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Frommer's Newfoundland and Labrador, 2e

Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer. Frommer's. The best trips start here.

* The lowdown on how best to explore this unique province, from hiking in Gros Morne, barhopping in St. John's, to whale watching in Trinity.

* Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not.

* Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip whatever your budget.

* Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.

Find great deals and book your trip at Frommers.com

Customer Reviews:

Really Helped Plan Our Trip.......2007-03-27

A combination of this book and the stuff I received directly from Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism helped me to plan our trip for this coming summer down to the minute (literally.) I found hotels, b&b's, ferries, historic spots, even restaurants, all with remarks that let me know things like how much time to schedule to tour somewhere to which room to ask for at a B&B.

NL is not an easy place to plan to visit - it takes a lot to get there (whether driving or flying) and there aren't many resources available to research well ahead of time. Online isn't too bad - but because most of what you find is run by the business/location itself, there are only going to be positive reviews; and many places don't list their prices on their websites.

Frommer's are always reliable; this one specifically was a real help.

I also recommend reading some other books about Newfoundland before going - the usual "The Shipping News" and "Theater of Fish."

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Frommer's Newfoundland and Labrador
Dawn Chafe , and Doreen Pendgracs
Manufacturer: Frommers
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ASIN: 0470832231

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Travel bookings to the province are up 250ver 2001.
* Canadian destinations are ultra-affordable for US travelers.
* Hike the East Coast Trail to Cape Spear, the easternmost point in North America, and watch humpback whales migrate north while 10,000-year-old icebergs drift south.
* In addition to hiking, fishing, kayaking, and wildlife viewing, take it a little easier and enjoy the province's historical and cultural attractions in the capital of St. John's and elsewhere.

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Frommers Book.......2007-01-03

I have purchased Frommers Books in the past and this one is exceptional. My husband and I are planning a motorcycle trip there in July and this will be very helpful.

Frommer's Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island: with Newfoundland & Labrador

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2002 update now available
There are much better guides to this region available.
Disappointing..
Needs better maps and ferry info, overall very good.
maps please!

Frommer's Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island: with Newfoundland & Labrador
Wayne Curtis
Manufacturer: Frommer's
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ASIN: 0028635086

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You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go--they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You'd be lost without us!

Come along with Frommer's as we explore Canada's pristine Atlantic provinces. You'll discover quaint fishing villages and lovely bucolic countryside, where you can enjoy whale watching, sea kayaking, canoeing, wildlife viewing, hiking, biking, and more. You'll feast on amazingly fresh seafood, and meet the locals in the most atmospheric bars and pubs.

Our author has traveled every inch of this vast region, and he's chosen the best places to stay: rustic lodges, elegant B&Bs, mom-and-pop motels, secluded campgrounds, and grand old resorts. He'll even take you on a memorable adventure to the far-flung provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, where you'll enjoy some of the most spectacular scenery on the continent. With Frommer's in hand, it's a snap to design the Canadian adventure that's right for you.

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2002 update now available.......2002-10-03

I am planning my first trip to Nova Scotia for October 2002 and have been haunting the book stores in Boston for good guides. Near the end of my book search, I came across the 2002 (4th) edition of the Frommer's guide and it has been a regular companion for me as I plan the details of my trip.

Let me make a few things clear here. There are still NO good maps in the book. And there are still NO nice sidebars filled with local tidbits.

But then again, this is NOT that type of book. This Frommer's guide is the nitty-gritty, the essence of what you would want to know for each of the major areas in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. The guide does a good job of giving you information on at least a few places to stay (if there are any in that area), places to eat, tours, and any major landmarks or places to visit in a number of cities and towns, even the smaller ones. And the price range is mostly geared for low-budget to mid-range values. The book is also a smaller size, allowing you to easily carry it around or stash it when you travel. The format is easy to read, and the layout is clean and uncluttered.

