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1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List |  | Author: Patricia Schultz
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  338 reviews
Sales Rank: 87277
Media: Paperback
Edition: ZZZ
Pages: 972
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.2 x 2
ISBN: 0761104844
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.202
UPC: 019628104847
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ASIN: 0761104844
Publication Date: May 22, 2003
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| • | Paperback - 1,000 Places to See Before You Die [1000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE] [Paperback] | | • | Paperback - 1,000 Places To See Before You Die - A Traveler's Life List | | • | Kindle Edition - 1,000 Places to See Before You Die | | • | Paperback - 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, updated ed. (2010) (1,000 Before You Die) | | • | Paperback - 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List | | • | Kindle Edition - 1,000 Places To See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List | | • | Paperback - 1,000 Places to See Before You Die Prepack | | • | Calendar - 1,000 Places to See Before You Die Calendar 2006 (Page a Day Calendar) |
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Product Description
Introducing the Eighth Wonder of travel books. A joyous, passionate gift book for travelers-both the real and the armchair variety-1,000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE delivers exactly the promise of its an around-the-world, continent-by-continent listing of places guaranteed to give you shivers, the unique and wonderful places you must see on and off the beaten track. Take a safari into Botswana's Okavango Delta, the world's largest oasis, where "if you see 10 percent of what sees you, it's an exceptional day." Sail the Grenadines, 32 islands and hundreds of dotlike cays strung like a necklace of gems across 40 miles of pristine waters. Tour the covered souks of Aleppo, where the labyrinthine streets seem straight out of A Thousand and One Nights and frankincense and myrhh are still sold. Hike the Tasman Glacier. Climb the Tuscan hills to San Gimignano. Stay at the Hassler in Rome, or Paris's Crillon-you must, at least once. There's Canyon de Chelly, Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market, the backwaters of Kerala, Ipanema beach, the Buddhas of Borobudur, Mesa Verde's cave dwellings, the Oaxaca Saturday market, Ballybunion Golf Club. The prose is gorgeous, seizing on exactly what makes each entry worthy of inclusion. And, following the romance, the nuts and bolts: addresses, phone and fax numbers, web sites, costs, best times to visit. Of special interest are subject-specific indexes-gorgeous beaches, destination restaurants, world-class museums-making the guide entirely user-friendly, no matter if you're dreaming or going.
Book Description
Introducing the Eighth Wonder of travel books, the New York Times bestseller that's been hailed by CBS-TV as one of the best books of the year and praised by Newsweek as the "book that tells you what's beautiful, what's inspiring, what's fun and what's just unforgettable everywhere on earth." Packed with recommendations of the world's best places to visit, on and off the beaten path, 1,000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE is a joyous, passionate gift for travelers, an around-the-world, continent-by-continent listing of beaches, museums, monuments, islands, inns, restaurants, mountains, and more. There's Botswana's Okavango Delta, the covered souks of Aleppo, the Tuscan hills surrounding San Gimignano, Canyon de Chelly, the Hassler hotel in Rome, Ipanema Beach, the backwaters of Kerala, Oaxaca's Saturday market, the Buddhas of Borobudur, Ballybunion golf club-all the places guaranteed to give you the shivers. The prose is gorgeous, seizing on exactly what makes each entry worthy of inclusion. And, following the romance, the nuts and bolts: addresses, phone and fax numbers, web sites, costs, and best times to visit.
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 An armchair travellers dream September 3, 2010
Paul Lawrence (Australia)
It's important to be magnanimous when dealing with a book such as this. Anybody asked to put together a 1000 of anything is always going to come up with a different list to anybody else, even their best buddy. So while there are some issues with the items selected (more on that later) I'm going to start this review by focussing on the positives.
And there are a number of them. The book isn't a massive hardcover tome and it's written by someone who obviously loves the idea of travel itself and much of it is written in a breezy and somewhat gushing style. Now I may have issues with gushing at times but a love of travel is something that is its own best defence. The author has set this book out quite logically via geographic area and further broken down each part of the world into national groupings arranged alphabetically. As such it's easy to just flick through and find nations you are interested in or have already visited to have a look at the authors thoughts or suggestions. Of course as I touched on in my opening paragraph there are always going to be sites that some people will feel were left out unfairly but anyone who buys this book and expects to treat it as some sort of ego stroking checklist is missing the point by a country mile. This book is designed as much to celebrate travel and throw a stack of ideas at the reader (at least 1000 ideas, to be exact). Each entry is admittedly fairly perfunctory and there really is no other way it could be without writing a series of books of Tolkien like proportions.
There are some downsides however. While I am more than happy to admit that there are some signature hotels around the world, the Caledonia, Raffles etc, I found the constant banging on about hotels detracted from the breezy nature of the book by the very monotony of it. And the author is obviously a `foodie' of epic proportions given the gushing over this restaurant or that. It got annoying to be perfectly blunt. Again, there are probably some places that are banner items but name checking chefs is a sure fire way to obsolescence.
The only other main gripe would be the plethora of North American sites. It was a touch unbalanced. I note that there is a 1000 for North America now, and it would be lovely if in future this world edition was remastered - to use musical phraseology.
Despite these quibbles overall I found this a fun read, it was amusing to peruse and mentally tick places off and it certainly will get you and your mates arguing for this or that site and it will also whet your appetite for more travel. Which is kind of the reason your thinking of buying this book isn't it?
Excellent service. August 16, 2010
M. Fermoyle (Royal Oak, MI.)
The product was as advertised, very satisfied with what I purchased and the sellers service.
SUCH FUN!. August 1, 2010
Adrienne M. Rosenthal (Walnut Creek,CA.)
Such a fun book to peruse!. In fact, special to write down places to visit when in that country, etc. Of course there are some things that are a bit of a fantasy...but worth having the book. Anyone that truly can afford all the hotel and/or restaurants probably don't need the book because they would have a private tour/driver!. But those of us "common folk" can afford to pick and choose along with a Rick Steves type book!. We took notes on various places and each and every one added to our trip!. A great gift for someone who enjoys traveling. Not necessarily to be used as a substitute for Frommers or Rick Steves etc. But before each trip you will be glad you consulted it!.( a tip: when there is a hotel or restaurant, look in the lobby or have a drink or dessert so you can cross it off your list! (Dubai, however one of the hotels charges $150 per person to look in the lobby if you don't have a restaurant or room reservation ...just skip that one!)
 Good Book July 16, 2010
E. Kanemoto
I actually saw German version of this book first (I currently live in Germany) and then became to know there was English version. The book gives my husband and I guidance to choose where we should visit and what we should see amongst millions of great places in the world. We are not hard-core world travelers but do enjoy going on a trip from time to time. I borrowed the book from the library but we've got to get one for ourselves; it is fun to mark the places we have visited.
It may be true that the choice of the 1000 places are not thoroughly or evenly covered all over the world/region. But it is okay for me, if I want to get more information I will research other resources. The usefulness of this reference book for me is to help me pick up places I might want to visit and what to see or experience in the limited amount of time and resources. Yes, the book tells us what to experience as well; I am going to see the Berlin Philharmonie Orchestra next month. I cannot wait!
 review of all the world's tourist traps May 28, 2010
Nat-Turr (NYC, USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Honestly you will not learn anything about any "off the beaten path" places. This book gave me the impression that it had been written by someone using a stack of travel guides as references, not a real traveller. Nothing original, it is a compilation of all the world's tourist traps with overpriced hotels. A crappy uninteresting travel guide.
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