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National Geographic Driving Guide to America, Rockies (NG Driving Guides)
by: National Geographic Society
List Price: $14.95Price: $1.99 You Save: $12.96 (87%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.80433
EAN: 9780792234234
ISBN: 0792234235
Label: National Geographic
Manufacturer: National Geographic
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: April 01, 1997
Publisher: National Geographic
Studio: National Geographic
Sales Rank: 787439
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Discover the region's best Driving Tours with National Geographic as your guide.
Features the region's best routes and attractions, including:
* Towns and cities, historical and cultural sites, natural areas, plus many surprises * Entertaining, insightful commentary * Useful travel tips * More than 120 original, color photographs * Detailed maps for each drive keyed to descriptions in text * Directions, mileages, and visitor information.
Amazon.com Review: This won't replace a guide with hotels and restaurants, but it's a terrific companion guide for doing the Rockies by car. It shows you how to Montana's Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge, home of one of the largest white pelican rookeries. It can also explain for you the bloody history of Idaho's White Bird Hill Battlefield as you drive past on U.S. 95 and perhaps turn off Wyoming's Route 120 for a rest in Thermopolis, with its hot mineral waters and cool shaded banks by the Bighorn River. The book's 160 pages include 150 color photos and maps, and 20 detailed driving itineraries.
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This is a good sightseeing guide that should help anyone who is interested in traveling the Rocky Mountain States by car.
Arranged by state, the book highlights different attractions in each area. It also suggests driving loops, designed to hi-light the highlights while traveling a circular route along major highways. This is certainly designed well for someone who is unfamiliar with the area and wants a travel itinerary laid out with suggested sights and attractions.
Accommodations or restraints are not listed, so one would have to look to another guide or the internet for those. This book can get you started with your destinations, however.
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I bought this book expecting a sort of National Geographic pictorial - and therefore a lot of landscape shots of the Rockies. I was dissapointed.
Though the book is well put together and the photographs are decent, this is not a good book to get if you're looking for photographic examples of the rockies.
If you're looking for the story behind the rockies, 5 stars. If you're looking for pictures, 3 stars (at most).
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