Insight Guide Pacific Northwest (Insight Guides)

by Brian Bell, Jaine Freeburg

(Paperback - June 2002)
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Product Details

• Paperback: 334 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.84 x 8.78 x 6.12
• Publisher: Insight Guides; 4th edition (June 2002)
• ISBN: 1585731501
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: 98,982

Book Review

Each travel series (Insight, Frommer, Lonely Planet, etc.) has its own emphasis and style. The strength of the Insight guides is its overview of a particular region, in this case the Pacific Northwest area of the United States. You won't find extensive lists of hotels and restaurants in this book; instead, you'll be given a written and photographic tour through Washington and Oregon, from Seattle to Portland, from Mount St. Helens to Mount Hood, along the coast, into the mountains, and across the Columbia Basin. The guide supplies a short history of the area (short, but more comprehensive than most guides) as well as the "personalities" of contemporary cities. You'll find a section on the wine-making regions and one on the John Day Fossil Beds. National and state parks are covered as well. The color photographs, included on almost every page, shows the varied landscapes in with a true eye for aesthetics. An extremely small section at the back addresses much of what the bulk of the guide lacks: festivals, hotels and restaurants (no descriptions, just addresses and phone numbers),how to get there, major attractions, and other brief travel tips.