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1001 Natural Wonders You Must See Before You Die: UNESCO Edition
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Item Description...
Overview
A virtual circumnavigation of the globe offers tourists, nature lovers, and armchair travelers profiles of the world's most beautiful natural sites from every continent, from Angel Falls in Venezuela to the Rhine Valley in Germany.
Publishers Description
Updated with a special new preface by Koichiro Matsura, Director-General of UNESCO and enhanced with many new dramatic color photos, the new edition of this beautiful volume will bring pleasure to nature lovers, tourists, and armchair travelers alike. ItA's a guide to the worldA's most spectacular natural sites, each location profiled with a stunning color photo, a description of noteworthy features, a thumbnail-size locator map, and an brief table of descriptive statistics. The natural wonders are categorized by continent, and a six-page location index at the front of the book provides readers with quick reference to each site. They includeA-
* Banff National Park, Canada * Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska * Crater Lake, Oregon * Caribbean National Forest, Puerto Rico * Machu Picchu, Peru * Valley of the Rhine, Germany * The Matterhorn, Switzerland and Italy * Ayers Rock, Australia * Victoria Falls, Zambia and Zimbabwe * Mount Kilauea, Hawaii * Mount Fuji, Japan * Masada, Israel * Zhoukoudian Caves, near Beijing, China . . . and hundreds more
This compendium of the worldA's most amazing vistas and experiences will provide hours of absorbing reading as it offers insights into our planetA's priceless resources. Full-color photos on most pages. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 960
Dimensions: Length: 2.5" Width: 6.75" Height: 8.25"
Weight: 4.65 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Aug 1, 2009
ISBN 0764162330
EAN 9780764162336
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 | Fabulous National Parks and Natural Wonders Travel Guide Dec 23, 2009 |
Picturesque and succinct verbiage to carry you to far away places and back to plan a road trip or flight and see natural splendor.
Substantive and inexpensive. | | | | Beautiful book and fun to read Nov 2, 2007 |
| I checked this book out of the library but we liked it so much, I am going to buy my own copy. Amazingly, my kids like to flip the book open for fun and then fantasize about going to the place they find! Better than watching Hannah Montana, that's for sure. We have a lot of places to visit now, though. | | |  | Not a sit down and read book.. Jul 26, 2007 |
| I found this not to be a sit down and read book but a dream, reference book. It takes many visits, each one a brain adventure. Great book. | | | | Best Buy on Travel books! Mar 18, 2007 |
| This book was amazing... I wasn't expecting it to be 3inches thick! It is chock-full of beautiful pictures and helpful discussion on destinations all over the world. A must for any curious traveler! | | | | Could be better, but... Jan 14, 2007 |
Given the enormity of the task of identifying 1,001 of the world's greatest wonders, the authors did a pretty good job. But they were clearly biased in their selections. This book was originally published in England. Not coincidentally, 54 pages are devoted solely to the British Isles. This represents about 6% of the book. This may not seem like that much until you consider that the Britsh Isles have about 0.2% of the world's land mass. Likewise, about 170 pages were devoted to Western Europe ... 19% of the book for 2.5% of the world's land mass. Other sections of the book seemed to be given disproportionate coverage as well. 10% of the entire North America section was devoted to New Mexico. The whole of Canada barely got more coverage than this. The enormous country of Russia got just 7 pages. New Zealand - an incredibly scenic country - got just 13 pages. The breathtaking islands in French Polynesia got 2 pages of coverage (and they completely ignored Moorea Island).
All of this being said, this is still a fairly impressive book that can be used to get a general idea of places you might like to visit. It has nearly 1,000 pages, so even with the disproportionate coverage, it still provides a pretty good glimpse at a lot of the natural wonders around the world. And there are some pretty nice photos, though I do wish there was a photo of every place, rather than a photo of about 1 in every 2 or 3 places. Photos can say more about a natural wonder than a couple paragraphs of text. Hopefully, the authors will someday come out with a new edition with more photos and less biased coverage of places throughout the entire world. | | | Write your own review about 1001 Natural Wonders You Must See Before You Die: UNESCO Edition
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