Yosemite & The Southern Sierra Nevada: A Complete Guide, Including Sequoia & Kings Canyon, Death Valley & Mammoth Lakes (Great Destinations) Review

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(More customer reviews)David Page may have invented a new genre - the literary travel guide. His book starts with natural and cultural history - "Contexts" - the back-stories to the remarkable places he describes in graceful language.
Page has skied, climbed, walked or driven to all of these places and this shows in the how-to-get-there chapter called "Into the Hills".
Each area chapter, Death Valley, Owens Valley and the Eastern Sierra, Mammoth Lakes, Sequoia Kings Canyon and Yosemite, has more context stories and exhaustive listing of places to eat and stay, and things to see and do. The book is crammed with details: you can get rattlesnake empanasas at the Furnace Creek Inn, the location of the only Indian restaurant between LA and Carson City in Nevada, where to check the white-water flows on the Kaweah River, the temperature of Keogh Hot Springs and much more.
Describing the highest, lowest, snowiest, driest, sunniest, and arguably some of the most beautiful places in the US, this book is a splendid resource for exploring a remarkable land. This is a book worth reading, even if you never get to visit these places. But I hope you do.
-Bill Becher


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Awarded the 2009 Bronze Medal in the Society of American Travel WritersFoundation's annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition:"Whether you want to stand on a glacier or have a beer with localbikers, this is the definitive (as well as wonderfully eccentric) guideto the immensity of the southern Sierra and Owens Valley. John Muirwould be pleased."-Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear
This Explorer's Great Destinationsguidebook covers Yosemite to the Kern River Plateau and includesSequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Giant Sequoia NationalMonument, the Mammoth Lakes region, Owens Valley and Eastern Sierra, aswell as Death Valley National Park. Black-and-white photographs throughout

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Explorer's Guide Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada: Includes Mammoth Lakes, Sequoia, Kings Canyon & Death Valley: A Great Destination (Second Edition) (Explorer's Great Destinations) Review

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(More customer reviews)David Page's storyteller voice is clear and one you'll enjoy. For anyone looking to explore the Sierra Nevada - east and south plus Yosemite and all the way to Death Valley - buy this book. In-depth descriptions will guide you to all destinations off-road and on, from the lowest to the highest. The most beautiful sides of California and everything you'll need to get there and back.
All the history, geography and background to explore these incredible landscapes -- some of the other worldly. And inspire you to visit again and again. California has more than its share of National Parks, but none more exceptional than Yosemite, Death Valley, and Sequoia & Kings Canyon. David provides the essentials for first-timers or experienced travelers to these scenic wonders. Trails, lodging, restaurants, landmarks -- it's all there and more. You can use this as a guide, but just as easily read it as a first-person account.
That ribbon of Hwy 395, in and out of the Eastern Sierra, Mammoth Lakes, Mono Lake, and Mt. Whitney, it's magic. Every detail is revealed in the Explorer's Guide Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada: Includes Mammoth Lakes, Sequoia, Kings Canyon & Death Valley: A Great Destination. I do wish fonts were larger and darker. Some of us who are visually challenged will be challenged all the more. There was a lot of ground to cover and this was the only way to get it done. This is the most special side of California and one I know well. And even better now with David's book id in my collection. Though some of my secreted places have been exposed. I like to share but some things I keep close to the vest!

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Awarded "Best Guidebook" by the Outdoor Writers of CA, "Best Travel Guidebook" by the Bay Area Travel Writers, and a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award by the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation.The only complete guide to California's southern Sierra Nevada--some of the most stunning wilderness in North America--is better than ever in this revised, updated edition. Detailed reviews of lodging, dining, and recreation, plus outfitters, campsites, trails, and points of historic and cultural interest. More than 100 photographs by the best contemporary professional photographers, as well as from historic archives. Includes chapters on Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Mammoth Lakes, the Owens Valley and the Eastern Sierra, and Death Valley."This is the definitive (as well as wonderfully eccentric) guide tothe immensity of the southern Sierra and Owens Valley. John Muir wouldbe pleased." --Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear

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