Arkansas Off the Beaten Path, 5th: A Guide to Unique Places [Paperback]

Patti DeLano (Author), Diana Lambdin Meyer (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Off the Beaten Path Series | Publication Date: January 1, 2002

This guide offers the best and most offbeat attractions Arkansas has to offer.

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From the Back Cover

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 Arkansas that most tourists miss - unsung, unspoiled, and out-of-the-way finds that liven up a week's vacation, a day trip, aor an afternoon. (5 1/2 X 81/2, 240 pages, maps, illustrations)

About the Author

Patti DeLano is a freelance travel writer and photographer who has lived in the Ozarks of Missouri and vacationed across the border in Arkansas for more than twenty years.

Diana Lambdin Meyer is a freelance writer in the Kansas City area. She used to live in the Fort Smith area and visits family and friends in Arkansas regularly.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Globe Pequot; 5th edition (January 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762710322
• ISBN-13: 978-0762710324
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,640,495 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #24 in Books > Travel > United States > States > Arkansas

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars So much potential......!!, March 19, 2002

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"balou1963" (Sugar Land, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Arkansas Off the Beaten Path, 5th: A Guide to Unique Places (Paperback)

After a week using this book (and its Oklahoma sibling) we were very disappointed. The *content* of the book is, in general, very good, interesting and readable. The problem is with the layout. The author jumps about, geographically, so that you don't really know how close (or far) a place is. It's the same with the Oklahoma book. I will undoubtedly buy other books in this series when we are visiting other states, but next time I will spend some hours highlighting the place name on each page.

I do like tbhe concept of these books, and the information was useful, but the books are not "geographically intuitive"!
More maps, or just better layout, would improve these books a lot.

In Arkansas, we found several other guidebooks more usable and user-friendly, notably "Arkansas Roadsides" by Bill Earngey, "A Roadside History of Arkansas" by Paulson, and the "AAA TourBook for AR, KS, MO and OK". The best local information came from Arkansas State Parks in their brilliant series of leaflets!