Connecticut: An Explorer's Guide, Sixth Edition (Connecticut : An Explorer's Guide)

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Connecticut: An Explorer's Guide, Sixth Edition (Connecticut : An Explorer's Guide)
Barnett D, Laschever , and Andi Marie Cantele
Manufacturer: Countryman
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0881506974

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With gas prices so high, travelers are looking for vacation destinations that are closer to home. Connecticut is the perfect place to launch your New England holiday.

From summertime fun—fishing, sailing, swimming, garden touring, and more—to flaming fall foliage and wintertime activities like downhill and cross country skiing, Connecticut has it all.

And for more than 10 years, veteran travel writers Barnett Laschever and Andi Marie Cantele have offered authoritative, trustworthy advice for what to see, where to eat, and where to stay throughout the Nutmeg state. Praised by the Hartford Courant as the most comprehensive guide to Connecticut, this completely revised, expanded and updated guide features extensive listings of activities, attractions, and lodging and dining establishments; an alphabetical "What's Where" guide to aid in trip planning; 20 regional and downtown maps; and helpful icons indicate places that are wheelchair-accessible, pet- and family-friendly, and places of special value. 20 maps, 100 black and white photographs, index.

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Well written and informative.......2000-09-25

This is a well written and informative book that brilliantly details many of the wonderful things Connecticut has to offer. A++++

Connecticut: An Explorer's Guide, Fifth Edition

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A useful and practical guidebook

Connecticut: An Explorer's Guide, Fifth Edition
Barnett D. Laschever , and Andi Marie Cantele
Manufacturer: Countryman Press
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ASIN: 0881506079

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Explore Connecticut from its northwest corner in the Litchfield Hills to its quiet corner, to the coast, to the cultural hubs, and every backroad in between.

Connecticut offers travelers some of the finest attractions in all of the Northeast—historic homes, fine architecture, village greens, rolling hills, hidden waterfalls, and old seaports—as well as more scenic backroads, restaurants, and cultural surprises than one person could ever explore in a lifetime, despite the state's small size. Praised by Connecticut Magazine as "a superior resource," and by the Hartford Courant as the most comprehensive guide to Connecticut in more than 50 years, this fifth edition of the final word on Connecticut exploration will lead travelers to all four corners of the Nutmeg State.

Features include an alphabetical "What's Where" subject guide to aid in trip planning; 19 regional and downtown maps; hundreds of listings of restaurants, lodgings, activities, and attractions; and handy icons that point out family-friendly establishments, wheelchair access, places of special value, and lodgings that accept pets. 60 black & white photos, 15 maps, index.

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A useful and practical guidebook.......2004-08-07

Now in an updated fifth edition, Connecticut: An Explorer's Guide is a comprehensive guide for vacationers and business travelers alike. Offering an alphabetical "What's Where" subject guide to help plan trips, 20 regional and downtown maps, an extensive listing of events and activities to attend, lodging, dining, and selective shopping locales, and much more, Connecticut: An Explorer's Guide is an easy-to-use resource for finding what one needs when one needs it. The collaborative effort of Barnett D. Laschever and Andi Marie Cantele, Connecticut: An Explorer's Guide is a useful and practical guidebook, recommended for anyone visiting the small yet upstanding state of Connecticut.

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Explorer's map & directory of the New England coast: New London, Connecticut, to Passamaquoddy Bay, Canada : a comprehensive guide to the natural and cultural ... emergency information, and much more
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Connecticut - 3rd. Ed. - An Explorer's Guide

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This unique reference is a comprehensive encyclopedia dedicated to the institutions, religion, politics, and culture in Muslim societies throughout the world. Placing particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World contains over 750 articles in four volumes on Muslims in the Arab heartland as well as South and Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Americas. An invaluable resource, the Encyclopedia offers extensive comparative and systematic analyses of Islamic beliefs, institutions, movements, practices, and peoples on an international scale. The alphabetically arranged articles range from brief 500-word essays to major interpretive and synthetic treatment of topics such as the Islamic state, pilgrimage, law, marriage, and foreign relations. Related entries cover areas of general interest such as social and political movements, women, Muslim minorities, human rights, Islam in the West, and interreligious affairs. And prominent figures that had a lasting impact on Islam are explored including Muhammad, Aga Khan, Malcolm X, Muhammad Iqbal, 'Ali Shari 'ati, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Hasan al-Turabi. Truly multidisciplinary, this work reflects the breadth and depth of contemporary scholarship in Islamic studies. Combining the tools of the humanities and social sciences to examine the interrelationship of religion, politics, and culture in Muslim societies, it explains the changing realities of Muslim life. Its unique focus makes The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World an invaluable reference for scholars and students of many disciplines, government and media analysts, and anyone interested in increasing their understanding of Islamic politics and culture.

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Invaluable.......2002-01-06

This is a fantastic set of books, both for the layperson and the scholar. It's written by a wide assortment of experts in the field, people who are extremely qualified and unbiased. A wide range of topics is covered. This IS the modern Islamic world, though, so there's very little historical information. But I use it constantly, both to satisfy my own curiosity and for a book I'm writing. Thank you to the editors and contributors of this great work.

Bravo, Mabruk ! Dr. Esposito.......2001-11-09

I just received my set of 4 volumes and already consulted it for an article I'm preparing. I was surprised at the breadth of the articles and the references provided. The information available in each article extends beyond the basic and lends itself easily to in-depth investigation. A truly excellent work and well worth the expense. For the Middle East Studies professional, analyst, academic, consultant this encyclopedia will be very useful.

Excellent encyclopedia about MODERN islamic topics.......2001-06-06

I had heard much praise about this encyclopedia. Still, I was hesitant to spend the money..... so I visited a library that had them on their shelves. I read and read, for hours - with pleasure! I then went home and placed my order.

Each word/catagory/topic is well explained in plain and easily understandable english. The contributing writers are well established in their respective fields. (John Esposito is the editor and not the sole writer of this encyclopedia.)

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The increasing interest in Islam and Islamic culture during the last century and the early part of this century created a demand for an encyclopaedic work on Islam. For the first time in history a truly international team of scholars began working on one single project. This resulted in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, published in three editions in English, German and French. The Encyclopaedia of Islam remains to this day the only complete encyclopaedic work on Islam. Due to its tremendous success these editions soon went out of print and became valuable collectors' items. Some years later, the publisher decided to start a New Edition, which is now well over halfway to completion. In view of the broad scope of the New Edition and the years needed to complete it, E.J. Brill's First Edition is now available in paperback to meet the immediate needs of scholars, students of Islam, librarians, and even government institutions, in fact, anyone interested in Islam and its rich culture. The paperback First Edition is intended to fill a gap at a very low price. The First Edition is a true mine of information, much of which is not yet available in the New Edition. The value of the First Edition (as well as the New Edition) is recognized worldwide and remains undisputed. In more than 9,000 alphabetically arranged articles, varying in length from 50 to 50,000 words, the whole range of Islamic culture, from religion and literature to the lives of famous Muslims, is treated by some of the world's most famous scholars of the twentieth century. The First Encyclopaedia of Islam was originally published between 1913 and 1936 as The Encyclopaedia of Islam: A Dictionary of the Geography, Ethnography and Biography of the Muhammadan Peoples in four volumes and one supplement volume.

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