I know other reviewers have complained about the guide. To get over these complaints, I suggest augmenting the Frommer's with the official Nova Scotia travel guide (a behemonth, comprehensive thing) that has great photos, maps, and the like; request it for free from the tourism office. (Why would you buy only ONE guidebook for a place you've never been to before?!) There are also some other good guidebooks on the market that will fill in some of the (small) gaps of the Frommer's. And please!--anyone with access to the Internet can easily do web searches for websites that have tons of info on Nova Scotia, including the official Nova Scotia website.

Give it a try. At the very least, if you get it and don't like it, you can return it. I look forward to making my trip and then verifying the info I've gotten from the Frommer's guidebook.

There are much better guides to this region available........2001-10-22

Wayne Curtis has done his homework and his recommendations are the best out in guides today. This is the primary, and only, reason for getting this guide. Otherwise, in all other areas, it falls flat.

There is NO mention of web sites to help travelers gain more information, even with a publication date of 2000. There is only scant reference to web site and email addresses for accommodations. This is an area that has become as essential as physical addresses and phone numbers. By using the net you can view the venue, get real time price quotes and make reservations. The time and significant cost savings is evident and should be in all guides by now.

There is NO information explaining the region's land, ecology, history, government, economy, climate etc. There is NO "recommended reading" section. There are NO 'boxed' vignettes that usually embellish other Guides and explain unique and interesting aspects of the region (and Maritime Canada has a ton of titillating facts and stories).

But, most unbelievable, is that this guide has virtually NO maps! A guide covering five Canadian Provinces that has ten maps of marginal quality (compare to 61 maps in Moon's Atlantic Canada) is woefully sad. A good guide will have a plethora of easy to read maps. A great guide will have city maps that note the location of restaurants and accommodations.

If it were not for Wayne Curtis' "spot on" recommendations I would give this guide a "not Recommenced". But if you choose to purchase it, you will need to supplement it with another quality guide like , Moon's "Atlantic Canada Handbook", then Curtis' recommendations can help. Conditionally recommended.

Disappointing.........2001-08-08

The guide is very informative on accomendations and restaurants of any price level BUT and this is a huge BUT..the information given doesn't always show up on the LESS THAN CLEAR maps. Some of the towns aren't even on the maps provided and the ONE full color map is more like a road map instead of a detailed one that should have been included. I like the fact that it is informative about Attractions but how do you get there and where are they? Also, needs more information on the parks. I wouldn't buy this book as my only guide but as a appendix for a true tour guide of this gorgeous region.

Needs better maps and ferry info, overall very good........2000-12-07

The strength of this guide is the reviews of accommadations and restaurants, since they include everything from budget to plush. Unfortunately, the information given isn't always represented on the maps. A few times, towns listed next to attractions don't appear on the map! There is ONE full color map, the rest are pink/red and not very detailed. However, I do believe this is the best guide for the region simply because the information is very accurate and the book is well-organized.

maps please!.......2000-06-12

Very informative, readable, portable and current. I particularly appreciated web references which led to a wealth of information I had previously been unable to find . However, I was frustrated in being unable to locate exciting places and trips mentioned in the text on the maps. Often I had no idea at all of the general vicinity of an attraction not to be missed. A more detailed map of Nova Scotia would have made planning our trip much easier. Also there was little information on the provincial parks.

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Frommer's Newfoundland and Labrador
Andrew Hempstead
Manufacturer: Frommers
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ASIN: 0470153334

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A fascinating history, a vibrant contemporary culture, and an untamed wild. Newfoundland & Labrador is an incredible vacation destination, boasting two UNESCO World Heritage Sites; the only authentic Viking settlement in North America; the rugged beauty of the Atlantic coastline; and the historic city of St. John's, offering shopping, amazing seafood, and lively nightlife. Along Newfoundland's 18,000-mile coastline, humpback whales migrate northwards while 10,000-year-old icebergs drift south. Newfoundland is also home to some of the world's most accessible seabird colonies, with more than 35 million gathering each year. Outdoor adventurers can walk or hike the beautiful East Coast Trail, stopping at Cape Spear, the easternmost point in North America. And for culture mavens, music and art festivals abound.

