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Melbourne & Victoria (City Guide)

Donna Wheeler

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Discover Melbourne & Victoria

Go seaside in sultry St Kilda, with a stroll among fishermen on the pier and a beer at the iconic Espy
Leaf through newspapers as baristas bang, pump and grind fresh morning coffees on Degraves Street
Rummage through designer fashion boutiques in the city's up-and-coming shopping precincts
Giggle and gasp as the Little Penguins make the dash from sea to shore on Phillip Island

In This Guide

Four local writers, over 1000 research hours, 126 well-tested bars and pubs followed by 126 restorative lattes
Unique walking tours, created by local legends, that take you beyond the city's famous landmarks
From slowfood restaurants to ecotours: we cover the best green options the state has to offer
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Pacific Northwest Camping Destinations: RV and Car Camping Destinations in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia (Camping Destinations series)

Mike Church, Terri Church

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As a northwest "native" this book is the best ! 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I have traveled extensively throughout the Pacific Northwest and much of the U.S. This year travel will be limited to the Pacific Northwest. As a "native" Washingtonian and lifelong camper I've been looking for a new guidebook that combines travel info with the latest on campgrounds. There are new parks and new travel ideas - enough to generate enthusiasm and travel plans! Each listing has large icon keys that make it easy to find suitable camping spots, ie 50 amps, big rigs, activities and more. The book covers Washington, Oregon and British Columbia with everything from weekend to multi-week trip planning possibilities. Thank you to the authors for a great guidebook.

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Seashores, snow-capped mountains, old-growth forests, and visitor-friendly cities have made the Pacific Northwest one of the most popular RV and tent-camping destinations in North America, and this guide directs the way to more than 130 camping destinations throughout Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Combining the functions of a camp directory and a sightseeing guide, each of the expanded number of entries describes a vacation spot and its attractions and recommends good camping in the area, including both privately owned and state and county campgrounds. Updated, detailed maps of each destination show the location of campgrounds and tourist sites, as well as exact routes for drivers of large RVs. Several one-week itineraries from the gateway cities of Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver provide alternate driving adventures on scenic routes throughout the region.

Frommer's Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands & the San Juan Islands (Frommer's Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands & the San Juan Islands)

Chris McBeath

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great book if you want to cover a lot on short time 5 out of 5 stars.
11 of 11 people found this review helpful.

Frommer will never dissapoint you. If you have limited number of days and want to see as much as possible, this is the right guide. IT also details all essential services and key WEB sites. For this price tag, just keep it in your backpack.

comprehensive 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

A comprehensive coverage but reviews focus more upmarket. Little coverage of the good small b&b's.

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Experience a place the way the locals do.
Enjoy the best it has to offer.
* The lowdown on the best hikes and outdoor adventures, the friendliest B&Bs and inns, and the finest restaurants.
* Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not.
* Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget.
* Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems,plus new takes on top attractions.

Frommer's Vancouver & Victoria 2009 (Frommer's Complete)

Donald Olson

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America’s #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.

• More annually updated guides than any other series

• 16-page color section and foldout map in all annual guides

• Outspoken opinions, exact prices, and suggested itineraries

• Dozens of detailed maps in an easy-to-read, two-color design

Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books

Ted Bishop

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A motorcycle odyssey that combines the sensory seduction of the road with the intellectual rewards of archival research.

Ted Bishop took one last ride before the fall term. When he tried to pass a tractor-trailer at 80 miles per hour, his motorcycle began to vibrate out of control. Bishop was flung into a ditch, breaking his back in two places, shattering a wrist and ankle, and collapsing his lungs. Left with time to write and reflect, Bishop produced Riding with Rilke, an account of the epic motorcycle trip he had completed just before the crash. Here, Bishop takes readers from Edmonton to Austin, through the classic landscapes of the American West, and to a few of America and Europe's most famous cities as he reconciles what it means to be both a road dog and a researcher. Whether describing the shock of holding Virginia Woolf's suicide note in the British Library or the outlaw thrill of cruising small American towns on his Ducati, Bishop meditates with wit and honesty on the tangled interplay of life, work, and art.

Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City 2008 (Frommer's Complete)

Leslie Brokaw

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Not a bad guide 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

If you're looking for a nitty gritty guide to Montreal, this will probably do. I'd recommend purchasing the Fodors Montreal and Quebec City 2008 in place of this guide. It is much more readable, has interesting tidbits on area history and includes a better layout.

Frommers is terrific! 5 out of 5 stars.
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We started using Frommer's guides over 20 years ago and continue to be extremely pleased with them! We like to research places we go before we leave home and these guides make that job so much easier! They have always proven very valuable and well worth their cost. This Frommer's guide on Montreal and Quebec is as terrific as I expected it to be.

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Frommer's. The best trips start here.

Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer.

• The lowdown on the newest restaurants, hotels, shopping, and nightlife.
• Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not.
• Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget.
• Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.

No Man's River

Farley Mowat

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With No Man's River, Farley Mowat has penned his best Arctic tale in years. This book chronicles his life among Metis trappers and native people as they struggle to eke out a living in a brutal environment.

