Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders: 1

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A survey of either obscure or completely forgotten places all over the planet, man-made and natural. Now you can travel across the globe, discovering hidden gems right from your comfy spot on the couch with their best-selling book, Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders. A fascinating and beautiful nonfiction that captures an adventurer's heart by going from place to place whether countries or continents and gives you two paragraphs on two features of the place with a beautiful landscape backdrop and then a few little extra factoids. Beholding hundreds of off-the-beaten-path gems, this book is a treasure chest of wanderlust where readers are transported to places they’re certain to have never encountered.

You'll be occupied for hours, discovering Fingal's Cave in Scotland, a sea cave with walls perfectly hexagonal columns, or the Tree Cathedral in Italy, a piece of living architecture that continues to grow. Here are natural wonders, like the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can sit and drink comfortably. The world is full of wonderful and magnificent things, from spectacular beaches, to amazing vistas, beautiful creatures and breath-taking waterfalls. Me gustan las guías de viajes, pero las que no son convencionales y van más allá de cualquier Lonely Planet. Whether describing a Canadian museum that showcases world history through shoes, a pet-casket company that will also sell you a unit for your severed limb, a Greek snake festival, or a place in the Canary Islands where inhabitants communicate through whistling, the authors have compiled an enthralling range of oddities.For a reader attempting a cover-to-cover read, the effect is that you trudge through a lot of dull material to get to the good stuff. Any place my husband alone cannot drive to in a day is a place we are likely to talk ourselves out of visiting. When not traveling, changing diapers or sleeping, Dylan enjoys drawing, science fiction, and general nerdery. Cada local e cada curiosidade traz um pouco do lado desconhecido do nosso mundo, e nos lembra de que ainda existem muitas experiências fantásticas e mágicas esperando por aí (e o design do livro também é lindíssimo, contribuindo para o prazer da leitura). It brings new locations, objects, and monuments to light in a unique way with showcasing the strange and outstanding corners of the world that will bring out numerous emotions from disbelief to wonder.

Wonderfully done, with neat little sections on the individual site and directions and pictures, this is a world traveler's dream. In addition, the second edition includes a full-colour gatefold Atlas Obscura road trip map, with a dream itinerary.

This is a book to read if you are a kid, aimed at ages 8-12, but also a book to read if you forgot or refused to grow up. If you can get there (the authors have advice about that), you may find, depending on the weather, only the top of the tyrant’s head poking from the snow. Our small-group adventures are inspired by our Atlas of the world's most fascinating places, the stories behind them, and the people who bring them to life. It informs us on every page of something we never knew - and paints a rich panorama of what a marvellously strange world we live in.

Es enthält neben spannenden Informationen über die verschiedenen Länder auch eine Packliste und zusätzliche Tipps für junge Entdecker. Die Kids Edition ist klasse, es werden interessante Orte vorgestellt, die Fakten werden für Kinder verständlich erklärt und die Illustrationen sind super. It's the kind of book that makes you want to pack in your workaday life and head out to places you'd never have dreamed of going, to see things you could not even have imagined.Unless you are so dreadfully boring that organizing your toothpick collection while listening to your white noise machine is your version of a rockin' Friday night I'm pretty sure any one who crack's it's cover will find something to love in Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders. a wonderful browse [for] armchair travelers who enjoyed Brandon Stanton's Humans of New York and Frank Warren's PostSecret.

Atlas Obscura is, oddly, the perfect travel book/blog for the non-traveler; it’s the travel manual of imaginary travel. Here is an incredibly beautiful book aimed at young adventurers, or even young adventurers at heart. However, as an armchair adventurer (mostly) who grew up reading encyclopedias, almanacs and, yes, atlases cover-to-cover, Atlas Obscura was great fun for me in just that way—I felt my knowledge of the world and its wonders being expanded again and again. Es zeigt dem Leser immerwährende Gewitter, ein Atomkraftwerk, in dem heute ein Freizeitpark beheimatet ist und vieles mehr.He is also the author of Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, a bestseller published in 33 languages, and a forthcoming book about the world's last hunter-gatherers. Moonwalking with Einstein describes Foer's journey as a participatory journalist to becoming a national champion mnemonist, under the tutelage of British Grand_Master_of_Memory, Ed Cooke. Ich habe es ohne Kind gelesen und fand es auch als Erwachsene informativ und spannend die 100 abenteuerlichsten Orte der Welt zu entdecken. I adore this book, and I can only hope that the authors publish a second book with new findings in the future.