Lynn Readicker and I wrote our first book in 1991, the fledgling edition of Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway. Two years later, we followed it up with the first edition of Adventure Guide to the Inside Passage and Coastal Alaska.

The original book is now in its fourth edition; Inside Passage has gone around five times. You can't find more complete guides to Alaska.

And those books had so much information that another book grew out of them: Adventure Guide to British Columbia, which first appeared in fall 2004.

The three of them add up to nearly 1500 pages of facts, attractions, history, culture, and something you won't find in any of the other books: attitude. No, these books won't tell you where the garbage cans are. But they will tell you how to climb Denali, how to raft rivers, how to avoid ending up as bear food.

In 1994, Weatherhill published my  Traveler's Guide to Japanese Pilgrimages. It's the only guidebook available in English for the 88-temple Shikoku pilgrimage to Kobo Daishi (ninth-century saint, scholar, and all around good guy) and the 33-temple Kannon pilgrimage that cuts across the ancient heart of Japan, through Kyoto and Nara. Although, sadly, it's now out of print, used copies show up from time to time for a hundred bucks or so.

Click on the cover pictures for samples from each of the books.

Oh, by the way, I've got a couple other books out, too.  Pseudonyms can be fun. But here's a look at the entire shelf: