Route 66 Adventure Handbook: Expanded Third Edition - Softcover

Knowles, Drew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595800123 ISBN 13: 9781595800121

Publisher: Santa Monica Press, 2006

Synopsis

Drew Knowles’ classic book, Route 66 Adventure Handbook, is a tribute to the route that has been the preferred choice of Mother Roaders” for years. This brand new expanded edition contains more photos and detailed information than ever before!

Route 66 Adventure Handbook is quite simply the best guide to the vanishing American roadside, with all of its exuberance, splendor, and absurdity. Knowles has included it all: magnificent architecture, natural wonders, Art Deco masterpieces, vintage motels and cafes, unique museums, offbeat attractions, fascinating artifacts and icons, and kitschy tourist traps.

This city-by-city and state-by-state tour of America’s most celebrated highway also includes hundreds of stunning photographs to illustrate the many wonders of the Route. Filled with quirky side-trips and fun bits of trivia, Route 66 Adventure Handbook is the most authoritative resource for anyone looking to explore the Mother Road.

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Review

"If you want to tap into a wealth of useful and fascinating Route 66 knowledge then you need to buy this book." --Michael Wallis, author, "Route 66: The Mother Road" "Fun and informative." --"Contra Costa Times" "The guide to take along U.S. 66." --"AAA Car & Travel" "Don't leave your driveway without it. Just place a copy of this expanded third edition in your glovebox and hit the road." --"Road & Track" "Drew Knowles' phenomenal guidebook makes a great read, whether or not you have ever put your pedal to the metal." --"Newsday" "May even inspire you to become a road warrior and get your kicks on Route 66." --"Detroit News" "This book is a terrific resource for anyone interested in Route 66, whether traveling by car, RV, motorcycle, or armchair." --RoadTripAmerica.com "Knowles' third edition offers insights to offbeat roadside attractions, vintage motels and cafes, natural wonders and quirky sidetrips." --"Salt Lake Tribune" "This book is a terrific resource for anyone interested in Route 66, whether traveling by car, RV, motorcycle, or armchair." --RoadTripAmerica.com "Knowles' third edition offers insights to offbeat roadside attractions, vintage motels and cafes, natural wonders and quirky sidetrips." --"Salt Lake Tribune" "Drew Knowles' phenomenal guidebook makes a great read, whether or not you have ever put your pedal to the metal." --"Newsday" "May even inspire you to become a road warrior and get your kicks on Route 66." --"Detroit News"

Synopsis

Get your kicks on '66 - an offbeat travel guide for the adventurous American wanderer. This is a wonderfully off-the-wall travel companion to the most famous road in the world, featuring offbeat attractions, fascinating artefacts and icons and Uber-kitschy tourist traps! Route 66 is the most famous, one of the longest and certainly one of the most bonkers roads in the world. Immortalised in film and song, its red-and-white interstate badge perhaps the best-known piece of road furniture on the planet, this artery of the great American Road Trip has attracted fascinated travellers and lunatic pilgrims from just about everywhere. Most tourist guides will mention Route 66 - as a means to get to Los Angeles from Chicago, with a footnote to the effect that it is also known as the "High Street of America" or "The Mother Road". Some will throw out a few interesting facts about films that have been made in its environs or songs that have contributed to its legend. A few more may have a sidebar or a jazzy information box suggesting a couple of things the road-weary traveller might want to do along its thousands of miles of blacktop.

Virtually none will have the wealth of fascinating information and incredible locations featured in the "Route 66 Adventure Handbook", a guide that turns the Great American Highway into a holiday in itself. Painstakingly researched, it contains information on unmarked portions of the old highway; contact information for Route 66 associations and local travel bureaux; maps and other navigational aids; an index of all Route 66 towns; plus anecdotes, trivia, attractions and suggested side trips. So fuel up and get rollin'!

About this edition

• Publisher: Santa Monica Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1595800123
• ISBN 13: 9781595800121
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 384