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Overview

Both casual travelers and dedicated history buffs will relish this visitor's guide to palaces, cathedrals, temples, battlefields, homes of great artists and statesmen—places and monuments that bear witness to thousands of years of human history. Packed with vivid color photos and detailed textual entries 1001 Historic Sites carries its readers off to places that include:

  • Prehistoric Sites: Stonehenge, England; the Lescaux Cave Paintings, France, and others
  • Battlefields: Waterloo, Belgium; Gettysburg, U.S.A.; Hastings, England; Ypres, Belgium, and others
  • Buildings and Monuments: St. ...
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Overview

Both casual travelers and dedicated history buffs will relish this visitor's guide to palaces, cathedrals, temples, battlefields, homes of great artists and statesmen—places and monuments that bear witness to thousands of years of human history. Packed with vivid color photos and detailed textual entries 1001 Historic Sites carries its readers off to places that include:

  • Prehistoric Sites: Stonehenge, England; the Lescaux Cave Paintings, France, and others
  • Battlefields: Waterloo, Belgium; Gettysburg, U.S.A.; Hastings, England; Ypres, Belgium, and others
  • Buildings and Monuments: St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow; Nishi Hogan-Ji (Buddhist temple), Kyoto, Japan; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; the Eiffel Tower, Paris; the Empire State Building, New York City; the Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy; the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem; the Pyramids, Egypt; and many others
  • Homes of the Famous and Infamous: Mozart's Birthplace, Salzburg, Austria; Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, England; Jane Austen's home, Chawton, England; Hitler's retreat at Berchtesgaden, near Munich, Germany; and many others

1001 Historic Sites makes a great book for browsing, an idea-packed source for vacation planning, a handy reference volume for students of history, and a sheer pleasure for the general reader.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
In this thick travel guide, Cavendish, a veteran travel writer and columnist for History Today magazine, assigns readers enough must-see agendas to fill several lifetimes. Well-organized by region and graced with thorough historical descriptions of each locale, this volume's impressive range incorporates everything from typical tourist destinations like Westminster Abbey, the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China, as well as unusual spots like the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Guinness Brewery in Dublin, and the Mercedes-Benz Factory in Stuttgart, Germany. What's missing is the information a tourist would need actually to visit these sites: directions, hours of operation, and other handy tips are overlooked. Probably too heavy handed for a casual tourist, this guide would be most useful for the experienced traveler or history buff.
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From The Critics

This is the latest entry in the publisher's "Must See Before You Die" series, with previous titles having covered such varied topics as movies, gardens, and natural wonders. Hefty but compact, the tome is organized according to five broad geographical regions: the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. After that, things get dicey, as entries appear to be placed at random. To compensate, an "Index of Historic Sites" appears at the very front, with nations listed alphabetically and each nation including its own alphabetized roster of entries. Human-made structures, e.g., buildings, bridges, monuments, and the like, are emphasized. The sumptuous color photographs are accompanied by three to four paragraphs of text describing the particulars of location and construction and a brief history, often with surprising or ironic tidbits. For instance, the notorious Kilmainham Jail in Dublin, aka "the Irish Bastille," was ordered built in the 1790s by one Sir Edward Newenham. This being the era of debtors' prison, the hapless politician was incarcerated within the walls of his own creation shortly thereafter for not paying his bills. Enlivening the book is a certain literary air: snippets of poetry and quotations from belles-lettres immortalizing an architectural gem are frequently presented as call-outs, as in "Yet I remember...the deep midnight, the Bridge of Sighs, the beauty of woman" (Edgar Allan Poe, The Assignation, 1834), which appears in the entry for this famed span in Venice, Italy.
—Michael F. Bemis

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780764160448
  • Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 4/1/2008
  • Pages: 960
  • Product dimensions: 6.70 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 2.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Richard Cavendish is an authority on Britain's historic heritage and a regular columnist in the British magazine History Today. As both author and editor, he has contributed to many travelers' guidebooks.

• Koichiro Matsuura is Director-General of UNESCO.

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