Bill Goodwin's Travel Guides

My Travel Guides
Complete travel information about Tahiti and French Polynesia, the Fiji Islands, Rarotonga and the Cook Islands, independent Samoa, American Samoa, and the Kingdom of Tonga
A more detailed guide to Tahiti and French Polynesia, including Bora Bora, Moorea, Huahine, Tahaa, the Tuamotu Archipelago, and the Marquesas Islands
Complete coverage of Fiji including chapters on Northern Viti and Kadavu Island, which do not appear in Frommer's South Pacific.
Travel made simple in the beautiful and historic Old Dominion, my adopted home

My Frommer's Guidebooks


Frommer's South Pacific
The eleventh edition gives you everything you need to know for the perfect trip to Fiji and to Tahiti and French Polynesia, plus it contains comprehensive chapters on Rarotonga and the Cook Islands, independent Samoa, American Samoa, and the Kingdom of Tonga


Frommer's Tahiti & French Polynesia
Nuts, bolts, and everything else about traveling to Tahiti, Bora Bora, Moorea, Huahine, Raiatea, Tahaa, Maupiti, Rangiroa, Tikihau, Manihi, and Fakarava. The second edition contains expanded coverage of Nuku Hiva, Hiva Oa, and the other Marquesas Islands.

In addition to what you will find in Frommer's South Pacific, I have chapters on Maupiti and the Marquesas Islands plus more moderate- and inexpensive places to stay and dine throughout French Polynesia.


Frommer's Fiji
In addition to what you will find in Frommer's South Pacific, I have new chapters on Northern Viti Levu and Kadavu plus expanded coverage of activities and moderate- and inexpensive places to stay and dine throughout Fiji. A completely revised second edition was published in August 2010.


Frommer's Virginia
Complete guide for visiting Virginia, including Alexandria, Mount Vernon, the Hunt Country, Charlottesville, the Shenandoah Valley and Shenandoah National Park, the Southwest Highlands, Richmond, Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, and Chincoteague on the Eastern Shore

More Frommer's Guides


In addition to writing the Frommer's guides to the South Pacific, Tahiti and French Polynesia, and Virginia, I have also:

• Contributed sections on Bora Bora and Moorea and on Easter Island to Frommer's Dream Vacations, published in 2007.


• Co-authored several editions of Frommer's Florida and Frommer's Florida from $70 a Day

• Compiled, edited, and wrote the introduction for the 5th edition of Frommer's USA

• Served as mid-Atlantic editor of Frommer's America on Wheels

I also edited editions of several other Frommer's guidebooks.

My Magazine & Newspaper Articles


I have written about politics, history, travel, and sailing for:

The Washington Post
The Miami Herald
The Baltimore Sun
Islands
Pacific Islands Monthly
Sail
Motor Boating & Sailing
Sailor's Gazette
Australian Seacraft
The Traveler's Times
Executive Traveler
International Living.

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“In the South Seas,the Creator seems to have laid himself out to show what He can do.”

Rupert Brooke, 1914

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Text and photos © 2012 by Bill Goodwin. All rights reserved.