Chelle Koster Walton’s experiential The Bahamas: A Great Destination was released by Countryman Press at the end of September, and in its first week Tripatini.com selected it Read of the Week. The book “treads confidently where other guides stop short, taking you past the beaches and casinos to give you access to ancestral lands, fishing settlements, goat farms, conch shacks, and theaters. These are the real islands with all their culture and character,” reads the cover. Walton has been writing about the Bahamas for 15 years and contributes to Fodor's Bahamas guide. She has also written an iPhone app called Nassau Selective & Seductive, published by Sutro Media. “For this particular book, I spent more than a year traveling to the major Bahama islands and getting to know the people as well as the sights and
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