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Sacred Places North America: 108 Destinations (Sacred Places: 108 Destinations series)

Sacred Places North America: 108 Destinations (Sacred Places: 108 Destinations series)
By Brad Olsen

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This revised and updated comprehensive travel guide examines North America’s most sacred sites for spiritually attuned explorers. Important archaeological, geological, and historical destinations from coast to coast are exhaustively examined, from the weathered pueblos of the American Southwest and the medicine wheels of western Canada to Graceland and the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr. Histories and cultural contexts are objectively surveyed, along with the latest academic theories and insightful metaphysical ruminations. Detailed maps, drawings, and travel directions are also included.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #240010 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-04-20
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 408 pages

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A revealing, useful, and enthusiastically recommended guide for the vacationer seeking to fulfill their spiritual (and) recreational yearnings. -- 2/2003 --Midwest Book Review

A travel book of a different color . . . lucid and detailed directions with tantalizing and historically well-informed essay-portraits for each destination. -- Fearless Books

Brad Olsen has cataloged mystic sites around the continent where mysterious artifacts, ancient burial sites and archaeological anomalies draw (visitors). -- 2/2003 --Orlando Sentinel

For travelers who prefer destinations with spirit ... juxtaposing local folklore and Native American legend with scientific theories to provide context. -- Orlando Sentinel

Here’s a travel book of a different color. Want to visit wondrous, exotic, locales and experience ... mystical transcendence? -- 2/2003 --Fearless Books

Takes us on a revealing pilgrimage of the important destinations that have shaped the spiritual foundation of our continent. -- Easy Going

This comprehensive guide examines North America's most sacred destinations . . . with the latest academic theories and insightful metaphysical ruminations. -- Metaphysical New Releases

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"[These] 108 places . . . stir the soul. Many of the destinations mentioned come as no surprise in a collection of the hallowed: Ohio’s Serpent Mound, Wyoming’s Yellowstone, Colorado’s Mesa Verde, for instance. But other entries serve as a delightful reminder that there is room in our hearts to expand the definition of sacred: Massachusetts’ Walden Pond, Michigan’s House of David, and Tennessee’s (and Elvis’) Graceland."  —Chicago Tribune


"An awe-inspiring collection of North American locations, noted for their connection to the spiritual, the mystical, and the anthropological. From lava beds, to caves, mounds, mountain retreats and temples, Olsen has covered it, with effectively shot black and white photos and maps of his own creation."  —Entertainment Weekly


"Olsen provides hand-drawn maps and detailed driving directions to help guide readers to each strange attraction. He offers information on each site, juxtaposing local folklore and Native American legend with scientific theories or physical evidence to provide context. Look for the paperback in bookstores."  —Orlando Sentinel

About the Author

Brad Olsen is an editor for World Explorer and writes a bimonthly column for Heartland Healing Magazine. He is the author of In Search of Adventure, Sacred Places Around the World, Sacred Places Europe, and World Stompers. He lives in San Francisco.

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Great travel guide to important and significant places5
Divided into 10 geographical sections (Southwest, West Coast, Alaska and Hawai'i, Western Canada, Rocky Mountains, Central Plains, Great Lakes Region, Eastern Canada, New England, and The South), "Sacred Places North America" is the ultimate travel guide for anyone seeking out places of great historical or religious significance. The guide is thorough, covering things as diverse as Anasazi dwellings, Area 51, medicine wheels, Indian mounds, petroglyphs, Walden Pond, and even Graceland. Each entry has a basic history of the place plus a description of how to get there. A true travel guide for those interested in these places it is a real treasure trove of information. If you are planning to travel this summer, pick up a copy and make sure to visit some of the most interesting places in North America. "Sacred Places North America" is a highly recommended purchase.

more bang for your tourist buck!3
Instead of just blandly heading off into picture postcard America, consider traveling with a purpose -- to experience the intense energy boosts of sacred sites, modern & ancient.

To that end Rebeccasreads recommends you take along Brad Olsen's SACRED PLACES NORTH AMERICA. While the writing is utilitarian, the maps busy & the b&w photos a bit shabby, the information offered will certainly get more bang out of your buck in the sites you visit -- such as Graceland, Crater Lake & 106 other more & less known places in the length & breath of this continent.

A revealing, useful, and enthusiastically recommended guide5
Compiled and written by Brad Olsen (Editor, World Explorer), Sacred Places: North America offers the reader 108 spiritual destinations throughout North America, ranging from the Salt Lake Temple of Utah, to the Ellis Medicine Wheel of Alberta in Canada, to the Garden of the Gods in Hawaii, to the birthplace of Martin Luther King. Black-and-white photographs, succinct descriptions, advice for traveling, combine to make Sacred Places: North America a revealing, useful, and enthusiastically recommended guide for the vacationer seeking to fulfill their spiritual as well as their recreational yearnings.