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"Moon Spotlight Napa Valley" is a 115-page compact guide covering the region regarded as the center of everything wine in California. Author Elizabeth Linhart Veneman offers her seasoned advice on must-see attractions and activities, and sightseeing highlight maps make planning your time easy. This lightweight guide is packed with recommendations on sights, entertainment, shopping, recreation, accommodations, food, and transportation, as well as helpful maps, making navigating this wine-lover's paradise uncomplicated and enjoyable.
This Spotlight guidebook is excerpted from "Moon Napa & Sonoma."
About the author
Elizabeth Linhart Veneman has always viewed growing up in Northern California as both a blessing and curse. There is so much to see, do, and experience all within a short drive--from broad sequoias in the Sierras to ancient lava beds north of Mount Shasta, from creaky Gold Rush towns to the pampering Wine Country--that she began to wonder why anyone would ever leave.
Elizabeth was eventually lured out of the Golden State to Alaska's far north, where she traveled the Inside Passage, baked bread under the midnight sun in Denali National Park, and chronicled the state's burgeoning sustainable agriculture for "Alaska Magazine." These adventures culminated in penning the travel guide "InsightGuides: Alaska."
But Elizabeth knew her California roots were too deep to stay away for long. Raised in Carmel, where her great-great grandmother opened the first restaurant (a soup kitchen with dirt floors!) at the turn of the 20th century, she would always call California home. So she returned and devoted herself to writing about the state she loves most. Her work has included the travel guides "SmartGuide: San Francisco" and "InsightGuides: San Francisco, " as well as reporting on food and sustainable agriculture for local publications.
Elizabeth is still enchanted by Northern California's wondrous melding of natural splendor with cultural charm. She currently lives with her family in San Francisco's Richmond district.
