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A History and Guide - From Napa to Eureka

Jack Newcombe, Stan Skandinski

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English

Random House USA Inc
12 August 1986

Zoos & wildlife parks; Travel & holiday; Travel & holiday guides

"""The landscape of monotony is elsewhere,"" Jack Newcombe writes, and the routes he traces through the vineyards, towns, and parkland of northern California-along with the variegated pleasures to be explored en route-bear the proof-

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Mud baths and wine tasting in Calistoga

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A view from the top at Mt. St. Helena

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Wine touring, the slow and selective way, in the Napa and Sonoma valleys

. ""A Beer Experience"" in Petaluma, and a dining treat at the New Boonvile Hotel

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Whale watching on the Sonoma and Mendocino coasts

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Walking the redwood forest trails

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Finishing fleets and Victorian mansions in Eureka

These attractions and more-and the colorful past that gave rise to them-are presented in Northern California- A History & Guide, an exciting, indispensable travel companion for a most spectacular region."

By: Jack Newcombe
Illustrated by: Stan Skandinski
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 295g
ISBN: 9780394729886
ISBN 10: 0394729889
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 12 August 1986
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jack Newcombe was the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction. A native of Vermont, he attended the University of Missouri, Pomona College and the American University at Biarritz before graduating from Brown University. He worked at Lifemagazine from 1955 to 1972 as a writer, editor, and bureau chief in London and Washington, and enjoyed a four-year tenure as executive editor of Book-of-the-Month Club. Jack Newcombe died in 1990.