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"We're kind of obsessed with National Geographic's new book, Secret Journeys of a Lifetime. The book, which came out earlier this week, has all sorts of travel tips, from the best ghost towns worth visiting to broader topics like the most idyllic island getaways, spiritual travel tips and even classic road trips worth embarking on."
--The Huffington Post
--The Huffington Post
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The latest in the highly successful Journeys of a Lifetime series and the sequel to the original bestseller, Secret Journeys of a Lifetime offers in-depth site descriptions; dozens of fun, themed top ten lists; locator maps; illuminating sidebars; and oversized, lavish full-color images that bring to life 500 novel destinations that have managed to fly under the radar.
Divided into themed chapters, the book features the "World at Your Feet", "Last Wildernesses", "Island Getaways", "The Road Less Traveled", "Secret History", "Spiritual Havens", "Hidden Treasures", "Undiscovered Villages", and "City Secrets". This book will also feature numerous short sidebars by National Geographic contributors entitled "My Secret Journey" that will eloquently describe and personalize travel experiences for readers and will also provide insight on bonus excursions near the featured destinations.
Additional eclectic sidebars will highlight intriguing ancillary information, including entertaining snippets on the local culture or history as well as other sights to see while in the area.
As with other books in the series, each chapter contains two to five lists of "Top Tens," shorter features describing experiences in a wide variety of categories, from quirky museums and quiet city garden oases to atmospheric ghost towns and the best spots for amazing ocean views.
Divided into themed chapters, the book features the "World at Your Feet", "Last Wildernesses", "Island Getaways", "The Road Less Traveled", "Secret History", "Spiritual Havens", "Hidden Treasures", "Undiscovered Villages", and "City Secrets". This book will also feature numerous short sidebars by National Geographic contributors entitled "My Secret Journey" that will eloquently describe and personalize travel experiences for readers and will also provide insight on bonus excursions near the featured destinations.
Additional eclectic sidebars will highlight intriguing ancillary information, including entertaining snippets on the local culture or history as well as other sights to see while in the area.
As with other books in the series, each chapter contains two to five lists of "Top Tens," shorter features describing experiences in a wide variety of categories, from quirky museums and quiet city garden oases to atmospheric ghost towns and the best spots for amazing ocean views.
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an excellent book,
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This review is from: Secret Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Best Hidden Travel Gems (Hardcover)
This is a beautiful book complete with wonderful pictures of various secret destinations. It is well laid out and provides travel tips to the sites.
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Secret Journeys of a Lifetime,
This review is from: Secret Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Best Hidden Travel Gems (Hardcover)
I received this product within days of ordering and in excellent condition. It was a gift to friends who are travellers and I think they were very pleased. I was delighted with the service!
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I want to be traveling,
By wogan "the book reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Secret Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Best Hidden Travel Gems (Hardcover)
This is a big, heavy coffee table book with enticing colour pictures on every page. It is divided into 9 sections: high altitude points, wilderness, islands, the road less traveled, ancient sites off the beaten path, sites tucked away into quiet corners, undiscovered villages, city secrets. Each section is then divided into sites in North America, South America, Australia-Oceana, Asia, Europe, and Africa. In these sections are several top 10 lists for world sites such as; top 10 wildflower displays, top 10 islands in cities, top 10 religious art - each of these has a description and a sentence on planning and a web site.The 500 best travel gems each have a page and at least 1 picture, a small location map, some text telling about the site and when to go, how to find it, planning, and websites. I did find one problem with one of their sites, which hopefully isn't an indication of poor details in the others. It lists St Michaels Maryland as an undiscovered village...anyone who has tried to find a parking place, or a table at a restaurant on a summer Sunday afternoon there would find this hilarious. Strange because if they would have investigated a bit further there are several other small towns on the Eastern shore of Maryland that are perfectly charming and wonderful examples of what they purport St Michaels to be. All of this information and the pictures combine to make you wish you had unlimited funds and time to start on a journey. If you are lucky, you have been to a few of these places - whether you have or not, you would certainly find this book interesting for its photography and facts about these faraway places. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Birthday Gift Request,
By Rosemary Foti - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Secret Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Best Hidden Travel Gems (Hardcover)
This book was purchased for my 12 year old granddaughter upon her request. She loves photography and her family is trying to see all the national parks in the US. I don't know when she will be able to travel worldwild but this book will give her some beautiful incentives - it is a lifetime of pictures, knowledge and reading.
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Beautifully Produced and Useful,
By Brett H "pentangle" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Secret Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Best Hidden Travel Gems (Hardcover)
Secret Journeys of a Lifetime is an impressive volume, beautifully illustrated as one would expect from a book with the National Geographic imprint. I thought I was reasonably well travelled, but I had only visited, or indeed known of the existence of a small number of the incredible places covered in this book.For the armchair traveller, just browsing through is a very rewarding experience, but for anyone who is prepared to travel to far flung places it is a great source of inspiration. The book is split into nine separate sections eg Spiritual Havens, the Road Less Travelled and City Secrets. Every so often there are useful top ten lists covering various topics such as Roman Sites or Islands Within Cities. Strangely there is no index of these top ten lists which seem to be just scattered throughout the book. The format is that for each of about 200 of the chosen sites there is a page devoted which includes a picture, some description and a useful summary of when to go, how to find it, planning and websites which can be consulted. The other 300 odd sites are included in the top ten lists and just include a very brief description and a few words on planning. Since the publishers have chosen to group these places in the way described above, there is, of necessity, no geographic grouping which may have been more useful. However, where, within one of the ten sections, places are geographically close together these are grouped. For example, in Last Wildernesses, there are five sites in the USA and these are described consecutively. If visiting an area, the easiest way to locate places in the book is to look through the index at the back. eg if you look up Wales in the Index, the 11 references to Wales in the book are listed. So to summarise, this is a book which looks and feels quality and which nearly anyone would be pleased to receive as a gift. On a practical level it is a great source of ideas for the traveller and a pleasure to read for the armchair traveller. |
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