National Geographic designed the waterproof Panama Adventure Map to be essential travel gear for the serious traveler and also your perfect trip-planning reference. It's tear-resistant and incredibly durable; it won't fray or disintegrate no matter what environment you take it into. It includes...

Twenty-five years after writing the groundbreaking Roadside Geology of Northern California, David Alt and Donald W. Hyndman have written an entirely new book--with expanded coverage, new photos and maps, and the latest interpretations of California's turbulent rocks. Geologic road guides include ...

A newly revised and expanded edition of the best-selling and most respected guide to the Green Mountain State.

This all-new eleventh edition of Vermont: An Explorer's Guide covers every corner of the Green Mountain state, from the lush shores of the Connecticut River to the p...

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.

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Enjoy the good life! Just a short drive from San Francisco, the glorious Wine Country is Northern California's favorite getaway. From wine-tasting to balloon rides, award-winning cuisine to grape-stomping festivals, the Napa and Sonoma Valleys are feasts for the senses. Or for a real splash, t...

A unique guide for anyone who wants to eat healthfully, particularly while traveling. No need to confined to super size, calorie laden, high-fat meals. Now there is help: "Healthy Highways." With this innovative guide, travelers are no longer limited to "gas and go" road stops, but instead can ma...

Millions of years ago, the North American continent was dragged over the world's largest continental hotspot, a huge column of hot and molten rock rising from the Earth's interior that traced a 50-mile wide, 500-mile-long path northeastward across Idaho. Generating cataclysmic volcanic eruptions ...

Marrying the traditional cast-iron pot with contemporary cookware and tastes, The Outdoor Dutch Oven Cookbook offers 225 creative, delicious, and original recipes for Dutch oven cookery­­each of which has been prepared, tested, and refined by one of America's finest outdoor cooks.

Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer. Frommer's. The best trips start here.
* Detailed walking tours to explore Tokyo's most fascinating neighborhoods.
* Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not.
* Exact prices, so you can p...

The natives call it simply "the City." This is the story of the changing face of San Francisco, and how it has become one of the most picturesque cities in the world. Seventy modern color photographs are compared side-by-side with seventy archival photographs from the 1850s to the 1950s. While...

The most famous guide to the stars is now the most accessible! Generations of amateur astronomers have called it simply Norton's: the most famous star atlas in the world. Now in a beautifully redesigned, two-color landmark 20th edition, this combination star atlas and reference guide has no ma...

Frommer's Portable Guides are for the short-term traveler who insists on value and doesn't want to pack a full-size guidebook. The Portables have the same commitment to accuracy and detail as the Frommer's Complete Guides, with the same broad demographic appeal, from budget to deluxe. Fromm...