Travel North Carolina: Going Native in the Old North State

By Carolyn SakowskiSteve KirkAngela Harwood, et al.

Book Overview

This is the fourth edition of this comprehensive guide to the entire Tar Heel State. In this volume, you will find information about historic places, gardens, tours, museums, science centers, cultural offerings, special shopping, recreation, and seasonal events. The guide also includes annotated entries about unique places to eat and stay. Since the authors accepted no advertising fees when selecting what to include in the book, you can be assured their suggestions are solid recommendations from longtime residents.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895873796
• ISBN13: 9780895873798
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Invaluable

My husband and I moved to North Carolina from Wisconsin recently and this book has been a valuable resource book on places to go and things to see. It also has some very interesting history on the state.

An essential planning guide

Now in an completely updated and significantly expanded third edition, "Travel North Carolina: Going Native in the Old North State" is a comprehensive guide written by Carolyn Sakowski, Sunny Smith Nelson, Anne Holcomb Waters, Angela Harwood, John Tarleton, and Sue Clark, a team of longtime residents of the Tar Heel State. Black-and-white photographs illustrate this compendium with sections organized by geography, listing seasonal events, places to eat, historical sites, museums and science centers, inns and bed-and-breakfasts, and much more. Enthusiastically recommended for business and pleasure travelers alike, "Travel North Carolina" is an essential planning guide to get the most out of a trip to this diverse and fascinating state from an afternoon's outing, to a weekend getaway, to an extended vacation.