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Rhode Island: An Explorer's Guide (Rhode Island : An Explorer's Guide) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Phyllis Meras, Tom Gannon
Publisher: Countryman Press
Category: Book
List Price: $18.00
Buy Used: $0.87
You Save: $17.13 (95%)
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1093800
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd
Pages: 324
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0881504653
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.450443
EAN: 9780881504651
ASIN: 0881504653
Publication Date: April 2000
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Condition: Standard used condition.
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Product Description
Rhode Island offers much diversity in a small space, from the fine museums and restaurants of Providence, to the quiet pastures and woods of South County and the tranquil beauty of Block Island. With 36 islands and a mainland sliced in two by Narragansett Bay, the Ocean State has more than 400 miles of sandy beaches and rocky headlands along its varied coastline. Travel writers Phyllis Meras and Tom Gannon capture it all in this revised and expanded guidebook.
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Reference for the resident and visitor alike May 8, 2006
Jessica Lux (Rosamond, CA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This guidebook is divided into eight sections by geographic region, with a top-level map up front and detailed maps of each location by section. The entire book is black and white, but the maps and pictures are still crystal clear. The opening chapter is an index referencing any subject one could want to find in Rhode Island, from ballooning to antiques to quahogs to yachting. I was most impressed with the "Green Spaces" section for each region, listing dozens of outdoor parks and activities available in the Ocean State. While there are certainly other more detailed outdoor guidebooks to Rhode Island, they haven't been updated recently, and this is a great overview guide to the riches of "green space" available in Little Rhody. Also included are beaches with recommendations about what outdoor activities are appropriate at each. Plus, if you want to visit historic houses, historic churches, historic mansions, or general historic sites, this is the state and the guidebook for you.
For Activities, price information is noticeably missing. Perhaps detailed prices date a guidebook too much, but as a traveler, I'd like to get an idea whether this boat excursion or that historic house is within my general budget. Restaurants, on the other hand, are broken into price categories, and include terse yet informative descriptive information about the cuisine, location, and atmosphere. As a native, I'm well aware that hotels in Rhode Island are just plain more expensive than they are in other parts of the country. If you want to sleep in luxury, you can find some great direction from this guide. For a deal, I'd recommend utilizing Internet search engines. The low single-dollar-sign category in this book refers to hotels under a "mere" $95 (as of 2000).
There is something to be said for compact guidebooks, and this is not one. It is a generously oversized paperback with thick pages and both large fonts and margins. This isn't a book to tuck into your extra backpack pocket when trekking around. Then again, all that extra text left the authors room to inform me that Goddard Park was man-made by two generations of owners and is cited as one of the best man-made forestry projects of all time. Now, that's a new fact to try out on my parents!
Not Just for Tourists November 10, 2001
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a great book! Every time I am stumped on a local history question I can turn to this book and find the answer painlessly. As a guide to restaurants and attractions it just can't be beat. I recommend this book to locals and visitors as a great reference source.
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