- Hardcover: 95 pages
- Publisher: Proteus Pr (August 1983)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0862760054
- ISBN-13: 978-0862760052
- Product Dimensions: 30 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 816 g
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A great book for adult or young sci-fi fans..., May 20 2003
By Michael Valdivielso - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Galactic Tours: Thomas Cook Out of This World Vacations (Hardcover)
96 pages of alien races, new worlds, and color pictures going along with the text. The book tells you everything you need to know, from cost, travel, local facilities at the hotels (like menus and baby-sitters available) and rules one must follow to stay safe. The last page is a booking form so the reader can select where to visit and alert the Galactic Tours about how much sleep you, the reader, need, your caloric intake and other requirements. Great for the child of the family or the child within.
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Tour the galaxy with Thomas Cook!, Oct 25 2000
By Alex - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Galactic Tours: Thomas Cook Out of This World Vacations (Hardcover)
"Galactic Tours" is a charming little book for escapists like me. It is pretty much a collection of description of fictional tours to exotic planets, organized by their distance from Earth, each description complete with accomodations, prices, local attractions - everything a tour book should concern itself with. The book starts with the basics of space travel - takeoff, staying at an orbital station, touring the moon, Mars, and several other planets and satellites, and eventually introduces the reader to faraway (and, of course, fictional) planets, each with its own central catch (volcanic planet, mushroom-covered planet, metal planet). "Galactic Tours" would be intolerably dull and perhaps even irritating, but each two-page spread of descriptive text is preceded with a fantastic painting that makes the whole thing come alive. In all honesty, I cannot imagine anyone buying this book, although it does make a lasting favorable impression.
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If only this were for real!, Jun 11 2011
By Joshua Senecal - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Galactic Tours: Thomas Cook Out of This World Vacations (Hardcover)
The galaxy is a large place, and might contain many fascinating (and even unbelievable) things. This book is one vision of what awaits the tourist preparing to explore. Each chapter describes a destination or item of wonder in the galaxy, along with a description of the nearby facilities and their costs. It's written as a Thomas Cook travel guide, and is organized along an itinerary starting at Earth and proceeding around the solar system then out into the Galaxy. Chapters are short, and each one is accompanied by a color illustration of the destination being described.
The book's author is SF writer Bob Shaw (author of the story "Light of Other Days"--a good read), so he's in his element here as he imagines what the galaxy has to offer. The illustrations are generally very well done, nice to look at, and contribute significantly to the overall experience. I really enjoy this. It's fun to read and let my imagination go.
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