Frommer's Montana & Wyoming (Frommer's Complete Guides) [Paperback]

Eric Peterson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Frommer's Complete Guides | Publication Date: May 27, 2008

America's #1 bestselling travel series

Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer's Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do.

• More annually updated guides than any other series
• 16-page color section and foldout map in all annual guides
• Outspoken opinions, exact prices, and suggested itineraries
• Dozens of detailed maps in an easy-to-read, two-color design

Frommer's. The best trips start here.

• Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer
• The best of both states, including everything you need to know to experience Glacier, Grand Teton, and Yellowstone national parks
• Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not
• Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget
• Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions
  
  Find great deals and book your trip at Frommers.com

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From the Back Cover

Frommer's. The best trips start here.

Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer.

• The best of both states, including everything you need to know to experience Glacier, Grand Teton, and Yellowstone national parks.

• Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not.

• Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget.

• Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.

Find great deals and book your trip at Frommers.com

About the Author

A Denver-based freelance writer, Eric Peterson has written and contributed to numerous Frommer’s guidebooks covering the American West and Ramble Colorado (www.fulcrumbooks.com), as well as numerous travel features for in-flight magazines and newspapers. He’s an avid camper and hiker, a lifelong Broncos fan, and rock star (at least in the eyes of his niece, Olivia, and nephews, Mitch and Sam).

Product Details

• Paperback: 434 pages
• Publisher: Frommers; 7 edition (May 27, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470255625
• ISBN-13: 978-0470255629
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,140,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #48 in Books > Travel > United States > States > Montana

More About the Author

Born and raised in Colorado, Eric Peterson started traveling as a newborn child on his way back from the hospital. Numerous family road trips ensued, often with comedic effect.

Eric started writing when he was four, covering such stories as an anthropomorphic hammer fighting similarly humanoid nails and a bipedal polka-dotted gator-like creature named Erg.

He first got paid to write in his early twenties when he landed a freelance gig on a Frommer's book. That was 1995. As of 2010, Eric has written dozens of travel guides, mostly Frommer's titles, as well as his own Ramble Guides series of books: Ramble: A Field Guide to the U.S.A. (2006), Ramble Colorado (2008), Ramble California (2009), and Ramble Texas (2010).

Eric has also written for numerous magazines and newspapers during his career, including the Denver Post, Westword, the New York Daily News, United Hemispheres, Delta Sky, ColoradoBiz, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, and Nintendo Power. Check out www.rambleguides.com for more of all things Eric Peterson.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars So-so at best., March 28, 2009

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S. Zailskas (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Montana & Wyoming (Frommer's Complete Guides) (Paperback)

We bought a few guides to Montana, including this one, and we wouldn't recommend Frommer's Montana & Wyoming. If you want a big picture overview of these states -- a place to look at a map and get your bearings, as well as a nice, short paragraph summarizing the MAJOR points of interest -- this is a decent book. I say decent because once you do get your bearings and want to make a decision about what to visit, there isn't enough detail to do so. I also found it really outdated in terms of perspective. In the front of the book, it describes what an ATM is -- even international travelers are familiar with that term. Another example: the Glacier National Park section tells you to bring plenty of film. Film? Really? Comparatively, other guides assume people use digital cameras and spell out where people can buy film if they are still using it. This guide's perspective is outdated even for a general travel guide such as Frommer's. Travel guides are expensive; you could do better buying others and browsing this one in a library for your initial research because it doesn't provide much more than you could find during initial research on the Internet.