Having accrued nearly twenty-four thousand hours of experience as a commercial pilot, author Gerry Bruder shares the highlights (and darkest moments) of his career.
Like others in the Five-Star Trails series, this book features up to 40 day-hikes, ranging from 1 mile to 12 miles, in and near a midsize city--in this case, Knoxville.
Halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, California's Central Coast is a treasure of beaches, poppy-dotted meadows, and countless lakes and streams.
Frommer's San Francisco Day-by-Day Guide is the complete up-to-date reference for visitors who want to maximize their stay in the smartest, most time-efficient way.
Though it has largely recovered from its economic crisis of 2008, Ireland's price structure is still among the most moderate in Europe, and its public is still eager to attract additional tourism.
Sippingn Snacking California Central Coast and Las VegasWhen planning a visit to our family in the USA, we decided initially to parachute into California and Las Vegas for some sipping and snacking and catching up with old friends.
One of the most spectacular drives in North America, the San Juan Skyway is a 236 mile loop which winds through forests of aspen and pine, over high passes with stunning panoramic views of mountain ranges exceeding 14,000 feet in elevation, through historic mining towns which played important roles in the colorful history of Southwest Colorado, and past the World Heritage Site of Mesa Verde.
Why would Doug Hall follow in Robert Peary's 1909 sled tracks to the North Pole, despite the grueling terrain and temperatures between 15 and 62 degrees below zero?
Margie Rynn, author of our Easy Guide to Paris, came to Paris sixteen years ago for a short, touristic stay, never left, met and married a Frenchman, started a French family, and then, for most of those sixteen years, has been writing fascinating guidebook recommendations for other Americans attracted to Paris.
Most Americans, at some point of their lives, will vacation in Hawaii, and every bookstore needs to furnish them with reliable, intelligent, and cost-conscious means of doing so.
"e;Day by Day"e; guides have headed the best-seller lists in every year of the past decade, and the reason for their success is that they deal with fast-emerging touristic favorites.
Regarded by many visitors as the most beautiful island of Hawaii, Kauai is currently receiving an awesome number of pleasure-seeking tourists, who delight in its fauna, flora and other wonders of nature.
In a small-format paperback, Shortcut Guides supply the single most essential facts about a popular destination, all at a remarkably-low price, and yet for a heavily-illustrated book with maps.
Although it focuses on Tokyo and Kyoto--the two Japanese cities that most tourists want to visit--Frommer's Easy Guide to Japan also examines the Japanese locations to which most tourists make day-trips or longer excursions from the two must-sees.
Frommer's Day-by-Day Guide to Prague is the complete up-to-date reference for visitors who want to maximize their stay in the smartest, most time-efficient way.
With savage humor, Death Confetti features performance artist Jennifer Robin's autobiographical sketches of Portland, Oregon, from the grunge-era obscurity of the '90s to its current media-darling status.
Samuel Hall Young, a Presbyterian clergyman, met John Muir when the great naturalist's steamboat docked at Fort Wrangell, in southeastern Alaska, where Young was a missionary to the Stickeen Indians.
The daily robbing, bashing, drugging, extortion and murder of foreign tourists on Thai soil, along with numerous scandals involving unsafe facilities and well established scams, has led to frequent predictions that Thailands multi-billion dollar tourist industry will self-destruct.
Jeanette Foster, author of this best-seller, is undoubtedly among the most prolific and heavily-read of Hawaiian travel writers, the author of dozens of appraisals of America's most popular tropical destination.
In Central America, no other nation matches Costa Rica in visitors--and the resulting torrent of tourists is matched by the popularity of guidebooks to that nation.
An essential stop for any visitor to Hawaii, the "e;Big Island"e; of Hawaii features the unforgettable active volcanoes of Volcanoes National Park (a World Heritage site), ranches tended by Hawaiian cowboys, beachfront hotels of every size, historic local towns, superb shopping, and more.
Coming off a year of commemorations of important anniversaries -- the end of the Civil War, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln -- our carefully-revised and up-to-date Easy Guide to the nation's capital tells of recent additions to the city's attractions that make it more compelling than ever.
The British Isles are the single most popular trans-Atlantic destination for Americans, and an immense body of book-buyers will be the potential audience for this important new travel guide.
Now in its 20th edition, Time Out New York provides the inside track on the Big Apple in an exhaustive guide with illuminating features and hundreds of independent unbiased venue reviews covering everything from iconic skyscrapers to buzzing neighborhoods.
