Hawaii: The Big Island Revealed (Hawaii the Big Island Revealed) | 
| Authors: Andrew Doughty, Harriett Friedman
Publisher: Wizard Pubns
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1630155
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 251
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0963942921
Dewey Decimal Number: 919.9690441
EAN: 9780963942920
ASIN: 0963942921
Publication Date: November 1996
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Product Description
This title's 37 specially created maps include beach access to even the most remote beaches, mile markers, hiking trails, and numerous details in an easy-to-follow format. The authors show readers such hidden gems as deserted black sand beaches, secluded freshwater lava pools (some volcanically heated), pristine rain forests, lava tubes, volcanoes, and hidden waterfalls.
Book Description
This all new fourth edition is the most comprehensive yet easy to use guidebook ever written for the Big Island. Best selling author, Andrew Doughty, unlocks the secrets of an island so big and diverse that many visitors never realize all that it has to offer. Hawaii The Big Island Revealed has more up to date information, the most useful maps and scores of hidden gems listed nowhere else. This book and a rental car are all you need to discover what makes the Big Island so exciting.
39 specially created maps include clear, concise directions to even the most remote beaches and other hard to find places, mile markers (so you always know where you are), hiking trails and numerous details in an easy to follow format.
Discover deserted black sand beaches, secluded freshwater lava pools (some volcanically heated), pristine rain forests, lava tubes, hidden waterfalls and the most dramatic part of the erupting volcano. Read fascinating stories and legends from all around the island.
Symbols quickly identify recommended sights and companies. Find out which companies really are the bestand which to avoid. Frank, honest opinions from anonymous reviewsNo advertisements.
Special expanded sections on Beaches, Hiking and Adventures.
Web site with links to every business, last minute updates and more. Plus Web pages that expand on all accommodation reviews with aerial photos of all the resorts (so youll know if oceanfront really means oceanfront).
Only book ever banned at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Visitor Center for being "too honest" and "revealing too much."
"Hawaii The Big Island Revealed" covers it allfrom the snow-covered top of Mauna Kea, to the sparkling underwater reefs. This is the best investment you can make for your Big Island trip. Whether you are a first time visitor, or a long time kamaaina, you will find out more about the Big Island from this book than from any other source. Discover the island of your dreams with "Hawaii The Big Island Revealed".
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This is simply the best guidebook available! July 24, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I compared it with three other guidebooks, and this one is hands down by far the best. I also like his sense of humor, and his ability to give us foreigners a realistic taste of the local culture. It is down to earth, not superficial, and it must have been a lot of work to write this guide! The first thing I did when I arrived in Oahu for the second segment of my trip was to go to the bookstore at the airport and buy his book for Oahu.
Great guide book July 18, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This revised edition is very comprehensive, written with a sense of humor and candor. Looking forward to visiting the island with book in hand to "test out" the recommendations.
 Good recommendatons July 6, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I found this book to give good recommendations for places to see on the island. Some were not as spectacular as described. Also it would have been helpful to have better overview maps. Those are obtainable for free in other publications such as rental car guides. Places to eat were good recommendations.
The best island guide July 3, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Whatever you need to know about the Big Island, it's in this book. Excellent info, updated and concise, in a very readable form.
Best Hawaiian guidebooks June 30, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
First rate guide to the Big Island. I bought their Kauai book years ago when I visited, and this one is just as good. You truly feel like your getting insider tips, and not just a project for a travel writer on assignment. Don't hesitate on this one.
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