Review of Brown's Guide to the Georgia Outdoors: Biking, Hiking, and Canoeing Trips

Brown's Guide to the Georgia Outdoors: Biking, Hiking, and Canoeing Trips
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More a curiosity than guidebook at this point

On: 2005-02-28

Published in 1986, "Browns Guide to the Georgia Outdoors: Biking, Hiking, and Canoeing Trips" was even then showing its age. This book is actually a compendium of articles previously published when "Browns Guide to Georgia" existed as a magazine. Hence, these descriptions of outdoor activities were lifted from articles that were originally published from the 1970s through the mid 1980s. Here they were repackaged and grouped by the geographic regions of Georgia.

Consequently, the information about landmarks, amenities such as local lodging and eateries, roads and routes, property owners, and so on will be of minimal value at this point. Some of the descriptions of hikes, rivers, land forms, and parks may still be largely accurate and will at least be historically interesting.

The format of the book works against easy reading, for its cut and paste look appears jumbled and tired by any standards. It was actually used a premium to help attract subscribers to what was a short-lived attempt to resurrect the magazine version of "Browns Guide to Georgia." Oddly, one reason the newsletter did not endure was that subscribers missed the advertising!