Travel guides: eco-tourism / ‘green’ tourism

The Slow Traveller is a stunning call to change the way we travel today.

This field guide dedicated to wildlife of Shenandoah National Park is an information-packed book that introduces park visitors to animals, plants, insects and more that reside in the Shenandoah Valley in a colorful, easy-to-use package.

This fully updated and revised guide to more than 300 public campgrounds in the state of Washington is perfect for tent and RV campers alike.

Remarkable Treks is a compendium of exhilarating long-distance walks from around the planet - some lasting weeks, some lasting just a few days, but all of them set against spectacular backdrops.

Lace up your boots and sample more than 450 miles of trails in Rocky Mountain National Park and the Indian Peaks Wilderness.

The comprehensive practical guide to sustainable travel, containing everything you need to ensure your adventures have a positive impact.

Get back to nature and explore sites unspoilt by humankind with the latest addition to the Inspired Traveller's Guide series.

For the increasing number of people looking for ways to make a difference while on vacation, this fully updated edition is filled with in-depth information to get them ready for their adventure, including contacts, locations, costs, dates, project details, and profiles of 150 select organizations running thousands of programs in the United States and around the world.

For the increasing number of people looking for ways to make a difference while on vacation, this fully updated edition is filled with in-depth information to get them ready for their adventure, including contacts, locations, costs, dates, project details, and profiles of 150 select organizations running thousands of programs in the United States and around the world.

Lace up your boots and sample more than sixty of the finest hiking trails in southeastern Utah, where the breathtaking canyons, multicolored sandstone arches, and magnificent spires of Canyonlands and Arches National Parks provide the setting for countless outdoor adventures.

Fully updated and revised, this edition includes trail descriptions and maps of the authors favorite short hikes in Canyonlands and Arches National Parks.

Tent Life introduces you to 34 inspirational people from across the globe who've made camping part of their lifestyle, and provides you with the tools to do the same.

Looking for the ideal spot to pitch your tent or park your RV?

Let's define what the four elements are, shall we?

In this sequel to the wildly successful Hey Ranger: True Tales of Humor and Misadventure from America's National Parks, former ranger Jim Burnett casts his net globally in search of the most outrageous and humorous stories of man in his eternal quest to experience the natural world.

Geysers, paint pots, and glowing blue pools; deep canyons with plunging waterfalls; broad river valleys with seemingly endless views; and tall rugged mountainsYellowstone National Park is a hiker's paradise with more than 800 miles of trails.

A comprehensive, richly illustrated guide to Japan's astonishing animals and plants-and the natural forces that have shaped themThis richly illustrated guide is the first comprehensive and accessible introduction to the extraordinary natural history of the Japanese archipelago.

Fully revised and updated, Hiking Grand Canyon National Park provides first-hand descriptions and detailed maps for all of the parks developed trails as well as tips on safety, hiking with children, access, and services.

Fully updated and revised, Hiking Big Bend National Park features some of the finest trails in Texas - from short day hikes to backcountry treks.

A birdsong expert's poignant and beautifully illustrated memoir of a bicycle journey across America with his sonJoin birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma on a ten-week, ten-state bicycle journey as he travels with his son from the Atlantic to the Pacific, lingering and listening to our continent sing as no one has before.

Fully updated and revised, this comprehensive guide features forty-seven trails in Big Bend National Park.

The third title in the Acadia National Park guide series, Acadia's Carriage Roads covers the history, geology, and biology of the area.

The 42,000 acres that comprise Acadia National Park include glacier-worn granite mountains, rocky cliffs, crystal blue ponds and lakes, and a dramatic coastline where waves collide spectacularly with dramatic headlands.

Redwood National and State Parks are home to some of the world's tallest trees: old-growth coast redwoods, living to be 2000 years old and growing to over 300 feet tall.

This guide features twenty-seven of the best short hikes in Shenandoah National Park.

Yellowstone National Park is one of the great outdoor destinations on the planet, with spectacular vistas, intriguing geology, and abundant and varied wildlife.

Lace up your boots and sample more than one hundred hikes in America's most famous national park.

Best Easy Day Hikes Great Smoky Mountains National Park includes concise descriptions and detailed maps for twenty-two easy-to-follow hikes in America's most popular national park, home to one of the most pristine ecosystems on the East Coast.

Lace up your boots and sample more than 450 miles of trails in Rocky Mountain National Park and the Indian Peaks Wilderness.

This is Max Davis reporting from the Great Smoky Mountains.

Each book in the Adventures with the Parkers seriesfor kids 8-13takes the Parker family to a popular national park and is packed with adventure as well as interesting facts about park activities, natural history, outdoor safety, and much more.

Wildflowers of Shenandoah National Park is an easy-to-use field guide to help you identify more than 230 of the parks most common species - from the iconic large-flowered trillium, with its trio of white to pink petals, to the showstopping blooms that adorn the mountain laurel shrubs that decorate trails in June.

Shenandoah National Park is a hikers wonderland, with challenging treks, enchanting sights, popular trails and tranquil escapes.

This fourth edition of Best Easy Day Hikes Olympic National Park features concise descriptions and easy-to-follow maps for thirty-one short, manageable hikes.

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, situated in Californias rugged Sierra Nevada, boast some of the most spectacular landscapes on the continent: towering groves of giant sequoia trees, crystalline trout rivers, jagged peaks and alpine meadows, and Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the lower 48.

This field guide dedicated to wildlife of Shenandoah National Park is an information-packed book that introduces park visitors to animals, plants, insects and more that reside in the Shenandoah Valley in a colorful, easy-to-use package.

Looking for the ideal spot to pitch your tent or park your RV?

Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southeastern New Mexico is renowned for its amazing system of limestone caves.

Fully revised and updated, this comprehensive guidebook gives detailed descriptions of more than 250 public campgrounds throughout Wyoming and the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southeastern New Mexico is renowned for its amazing system of limestone caves.

In this latest installment of FalconGuides' Adventures with the Parkers series, the Parkers, an intrepidfamily of four,journey to southeast Utah to see the ';Land of Standing Rocks' and such prominent features as Delicate Arch, Landscape Arch, Park Avenue Skyline, the Needles, and much more.

Explore West Virginia's New River Gorge National Recreation Area with a little help from Johnny Molloy.

BEST EASY DAY HIKES OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK, 2nd edition Erik MolvarAn updated guide to the best shortunder 5- milehikes in Washington's Olympic National Parkperfect for families or people who don't have a lot of time but still want to enjoy this spectacular park.

Dear Diary,I'm in a very unusual place: the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

This is the authorized guide to the Maine Birding Trail, which opens in 2009.

Best Easy Day Hikes Mount Rainier National Park includes concise descriptions and detailed maps for thirty easy-to-follow trails, from easy low elevation loops to slightly more difficult scenic routes through Mount Rainier.

Best Easy Day Hikes Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks features concise descriptions and easy-to-folow maps fortwenty-eight short hikes through some of the most spectacular scenery in this natural wonderland.

Taking hikers to some of the most scenic sections of the fabulous Grand Canyon National Park, this book includes short descriptions and maps of seventeen easy day hikes in the park.