The Most Beautiful Villages of New England (Most Beautiful Villages)

This is a beautiful and informative guide for the potential visitor to New England and it looks nice on the coffee table.

Maybe I misread the description, but I was expecting a bit more about the towns, especially in terms of current travel, not just little history snippets. It has very nice photos but I didn't get a feel for any of the places shown.

A very nice travel guide book for people who want to visit New England, with good photographs illustration and description.

Fulfilled my requirements as to function and quality.

I took this coffee-table photo book out of the library once I realized that one of the featured "most beautiful villages" in New England was Stonington, Maine -- where I lived for nearly seven years. I wanted to see what they chose to show about the Deer Isle area because hey, *I* knew what made the area so gorgeous. If they could capture Stonington, perhaps they could also bring to life the beauty of the other villages covered -- from Essex, CT to Grafton, VT to Nantucket, MA.To my disappointment, though, the photographers chose rather humdrum locations to highlight. Nothing here is _bad_, mind you. The photos are perfectly nice. There's plenty of predictable photos of clapboard buildings and small town churches and autumn leaves. But it's the predictability that makes this worth flipping through once... and only once. It's as though you had purchased large-format postcards from the ordinary gift shoppe -- not captured something unique and beautiful.I'm a little astonished that this book has so many pictures of the (admittedly beautiful) autumn leaves in New England (that is, they're beautiful if they don't make you think "Oh geez we'd better top off the heating oil"). But not a single picture of the mountain lupine blooming in the spring that, in my opinion, is far prettier. You'll see several inoffensive photos of boats tied up at the dock at sunset... but almost nothing that reflects the sense of community that can make small-town living so precious.I'd hoped that this book would bring back a tiny bit of my years on Deer Isle. Alas... I'll have to dig out my own photos for that.

Gorgeous Book!

A lovely book to use to plan a trip to the Pacific Northwest or just to browse through for a relaxing "arm chair" vacation. All the books in this series are terrific! Very helpful in deciding how to route a driving trip.

I'm a big fan of quality photography. This is a great book with terrific pictures of new england, and all the good reasons to move here.

This is a beautiful large book full of very evocotive pictures. Id highly recommend it and would buy another for a friend with whom I went to New England many years ago. Its well worth the wait.

Wer sich gerne schöne Fotografien ansieht, insbesondere auch von dieser Region der USA, dem kann ich dieses zauberhafte Buch nur empfehlen. Ich bin begeistert. Man bekommt einen tollen Eindruck. Es ist als wäre man dort. Und das Buch regt zum träumen an.

Beau livre merci.

Very pleased

Book as described and delivery well within delivery date given