Moon Handbooks Pennsylvania: Including Pittsburgh, the Poconos, Philadelphia, Gettysburg, and Dutch Country

Moon Handbooks

by Joanne Orion Miller

Celebrate the diversity of Pennsylvania as Joanne Miller guides you along scenic back roads to thriving cities, leaving no area unexplored. This handbook provides rich details on the history and culture of one of the country's first colonies, with emphasis on Dutch Country and Gettysburg. It also lists exciting recreation opportunities in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and 116 state parks. An updated list of restaurants and accommodations adds to this already extensive resource. "Pack it in your suitcase before you put in your clothes for your trip." -- American Press Service

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction

420 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Joanne's first memory of traveling was watching the desert roll by as she pulled herself up to the window of her dad's Oldsmobile. It's no surprise that six of her books are about U.S. travel and history. Mom finally put her foot down and the family settled into a suburb of San Francisco, leading to another great love: the city by the bay. Childhood was spent listening (quietly, to stay under her brother's "MOM! radar") to the Fairmont Hotel's jazz broadcast ("Home of the Tonga Room!") when she was supposed to be asleep.
These influences, along with an unnerving fascination with dead people who historically lived large outside the norm (Bach, Van Gogh, Coco Chanel to name a few) led to finding Miss Tess Wall, the notorious San Francisco madame who inspired her first novel Shaketown: The Madam's Daughter.
Joanne continues to travel and write about it; her blog 1Woman1World1Year covers her travels around the world and locally. No sequel to Shaketown is in the works, but a "rural romance", Harvest is almost complete, as is a psychological thriller, Power Lessons that asks the question, "What would you do to forget the worst thing that ever happened to you? How about the worst thing you've ever done?"

Reviews

[Jobiska (Cindy)]

Mine's the first edition...dense with info, perhaps harder to find something quickly but still worth keeping.