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Offers information for out-of-the-way attractions, including telephone numbers, reference maps, admission fees, hours of operation, and restaurants and accommodations.
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A n intensely personal look at one of our least-known states
Globe Pequot's Off the Beaten Path series is one of the oldest, best-regarded guidebook series around. But for the new editions of these books, the publisher asked us to get even more personal with our states, using essay-style sidebars to reach the heart of what it means to be here.
Globe Pequot's Off the Beaten Path series is one of the oldest, best-regarded guidebook series around. But for the new editions of these books, the publisher asked us to get even more personal with our states, using essay-style sidebars to reach the heart of what it means to be here.
Here's an example from Idaho Off the Beaten Path:
"A few weeks after our daughter, Natalie, was born in 1994, my husband and I took a Sunday-afternoon drive to the Snake River between Hagerman and Bliss. We'd come to watch kayakers negotiate a new stretch of rapids created by a rock slide a year or so before.
We parked our car and walked the narrow dirt path down to the river, our child cradled in a baby carrier against my chest. Along the way, I picked a sprig of sagebrush and held it to Natalie's nose. Her tiny nostrils flared at the sweet, pungent scent. "This is what Idaho smells like," I told her.
At that moment, I realized my own Idaho walks have given me an intimate knowledge of the place where I live -- things I would never know if I never left my car. What freshly picked sage smells like, for example, and how south winds blow much warmer than west winds, and how lava rock ranges from smooth and sinewy to rough and jagged. I have adopted this state, and so I came to this understanding as an adult. For my little native Idahoan, however, these facts will be the fabric of her childhood. No matter where she may live, Natalie will have immutable memories of sage, of wind, and of stone."
(c) 1998, Julie Fanselow
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A good guide for a great place
25 Jun 2003
Format:Paperback
This book is a WONDERFUL resource! I was raised in Idaho, and it contains places even I hadn't heard about. The book details many of Idaho's beauties that the locals normally know about, but a visitor might not notice or be aware of. It isn't the most in-depth place to find information about neat places in idaho, but it is a "must read" for people who want to make their visit to Idaho special and unique.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Fabulous book
9 Mar 2006
Format:Paperback
My husband is from the Twin Falls area and we recently spent a week there. I took this book along with us for ideas on ways to pass our time. It was a great resource! Having grown up in the area, my husband was surprised by how many things were included in the book that he wasn't familiar with. We visited lots of sites that either he'd never heard of or had never bothered to visit. We both had a great time exploring southcentral Idaho with this book as our guide. In fact, I'm going to look for an Off the Beaten Path book for the area I currently live in (Alaska) to see what we're missing here at home.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Good little guidebook
31 Jan 2006
Format:Paperback
If you're unfamiliar with Idaho, I would opine that its most outstanding characteristic for the tourist is its clean, clear, white-water wilderness rivers: the Salmon (River of No Return), Snake, Selway, and others. There isn't anyplace in the world that can boast of better and more beautiful float streams.
The guidebook divides Idaho into seven regions and briefy describes interesting places to stay, old-time restaurants, museums and art galleries, annual events, and assorted trivia. Sidebars recount stories of places and people, including Ernest Hemingway, the Nez Perce Indians, and the infamous Ruby Ridge. This guidebook is light and small and well-organized and has all the information you need to find your way to interesting spots around the state, especially if you're the sort of person who's allergic to cute boutiques and cookie-cutter hotels and restaurants. This is the guidebook series that my wife and I carry when we travel in the United States -- but if you're visiting Idaho for the wilderness experience you'll need additional information to what is offered here.
Smallchief
The guidebook divides Idaho into seven regions and briefy describes interesting places to stay, old-time restaurants, museums and art galleries, annual events, and assorted trivia. Sidebars recount stories of places and people, including Ernest Hemingway, the Nez Perce Indians, and the infamous Ruby Ridge. This guidebook is light and small and well-organized and has all the information you need to find your way to interesting spots around the state, especially if you're the sort of person who's allergic to cute boutiques and cookie-cutter hotels and restaurants. This is the guidebook series that my wife and I carry when we travel in the United States -- but if you're visiting Idaho for the wilderness experience you'll need additional information to what is offered here.
Smallchief
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