Weekend Getaways in Alabama |  | Author: Joan Broerman
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 946,189
Media: Paperback
Pages: 416
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 1565546768
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.610464
EAN: 9781565546769
ASIN: 1565546768
Publication Date: August 31, 2000
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Product Description
Everything the weekend traveler needs to explore Alabama, including complete contact information, clear directions, and maps. Entries give not only information about great attractions, lodging, eateries, and more, but also complete addresses and telephone numbers, so trip planning couldnit be easier!
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 Makes me want to move to Alabama October 4, 2000
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book is a work of art for travelers. Very well done. My wife and I use a lot of travel books and this one gets an A+. The text is well written, the organization is clear and the photos are pertinent. Also well indexed - many travel books are lacking in that department. The theme is from south to north, but the Contents and the Index make for easy hopping around. Even the use of bold type for key names, while not original, allows quick referencing. There are lots of web references as well as the usual names and addresses. I wish the photos were in color. I hope the author and her husband/photographer do some more states.
Entertaining, factual, and helpful book. May 17, 2003
Darlene Thomas (Trafford, AL United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I found this book to be exceptional. In addition to providing enticing ideas for weekend getaways in my state, it is historically interesting. It covers the entire state and includes ideas for everyone ... campers, romantics, history lovers, shoppers, etc. Although not the type book one normally reads for entertainment, I found I had trouble putting it down long enough to sleep. It brought back fond memories of places I've visited, made me mad that I'd missed things I didn't realize were in visited areas, and elicited a strong desire to TRAVEL more throughout my beautiful and historical state! A WONDERFUL BOOK!
Visiting a wonderful state January 20, 2002
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great book to have about visiting a wonderful state. If your children are doing school reports on specific states, this book could make the difference between a ho-hum report and a top notch report. The school librarian should have this book. I highly recommend it.
 Not what I expected September 8, 2002
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Book is great if you like to visit old houses and fancy restruants Having lived in Alabama all my life I was disapointed with the book.There is more to Alabama then this.
 Not very helpful... December 24, 2006
Shu-ling Hsu
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Unlike most other travel books,it does not categorize it's contents by city or region. This book instead gives a "topic" with names like "Time Travel" or such to each trip. However,it's very difficult to people who aren't familiar with Alabama to plan a trip with only this book. There isn't any kind of detailed map for regions. I can't even know where the cities it talks about are. It doesn't say too much on each region's attractions but has 60% of it's pages advertising hotels and restaurants. Also,the rest information of the 40% can mostlikely be obtained easily from some public source. I think the yellow page can do the same job for free if i ever need those information. The entire book is printed on non-color bad quility paper which hurts my eyes so much. Overall,in my opinion,this book isn't very helpful and should be worth 1/5 of it's price.
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