Best Alberta Travel Guides
The 2017 edition has more than 700 pages of detailed travel information on 30 major routes―including the Alaska Highway, which celebrates its 75 th anniversary this year―and 60 side trips, totaling more than 15,000 miles of road in Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia and Alberta.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I bought this for my 14 year old grandson whose goal is to take a trip to Alaska upon his graduation from high school."
"I drove from Homer, Alaska through Canada and down to Seattle over a three-month camping trip."
"If you are planning to go to Alaska within a year or two, you HAVE TO get this."
"The detailed information was invaluable as lots of the roads we traveled were remote and lonely."
"Got the book in yesterday, this is a great book far beyond anything I could have imagined, Planning on going in a couple years and heard this is a good book."
"This book was a lifesaver on our trip from the Gulf of Mexico to Anchorage!!!"
"BEST guide book ever!"
"If you are planning a road trip to Alaska you need this book."
The MILEPOST® is Alaska’s most extensive and best-known travel guide.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"A must have for anyone planning a road trip to Alaska."
"It has been 4 years since we made the trip, and I know that things are always changing, it's great to have an updated source of info all in one spot."
"People in the lower 48 just don't realize how remote of an area the Alcan Hwy is and it nice to know with this book it tells you what's around you mile by mile."
"If you google while you have wifi and go by the cardinal rules of the alcan (get gas every half tank), you can get there without this."
"I read about this guide on a travel site and I am so glad that I purchased it."
"This book has a VERY comprehensive breakdown of all the major highways in Alaska, what you can see at each mile marker, where all the beautiful camera spots are, what you might expect to see at the suggested photo op sites, what the road conditions are for that year, (if there's any frost heave, for example) or if the roads are rough in certain sections....where the gas stations are, how many miles till the next one, where the best pullouts are for views of the Alaskan ranges."
"In fact, Alaska and Northwest Canada offer an unsurpassed opportunity to experience a pre-urban world of rugged country, covered with forests, streams, lakes, mountains, tundra, glaciers, and lots of wildlife, where the traveler can spend hours or days out of sight of his or her fellow humans. The opportunities for outdoor adventure, whether hiking, biking, canoeing, kayaking, skiing, snow machining, dog sledding, fishing or hunting, are simply fantastic. The Milepost offers a mile-by-mile travelogue, updated annually, for the main roads, along with maps, diagrams of some key towns, photographs, and advertisements for attractions, accomodations, and other travel facilities."
User-friendly highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices, emergency information, park seasonality, hiking trail junctions, viewpoints, landscapes, elevations, distances, difficulty levels, and durations Focused on the best - hikes, drives, and cycling tours Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, camping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, summer and winter activities, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Contextual insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, geology, wildlife, and conservation Over 52 full-color trail and park maps and full-color images throughout Useful features - Travel with Children, Clothing and Equipment, and Day and Overnight Hikes Covers Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, Glacier National Park, Lake Louise, Lake Minnewanka, Bow Valley, Backcountry, Kananaskis Country, Lake O'Hara, Jasper Town, Blackfeet Indian Reservation and more. The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Banff, Jasper & Glacier National Parks, our most comprehensive guide to these Canadian national parks, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Buy it with enough time to use it to plan your trip, it has great recommendations for everything!"
"Helped us figure out the key things we should do, weather permitting."
"It's like a pre-walk through the park."
"I found more on the area, using the internet."
"Excellent resource for the Canadian Rockies National Parks."
"A good book, not quite as useful for me as the Moon book."
"And not just for the hiking trails advice, but also for lodging, eating, and other activity suggestions."
"This Lonely Planet travel guide includes full color photos and maps of the area in addition to helpful recommendations for decent hotels, restaurants and activities."
Best British Columbia Travel Guides
The 2017 edition has more than 700 pages of detailed travel information on 30 major routes―including the Alaska Highway, which celebrates its 75 th anniversary this year―and 60 side trips, totaling more than 15,000 miles of road in Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia and Alberta.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I bought this for my 14 year old grandson whose goal is to take a trip to Alaska upon his graduation from high school."
