Moon Handbooks Atlantic Canada: New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Labrador

This is the best guide for this region with comprehensive listings for accomodations, restaurants and places to see. It is very detailed including information on the little known islands belonging to France just off the Canandian coast (several guides exclude these). Moon, which is almost always excellent, maintains their high quality in this book. ALso it contains highlights and suggestions slightly out of the ordinary for the adventuresome traveler.

"Moon Handbooks: Atlantic Canada" is a excellent planning and touring resource for the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and Labrador. This guide follows the familar Moon Handbook format, featuring color and black & white maps and photographs wrapped around an informative travel narrative especially well-suited for automobile touring. Atlantic Canada offers miles of rugged coastline, sprinkled with towns and villages that are often quite old, dated back to the European settlement of North America and especially to the wars of France and England over their American colonies. Among the highlights for this reviewer: The 18th century fortress of Louisberg and the rugged Cape Breton Highlands in Nova Scotia; the beautiful golf courses and the gentle mania associated with the children's story "Anne of Green Gables" on Prince Edward Island; the old New Brunswick city of Saint John, and the unspoiled hinterland behind it; and the rugged coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador, there to greet visitors to the New World from the Vikings to the present. "Moon Handbooks: Atlantic Canada" is very highly recommended to those travelers planning a trip to the region, a beautiful and often overlooked portion of Canada.

Arrived in a short time and in good order. book is very desciptive and informative. it will be a great asset.

My wife and I travel to Atlantic Canada every summer. We have used a variety of guidebooks including this one, which is definitely our favorite. The authors have obviously spent a lot of time in the region, and as a result they have come up with a good range of places to see, things to do, and where to stay and eat.The reccommendations of where to stay are particularly helpful. We find the provincial tourist guides good, but their accommodation listings won't really tell you which are good or bad. This book does, and we find the reviews both accurate and very helpful. Seafood is the favorite food around Atlantic Canada, and the authors have obviously enjoyed researching this section of the book, with choices we rarely find fault with.Also importantly, the book is very well organized and easy to find your way around. There are no color photos, which is a shame, but otherwise, this book is a worthwhile investment if you're traveling to this part of Canada.

Mark Morris has produced an extremely helpful travel guide on Atlantic Canada. This Moon Travel Handbook has a solid introduction section that covers the region's land, ecology, history, government, economy, climate etc. Each Province is covered succinctly and Mark Morris' information and recommendations are helpful, but his restaurant comments could be more critically informative, ie. "the food is well prepared" (what the heck does that tell me?) or "the seating is smoothingly refined" (huh?). Also, because the publication date is 1999 (thus the information is pre '99) I found some restaurants and inns closed or sold. As a whole, accommodations prices have increased an average of 15% to 20%.Maps are an essential and critically important aspect of any guide. The maps in this guide are easy to read but lack the user friendly aspect of locating the recommended restaurants and accommodations on the maps. A area that has become as essential as address and phone numbers is email/web site addresses. A time and significant cost saver especially for up-to-date information and accommodation quotes and reservations. I am sure this will be addressed when the next edition comes out.Though slightly flawed due to the date, lack of user friendly maps and absence of Internet information, this guide is still my first choice for Maritime Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador. You will not regret this purchase. Recommend 3.5 Stars