"230 countries...showcased through 850 stunning photos. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, from populous China to tiny Easter Island, it's all here. — ABC News"
"The essential travel reference book for every household...All brand new, incredible photography illustrates each country, depicting what life is like in each nation from photographic portraits of people, beautiful landscape photographs and vibrant street photography."
"We are drooling over this stunning travel guide featuring every country on the planet...Whether Dad loves to travel or just learn about different cultures around the world, this coffee table book is sure to keep him and the kids entertained for hours."
"A gorgeous A-to-Z guide."
"The massive coffee-table hardback is what the title implies — an alphabetical guide to countries, two pages per country...The underlying theme is simple: Learn something about other places and, if so inspired, go there."
"A gorgeous A-to-Z guide."
"The massive coffee-table hardback is what the title implies — an alphabetical guide to countries, two pages per country...The underlying theme is simple: Learn something about other places and, if so inspired, go there."
One could call it the ultimate travel book: Lonely Planet's insider's peek at 218 countries of the world from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, from populous China to tiny Easter Island. (There are even entries for Kyrgystan and Kiribati.) Illustrated with hundreds of color photographs, this gift book contains maps, data, and tourist tips, including "best time to visit" and "essential experiences."
A stunning and utterly captivating testament to the beauty and wonder of our natural and human world, this book covers a whopping 230 countries, including some not technically countries at all, like Greenland, Hong Kong, and various Caribbean islands. Casting a wide net, Lonely Planet's editors have nonetheless managed to distill something essential about each location, in 1200 dancing images of its people and places and brief but spot-on suggestions of what to eat, drink, listen to, and watch. Entries are arranged alphabetically rather than geographically, and this logic works: the oddness of seeing Jamaica followed by Japan and Jordan; or Afghanistan preceding Albania, Algeria, and Andorra is strange and startling and sure to delight. A dearth of historical facts or statistics-although capital, population, area, and official language information is included-make this not a reference work but rather, in the turning of the pages, a suggestive, provocative, loving portrait of our gorgeous, haunting planet, not lonely at all. Highly recommended.-Tania Barnes, Library Journal Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
"We are drooling over this stunning travel guide featuring every country on the planet...Whether Dad loves to travel or just learn about different cultures around the world, this coffee table book is sure to keep him and the kids entertained for hours."—Walking on Travels
"With details of every United Nations-approved country in the world, a few more principalities and dependents besides, Lonely Planet's Travel Book is the ultimate introduction to a world of travel and the essential travel reference book for every household!"—Fashion Travel Girl
"With details of every United Nations-approved country in the world, a few more principalities and dependents besides, Lonely Planet's Travel Book is the ultimate introduction to a world of travel and the essential travel reference book for every household!"