In the spring of 1947, putting the death and devastation of WWII behind him, Mowat joined a scientific expedition. In the remote reaches of Manitoba, he witnessed an Eskimo population ravaged by starvation and disease brought about by the white man. In his efforts to provide the natives with some of the assistance that the government failed to provide, Mowat set out on an arduous journey that collided with one of nature's most arresting phenomena—the migration of the Arctic's caribou herds. Mowat was based at Windy Post with a Metis trapper and two Ihalmiut children. A young girl, known as Rita, is painted with special vividness—checking the trap lines with the men, riding atop a sled, smoking a tiny pipe. Farley returns to the North two decades later and discovers the tragic fate that befell her. Combining his exquisite portraits with awe-inspiring passages on the power of nature, No Man's River is another riveting memoir from one of North America's most beloved writers.

Fodor's Vancouver & Victoria, 1st Edition: With Whistler, Vancouver Island & the Okanagan Valley (Fodor's Gold Guides)

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There aren’t many cities in the world where travelers can ski snow-covered slopes in the morning and surf in the afternoon, but Vancouver, British Columbia, is one of them. And with preparations for the 2010 winter Olympics well under way for Vancouver and Whistler, the area is poised to receive a major influx of visitors. Fodor’s Vancouver & Victoria features the ideal ways to navigate the museums, the slopes, and the surf. Fodor’s shares the best places to slurp noodles in Chinatown and where to shop for First Nations art in Yaletown, as well as heart-racing options for the adventurous, such as zip-line courses, or the Capilano suspension bridge. In-depth coverage includes stunning Victoria, Vancouver Island, Whistler alpine resort, and the Okanagan Valley.

·New Orientation and planning features with maps and photos make planning a trip easier than ever,
·An “Experience” chapter provides an overview of the area and what to do, with special features like Olympic Buzz, Like a Local, and Free and Almost Free
·Detailed itineraries with mix-and-match options will help travelers maximize time, money, and energy
·Illustrated chapter openers with set the tone for each chapter
·Illustrated Close-up boxes throughout will illuminate featured attractions like the Capilano Suspension bridge, activities like zip lining and shopping for Inuit Art, and destinations like the Okanagan Valley

The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic

Edward Beauclerk Maurice

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"This is a great book about life at remote bases in Canada's far north as seen by a young English boy who went there by himself to see the world and got more than he could have bargained for. Beautifully written." --Sir Ranulph Fiennes

"As spare, gleaming, and exhilarating as the Arctic wastes and the gentle, stoic Eskimos who had mastery of this realm . . . The book evokes the frozen seas, whale hunts, snow plains and storms that intimidated those rash enough to brave this world, and the traditions, myths, and hunting skills that contoured a bygone way of life . . . His translucent prose is a sparkling and moving record." -- Times (London)

At sixteen, Edward Beauclerk Maurice impulsively signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company -- the Company of Gentleman Adventurers -- and was sent to an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where there was no telephone or radio and only one ship arrived each year. But the Inuit people who traded there taught him how to track polar bears, build igloos, and survive expeditions in ferocious winter storms. He learned their language and became so immersed in their culture and way of life that children thought he was Inuit himself. When an epidemic struck, Maurice treated the sick using a simple first aid kit, and after a number of the hunters died, he had to start hunting himself, often with women, who soon began to compete for his affections. The young man who in England had never been alone with a woman other than his mother and sisters had come of age in the Arctic.

In The Last Gentleman Adventurer Edward Beauclerk Maurice transports the reader to a time and a way of life now lost forever.

After serving in the New Zealand navy during World War II, Edward Beauclerk Maurice became a bookseller in an English village and rarely traveled again. He died in 2003 as this, his only book, was being readied for publication.


"If you like reality, The Last Gentleman Adventurer will be your cup of tea: a delicious quaff of it. Savor it!" -- Edward Hoagland

"Maurice's memoir supplies a fascinating elegy to a vanishing world." -- Telegraph

"One of those rare writers who will be remembered for turning out one great memoir/travel book . . . He relates these events in a beautiful prose that is quaintly elegant in tone but never archly so . . . Not only a gentleman but a wonderful writer who limited his output to one book, and perhaps that is why it reads so beautifully." -- Sunday Tribune (Dublin)

"Maybe he was exceptional, but the charm of his book lies in its modesty; he makes no claims for himself. His concern was to make a record of some amazing adventures and a vanishing way of life; these are woven into an eye-opening narrative that is suffused with kindliness and an attitude to growing up more restrained but more humane than that prevailing today. A gentleman adventurer indeed." -- Times Educational Supplement

"A deceptively simple account of how he grew to manhood, shaped on one hand by the brutal elements of the Arctic, on the other by the compassionate communities of Inuit who understood them . . . This is a beautifully unadorned, homespun tale with a lack of self-consciousness rare in travel literature . . . I was charmed." -- Benedict Allen, Independent on Sunday

Best Anchorages of the Inside Passage: British Columbia's South Coast from the Gulf Islands to Cape Caution

Anne Vipond, William Kelly

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Best Anchorages of the Inside Passage 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 7 people found this review helpful.

Probably one of the best guides for anchorges on the lower BC coast.

Very good book full of pictures 5 out of 5 stars.
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Very informative book in full color.
I lots of anchorages I did not know about.

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One of the finest cruising grounds in the world, the Inside Passage is a boater's paradise with hundreds of pristine islands, inlets and anchorages. Best Anchorages of the Inside Passage is a comprehensive selection of over 200 boating destinations. Some are well known but many are secret getaways gleaned by the authors. Over 120 color maps and 450 photographs, all in color. Tips on anchoring, information on ports and marinas, best beaches, hiking trails with background on wildlife, history and native culture.