One-Day Trips Through History

by Jane Ockershausen

Book Overview

One-Day Trip Books make the familiar seem new and fascinating. Whether you're a visitor or a resident, you'll find interesting, fun-filled places to visit on a day's excursion, whatever your age,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574270907
• ISBN13: 9781574270907
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: EPM Publications
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

An informed and informative travel guide

Now in an updated and expanded second edition, Jane Ockershausen's One-Day Trips Through History is an impressive and "user friendly" compendium of more than two hundred museums, battlefields, plantations, colonial churches, monuments, historic homes, forts, and parks -- all within 150 miles of Washington, D.C. Perfect for weekend side trips and one-day "getaway" vacations, One-Day Trips Through History is ideal for planning chronological, geographical, or seasonal excursions to pivotal and notable places of interest with respect to American history ranging from the arrival of the first European colonists at Jamestown, Virginia, to the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Enhanced with "user friendly" information on the recreational aspects of these various and diverse day-tripper options, One-Day Trips Through History is an informed and informative travel guide.