INTEREST GUIDES Savor the last few weeks of autumn with vacation ideas from our Wildlife Interest Guide, discover how part of the Great Plains is being transformed into a eco-tourism site and get tips from the Q&A column on seeing New England's fall foliage.
Eighty-five years later the naturalist John Muir, exploring these waters in an open canoe with Tlingit guides, discovered that the ice had receded some 48 miles, and since then nearly all the park's 12 tidewater glaciers have continued to retreat.
One of our local guides discovered that I was mixed race and told me that they didn't believe different ethnicities should procreate, which was quickly backtracked on with a mumble that I must be very resistant to viral diseases.
A New Orleans haunted-tour guide discovers that she can see ghosts.
On one occasion a guide discovers unauthorised filming of two elderly women on the outskirts of Pyongyang.
Upcoming guide, Discover Thanet, co edited by local foodster, Marina O'Loughlin is packed full of tips for eating out in Kent (follow them now on twitter) Susan Smillie The immodestly named Lords of the Manor country house hotel is what was once the Rectory of Upper Slaughter, a village of honey-coloured stone in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds.
It's like thumbing through an etiquette guide and discovering a sudden, disturbing tone shift: salad fork to the left of dinner fork, address a duchess by her title, and if someone rings the doorbell during high tea, bludgeon him in the face with a garden shovel.
The latter company was billed as a "trusted guide" to discovering good design, combined with flash-based sales (up to 70% off the recommended retail price).
There's a program guide for discovering upcoming shows, movies and sports events to watch or record, plus tools to schedule your recordings like on traditional DVRs.
On the face of it it's a "trusted guide" to discovering good design, showcasing designers, curating a daily mix of exclusive products, limited edition pieces and flash-based sales (up to 70% off the recommended retail price).
