Moon Handbooks Chesapeake Bay [Paperback]

Joanne Miller (Author), Julian Smith (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 30, 2004 | Series: Moon Handbooks

Packed with maps, photographs, suggested itineraries, travel strategies, and selective lists highlighting the best sights, restaurants, and hotels, Moon Handbooks Chesapeake Bay is the essential companion to this haven for aquatic enthusiasts, history buffs, and outdoor lovers. Boaters will relish the information on the Chesapeake's many waterways, including tips on good marinas and dockages, while outdoor aficionados will love the details on exclusive scenic drives, bike tours, kayaking, and birding opportunities. Author Joanne Miller, with Julian Smith, gives exclusive insight on a wide range of destinations for all personalities and budgets, including offbeat destinations in Baltimore and along the Eastern Shore. Whether you're interested in exploring the streets of Colonial Williamsburg or soaking up the sun on Virginia Beach, you'll find the best of the Chesapeake Bay in this new handbook.

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About the Author

One of Joanne Miller's earliest memories is of being lulled by the hum of car wheels as she gazed out the window of a wine-colored Oldsmobile; the scenery changed from dense forests to cornfields to dry plains. Her father, a freelance photographer, was taking pictures in the U.S. National Parks System for National Geographic. By age 10 she had visited every state in the lower 48. Comic books made interesting companions on the road, and "travel" became synonymous with "adventure", all in an easy-to-follow four-color format. While camping in a musty tent in New Mexico, Joanne followed Scrooge McDuck to the south Pacific, climbed Egypt's pyramids, and hoisted sail with Huey, Dewey and Louie alongside Jason's Argonauts. An appreciation of fine literature followed, in the form of "Classics Illustrated" - Macbeth was a terrific ghost story. By the time Joanne was reading books with more words than pictures, she had written and illustrated one of her own: a primer on "How to Do Everything Right." Martha Stewart, eat your heart out. After surviving her know-it-all teens, and adding Alaska, Hawaii, Japan, England, and Canada to her list of "been-there's", Joanne first glimpsed the mighty Chesapeake. After securing a B.A. in anthropology, she crossed Mexico, and traveled up the eastern states through the Necks of Virginia, along the coast of America's largest estuary. In the following years, she lived in the mid-Atlantic, visiting the Tidewater to crack crabs in Virginia Beach and indulge in fantasies of powdered wigs in colonial Williamsburg. She continues to live and write her own adventures in full color, whether it's watching the fiery sun set under full sail near St. Michaels, dodging feisty crabs on Smith Island's oyster-shell roads, or feeling the burn while climbing Baltimore's Washington Monument. Every place has its story, and Joanne makes the landscape come alive through words and pictures. She is the author of Moon Pennsylvania and Moon Maryland & Delaware and is a frequent contributor to Writer's Market and Novel & Short Story Writer's Market. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing (March 30, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566916224
• ISBN-13: 978-1566916226
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,953,953 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Moon Chesapeake Bay (Moon Handbooks) (Paperback)

Chesapeake Bay includes information about Virginia and Maryland locations both big and small. It even mentions areas in Baltimore and Harford counties in Maryland. Because its subject matter is so inclusive, information about some of the major sites is of necessity abbreviated. I'd like to see a bit more information about St. Michael's, for example. Several major hotels on Kent Island are not even mentioned.

If the reader finds a location of interest in this book, he or she can follow up by getting more information online.

I like that the book includes plenty of helpful maps.

Since the book is a few year's old now, some information such as room or meal prices can be a little dated, but surprisingly is still pretty close to current rates.

Chesapeake Bay also offers plenty of background and historical information and facts about the economy and governments of the area. It can be a useful book for the tourist or someone thinking about relocating to the area.