The Most Beautiful Villages and Towns of California
Joan Tapper
Photographs by Nik Wheeler
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California sometimes seems like a whole country in itself, with a nation’s worth of scenery: rugged sierras, fog-laced headlands, golden beaches, and rolling oak-studded ranch land. The small towns and villages of ‘The Golden State’ are perennial travellers’ favourites.
This book showcases the most picturesque small places of California. Not just the pretty, historic houses – although there are plenty of those – but also streetscapes, markets and the local landscape. After all, the bluffs of Mendocino and the vineyards surrounding St. Helena contribute as much to the delights of those places as the houses and galleries add to the charm of beguiling Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Here are stunning photo essays on the history and heritage of the wine country, ghost towns, and missions as well as essential information for tourists and places to stay and eat.
Joan Tapper was the founding editor of National Geographic Traveler and editor of Islands Magazine. Nik Wheeler’s work has also appeared in the Sunday Times Magazine and many others. They are the author and photographer of Island Dreams: Caribbean, which won the Gold Award for Best Travel Book in the 2006 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. Both live in California.
Customers in the USA can order direct from our USA website
Also of interest:
The Most Beautiful Villages of New England
Island Dreams: Caribbean |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500513686 | | ISBN-13 978-0500513682 | | | | 31.0 x 25.0 cm | | Hardback | | 208pp | | 323 illustrations, 323 in colour | | First published 2007 | | | | £24.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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