Travel : Parks & Campgrounds

There are over 180 public parks in Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Maine, and here is the guide to exploring them. New England - A Guide To The State & National Parks zooms in on these areas and what they have to offer the visitor. The guide makes its way around New England state by state, listing the parks alphabetically for easy navigation. Each park profile reveals all the details you need to know such as opening times, fees, access routes, facilities, contact names and numbers, as well as all the recreational opportunities offered: hiking and biking, swimming, boating, waterskiing, skiing and fishing. more...

Price: $15.00

Why do nearly five million people travel to the Grand Canyon each year? Mark Neumann answers this question with a book as compelling as the panoramic vistas of the canyon. In On the Rim, he describes how the Grand Canyon became an internationally renowned tourist attraction and cultural icon, and delves into the meanings the place holds for the individuals who live, work, and travel there. “In the chasm’s dizzying depths and flamboyant displacement of solid ground, as well as in the perceptions of those drawn there—explorers and day-trippers, employees and outlaws, artists and fast-buck artists—Neumann discovers a context in which to examine cultural and experimental fissures that separate leisure and work, home and away, religion and science, art and life. . . . A lively read.” Boston Globe more...

Price: $72.00

Voyageurs National Park chronicles the complex legal and political campaign to found Minnesota’s only national park. Fred Witzig’s thoroughly documented and referenced research allows him to offer a detailed view of the unanticipated disappointments and defining moments of achievement that accompanied this complicated legislative battle, and focus on the individuals and groups who were instrumental in its establishment. more...

Price: $75.00