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Route 66 Adventure Handbook, by Drew Knowles

Like many roadtrippers, I have traveled much of Route 66 and have very high standards for any guidebook about the "Mother Road". As bad luck would have it, on my first pass through the Drew Knowles' Route 66 Adventure Handbook, I found a passage about Death Valley Scotty that was factually inaccurate, and I was tempted to jump to the conclusion that the rest of the book was probably flawed. That would have been a mistake of grand proportions, and if when you read this book, you also find an example of poor scholarship in Drew's writing, I urge you to skip to a new page. This book really is a gem and one that will enrich anyone's appreciation for traveling old highway routes...[Read more]