Frommer's Newfoundland & Labrador covers each of the province's regions in detail, offering more information than any other major guide. It provides readers with all they need to plan an unforgettable vacation, from the best place to eat Jigg's Dinner (and information on exactly what that is) and catch some lively traditional music, to the best whale- and puffin-watching tours and perfect camping sites.

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The first book-length pictorial review of aviation history told through its most creative disasters, The Wrong Stuff? is published in association with the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. It is published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of manned-flight. The Wrong Stuff? is different from other books on flight, in that it focuses on the PRE-history of flight.

The Wrong Stuff? includes biographical sidebars on the inventors, and contains over 300 archival images, including many never-before-published photos and illustrations. The book looks also at bizarre attempts at flight after the Wright brothers, giving an eye-catching new slant on a major anniversary.

Customer Reviews:

Beautifully Produced, Poorly Conceived.......2004-07-02

Phil Scott's new book is a superb collection of beautifully reproduced photographs of (mostly) obscure airplanes. Many types are covered by multiple photographs, including a number that I'd never seen in 30+ years of reading about the history of aviation. The photographs may, depending on your interests, be worth the price of the book.

The text is another story entirely

There is, to begin with, very little text. Each aircraft gets a single explanatory paragraph and a small box that lists basic information (where known) about its performance. The performance information is frequently spotty, and the descriptive paragraphs are frequently interrupted by the author's smirking asides and strained attempts at cuteness. Even given the one-paragraph-per-plane limit, the descriptions are notable for their shallowness and lack of useful information.

The text is also marred by errors. Some are subtle and ultimately trivial, like the misspelling of "Dreidecker," German for "triplane," as "dridecker." Others are glaring: To say that the X-15 was the "ancestor" (rather than "descendent") of the X-1 is either a ludicrous error of fact or an eighth-grade-level confusion of two words with related (but opposite meanings). At times, the author overreaches to make a point, as when he claims that Apollo lunar lander and the sleek silver spaceships of 1950s science-fiction both landed "tail first." At other times, as when discussing the highly corrosive fuel used to power the Me-163 rocket plane, he neglects information that would have reinforced his point. At least once, he flatly contradicts himself, disparaging the handling characteristics of an airplane that, elsewhere on the same page, he describes test pilots as praising.

The most fundamental problem with the book, however, is that it has no unifying theme or organizing principle. The title suggests a book about aircraft with fatally flawed or ill-conceived designs, and it covers many such machines. It also, however, includes a generous selection of aircraft that performed adequately but: a) Were designed for roles that turned out to be unnecessary; or b) Failed for reasons unrelated to their design; or even c) Just looked weird. The Bell RP-63 Kingcobra--a specially armored aircraft *designed* to be shot at in gunnery exercises--apparently makes the list because the concept now seems so outlandish. The assymetrical Blohm & Voss BV-141 performed well, but is (again, apparently) included to be snickered at. The famous "Vin Fiz," a Wright Model B that made the first flight across the USA in 1911, also gets an entry, but why? Apparently, because pilot Cal Rodgers crashed a lot along the way.

Shallow analysis, excessive cuteness, and nonexistent theme would be less galling if this was the first "Bad Aircraft Design" book on the market, but it is far from that. Bill Yenne's oversized "The World's Worst Aircraft" and James Gilbert's standard-sized book of the same title offer detailed history and serious analysis but *still* contain a great deal of humor. R. E. G. Davies' "Fads and Fallacies in Aviation History" takes on a variety of flawed concepts (flying cars, dirigibiles, supersonic transports, commercial flying boats), skewering sacred cows with razor-sharp technical and economic arguments. Any of the three is a far better investment, and a far better education in bad aircraft design, than "The Wrong Stuff."

