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Eccentric CaliforniaAuthor: Jan Friedman1st edition • JULY 2005272 PAGES • 8 PAGES OF COLOUR PHOTOS • 12 MAPSISBN: 978 1 84162 126 5
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Jan Friedman’s Eccentric America proved that the most unlikely events and landmarks could become tourist attractions. This new title is dedicated to the sheer lunacy of California and her citizens, covering the biggest, the best, the wackiest and weirdest of the state’s people and places. From art-car and golf-cart parades to the Valentine’s Day Sex Tour at the San Francisco Zoo; from a festival that moons Amtrak to a town with its own language; from obsessed collectors of Pez, yo-yos, and bananas to kitschy theme motels and a man who built a three-storey mountain out of hay, adobe, and old paint. Eccentric California takes an in-depth look at one very peculiar place.
Bronze Award – Best Guidebook 2005-2006 The Lowell Thomas Awards for work published in 2005-2006. Please visit www.satw.org/satw/index.asp?Sid=702 for more info. Eccentric California at a Glance
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ISBN-10: 1841621269 ISBN-13: 9781841621265
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
Guide to the Guide
Chapter 1 The Eccentric Year
Chapter 2 San Francisco Bay Area
Chapter 3 North Bay/North Coast
Chapter 4 Northeast
Chapter 5 The Central Coast
Chapter 6 Los Angeles/Orange County
Chapter 7 San Diego-Southern Desert
Chapter 8 Central Eastern
Chapter 9 Statewide Quirks
Appendix 1 Nuts & Bolts
Appendix 2 Further Reading
Index
About the AuthorJan Friedman has spent most of her life in the San Francisco Bay area. A travel writer, photographer and former tour guide, she explored 56 countries before discovering that her very own could offer as much adventure as the most exotic foreign locale. Her Eccentric America was voted Best Travel Guide by the North American Travel Journalists’ Association in 2001 and in 2002 won the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Award for Guidebooks. Jan also has a website dedicated to the guide: www.eccentriccalifornia.net. Search InsideA limited preview of this book is shown below (if you can't see the pages, click here to open the preview in a new page).
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