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Editor's note: This excerpt first appeared in photographer and author Harold Davis' recent Focal Press book, Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Photography with Harold Davis.
The closer you...
The best part of this book is page 349
where you'll find a lovely photograph of Glacier National Park (at left). Moon
used about 10 more of my photos to illustrate the 11 cross-country itineraries in
this 800-page tome, but this is the best one.
I happen to know that Jamie Jensen spent at least a year driving around the
continent researching these routes and out of the way places. And I know that he
suffered because he used to send me email from an AOL address. The finished
product seems to have made all of his effort worthwhile. The writing is engaging,
the 100 or so maps that the Moon production staff came up with are helpful, and
there are color photos on almost every page. If you wanted to do a minimalist
trip, you could probably get by with just this book, which has hotel, camping,
and restaurant recommendations, plus maybe a road atlas.
There are about 50 pages devoted to City Survival Guides to 24 cities. I
checked out the cities that I know well, Boston and New York. He gets the
restaurants right but the sights wrong (IMHO).
Anyway, if the book inspires you to get out of your living room and into the
car, then it is well worth $22.50.
