English: Updated with the latest highway improvements, this atlas is indispensable for road travel in Mexico. New features for 2015 include a spiral binding, nine pages of touristic information showing popular tourist cities and archeological, colonial and ecotourism sites. Mapping for Belize and Guatemala has grown to six pages of maps. 51 city maps provide an overview of …
The Pacific Northwest is a campers paradise. It offers everything that a vacation camper could desire: seashores, snow-capped mountains, old growth forests, visitor friendly cities, and national parks. In fact, the Pacific Northwest is one of the most popular RVing and tent camping destinations in North America. Pacific Northwest Camping Destinations is a travel guide for camping travelers, …
Yucatan for Travelers – Side Trips: Valladolid to Tulum looks beyond the obvious popular tourist attractions, luxury coastal resorts, and the modern conveniences of big cities to discover the unique Yucatan. From the Caribbean Sea to the extensive Gulf coast of Yucatan there are paved quiet roads through countless Mayan villages interspersed with colonial haciendas and ancient Mayan …
Enjoy the tales of Mexico–in Spanish and in English! In Stories from Mexico/Historias de Mexico, we’ve placed the Spanish and English stories side by side–lado a lado–so you can practice and improve your reading skills in your new language while enjoying the support of your native tongue. This way, you’ll avoid the inconvenience of constantly having to …
Greg Niemann, long-time Baja California journalist and author of Baja Fever, shares his extensive knowledge of the peninsula—its colorful past and booming present—in this easy-to-read reference book. Get to know the “founding fathers” of Baja, the padres, pirates, and pioneers who scratched a living from the desert and the sea, plus the world-famous faces and still-famous places …
Unlock the riddle of speaking and interacting in Spanish Spanish Demystified provides you with a solid foundation for building conversation skills in that language. You can go at your own pace as you are guided through the fundamentals of communicating in Spanish. Organized around everyday themes such as meeting people, making plans, and talking on the phone each …
The desert islands in the Sea of Cortez are little known except to a few intrepid tourists, sailors, and fishermen. Though at first glance these stark islands may appear barren, they are a refuge for an astounding variety of plants and animals. While many of the species are typical of the greater Sonoran Desert region, some are …
Frommer’s EasyGuide to Cancun and the Caribbean Coast of Mexico (Easy Guides)
Cancun is the single most heavily-visited vacation destination in Mexico today. And with reason. Magnificent beaches of fine white sand, superb restaurants and lodgings, crafts-and- clothing-shops, history-and-nature-featuring theme parks, and nearby Mayan sites (especially Tulum and Chichen-Itza) of breath-catching interest. Add the same facilities and attractions of the beach-lined Caribbean coast north and south of …
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vols. I and II (Cosimo Classics)
Edgar Allan Poe called it “perhaps the most interesting travel book ever published.” Here, complete in one volume, is the classic real-life adventure―originally published across two volumes in 1841―that mesmerized readers with its evocative descriptions of journeys in Mesoamerica. With a wandering spirit mellowed by an analytic eye, American diplomat and writer JOHN LLOYD STEPHENS (1805–1852) introduced …
Remarkable Sentence by sentence, Goldman brings to life a city that is bewitching, terrifying, beautiful .Goldman brings something new to the [chronicle] form.”John Freeman, Boston GlobeThe Interior Circuit is Sue Kaufman prize-winner Francisco Goldman’s brilliant chronicle of his emergence from grief five years after his beloved wife’s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico …