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Sacred Places North America: 108 Destinations (Sacred Places: 108 Destinations series)

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Divided into 10 geographical sections (Southwest, West Coast, Alaska and Hawai'i, Western Canada, Rocky Mountains, Central Plains, Great Lakes Region, Eastern Canada, New England, and The South), "Sacred Places North America" is the ultimate travel guide for anyone seeking out places of great historical or religious significance. The guide is thorough, covering things as diverse as Anasazi dwellings, Area 51, medicine wheels, Indian mounds, petroglyphs, Walden Pond, and even Graceland. Each entry has a basic history of the place plus a description of how to get there. A true travel guide for those interested in these places it is a real treasure trove of information. If you are planning to travel this summer, pick up a copy and make sure to visit some of the most interesting places in North America. "Sacred Places North America" is a highly recommended purchase.

Instead of just blandly heading off into picture postcard America, consider traveling with a purpose -- to experience the intense energy boosts of sacred sites, modern & ancient.

To that end Rebeccasreads recommends you take along Brad Olsen's SACRED PLACES NORTH AMERICA. While the writing is utilitarian, the maps busy & the b&w photos a bit shabby, the information offered will certainly get more bang out of your buck in the sites you visit -- such as Graceland, Crater Lake & 106 other more & less known places in the length & breath of this continent.

Compiled and written by Brad Olsen (Editor, World Explorer), Sacred Places: North America offers the reader 108 spiritual destinations throughout North America, ranging from the Salt Lake Temple of Utah, to the Ellis Medicine Wheel of Alberta in Canada, to the Garden of the Gods in Hawaii, to the birthplace of Martin Luther King. Black-and-white photographs, succinct descriptions, advice for traveling, combine to make Sacred Places: North America a revealing, useful, and enthusiastically recommended guide for the vacationer seeking to fulfill their spiritual as well as their recreational yearnings.

Brad Olsen has come up with yet another special book. Sacred places covers a large number of sites and other attractions you won't read about elsewhere. Some (such as Elvis Presley's Graceland) are unexpected; others are natural areas such as Joshua Tree and Denali; still others are Native American religious landmarks such as Chaco Canyon. Even if you aren't the least bit "New Age" or "spiritual;" but just someone who appreciates nature and unusual places, you'll find Brad's book to be a great compendium. And directions are included!

This book is great. It is not only a source of information, but it is also a great place for inspiration. I have been using it in my travels. The places I have visited in the book have been amazing. Also, the people are great. I encourage you to look at the publishing website. They stand for great things and are very easy to work with.

Thanks for the autograph. Brad Olsen has written a journal type book with detailed hand drawings of different places considered Sacred. Not only does he investigate the actual background on these sites but he also adds his personal experience visiting these places. Sadly there may not be many photographs, but as a document I find it very interesting. Travel guides are not much help when you wish to find these special places, but this book is something you will definitely like to put in your backpack before you go.

If you believe in energy vortexes, and the probability that an unknown super race or extraterrestrials built the Egyptian pyramids, then this book is for you. If you would like a guide that presents photographs of all the sites, with text that is limited to accepted historical and scientific FACTUAL content, then look elsewhere.