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"An excellent choice for people who want everything under one cover." - Washington Post
Fodor's new Pocket series gives you trusted coverage of major cities and resort areas around the globe - all in a trim, petit package. These are the ultimate all-in-one guides to fun-filled days and nights, packed with places to eat, sleep, play, and relax.
Fodor's Pocket Nantucket gives you:
All the basics you need to help you decide what to see and do in the time you have;
smart contacts and detailed practical information, including the scoop on public transportation, local holidays, what to pack and more; the very best dining and lodging
in every price range; great recommendations for shopping nightlife, outdoor, activities, and essential side trips; and
detailed maps with sights, restaurants, night spots, and hotels clearly marked.
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Introducing Nantucket
For the first time since its golden age as a world-renowned whaling capital in the early 1800s, the tiny island of Nantucket is decidedly on a roll. Modest shingled cottages that might have gone begging for a buyer a decade ago now fetch an easy million. The 800-plus pre-1840 structures that compose the core of town -- a National Landmark Historic District -- only rarely change hands, and then at exalted prices. As for the trophy houses -- mega-mansions built in the hinterlands for rich arrivistes -- they're constantly off the charts, setting new records only to break them.
And yet its ascending chic has very little to do with what attracts most people to Nantucket in the first place, or keeps them coming back. The allure has more to do with how, at the height of summer, a cooling fog will drift in across the multihued moors or the way rambling wild roses, the gaudy pink Rosa rugosa, perfume a hidden path to the beach.
Essentially Nantucket is
all beach. Off Cape Cod, some 26 mi. out to sea, the island measures 3.5 by 14 mi. at its widest points, while encompassing -- such are the miracles of inlet and bay -- more than 100 mi. of sandy shoreline, all of it open, as a matter of local pride, to absolutely everyone.
