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The Rough Guide to The Pacific Northwest 3

By Tim Jepson

The Rough Guide to The Pacific Northwest 3 Travel

The Rough Guide to The Pacific Northwest 3

By Tim Jepson

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INTRODUCTION Few areas of North America owe so little to national and provincial boundaries as the Pacific Northwest. A loosely defined region cutting across the western redoubts of both the United States and Canada, its geographically isolated from the rest of the continent and looks out across the Pacific almost as much as it refers back east to the older, federal centres of power in Ottawa and Washington DC. Extending from Oregon and Washington in the south, then hopscotching through British Columbia and the Canadian Rockies to the Yukon in the north, it encompasses most impressively of all richly varied and awe-inspiring landscapes. Mountains, lakes and pristine wilderness are the finest features, with abundant wildlife offering the chance to see creatures from whales to wolves in their natural habitats. But it is also a region of high historical adventure, the stuff of a thousand cowboy movies, and home to intriguing Native-American and Inuit cultures, superb cuisine (seafood in particular), state-of-the-art museums and some of the most urbane and civilized cities in North America. Leading the way in this last respect are Vancouver and Seattle, both dynamic, cosmopolitan and instantly likeable and destined to be pivotal points of any trip. Vancouver is preceded by a well-deserved reputation as one of the worlds most beautiful cities, cradled in a mountain and seafront setting that provides its laid-back citizens with all manner of hedonistic possibilities from hiking, skiing and sailing to world-class theatre and the more simple West Coast pleasures of bar-hopping and beach-bumming. Seattle, though somewhat grittier, also benefits from a dramatic setting: its hilly suburbs bump around the deep blue of the Pacific Ocean, while its busy, bristling centre is alive with great restaurants and some of the finest live-music nightspots around
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
704
Release Date:
2001-04-23
Publication Date:
2001-04-23
Publisher:
Rough Guides
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1858286867
Weight:
572 g
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