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MARYLAND AND DELAWARE: OFF THE BEATEN PATH(TM), 3rd Edition

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There are a few things wrong with this book and title. First, a two hundred page book on Maryland and Delaware only has 29 pages on Delaware. There are 32 pages on Greater Washington (like there is much off the beaten path here). Next is some of the Off the Beaten Path palces covered are such unheard of places as - BWI Airport, US Naval Academy, Camden Yards, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Delaware Art Museum and Dover Air Force Base. That last one is where you can see the C5A cargo planes that according to the book each plane "is big enough to hold several football fields". Now that is a unique plane!
Much of this book seems little more then the author collected those flyiers from the card racks found at most hotels. While there are some unique places in the book most of it is little more than press release quotes from the local Chambers of Commerce. It is not "A Guide to Unique Places" that it claims to be.

I have had the previous version of this guide for quite a few years and found it fairly useful. Most of the locations are pretty well known and a lot of the information is sorely outdated. For example, the author lists contact information for a local artist, along with an address for visitors. I live next door to the house in question and the artist has long since moved on to a managed care facility and the home is definitely not a museum that welcomes visitors any more. This kind of error makes me hesitant to seek out some of the other, lesser known, locations that are listed.