There are much better books on Austin, and much more complete. This seems more like a school paper on the city, as it glances over the wonders and possibilities of the city. Add the thin material to the poor layout and you, too, will be disappointed if you're hoping for a guide to this amazing city.

Even though it's now slightly out of date, give the Austin Insider's Guide your cash, not this thing. It's almost encyclopedic in its contents.

Needed better selection -- only one or two pictures really showed the land development.... the changes "wrought upon the land." Others were just usual hokey pictures. Nice format though.

This book is a 4"X6" book with pictures of only 79 flowers. Though it is a pocket guide, someone interested in flower identification should probably pick up the National Audobon Society Field Guide to North America Wildflowers-- Western Region instead for only a few bucks more. The field guide (4" by 7.5")has over 650 color photos of wildflowers.

For those of us living along the Lewis and Clark trail in Montana and using this book with school children who study Lewis and Clark, we found an obvious error of historical fact. Lewis and Clark never traveled into the Flathead Valley as Kroll states on page 23. Instead, the explorers crossed over Lost Trail Pass into our lovely Bitterroot Valley and traveled north to make camp at Traveler's Rest, on the edge of present day Lolo, MT. The old Lolo trail (now US highway 12) leaves the Bitterroot Valley crossing the Bitterroot Mountains to the west. Could it be Kroll became confused because the Native Americans Lewis and Clark met in the Bitterroot were the Salish Flathead tribe?

I was looking for more detail about the area. For instance, the hotel we chose was not listed. I had read that there was a place in the area where we could swim with the dolphins and that information was not listed in this book. If you are looking for general information this is a good book.

It never ceases to amaze me how academics like Marer will dare to take a pile of dead statistics and edit them into texts which libraries feel obliged to snatch up, due to their well-considered titles. This is yet another opus in this tradition. Marer and his co-author tell us absolutely nothing new about management -- it seems that Marer is an economist and never managed anything in his life, in Europe or elsewhere -- and very little about the region the duo are allegedly producing a spendy book about. This book is a total waste of the serious scholar's or casual book-buyer's money. If you want to learn something about management in Eastern and Central Europe, track down the web sites of the English-language newspapers and business periodicals for Budapest, Bucharest, Warsaw, or wherever else you need to learn how to do business. Don't waste your time with this drab and intellectually hollow compilation of stale ideas and data.

Poor reproduction of photographs (poor contrast, etc.). One even has big spots on the image. Adams would turn over in his grave if he saw this book!!!

A poorly written story that occurs in the old west. The main character is a female con artist, gambler. The entire plot is totally predictable.

To me, "Off The Beaten Path" means staying away from places like Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City and Virginia city, especially B&B's located there. There is a B&B north of Gerlach, 60+ miles on a gravel road, to be met by a three-legged dog (I did not lodge there). There are nearby hot springs that form a stream and have rocks placed for soaking... The Sheldon Wildlife Refuge with herds of Antelope in March... At the Racetrack, the park info sign read that scientists do not know how the rocks move. To look at their tracks (in the dried mud),it appears that rocks of golf ball size to 2 foot diameter will come from different directions to pass each other only a few inches apart... The rock formations on the north side of Pyramid Lake... The wildlife refuge by the White River that has lakes and free camping (about 12 sites) spaced out along the side road... The early Native People have a cave (with another free camp ground) on the Toquima Range (about 20 miles SE of Austin) which is on the ridge and much cooler when its warm down below by the Spencer Hot Springs (a great place to freshen/clean up)... Mt. Carleston (mentioned in the book) is a good side trip, cool and several micro-climates of plants and animals... Every thing in/around the Toyabe National Forest is great. There are many off-the-beaten-path adventures; if you stay to the paved roads, perhaps you will find Ms. Peck to sign your (B&B) book.

I recently checked out every guide book I could find on the subject of out of the way places in Wyoming. This one was without question the worst. It is a random collection of disorganized, unhelpful information. To see how a book with this title could have been done well, check out Scenic Driving Wyoming, by Laurence Parent