Alaska Off the Beaten Path: A Guide to Unique Places [Paperback]

Melissa DeVaughn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1999 | Series: Off the Beaten Path Series

For travelers looking to avoid the crowd, this guide will help them discover the unique "must-see" attractions of the Last Frontier State. Go beyond the usual tourist attractions to discover such hidden treasures as Starrigavan Estuary, Valdez Museum, or Harding Lake. Whatever you do when you get to Alaska, get off the interstate-and take this book with you!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"If you're not one to follow the 'straight and narrow,' this is the Alaska guide for you. It details offbeat things to do and places to see, whether you are walking, driving, cruising, or flying."
--San Antonio Express-News

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Whatever you do when you travel, get off the highway. Who needs more bland rest stops and fast food? Get into the heart of things with Globe Pequot's Off the Beaten Path series. Devoted to travelers with a taste for the unique, this easy-to-use guide helps you discover the hidden places in Alaska that most tourists miss - unsung, unspoiled, and out-of-the-way finds that liven up a week's vacation, a day trip, or an afternoon. (5 1/2 X 81/2, 240 pages, maps, illustrations)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Globe Pequot; 2nd edition (August 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762702613
• ISBN-13: 978-0762702619
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,901,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An interesting supplimental guide, March 21, 2002

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This review is from: Alaska Off the Beaten Path, 3rd: A Guide to Unique Places (Paperback)

The Off the Beaten Path Alaska guide is almost the counter guide for the main off the shelf tour guides like Foders. Yes, a lot of it is akin to advertising, but it opens up some of the possible opportunities and can give you a starting off place to learn more. The book was useful for looking at in small pieces - the narrative is rather plodding and seemingly unorganized - at least it's hard to find things quickly in it. But at the same time, if you are looking at Alaska as that once in a lifetime visit, then it presents the opportunities that are out there, especially those not covered in as much detail in the mainstream guides. Sure, many of the things listed are way out of most of our budgets, but I found myself contemplating trying to find some alternatives to side trips that I hadn't thought about. And it shows that it's written by someone on knows and lives the area - the description of travel opportunities often fall more in travelogue than guide book realm. Personally, as someone who is looking at visiting Alaska and hoping to go above the Arctic Circle, I got some ideas and had my options partially laid out. I now know what I might want to explore as options. I would never make this my only guide book - but it is good for what it tries to do. I do wish the maps were better and the text and maps corresponded more readily. Peruse it before you go - it's for planning ahead, not referring to on the trip.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Off the Beaten Path? Try how to spend the most money in AK, October 19, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Alaska Off the Beaten Path: A Guide to Unique Places (Paperback)

this book is full of overpriced advertisements and we found this book completely irritating in a 6 week trip to Alaska. If you want to spend $3500 on a kayak trip this may be the book for you.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A comprehensive look at travel in Alaska, January 15, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Alaska Off the Beaten Path: A Guide to Unique Places (Paperback)

There are tours and travel opportunities to fit every traveler and every pocketbook in this book. Where most travel books on Alaska provide sketchy descriptions and outdated contact information we found the information in Alaska Off the Beaten Path to be solid.
We enjoyed Melissa's first person accounts and descriptions too. I followed her directions and found giant sea lions right where she said they'd be, in the harbor in Kodiak.
We carried it with us everywhere and haver recommended it to friends who plan to visit Alaska in the future.