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Author: Alan Fisher
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780961496302
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Country Walks Near Washington
Author: Alan Hall Fisher
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780961496357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIF YOU LIVE in the Greater Washington region, the excursions described here are close at hand. The walks explore our area's outstanding national, state, and local parks and extensive trail networks. Some of the trails are also suitable for ski touring and bicycling. Each chapter of Country Walks Near Washington includes an overview, detailed directions, one or more maps (there are sixty in all), and extensive commentary.
Country Walks Near Washington
Author: Alan Hall Fisher
Publisher:
Published: 2011-04-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780981552026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCountry Walks Near Washington describes trail networks in the vicinity of our national capital. Each chapter includes an overview, detailed directions, one or more maps and photographs, and commentary of social and natural history.
Hiking Washington's History
Author: Judy Bentley
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2021-05-31
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0295748532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor thousands of years people have traveled across Washington’s spectacular terrain, establishing footpaths and roads to reach hunting grounds and coal mines high in the mountains, fishing sites and trade emporiums on the rivers, forests of old growth, and homesteads and towns on prairies. These traditional routes have been preserved in national parks, restored by cities and towns, salvaged from old railroad tracks, and opened to hikers by Indigenous communities. In this new, full-color edition of the first-ever hiking guide to the state’s historic trails, historian and hiker Judy Bentley teams up with veteran guidebook author Craig Romano to lead adventurers of all abilities along trails on the coast, over mountains, through national forests, across plateaus, and on the banks of the Columbia River. Features include: • 44 hikes, including 12 new additions • Full-color trail maps • A trails timeline that connects hikes to key events • Updated trail descriptions • Accounts from diaries, journals, and archives • Historical overviews of 8 regions of the state • Contemporary and historical photographs Bentley and Romano offer an essential boots-on-the ground history of some of the state’s most fascinating places.
Washington Schlepped Here
Author: Christopher Buckley
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 0307422623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe father of our country slept with Martha, but schlepped in the District. Now in the great man’s footsteps comes humorist and twenty-year Washington resident Christopher Buckley with the real story of the city’s founding. Well, not really. We’re just trying to get you to buy the book. But we can say with justification that there’s never been a more enjoyable, funny, and informative tour guide to the city than Buckley. His delight as he points out things of interest is con-tagious, and his frequent digressions about his own adventures as a White House staffer are often hilarious. In Washington Schlepped Here, Buckley takes us along for several walks around the town and shares with us a bit of his “other” Washington. They include “Dante’s Paradiso” (Union Station); the “Zero Milestone of American democracy” (the U.S. Capitol); the “Almost Pink House” (the White House); and many other historical (and often hysterical) journeys. Buckley is the sort of wonderful guide who pries loose the abalone-like clichés that cling to a place as mythic as D.C. Wonderfully insightful and eminently practical, Washington Schlepped Here shows us that even a city whose chief industry is government bureaucracy is a lot funnier and more surprising than its media-ready image might let on. From the Hardcover edition.
Country Walks Near Washington
Author: Alan Hall Fisher
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780910146531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHiking through History Washington
Author: Nathan Barnes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014-02-01
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 149301188X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beautiful, full-color guidebook to more than 40 of the best hikes following the history of the state of Washington.
Urban Hikes Washington
Author: Brandon Fralic
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-07-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1493047841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplore Washington’s lush forests and Cascade Mountain views without traveling deep into the backcountry. This book features 40 easy-to-follow urban trails that allow hikers of all levels to discover the landmarks that shape the Evergreen state’s cities and towns. Urban Hikes Washington provides the latest information to plan a customized trip: Common and lesser-known hikes, from city center strolls to forest trails Full-color photos and maps, detailed trail descriptions, and trailhead GPS Insightful hike overviews and details on distance, difficulty, canine compatibility, and more Washington boasts a plethora of great urban hikes, and this guide highlights both family-friendly footpaths and culinary and gastronomic delights found along the way. Find hikes suited to every ability. Stroll Spokane’s River Walk Loop to take in the sights of Expo ‘74 or enjoy a pint of local beer after a walk to Downtown Bellingham along South Bay Trail. Discover arboretum trails, waterfront walks, after-work rambles, and more.
A Walk in the Woods
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published: 2012-05-15
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0385674546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGod only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.
Country Walks in the Chicago Region
Author: Alan Fisher
Publisher:
Published: 2003-02
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780961496395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHIS BOOK IS FOR PEOPLE who want an outing in the country without wasting half the day getting there and back. If you live in the Greater Chicago region, the excursions described here are close at hand. The walks show the best parts of our area's many large parks and extensive trail networks. Some of the trails are suitable also for ski touring and bicycling. Country Walks Near Chicago includes detailed directions, 23 maps, and extensive commentary on local history and natural history.
