Grand Canyon, The Complete Guide: Grand Canyon National Park (Grand Canyon: The Complete Guide) |  | Author: James Kaiser
Publisher: Destination Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd
Pages: 296
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 096789042X
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.91320454
EAN: 9780967890425
ASIN: 096789042X
Publication Date: June 1, 2007
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Product Description
With a large number of beautiful, high-quality color photographs, this guide is as browsable as the best coffee table books but also supplies travelers with maps, travel tips, and extensive listings for lodging, camping, and sightseeing. From river rafting to scenic fly-overs, the Grand Canyon offers a plethora of potential activities—but without careful planning, a trip to this popular national park can be overwhelming. This guide divides the attractions into sections—the North Rim, South Rim, Colorado River, and Havasu Falls—with lodging, dining, and camping information given for each. Outfitters for hiking, backpacking, mule rides, and rafting adventures are listed, and carefully researched chapters about the park's history, geology, and wildlife encourage leisurely study of the area's unmatched natural beauty.
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This guide is so good I threw out my other two! August 15, 2007
Max
28 out of 28 found this review helpful
I recently bought this guide along with two other guides for my trip to the Grand Canyon. This one was so good that I literally threw out my other two guides three days into my trip. (Actually I gave them away to other vacationers to reuse and recycle but terminology aside, I still ended up getting rid of them to lessen the load in my backpack because they were nowhere near as thorough as The Complete Guide). Other books can't compare to the glossy color photographs, maps, trail recommendations, park background, flora and fauna highlights to look for and most importantly the insider's tips provided in this guide. It actually felt like the other two guides that I bought for my trip (and to be nice I won't name names but they were from big travel book publishers) were written by people sitting behind a computer in an office who hadn't been to the Grand Canyon in years, while this guide reads like the author is sitting on a rock perched over the Colorado River sharing his insight to friends. I loved this guide and can't recommend it enough. Besides a good backpack, hiking shoes and some food, it's all that you need for a great trip to the Grand Canyon. Buy this one book, skip everything else that's out there, and you'll be all set.
Definitely the most up-to-date Grand Canyon book August 15, 2007
J. LAMBERTO-EGAN (Emeryville, CA United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Great guide! I got this book after my husband and I used James Kaiser's Joshua Tree book for our anniversary vacation there and had an amazing trip. We had been to the Grand Canyon once years ago and paid $72 for a guided "geography hike." This time we just used this guidebook and got twice as much information. We did three of the lesser-known trails recommended in the book and found some incredible views away from the crowds. We ended up planning most of our week there based on the author's suggestions, and it was a perfect trip. If you're going to the park for any length of time, I recommend this book 100%!
"Grand Canyon: The Complete Guide" truly lives up to its title May 6, 2008
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Grand Canyon is universally acclaimed as one of the great natural wonders of the world. Now in a fully updated and beautifully illustrated third edition, James Kaiser's "Grand Canyon: The Complete Guide" is the ideal guide for novice visitors and a superbly informative reference for the seasoned visitor as well. A complete and 'user friendly' travel guide and planner for visiting the Grand Canyon, this ideal reference includes the Havasu Falls, topography maps, trail descriptions for both day trips and overnight hikes, mule rides, scenic flights, Colorado river trips, public campgrounds, historic lodges, the canyon's geology, native wildlife, history, and a great deal more. Compact and easily portable, "Grand Canyon: The Complete Guide" truly lives up to its title and is an invaluable addition to personal and community library travel guide collections -- as well as the supplemental reading lists of the armchair explorer!
The Perfect Guide May 2, 2008
Jedd L. Segrist (Dallas, TX United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Out of all the Grand Canyon guides I bought, this one was my favorite.
The color photos are amazing, and the background info about the
canyon's history, geology and wildlife is fascinating. If you're going
to Grand Canyon I would definitely recommend buying this book.
really helped me on my trip August 15, 2007
Grant M. Thompson
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had been to the Grand Canyon once years ago. I went again recently, and this time I picked up this guide book before going. It was a huge difference for the trip as I was able to go to areas that I hadn't even heard about the first time I went. The pictures are great, but it was both the maps and the descriptions of the trails and sights that were the most helpful for my fiancee and I. It definitely added a lot to our vacation.
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