MOON HANDBOOKS PANAMA

Raised in Panama, author William Friar knows the best ways to explore this up-and-coming Central American hotspot. His firsthand experience and honest insight will show you the difference between visiting Panama and knowing it.

Moon Handbooks Panama
1st Edition
William Friar
ISBN 1-56691-579-1
$19.95
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Raised near the banks of the Panama Canal, author William Friar knows this Central American region extensively. In addition to Moon Handbooks Panama, he has written an ecotourist guidebook, Adventures in Nature: Panama, and a photo-essay book, Portrait of the Panama Canal.
  Bill began his writing career farther north as a stringer for the metro desk of the New York Times, where he found that covering stabbings, shootings, blizzards, and hockey parades was surprisingly good training for travel writing. He has worked as a rock-music critic, a tech-news editor at CNET, a writing coach, a fundraiser for a medical foundation, a software-manual author, and a reporter for three daily newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bill’s work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Arizona Republic, Neuen Zürcher Zeitung, Orange County Register, Houston Chronicle, and other publications. He has won national and regional awards for his writing from the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors and the South Asian Journalists Association, among others.
  A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, Bill also holds an M.A. in English and American Literature from Stanford and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. His travels have taken him to more than 60 countries on five continents, including a year stint in India doing international development work. He lives in San Francisco.
  You can visit his website at www.panamaguidebooks.com.