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Amazing Asheville is the all new travel guide to Asheville and the North Carolina mountains.
Written by Lan Sluder, a native of Asheville, this guide covers everything you need to enjoy hip, artsy, sudsy, foodie, laid-back and natural Asheville. It provides inside information on how to spend your time in Asheville and on the Blue Ridge Parkway, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and at the Biltmore House and Biltmore Estate.
But there's more. In 339 pages of detailed information, this travel guide delivers up-to-date information on the best places to stay (B&Bs, inns, resorts, hotels, motels) and where to eat, drink and party. Amazing Asheville also provides all the information you need on Asheville's arts and crafts, the LGBTQ+ scene, museums and all the outdoor activities in the highest mountains in Eastern America.
Better still, this is travel information you can trust, because the author -- who has written more than 20 best-selling books on travel and retirement -- does not accept freebies or comps. Everything is based on Lan Sluder's candid appraisal. Enjoy your visit to Asheville and the small, quaint towns in the NC mountains.
Visiting Asheville? Then get this new, totally up-to-date guide to Asheville and the North Carolina mountains.
About the author
LAN SLUDER is the author or co-author of more than 20 books on travel and retirement in the United States and Central America including. Besides Live the Good Life in Asheville, Sluder wrote Amazing Asheville, Fodor's Belize, Move to Asheville, Asheville: Relocation, Retirement and Visitor Guide, Easy Belize, Bug Out to Belize, Frommer's Beach Vacations: The Carolinas and Georgia, Fodor's The Carolinas & Georgia (co-author) and others. He also has written books on classic Rolls Royce and Bentley motorcars, the 25 most intriguing private eyes and the game of bridge, authoring Buy a Classic Rolls-Royce or Bentley, Murder! and Play Bridge Today. Sluder has contributed to many newspapers, magazines and online media around the world including the TravelChannel.com, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Where to Retire, Bangkok Post, The Tico Times, New Orleans Business, Belize First, Caribbean Travel & Life, Islands, Newsday, Miami Herald, Charlotte Observer, Raleigh News & Observer and Globe & Mail.
A former newspaper editor in New Orleans, Belize magazine editor and publisher, ad agency owner and marketing consultant, Sluder lives on a mountain farm near Asheville with his wife, Sheila M. Lambert, an attorney. They have two children, Brooks Lambert-Sluder, a program manager at Harvard, and Rose Lambert-Sluder, a writer.