"I drove from Homer, Alaska through Canada and down to Seattle over a three-month camping trip."
"If you are planning to go to Alaska within a year or two, you HAVE TO get this."
"The detailed information was invaluable as lots of the roads we traveled were remote and lonely."
"Got the book in yesterday, this is a great book far beyond anything I could have imagined, Planning on going in a couple years and heard this is a good book."
"This book was a lifesaver on our trip from the Gulf of Mexico to Anchorage!!!"
"BEST guide book ever!"
"If you are planning a road trip to Alaska you need this book."
Best Canadian Territories Travel Guides
The MILEPOST® is Alaska’s most extensive and best-known travel guide.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"A must have for anyone planning a road trip to Alaska."
"It has been 4 years since we made the trip, and I know that things are always changing, it's great to have an updated source of info all in one spot."
"People in the lower 48 just don't realize how remote of an area the Alcan Hwy is and it nice to know with this book it tells you what's around you mile by mile."
"If you google while you have wifi and go by the cardinal rules of the alcan (get gas every half tank), you can get there without this."
"I read about this guide on a travel site and I am so glad that I purchased it."
"This book has a VERY comprehensive breakdown of all the major highways in Alaska, what you can see at each mile marker, where all the beautiful camera spots are, what you might expect to see at the suggested photo op sites, what the road conditions are for that year, (if there's any frost heave, for example) or if the roads are rough in certain sections....where the gas stations are, how many miles till the next one, where the best pullouts are for views of the Alaskan ranges."
"In fact, Alaska and Northwest Canada offer an unsurpassed opportunity to experience a pre-urban world of rugged country, covered with forests, streams, lakes, mountains, tundra, glaciers, and lots of wildlife, where the traveler can spend hours or days out of sight of his or her fellow humans. The opportunities for outdoor adventure, whether hiking, biking, canoeing, kayaking, skiing, snow machining, dog sledding, fishing or hunting, are simply fantastic. The Milepost offers a mile-by-mile travelogue, updated annually, for the main roads, along with maps, diagrams of some key towns, photographs, and advertisements for attractions, accomodations, and other travel facilities."
Best Edmonton Travel Guides
Stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the lines span 3974 miles, taking in not only several of North America’s finest cities but also some of the most dramatic scenery on earth, including the spectacular Rocky Mountains.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"While only a small portion of the book is actually devoted to a mile-by-mile guide along selected train routes, I found the book useful and well organized."
"I would have given it 5 stars but there is absolutely no mention of the city of Ottawa!!!!"
"Is very helpful in planning our trip."
"The railroad information was a bit disappointing, but the book is an excellent source for those making a trans-Canada journey."
"This book is outstanding, with useful information about the trains and what you will need to know, as well as very thorough information about the cities served along the way, with lots of choices of accommodations and attractions."
"This book helped me prepare itinerary for my one-month journey from Halifax to Vancouver that I'm planning to take in May 2000."
"will fit in my pocket."
"Found it very useful during our planning of our trans-Canada train trip."
Best Canadian Cities Travel Guides
User-friendly highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices, emergency information, park seasonality, hiking trail junctions, viewpoints, landscapes, elevations, distances, difficulty levels, and durations Focused on the best - hikes, drives, and cycling tours Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, camping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, summer and winter activities, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Contextual insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, geology, wildlife, and conservation Over 52 full-color trail and park maps and full-color images throughout Useful features - Travel with Children, Clothing and Equipment, and Day and Overnight Hikes Covers Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, Glacier National Park, Lake Louise, Lake Minnewanka, Bow Valley, Backcountry, Kananaskis Country, Lake O'Hara, Jasper Town, Blackfeet Indian Reservation and more. The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Banff, Jasper & Glacier National Parks, our most comprehensive guide to these Canadian national parks, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Buy it with enough time to use it to plan your trip, it has great recommendations for everything!"
"I felt the information wasn't presented in the most logical order."
"Helped us figure out the key things we should do, weather permitting."
"It's like a pre-walk through the park."
"I found more on the area, using the internet."
"Excellent resource for the Canadian Rockies National Parks."
"A good book, not quite as useful for me as the Moon book."
