Synopses & Reviews
In an attractive four-color format Yellowstone Treasures covers everything you want to know about the worlds first and most diverse national park. Mile-by-mile road logs take you along every approach to the park and every interior road. In addition, you will find: Travel tips, park history, 37 full-color maps, over 200 color and historic photos, geyser basin walking tours, field guide to flora and fauna, recommended short walks, and campground and facilities charts. A twenty-page index makes it a valuable reference for your library. New to the fourth edition: To aid orientation among the sections of the book, tinted tabs now indicate the six different regions of the park and their approach roads, in addition to the tabs in previous editions for geological, historical, and natural history sections. Geological and other scientific information is brought up to date to reflect recent research, with two new geological diagrams. Historic items in the road logs are highlighted. A dozen new pictures have been added. All maps have been revised to show recent road changes and other details. Two pages have been left blank for the readers own notes. Not assessing what you should see or do on your visit, Yellowstone Treasures simply gives you all the possibilities. The goal of the author is not only to encourage more people to visit the park but to help those who go there find and appreciate the myriad treasures it contains.
Review
"Yellowstone Treasures is not merely the most thorough, well researched, and comprehensive guide book available about the Park today. It is the most comprehensive guide book to Yellowstone National Park ever written. Whether youre planning a visit of a few hours or a few weeks, the single best printed companion you can bring along is Janet Chapples Yellowstone Treasures." —Leslie J. Quinn, interpretive specialist, Xanterra Parks & Resorts, Inc.
Synopsis
Covering everything there is to know about the world's first and most diverse national park, this fourth edition of the bestselling guide to Yellowstone boasts more facts, anecdotes, history, and travel tips than ever before. Mile-by-mile road logs document every approach to the park and every interior road. Through easy-to-understand explanations and diagrams, readers will learn of Yellowstone's campgrounds and facilities, geyser basins and the frequency of the geysers, out-of-the-way hikes, and flora and fauna. Updates to this edition include tinted tabs to indicate the six different regions of the park and their approach roads, in addition to the tabs in previous editions for the geological, historical, and natural history sections; up-to-date scientific information to reflect recent research, including two new geological diagrams; highlighted historic items in the road logs; a dozen new pictures; and fully revised maps to show recent road changes and other details. A 20-page index rounds out this indispensable addition to any travel library.
About the Author
Montana native Janet Chapple has been savoring the atmosphere of Yellowstone Park since she was a child, when her parents worked at Old Faithful Inn. On her many visits since then, she has combined intensive personal observation with research year-round, reading widely, consulting experts, and attending Yellowstone Institute courses. Janets undergrad education was at Stanford and the University of Southern California, followed much later with a masters degree in cello performance from Indiana University. After a long career in music in Rhode Island, including editing and writing for a music practice booklet, she turned to researching and writing about Yellowstone Park. She wrote and published three previous editions of Yellowstone Treasures, beginning in 2002. In addition to the travel guides fourth edition, the year 2013 sees the English translation, with colleague Suzanne Cane, of Yellowstone, Land of Wonders, an 1883 travelog to and through Yellowstone by Belgian travel writer Jules Leclercq. She now lives in Oakland, California.