Tired of the same old guidebooks? Learn where to go and what to do in San Diego from a local!
This alphabetical city guide looks at San Diego – and tourism – from a whole new angle, letting readers browse the city at their own pace.
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˃˃˃ For visitors AND residents
Whether you're a first-time visitor or a life-long resident, San Diego from A to Z will surprise and delight you with plenty of facts, figures and personal experiences from author Laura Roberts.
Explore alphabetically as you tour America's Finest City, starting at the Birch Aquarium and ending with Spanish phrases that begin with the letter Z.
˃˃˃ Jam-packed with commentary
Learn more about San Diego landmarks, eateries, bars, museums, bookstores, neighborhoods, cultural oddities and much more.
A must-have for the discerning traveler or seasoned flâneur.
Find out what you've been missing in San Diego and order your copy today.
Genre: TRAVEL / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, NV, OR, WA)Currently ranked #389,917 in the Kindle Store, overall, #29 in Books > Travel > United States > California > San Diego, #60 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Travel > United States > States > California and #259 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Travel > United States > Regions > West > Pacific.
INTRODUCTION
(Or: Why Would I Want to Tour a City Alphabetically?)
I never set out to write a typical guidebook.
In fact, I find typical guidebooks to be a little dull. Sure, they might have a lot of useful information in them, like the address and phone number of a must-see hotspot, but in the modern world most people have cell phones that can easily access the Internet for info like that.
So what, exactly, is the use of having a guidebook?
I guess the thing that first inspired me to write a travel book was one very off-the-beaten-path guidebook I read in my youth. It was called Mad Monks on the Road: A 47,00-Hour Dashboard Adventure from Paradise, California to Royal, Arkansas and Up the New Jersey Turnpike. Sort of an early-90s version of On the Road, the Mad Monks were two men from San Francisco who decided to chuck the rat race workaday world, load all their worldly possessions into an RV, and head east. Not only did their book talk about their travels – which were interesting enough, for an ambiguously gay duo like the Monks – but they also introduced me to my generation's countercultural heroes, like Dan Savage, Annie Sprinkle, Quentin Crisp and Gus Van Sant before they became household names, thanks to that wonderful invention, the Internet.
Once the Monks settled into the east coast, they wrote another book: The Mad Monksí Guide to New York City. I remember checking this one out of the New York Public Library and bookmarking all the peculiar sites they managed to dig up – including a former tenement building filled from top to bottom with dirt.
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Already translated.
Translated by Letícia Maria Carvalho
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Author review: Great quality translation, and prompt edits. Would work with this translator again. |
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Translated by Carolina García
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Author review: Quick, quality translation, and very attentive to details. I would definitely work with Carolina again! |
