A guide to out-of-the-way places in the United States with information on lodging, dining, attractions, annual events, and outdoor activities.

In this practical, informative, richly illustrated guide, National Geographic takes travelers to the best nature sites in the Middle Atlantic Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey and tells them what they need to know--about the landscape, plants, animals, activities, and recreation--to experience them fully.

In this practical, informative, richly illustrated guide, National Geographic takes travelers to the best nature sites in the Middle Atlantic Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey and tells them what they need to know--about the landscape, plants, animals, activities, and recreation--to experience them fully.

America's hidden corners - a phrase that conjures images of a backwoods haunt or a village nestled in a mountain fastness. Such places still abound, and seven teams of National Geographic writers and photographers set out to find a few of them.

A guide to out-of-the-way places in the United States with information on lodging, dining, attractions, annual events, and outdoor activities.

Here are island hideaways on the tropical beaches of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean and on the windswept North Atlantic shores of Harris, where Scottish crofters handweave their famous tweed. Visit mountain aeries from the Himalaya to the Pyrenees, secret realms from the harshly beautiful desertscapes of the Sahara to the lush rain forests of Costa Rica, or the winding alleys of a village tucked into the foothills of the Alps. Twenty-eight destinations in all, each place has its own unique flavor and appeal, yet shares a kind of privacy and authenticity all too rare in our hectic, modern world.

A listing of five hundred sites new and old, famous and unknown, that have been used to connect humanity with its gods.