Best Bike Paths of New England: Safe, Scenic and Traffic-Free Bicycling [Paperback]

Wendy Williams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 4, 1996

Cycling the open road has its pleasures but it can also be intimidating, especially for the novice or the parent with young children. Fortunate, there's another option for those cyclist who have something a little more peaceful and recreational in mind: the paved bike path. Free of cars, red lights, and exhaust fumes, recreational paths are popping up everywhere. In The Best Bike Paths of New England, Wendy Williams has done you the favor of finding them in advance.

Organized by state, The Best Bike Paths of New England is the only comprehensive listing of these community treasures, describing forty-five paths and detailing everything you'll need to know about each one:
-- A map of each state showing you where the path is
-- A detailed description of the path, including mileage
-- General background, including the history of the path and any useful tourist information
-- The level of difficulty, type of scenery, and condition of pavement
-- Availability of food and bathrooms
-- Directions, including the most accessible parking area

Whether you want to coast alongside the send dunes of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, climb the White Mountains of New Hampshire, or explore Maine's Acadia National Park, there's a bike path waiting for you. So fill your water baffle, pack a lunch, pump up your tires, and prepare for a great ride!

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About the Author

Wendy Williams, a graduate of Northeastern University, lives in New York with her husband and son.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone; Original edition (April 4, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684813998
• ISBN-13: 978-0684813998
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #480,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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About Wendy Williams

Thirty-year science journalist Wendy Williams first became interested in squid when she received a science journalism fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Her writing has been published in a wide diversity of newspapers and magazines, ranging from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times to Scientific American and Science.

The author of several books, Wendy has appeared on numerous radio shows, including the Diane Rehm Show, the Dennis Miller Show, Animal House and many, many others on both NPR and AM radio.

She has also been on numerous television shows going as far back as the David Susskind Show and Geraldo.

Her field of specialty is introducing complex science in language that's easily accessible to the general public. Her current book, Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid, discusses a wide range of invertebrate research and marine science using the squid as the narrative character.

The final section examines the question of the intelligence of squid, octopus and cuttlefish - a group of closely related marine animals that make excellent use of the neuron, the basic unit of thinking. In fact, for nearly a hundred years, scientists have used the squid neuron to study human neurons.
Comments on the book praise both its scientific accuracy and its always-present sense of humor.

Public appearances to present Kraken include the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Atlanta Aquarium, the National Aquarium, the Nantucket Athenaeum, and many, many more.

Her previous book, which was named one of the year's ten best environmental books by Booklist, was Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics and the Battle for America's Energy Future.

She is working on an update about Cape Wind, likely to be the nation's first offshore wind farm, and would be able to talk about that project as well as about squid, octopus and cuttlefish. She lives on Cape Cod and spends as much time around the ocean as possible.

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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great appetizer!, May 29, 2000

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This review is from: Best Bike Paths of New England: Safe, Scenic and Traffic-Free Bicycling (Paperback)

This book was a nice introduction to some of the bike paths in New England. The path descriptions, for the paths I have ridden, were very accurate. The only thing missing were detailed maps of the trails themselves.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Guide, September 24, 2008

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This review is from: Best Bike Paths of New England: Safe, Scenic and Traffic-Free Bicycling (Paperback)

This book is excellent. It really enhanced a recent visit to Cape Cod by decribing the various trails in a way that I thought was very accurate, and provided many details which allowed us to effectively plan our bike rides.

3.0 out of 5 stars Way way out of date, September 6, 2010

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This review is from: Best Bike Paths of New England: Safe, Scenic and Traffic-Free Bicycling (Paperback)

I failed to notice the copyright date when I bought this book -- 1996. So much has changed since then, and many rail trails aren't included. I think it was good for its day, but it needs to be updated.