Insight Guides West Coast USA (Travel Guide eBook)

Insight Guides

• Publisher: Insight Guides
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781839053580
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Travel

This Insight Guide is a lavishly illustrated inspirational travel guide to the USA West Coast and a beautiful souvenir of your trip. Perfect for travellers looking for a deeper dive into the destination's history and culture, it's ideal to inspire and help you plan your travels. With its great selection of places to see and colourful magazine-style layout, this USA West Coast guidebook is just the tool you need to accompany you before or during your trip. Whether it's deciding when to go, choosing what to see or creating a travel plan to cover key places like Los Angeles, Death Valley, Napa Valley, Lake Tahoe, San Diego, Grand Canyon, it will answer all the questions you might have along the way. It will also help guide you when you'll be exploring Seattle or discovering San Francisco on the ground. Our USA West Coast travel guide was fully-updated post-COVID-19. The Insight Guide USA WEST COAST covers: Seattle, Puget Islands, Olympic and Washington Coast, Western Oregon, Portland and Central Oregon, Oregon Coast, Northern California, Wine Country, Central Valley, San Francisco and the Bay, Monterey Big Sur, Southern California, Los Angeles, San Diego. In this guide book to the USA West Coast you will find: IN-DEPTH CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL FEATURES
Created to provide a deeper dive into the culture and the history of the USA West Coast to get a greater understanding of its modern-day life, people and politics. BEST OF
The top attractions and Editor's Choice featured in this USA West Coast guide book highlight the most special places to visit. TIPS AND FACTS
Up-to-date historical timeline and in-depth cultural background to the USA West Coast as well as an introduction to the USA West Coast's food and drink, and fun destination-specific features. PRACTICAL TRAVEL INFORMATION
A-Z of useful advice on everything, from when to go to the USA West Coast, how to get there and how to get around, to the USA West Coast's climate, advice on tipping, etiquette and more. COLOUR-CODED CHAPTERS
Every part of the destination, from South Carolina to Seattle has its own colour assigned for easy navigation of this USA West Coast travel guide. CURATED PLACES, HIGH-QUALITY MAPS
Geographically organised text, cross-referenced against full-colour, high-quality travel maps for quick orientation in Boston, Buffalo and many other locations in the USA West Coast. STRIKING PICTURES
This guide book to the USA West Coast features inspirational colour photography, including the stunning Yellowstone National Park and the spectacular Niagara Falls.

Table of contents

• How To Use This E-Book
• USA: West Coast’s Top 10 Attractions
• Editor’s Choice
• The West Coast
• Peoples of the West Coast
• Decisive Dates
• First Peoples
• Europeans Contend for Control
• Insight: The Missions of Old California
• The West Coast in the 19th century
• The Modern West Coast
• West Coast Food and Drink
• California Wine
• The Great Outdoors
• Sand and surf
• Movie Makers
• Places
• Seattle
• Puget Sound and the Islands
• The Olympic Peninsula and Coastal Washington
• Oregon
• Portland and Central Oregon
• Coastal Oregon
• Northern California
• The North Coast and the High North
• The Wine Country and Central Valley
• San Francisco and the Bay
• The Monterey Peninsula and Big Sur Coast
• Southern California
• The Central Coast
• Insight: Earthquakes and Other Disasters
• Los Angeles and Around
• South Bay and Orange County
• San Diego
• Transportation
• A-Z: A Handy Summary of Practical Information
• Further Reading