2024 the best place on earth book review
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The Rough Guide to the 100 Best Places on Earth 2020 is a celebration of the year's most extraordinary places.
From iconic favourites like the Grand Canyon to up-and-coming destinations like Tiblisi, this stunning photography collection willl inspire even the most intrepid traveller. Over 150 high-quality images bring the 100 places to life, spanning atmospheric hilltop pagodas, dramatic mountain scenery, and sparkling urban citiscapes. Lively descriptive text accompanies each entry, capturing the destination's spirit and exactly what makes it so special. Organized geographically by region, the book reaches every corner of the world, with each place carefully selected by Rough Guides' experienced team of authors and editors.
Features of the Rough Guide to the 100 Best Places on Earth
- Uncovers the top places to visit in 2020
- Stylish coffee-table book with more than 150 inspiring photographs
- Employs Rough Guides' "tell it like it is" ethos
- Organised geographically by region
- Carefully curated by Rough Guides' team of expert authors and editors
About Rough Guides: Rough Guideshave been inspiring travellers for over 35 years, with over 30 million copies sold. Synonymous with practical travel tips, quality writing and a trustworthy "tell it like it is" ethos, the Rough Guides list includes more than 260 travel guides to 120+ destinations, gift-books and phrasebooks.
From the Publisher
Victoria Falls’ thundering curtain of water crashing down along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe; Lisbon’s white cobbled streets, lined with colorful pot plants snaking up the hillside; age-old temples at Bagan in Myanmar waking up in blood-orange light and shrouded in mist.
These are the 100 Best Places on Earth 2020.
A lesson in beauty and grandeur, Beijing's Forbidden City is a world apart.
Incredible caves and picturesque emerald-green water make Halong Bay in northeast Vietnam an unforgettable experience.
The Himalayas are home to world's highest peak and are steeped in rich historical importance.
High glamour, high rise and high tech characterize the fascinating environs of Dubai.
Featuring Africa’s most beautiful, most romantic, and most visited cities, such as Cape Town.
One of the world’s seven natural wonders: Victoria Falls on the Zambia - Zimbabwe border.
The dramatic ruins of the Parthenon; the breathtaking French Grand Canyon, Gorges du Verdon; and one of the most sensual architectural creations in the world, the Alhambra.
The spectacle of water exploding over the knife-edge precipices of the Niagara Falls to the classic, southwest American landscape of stark sandstone buttes in Monument Valley.
From sun-drenched beaches, turquoise lagoons, and swaying palm trees in Fiji to craggy mountains with the scent of pine and lingering smoke from wood fires during the winter months in New Zealand
Amazon rainforest wildernesses, scarred volcanic islands, and Caribbean island thrills.
Publisher : Rough Guides; 1st edition (October 1, 2019)
Language : English
Hardcover : 232 pages
ISBN-10 : 1789194598
ISBN-13 : 978-1789194593
Item Weight : 2.9 pounds
Dimensions : 8.25 x 0.75 x 11 inches
Reviewer: sandra
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: If you're expecting to find helpful travel suggestions, this is not the book for you.
Reviewer: YumYumCupcakes
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I ordered this accidentally (I meant to order a different book) but was glad i did! It's a large hardback book with beautiful big images. In fact, the central focus of the book is the imagery inside. There's actually only a few short paragraphs per featured place. Son of you want a book with lots of facts and less photography, maybe stick to a Lony Planet or Rough Guides book but otherwise I'd definitely recommend this one. In fact, we've booked a holiday to 2 of the places featured in this book after seeing them in it!
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Almost all of the places are known to everyone and a very brief write up on each. I had perceived that it will contain some really new, out of the road kind of destinations but was a let down.
Reviewer: AB
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Son brought this for himself to play his gap year travels (he is currently 9....) and has loved it. Great photos and couple paragraphs about separate amazing locations. Info doesnât go into great depth and itâs more of a coffee table book than an actual travel planning book but nonetheless itâs a great book and he has really enjoyed reading it one place at a time.
Reviewer: S N
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Great value - bought as a gift for a keen traveller who loved it!