Product Description: A guide to 27 great day hikes and overnight backpacking trips on the Appalachian Trail in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont Includes elevation profiles, topographic maps, itineraries, and full descriptions of the sights and landmarks along the trail Directions and information on available parking given for each hike Completely revised and updated to reflect recent trail change...read more

Tours one dozen cities that were built below street level, profiling each for their archaeological histories, geological features, and engineering innovations, in a reference that includes coverage of such regions as the first-century catacombs of Rome, the New York subway system, and Mexico City's depleted aquifer.

A collection of Eleanor Roosevelt's finest writings from her syndicated column 'My Day' shares her thoughts on the people and events of her day, her accounts of personal triumphs and tragedies, her quest for civil rights, the changing face of American politics, her work with the United Nations, and more. Original. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Amazon.com Review: The south-central United States--Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Oklahoma--harbors several dozen federally administered wildlife refuges, 41 of them open to the public and profiled in this guidebook. Some, such as Kansas's Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge, abound with diverse populations (in this case, more than 40,000 ducks and 200,000 geese that follow the Neosho River flyway) and are easily accessible to visitors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Amazon.com Review: The Okefenokee Swamp is probably best known, outside of the Deep South, as that place with a funny name where Pogo Possum and his cartoon cohorts lived. Local wildlife aficionados, however, will tell you that 438,000 acres of the swamp are protected as a federal wildlife refuge, within which alligators, bobcats, black bears, and snapping turtles thrive...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 45 hikes in Virginia and West Virginia. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Journal excerpts, poems, essays, and stories--by Henry David Thoreau, James Dickey, James MacGregor Burns, Richard Wilbur, and many modern-day visitors--celebrate the diverse landscapes and experiences of the 2,140-mile wilderness trail

Amazon.com Review: Who hasn't dreamed of holing up somewhere, away from the madding crowd, to write without such distractions as laundry, telephones, dishes, and children? Most of us don't have time to research the opportunities available, let alone find a week, a month or, wow, a year to visit a writers' colony...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)