Best Baltimore Maryland Travel Books

Streetwise Baltimore Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Baltimore, Maryland - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated light rail & metro stations. This map covers the following areas: Main Baltimore Map 1:25,000. Baltimore Area Map 1:180,000. Downtown Baltimore Map 1:12,500. Past entries have also included a mobile beaver lodge, the Shrimptastic float complete with support shrimp on bikes, the nine-seater PLATYPUS (Personal Longrange All-Terrain Yacht Proven Un-Safe) and the perennial plastic poodle Fifi. After eight hours awards are bestowed including the Golden Flipper, Sock Creature of the Universe (a sock puppet is required of each team), Next to Last and the Dinosaur Award for the most memorable breakdown along the race. In the 1970’s, Brown traveled extensively throughout Africa, India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Brown would take a large paper map, cut out the city center, folded it up and slip it into his pocket, thus preventing him from looking like a tourist in areas where discretion is the better part of travel. After many years on the road, Brown settled back in New York and decided to start his own business, based on the adaptations he had made to maps in his travels. Brown sold the maps during the day, zipping around Manhattan making deliveries on his Harley Davidson. STREETWISE® is one of the only, if not THE only map company that conducts research by walking or driving an area to ensure accuracy. This lengthy fact checking results in superior accuracy; in effect, we’ve done the work, now you have the adventure.

The ultimate insider's guide to Baltimore, fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 170 titles and 1 million copies in print worldwide Appeals to both the local market (nearly 3 million people call Baltimore home) and the tourist market nearly 25 million people visit Baltimore every year!). Allison Robicelli is an author, chef, entrepreneur, and backyard adventurer.

The Painted Screens of Baltimore takes a first look at this beloved icon of one major American city through the words and images of dozens of self-taught artists who trace their creations to the capable and unlikely brush of one Bohemian immigrant, William Oktavec. Eff's majestic portrait of a city, its people, and their art will forever stand as a model study for the fields of American art and folklore."

The official guide to 95 miles of the Appalachian Trail from the Pennsylvania line, south through the center of Maryland, briefly into West Virginia through Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, and down along the West Virginia-Virginia line to the entrance to Shenandoah National Park.