Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket

This brand new guide includes the most up-to-date information on these two fantastic destinations. Martha's Vineyard, an island off the Massachusetts coast, is far less developed than Cape Cod thanks to local conservation organizations and it leads a double life. From Memorial Day through Labor Day the quieter, some might say real, Vineyard quickens into a vibrant, star-studded place. Edgartown floods with people who come to wander the narrow streets flanked with elegant boutiques, stately whaling captains' homes, and charming inns. The tiny island of Nantucket, off the coast of Massachusetts, south of Cape Cod, was the world's foremost whaling port in the early to mid-16th century and you can still see today the grand houses of the glory days. It is isolated in the open Atlantic and its original Native American name, Nanticut, means "faraway land". It is an escape from cities, from stress, from the mayhem of everyday life. It's all about gray-shingled cottages covered with pink roses in summer, about daffodil-lined roads in spring, about moors swept with salt breezes and scented with bayberry and cranberries.