guidebooks

Offers a guide to adventure travels throughout the world. Features expert advice and practical information on activities. Includes a ratings-system that enables readers to assess if an adventure is right for them. Features easy-to-follow text, full-color photographs, and end papers.

Covers the thirty-five most difficult groups of birds to identify from winter loons to confusing fall warblers.

Contains brief descriptions, with addresses and contact information, on over three hundred dinosaur-related sites throughout the U.S., grouped by state, with informative sidebars, facts, and interviews.

Presents an overview of the history of New York City, discussing culture, politics, and geography, and includes twenty-one activities for children.

A state-by-state tour of monuments, musemums, and sites important to African-American history.

Discussion and maps of more than seventy-five battles which took place on American soil during the French and Indian war, the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, wars with Native Americans, and the attack on Pearl Harbor.

A history of America's Civil War, offering coverage of every recorded battle and battlefield and including information for travelers on points of interest at each site.