Product Description

From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters…

Following up on our Great Escapes Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America titles is this volume concentrating on the most extraordinary and tempting Canadian and American hotels. Ranging from funky and inexpensive to luxuriously elegant and wildly pricy, these hotels, inns, guesthouses, bungalows, ranches, lodges, resorts and even—yes—wigwams and treehouses will surely seduce you.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #275057 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-01
• Original language: German, French, English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 399 pages

From the Publisher
Highlights include: • blast from the past: mid-century shiny metal trailers with period interiors in Arizona • shrine to 60s-70s kitch: a California inn where Liberace would have felt right at home • shabby-chic bungalows on Highway 1 in Big Sur, California • supercool hot springs resort near Los Angeles • elegant auberge in Napa Valley where you can stay during your wine tasting tour • cedar cabins and classic raised safari tents in California’s El Capitan Canyon • historic ranch nestled in a Death Valley oasis • rustic ski resort in Sundance • your own luxurious bungalow on a tiny island in the Florida Keys • a gorgeous lodge in Hawaii • sleek, minimalist "boutique hotel" in New Orleans’s French Quarter • regal Italianate villa in rural Massachusetts • deluxe wigwams in Arizona’s Navajo County • lakefront sanctuary in New York’s Adirondack Mountains • historic 1930s hotel in Texas where James Dean once stayed • cabin treehouse 50 feet above the ground in Washington’s Mount Rainer • exquisitely-restored country house inn in Connecticut • Frank Lloyd Wright house on a wooded bluff overlooking Mirror Lake, Wisconsin

About the Author
The editor: Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on the themes of architecture, photography, design, and contemporary art.

The author: Daisann McLane is the author of TASCHEN’s Cheap Hotels, which won the Society of American Travel Writer's gold award for best book of 2003. She is a contributing editor and columnist for National Geographic Traveler magazine. For the last six years, she wrote the Frugal Traveler column for theNew York Times Sunday travel section. Her articles on culture, food, and travel also appear in the New York Times Magazine, and the International Herald Tribune. She lives in New York City and in Hong Kong.

Customer Reviews

The Hotel Book Great Escapes North America
Beautifully photographed to take you away to places that you may not have heard of. I like it because the hotels are not your typical hotels, this book highlights those that have original architectural value, and interior design.

Great Escapes North America
Great Book and Great Hotels. Feel like traveling all the time.