Best General Massachusetts Travel Guides

Metro Worcester, Central Massachusetts Street Atlas.

Large scale street atlas with street level detail includes community profile, individual community maps, index on corresponding map pages, places of interest and more street map coverage of all communities in Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden & Hampshire Counties.

Large scale atlas with street level detail includes city & town statistics, community profiles, individual community maps, index on corresponding map pages, zip codes, a Central Massachusetts Highway Map, places of interest and street map coverage of 85 communities in Worcester County and parts of Franklin, Hampshire, Hamden and Middlesex Counties.

And he ponders everyday human interactions conducted in its environment with equal curiosity, wit, and insight: taking a weeks-old puppy for his first beach walk; engaging in a nocturnal dance with one of the Cape’s fabled lighthouses; stumbling, unexpectedly, upon nude sunbathers; or even encountering out-of-towners hoping an Uber will fetch them from the other side of a remote dune field. But lurking behind every experience and observation―both pivotal and quotidian―is the essential question that the beach beckons every one of its pilgrims to confront: How do we accept our brief existence here, caught between overwhelming beauty and merciless indifference? “The author chose John Keats’ remark, ‘Description is always bad,’ as an epigraph for the book, but that comment surely does not apply to the precision and sheer loveliness of Finch’s prose….Vivid and graceful reflections on water and wind, shifting sands, and the inevitability of change.”. - starred review, Kirkus Reviews. “Every step of this fifty-year journey is a lesson, a poem, a hypothesis, a paean, a keen stroke in a vivid seascape, a treatise, a fresh verse in an ongoing elegy. Open this book and you can venture out with him in all weathers, all seasons―beachcombing, storm-chasing, birdwatching―all the while musing on the primordial dance between land and sea, and on the resilient creatures that live along the edge.”. - Scott Russell Sanders, author of Dancing in Dreamtime.

This is the true story of Stan Zuray's incredible journey; the reformation of a man's heart and mind in the forbidding darkness of Alaska's endless winter.