Hawaii Travel Guide (Sunset Books, $12.99, softcover). This top-selling travel guide has been updated to include accommodations, tour options, cuisine and entertainment. Special features lead travelers to island luaus, gardens, children’s programs, golf courses, tennis centers, boat trips and off-road jaunts. More than 100 color photographs and 38 maps are included.
SEARCHING FOR AMERICA
Storm Country — A Journey Through the Heart of America (Random House, $22) by Pete Davies. English novelist Davies bought a 1984 Ford pickup and drove 7,500 miles across 13 states, searching for America’s soul. The result is this book, an eye-opening tour of midwestern extremities.
BREAKING BARRIERS
Able To Travel: True Travel Stories By and For People With Disabilities (Prentice Hall Travel, $20 trade paperback). A collection of more than 100 inspiring tales by disabled men and women, it contains stories by paraplegics and quadriplegics, from those with polio, Down’s syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis, and by others who are blind or brain- damaged. Their journeys take them to North America, the Caribbean and Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In addition, the writers provide advice and tips.
