Dear Mr. Stanley, I recently received fulfillment of my order for your superb handbook, "South Pacific"(Eighth Edition, Avalon Travel, 2004), and was delighted especially by its adherence to units of the metric system throughout. Also, while not part of the metric system, your insistence upon 24-hour time throughout the book is much appreciated.
Besides the metric system, I am also simply "blown away" by the quality of this book, which well deserved the overwhelming endorsement of so many online reviewers on amazon.com. It is far more than just a travel book. It is geographic, anthropological, cultural, and also, marvelously humanizing. I can hear people saying, "I had no problem on my trip because I had the Stanley book with me." The U.S. Metric Association (USMA), Inc., is a non-profit,national organization, founded in 1916, and dedicated to U.S. adoption of the International System of measurement as the Nation's everyday measurement system. You note in your book that all of the islands use metric except American Samoa, but we at USMA continue to work for the day that this island, as well as all of its sister U.S. jurisdictions, will be metric. Books such as yours go a long way toward hastening that day, by encouraging Americans to "think metric." SI-incerely, -- Paul Trusten, R.Ph. Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association (USMA), Inc. www.metric.org 3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122 Midland TX 79707-2872 USA +1(432)528-7724 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
