Portland City Walks: Twenty Explorations in and Around Town
- ISBN-10
- 0881928852
- ISBN-13
- 9780881928853
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 319
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Timber Press
- Author
- Laura O. Foster
Description
The author of Portland Hill Walks presents an array of twenty self-guided walking tours of the backstreets and neighborhoods of Portland and five nearby towns, all easily accessible by public transportation, offering fun facts, historical and cultural details, shopping and eating suggestions, and other things to see and do along each route. Original.
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