park from 1884-1917; observe cormorants, herons, egrets, gallinules, and kingfishers on windswept Plum Island; climb the Appalachian Trail up Mount Greylock, the highest peak in Massachusetts; ...
For 100 years, the AMC "White Mountain Guide" has led hikers into New Hampshire's White Mountains, a spectacular swath of wilderness located within a day's drive of New York, Boston, and Montreal. Called the oldest continuously published hiking guide in the United States by the National Outdoor Book Awards, the "Guide "has generated a loyal ...
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