Great Escapes: Southern California was just published in May 2008 by Countryman Press. Pulitzer Prize-winning photograher Rick Rickman shot the lovely photographs that grace the book’s front and back covers.
Within two hours’ drive of Los Angeles, just about any landscape, diversion or culture you can imagine is, quite literally, in reach — SoCal is so cool! Great Escapes: Southern California offers a collection of exceptional and varied road trips for residents and visitors alike, from San Diego’s revitalized Gaslamp District to the unspoiled Gaviota Coast, and from the crystalline waters of Catalina Island’s wild side to the hideaways and hot springs of the Mojave Desert. In this easy-reading, easy-to-use guide, you’ll find places to relax and reinvigorate your creative spirit, even if — especially if — you don’t have time to take a two week vacation.
Media mentions: Zack Behrens at LAist; KCRW public radio; LaObserved.
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Donna Wares also is the editor of My California: Journeys by Great Writers, a best-selling collection of narrative travel stories by twenty-seven of California’s best writers.
My California, says Jonathan Kirsch in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, “is full of reflective and illuminating moments, and each of the contributors manages to transcend the thoroughly respectable genre of travel writing to achieve something more exalted.” Read more here.
SoCal So Cool picks: Browse other other great books to take on the road here.