"And not just for the hiking trails advice, but also for lodging, eating, and other activity suggestions."
Best General Northeast US Travel Guides
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. Dave Barry...[Readers] may find themselves turning the pages with increasing amusement and anticipation as they discover that they're in the hands of a satirist of the first rank who writes (and walks) with Chaucerian brio.” —The New York Times Book Review.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I'm a sexagenarian who, on a recent vacation, happened to walk out and back on the first three miles or so of the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail (Springer Mtn, GA) and, in a fit of exhilaration, decided then and there that I would, by golly, hike the AT before I died. As I was joyfully entertained by his incisive sense of humor, I was simultaneously and seriously learning history, biology, geology (and several other -ologies) as well as being discomfitted by Bryson's documentation of our culture's dismissive practices regarding ecology."
"I enjoyed the authors point of view and sense of humor, sometimes actually laughing out loud for several minutes."
"Read one and except for a few events, you've pretty much read them all and almost any extended backpacking trip involves the same rigors, risks, weather and that mixture of misery and exhilaration."
"Bill's storytelling captured me immediately...I was taking every step he took, I enjoyed every vista he looked out on, I was eavesdropping on his conversations with his fellow hikers and feeling the spectrum of emotions held for his friend and hiking companion."
"An adventure that walks you experientially and historically through the nation's longest series of trails from Georgia to Maine while feeling every fear from blisters, hunger, thirst, wildlife, climate changes, man's limitations and nature's nuances, all the while trekking with a forty pound pack on your back, and any one of these could do you in, well it's a wonder why the wild is so compelling."
"After reading Bryson's African Diary, I had to continue on with this offering on the Australian state of affairs."
"With the film in theaters, I decided to pick it up and give it a go. I loved this book, and place it among Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild," Cheryl Strayed's "Wild," and Elizabeth Gilbert's "The Last American Man" in terms of well-written essays that explore our yearning to return to a simpler, untethered way of life."
Best Canadian Provinces Travel Guides
The 2017 edition has more than 700 pages of detailed travel information on 30 major routes―including the Alaska Highway, which celebrates its 75 th anniversary this year―and 60 side trips, totaling more than 15,000 miles of road in Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia and Alberta.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I bought this for my 14 year old grandson whose goal is to take a trip to Alaska upon his graduation from high school."
"We drove from Fairbanks down to Michigan in October and we used this guide extensively."
"If you are planning to go to Alaska within a year or two, you HAVE TO get this."
"It seems good."
"The detailed information was invaluable as lots of the roads we traveled were remote and lonely."
"Got the book in yesterday, this is a great book far beyond anything I could have imagined, Planning on going in a couple years and heard this is a good book."
"This was a gift for my husband who has talked about visiting Alaska, great resource!"
"This book was a lifesaver on our trip from the Gulf of Mexico to Anchorage!!!"
Best Mid Atlantic US Travel Books
Now, Brandon is back with the Humans of New York book that his loyal followers have been waiting for: Humans of New York: Stories .
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"~~~~~~~~~It appears Amazon posted my review under both books Humans of New York and HONY Stories. If you are deciding on whether or not to buy the book, consider the following, which Brandon posted on the HONY facebook page: "I want to take a quick opportunity to remind everyone that HONY is advertisement free and almost entirely financed by book sales. By purchasing a book, you can help HONY continue to grow in a way that remains focused on telling people’s stories--- and nothing else."
"I've purchased all three Humans of New York books and have loved them all, but in Humans of New York - Stories, it all comes together. Even something went unspeakably wrong and against all odds the book was garbage (it isn't) you STILL should buy it, if for nothing more than to cast a vote of support for the JOY, LOVE, and EMPATHY that HONY provides."
"It makes a great coffee table book and everybody that has come over has picked this up and started reading it."
"An amazing collection of photos and personal stories."
"I follow the Facebook page but there's something about holding a tangible book and reading through all the stories in 2 nights that make it better."
"Love this book."
"In the midst of ISIS, corruption, American elections, tanking economy and a degree of narcissism that boggles the mind... another great bit of sanity, sharing, true storytelling and remembering what it is to be human."