MOON HANDBOOKS MASSACHUSETTS

Want to know about Provincetown beaches, hikes in the Berkshires, and the best cafés around Harvard Square? Done. Looking for details on the Titanic Museum and the birthplace of the fried clam? You’ll find them in here. Big or small, mainstream or obscure, every worthwhile sight and activity in Massachusetts is covered in this book.

Moon Handbooks Massachusetts
2nd Edition
Jeff Perk
ISBN 1-56691-369-1
$19.95
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Author and photographer Jeff Perk has baked Sachertortes in Bora Bora, sweated through a Bolivian silver mine, survived the Black Box of Utah’s White Canyon, enjoyed takarazuka in Tokyo, and, as a result, has never needed to own a TV. He grew up in Southern Illinois, catching fireflies, eating fresh catfish, and smelling magnolias’ sweet blossoms in spring. He traded it all for fried clams and fall foliage when he left the humid prairie behind to attend high school and college in New England. After sampling life on the West Coast, briefly laboring in San Francisco’s film industry, Jeff rebounded east in time to be swept up in Boston’s high-tech boom of the late 1980s. Despite racking up oodles of frequent flyer miles on business, Jeff’s true travel addiction didn’t strike until he crossed paths with an international cadre of globetrotters traipsing through New Zealand and Australia. That three-month sabbatical between jobs in 1989 grew into nearly four years of backpacking around South America, hitching rides aboard yachts in the South Pacific, and squeezing through slot canyons in the American Southwest.
   As the free-mileage awards began to run out, it seemed only natural to become a travel writer—a job that could allow Jeff to embrace everything from scuba diving in Fiji to touring the backwater sloughs of the Mississippi Delta. During the latter half of the 1990s, Jeff finally sat still long enough to write the Moon Handbooks to his adopted city (Boston) and state (Massachusetts). He’s contributed to other guidebooks, including Road Trip USA and Road Trip USA: New England. Jeff’s work has also been published in newspapers, on CD-ROMs, and online.
   When not writing about his latest adventures or selling his services to local software firms, Jeff can be found bouncing to the salsa beat of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, or online at www.jeffperk.com.

Other travel guides authored by Jeff Perk:
Moon Handbooks Boston
Moon Handbooks Cape Cod,Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket