Best General Missouri Travel Guides
Payton interweaves personal experience, extensive knowledge of local history, readings in frontier travel journals and natural history to create a fresh and original look at one of America's fabled regions. Exhibitions of his photographs have been shown in many art galleries, including the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, the St. Louis Art Museum, and the Springfield (MO) Art Museum.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great book - lots of pictures and info."
"The black and white photos give a sense of the Ozark Plateau's far-reaching history and beauty, while the color images detail a unique heritage that continues today."
"Anyone who loves the Ozarks will be touched and moved by Leland Payton's photographs, which capture the hills, plains, parks, towns and people of the place in all of their rugged, yet fragile beauty."
"THE BEAUTIFUL AND ENDURING OZARKS not only looks like the Ozarks, it has the feel of it."
The convenient size is ideal for bags and purses, while the eye-popping layouts of luscious photographs, efficient maps, and brief hotel recommendations will help make planning an excursion almost as fun as eating and shopping. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"While it's probably a bit dated now (being that it was published in 2009), this was a great collection of neat local shops here in Kansas City."
"Don't waste your calories on ho-hum fare or chain restaurants you can find anywhere -- KC has fantastic and unusual local restaurants (and chocolate shops and bakeries) -- and many of them are featured in here. For each featured restaurant and shop, the authors provide an address and phone number, hours, details on what's served and payments accepted, great photographs, recommendations -- and the handy maps show you just how to get there."
"The thing about going someplace new is finding the most interesting places to hit in a limited amount of time."
"We live in KC and we still bought the book to help us find new places to explore for date nights."
A must have guide for the LDS traveler to the Independence, Missouri and Nauvoo, Illinois areas.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is a nice general book for LDS folks who want to see historic sites, but it is a bit out of date."
"just what I needed."
"Helps with background information on all of the sites, as well as travel time between sites."
"Indispensable when you want to know in depth the historical places in the East."
"This book helped us plan our trip and know what to see plus the history of the site we visited."
"This book was so easy to read."
Best Branson Missouri Travel Books
A local's guide to Missouri's entertainment boomtown. The great detail concerning routes, travel tips, suggestions and insights of which only a local would be aware are frosted with an icing of warm descriptive passages and generously spiced with pictures that look like they have been donated from the family photo albums of all the original settlers of the area. "Even if one were not planning a trip to this area, one can enjoy this book on its own merits as a fascinating view of the history, people and geography of one of the orginal garden spots of the United States. -- S. Burkett Milner, Ph.D., CEO Ozark Mountain Tour and Travel --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"We recently made a trip to Branson and stayed a week."
"I went on vacation to Branson before but only got to see a third of what is in this book - now I can't wait to go back again!"
"After all, the Ozarks do not begin and end on the Strip; Shaffer takes you to surrounding communities, and provides 19 maps and detailed directions clear enough for even the most directionally-impaired traveler!"
"We used this book throughout our vacation."
"This was my first travel book for somewhere in the midwest."
Best St. Louis Missouri Travel Books
With new hikes and updated text and maps, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: St. Louis points hikers to the best outdoor trails and rambles within easy reach of the city. Trail Descriptions allow you to assess each trail before you hike it. Detailed Trail Maps provide you with accurate trail information. Trail Profiles help you visualize altitude gain and loss. Directions and GPS coordinates lead you to the trailheads. Whether you live in St. Louis, St. Peters, Washington, or Sullivan, "60 Hikes within 60 Miles: St. Louis" provides you with the information you need to choose the perfect day hike in your area, including trail lengths, hiking times, and trail difficulty.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I like how the trails are organized and separated with categories and that some trails can fall into several categories."
"Directions listed to get to the trailheads, parks, natural areas and conservation areas are accurate. I like to make notes after I hike a trail or an area, so I do wish there was a blank page or two included with each chapter so that trail and area notes could be made. In addition, when the book is updated, it would be great to have a website or something online linked to the book."
"We have used the older version of this book many times over the years."
"Fun book to find places to hike."
"All of the important facts that would keep you on the trail are true, but the trails were a lot easier to follow than suggested, and some of the scenery points did not exist?"
"We go hiking all over missouri, and this book has shown us several new and cool places."
"I read the write-up on the hike I've been doing for 16 years."
"The author does a good job outlining the difficulty of trails and things to look out for."
Best Kansas City Missouri Travel Books
Reynolds photographs feature a plethora of exciting venues including the renowned Country Club Plaza, America s first suburban mall, 18th and Vine, were music resonates through the historic Jazz District, and the new entertainment and cultural complex at historic Union Station. PHOTOGRAPHER: Scott Reynolds is a Los Angeles based photographer and Kansas City native.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I live in central Missouri and got this to be a coffee table book."
"Bought this as a gift for my mother in law who lives in another state."
"The pictures are fantastic and a great representation of Kansas City."
"The Kansas City book I received a couple of weeks ago was rated by the seller as "like new"."
"A fantastic Book."