Now, for the first time from the best selling travel author, Patricia Schultz, comes "1000 Places To See In The U.S.A. and Canada Before You Die". Sail the Maine Windjammers out of Camden. Explore the gold-mining trails in Alaska's Denali wilderness. Collect exotic shells on the beaches of Captiva. Take a barbecue tour of Kansas City - from Arthur Bryant's to Gates to B.B.'s Lawnside to Danny Edwards to LC's to Snead's. There's the ice hotel in Quebec, the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, cowboy poetry readings, what to do in Lexington after the derby's over, and for every city, dozens of unexpected suggestions and essential destinations. The book is organized by region, and subject-specific indices in the back sort the book by interest - wilderness, great dining, best beaches, world-class museums, sports and adventures, road trips, and more. There's also an index that breaks out the best destinations for families with children. Following each entry is the nuts and bolts: addresses, websites, phone numbers, costs, best times to visit.

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Seasoned travel writer Schultz, author of the wildly popular 1,000 Places To See Before You Die, returns with 1000 more places to see, this time closer to home. The previous book's worldwide focus devoted more than 200 of its 972 pages to the United States and Canada. This new work is organized broadly into regional areas: New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Mississippi Valley, Mid-West, Great Plains, Four Corners and the Southwest, West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii, Eastern Canada, and Western Canada. Typical sections include a regional map followed by information specific to cities. For example, the pages devoted to South Carolina cover Aiken, Beaufort, Charleston, Georgetown, Kiawah Island, and Pawleys Island with brief mentions of museums, cuisine, inns, plantations, festivals, and the best times to visit. Entries include costs, telephone numbers, and web site addresses, as available. Several indexes (not seen) allow readers to locate specific activities (dining, beaches, museums, etc.) by general terms and in geographic areas. Readers planning to visit any of these places will need additional resources to make complete travel plans. Recommended for larger travel collections.-Elizabeth Connor, The Citadel, Military Coll. of South Carolina Lib., Charleston Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.