Recommended (and worth two stars) *only* for those deeply interested in the pictures and willing to ignore the text.

A fun look at aviation's less-than-greatest moments.......2003-12-24

Even if you're not an airplane buff, you can't help but get a kick out of "The Wrong Stuff." What at first blush appears to be a perverse look at aviation's flakier moments is really a homage to these none-too-successful aircraft. Some of the planes -- especially the pre-Wright Brothers attemps -- look absurd through 21st century eyes. But in many instances, these aircraft actually solved important aeronautical problems, and helped the Wrights and other successful flyers. And many of the post-Wright planes were "failures" for economic or political reasons rather than technical ones. Cases in point were some of the cutting-edge WWII planes that saw limited production only because they were developed too late in the war. Or, the thinking behind the planes was sound, but the builders were too far ahead of their time to have access to the technology to make their designs a reality.

If nothing else, "The Wrong Stuff" will give the reader a smile. With lots of pictures, it's an easy book to read. At most, the reader will come away with a renewed respect for successful pioneers such as the Wrights, and all those who take risks in designing and flying new aircraft.

Superb.......2003-12-10

The writing was crisp, entertaining and informative, full of humour with a wry smile and a cutting edge. Scott really brought the little-known tales of would-be flights and fliers to life.

An OUTSTANDING book!.......2003-10-20

As a part-time flight instructor, I think that teaching at least some of the history of aviation along with the skills and knowledge required to fly an airplane makes for a well-rounded pilot. Not unlike his other two books, 'On the Shoulders of Giants' and 'Pioneers of Flight,' Phil Scott's latest book, "The Wrong Stuff," is a veritable compendium of aviation history and information that is a must-have for every aviation enthusiast and pilot . Wonderfully written, easy to read, and hard to put down, "The Wrong Stuff" is a wonderful, warm, and humorous account of all the things that went wrong leading up to the Wright Brothers' first flight, and some of the attempts made at flight by others afterward. Scott introduces these history-making people to the reader in such a way that he or she will come to know and befriend them; the reader will empathetically share the frustrations of failure-and the joys of success-as encountered by the characters in this book. I would recommend this book to anyone with even the slightest inkling of an interest in aviation; in particular, I'd recommend the book to anyone getting onto an airplane for a transcontinental flight.

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Mabel Lucie Attwell in Cross Stitch
Leslie Norah Hills
Manufacturer: Guild of Master Craftsman
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All Our Yesterdays Cross Stitch Collection: 33 Charming Designs from Bygone Days

ASIN: 186108465X

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You don't recognize her name, but her freshly innocent illustrations of cherubic toddlers, cheeky urchins, and cuddly pets graced an earlier generation's favorite fairy tale books, calendars, postcards, and tableware. Today they're collectors' items in great demand and soaring in price. Fortunately for the cross-stitcher, 24 original designs turn the Attwell magic into nostalgic practical projects such as inspirational stitched panels; layette vest, rattle, and baby shoes; get-well and good-luck gifts; bathroom accessories; stationery kits.

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Mabel Lucie Attwell fan.......2005-09-13

This book is a must if you are a fan of Mabel Lucie Attwell. All the charts are very clear and easy to use and the designs are very varied. I am sure there is a chart to suit all occassions. Happy stitching!

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Mabel Lucie Attwell
Chris Beetles
Manufacturer: M. Joseph
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Katharine Burrill , and Annie M Booth
Manufacturer: Frederick A Stokes
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The Collectable World of Mable Lucie Attwell (Collectable World)
John Henty
Manufacturer: Richard Dennis Publications Dist
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Cuentos Para ir a Dormir / Going-to-Bed Tales
Mabel Lucie Attwell
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FAIRY LAND
Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Manufacturer: Nelson. C
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A First Peter Pan (Little Books)
J.M. Barrie
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Marie Queen Of. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Roumania
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Mabel Lucie Attwell
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