Product Description

Award-winning travel writer, Julian Smith, knows the best way to experience Virginia from canoeing down the Great Dismal Swamp and hiking the Appalachian Trail to noshing at the Carytown Watermelon Festival. Julian provides unique suggestions for trips such as the Two-Week History Tour and Outdoor Highlights for Active Travellers.Packed with information on dining, transportation, and accommodations, "Moon Virginia" has lots of options for a range of travel budgets. Every Moon guidebook includes recommendations for must-see sights and many regional, area, and city-centred maps. With guidance on exploring the deep forest of Douthat State Park and visiting the pretty gingerbread-like houses of Onancock, "Moon Virginia" gives travellers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience. With expert writers, first-rate strategic advice, and an essential does of humour, "Moon Handbooks" are the cure for the common trip."Moon Handbooks" aren't your average guides. For more than 30 years, these books have appealed to an eclectic group of travellers, from backpacking students to solo adventurers to families on vacation (and a budget). With expert writers delivering a mix of honest insight, first-rate strategic advice, and an essential dose of humour, "Moon Handbooks" ensure that travellers have an uncommon and entirely satisfying experience - and a few new stories to tell.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45533 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 420 pages

About the Author
Days after wrangling a degree in biology from the University of Virginia, Julian Smith found himself hopelessly entangled in a self-publishing venture that resulted nine months later in the one-pound, eight-ounce On Your Own in El Salvador, the first in-depth guide to the country. Moon Handbooks Ecuador came two years later. Tired of sounding like a third-grader with grammar issues, Julian returned to Virginia, where everyone kept saying the same thing: "Didn't you graduate already?" After completing Moon Handbooks Virginia, he contributed to The Washington Post, National Geographic Traveller, Road Trip USA, Online Travel Planning for Dummies, and other publications. He has somehow earned a Masters' degree in Wildlife Ecology in the meantime, eating smoked salmon and studying grizzly bears on the coast of British Columbia. For more travel writing, photography, updates, and assorted oddities, stop by his website, www.juliansmith.com. Julian lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant like all MOON Guides
MOON guides are not widely available in the UK and are very much written for a US audience but in my view they are THE best guides to the USA. The authors know their subject, have real enthusiasm and humour and I have found the guides unfailingly accurate.

THe introductions and background information on history, geography etc are always interesting and written by Americans for Americans they can tell you more than other guides aimed at an international audience.

The maps are also excellent (unlike Lonely Planet) and you get a real insider's view of the area.

This guide covers Washington DC as well and is perfect for someone visiting Virgina and adding on DC for 2-3 days.