Discover America: A Comprehensive Travel Guide to Our Country's Greatest Destinations FROM THE PUBLISHER
Discover, rediscover, and renew your connection to America with this comprehensive, informationpacked travel guide, featuring over 3,000 of America's most scenic treasures. Find nottobemissed historic sites, national parks, national monuments, and morecomplete with over 1,200 color photographs. Organized by geographical region, and then by state, are 100 pages of the most uptodate, detailed road maps.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
This hulking volume might be best described as a cross between a fact-filled encyclopedia of the 50 states and a collection of brochures from state-sponsored travel agencies. With 100 pages of road maps, over 3,000 place entries and sidebars highlighting significant cities and state parks, the book is chockablock with random bits of trivia and essential information. The editors have divided it by geographical region and subdivided by state. Every state gets a full-page introduction, along with a few paragraphs each on principal cities and national monuments and parks. Although the prose is, for the most part, rigidly straightforward (and even hokey: "Wherever you visit in the South, you're sure to meet an interesting character with a spellbinding story to tell"), the editors don't shy from covering some locales' less attractive aspects (e.g., they mention Detroit's "decaying core" and problems with crime, poverty and unemployment in the late 1990s). The photographs neatly capture iconic images: an intricately sculpted sand castle on the beach at Fort Lauderdale, the crowded Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, bison roaming the North Dakota wilderness, brilliant fall foliage in New York's Adirondack Park. The book ends with a gazetteer including towns and cities, national parks, national forests and other national reserves, with page references. Flipping through this vast compilation of American places should inspire would-be travelers to get out of their armchairs and hit the road. (Mar.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
Never underestimate the Reader's Digest. Here it has given us a beautiful and comprehensive volume that serves as an excellent reference resource to important travel destinations throughout America's 50 states. This is not a travel guide to take along when exploring the United States but rather a single-volume planner that allows readers to map out an informed, well-constructed trip to any part of the United States. The book is organized in eight sections-New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the Midwest, the Great Plains, the South, the Southwest, the Mountains and the West, and the Pacific States-that are then broken down by state. Information for each state includes an introduction, an overview map, and brief statistics. Major sightseeings destinations are described, special attraction, highlighted, and color photographs often included. Each section contains large roadmaps that are excellent for planning. The volume ends with a comprehensive gazetteer. Highly recommended for all travel collections.-Olga B. Wise, Austin, TX Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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