Ann Carroll Burgess
Autore di Secret Portland (Oregon): The Unique Guidebook to Portland's Hidden Sites, Sounds, & Tastes (Secret Guide series)
Sull'Autore
Ann Carroll Burgess is a professional travel writer and broadcaster.
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- Burgess, Ann Carroll
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- female
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- Opere
- 4
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- 23
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- #537,598
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- 3.0
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- 1
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- 12
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- 1
In addition to only covering the "sites, sounds, & tastes" that you can find in any hotel room visitors' guide, this book is full of several small, but irritating, errors. For example, while the book includes a truly secret Portland gem, Martinotti's Italian cafe and deli, it misspelled the name as Marinotti's. Another, more confusing example: under "Secret Luxury," the author praises the RiverPlace Hotel as "small, elegant, personal . . . more like a posh home than a hotel" and, under "Secret Al Fresco," describes the hotel's restaurant Lucere as "European" and "chi chi." But under "Secret Rooms with a View," the author describes the same hotel as "a fairly standard, but pricy, modern hotel" and misidentifies the restaurant. Even more confusingly, several listings misidentify the neighborhood, for example, listing many downtown locations in southwest Portland as being in the "Buckman" neighborhood -- a neighborhood across the river in southEAST Portland.
The nail in the coffin was the author's tip on how to pronounce the name of Portland's river, the Willamette: "Want to sound like a local? Make sure to pronounce it "will-uh-met," with the accent on the "uh." Wrong-o! As any Portlander will tell you, "It's will-A-mitt, damn it!"… (altro)