1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler’s Life List
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Introducing the Eighth Marvel of travel books. A jolly, passionate gift book for travelers-both the real and the armchair variety-1,000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE delivers exactly the promise of its an around-the-world, continent-by-continent listing of places guaranteed to give you shivers, the unique and wonderful places you must see on and off the beaten track.
Take a safari into Botswana’s Okavango Delta, the world’s largest oasis, where “if you see 10 percent of what sees you, it’s an exceptional day.” Sail the Grenadines, 32 islands and hundreds of dotlike cays strung like a necklace of gems across 40 miles of pristine waters. Tour the covered souks of Aleppo, where the labyrinthine streets seem straight out of A Thousand and One Nights and frankincense and myrhh are still sold. Hike the Tasman Glacier. Climb the Tuscan hills to San Gimignano. Stay at the Hassler in Rome, or Paris’s Crillon-you must, at least once. There’s Gap de Chelly, Tokyo’s Tsukiji Fish Market, the backwaters of Kerala, Ipanema beach, the Buddhas of Borobudur, Mesa Verde’s cave dwellings, the Oaxaca Saturday market, Ballybunion Golf Club.
The prose is gorgeous, seizing on exactly what makes each entry worthy of inclusion. And, following the romance, the nuts and bolts: addresses, phone and fax numbers, web sites, costs, best times to visit. Of special interest are theme-point indexes-gorgeous beaches, destination restaurants, world-class museums-building the guide entirely user-friendly, no matter if you’re dreaming or going.
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I ordered ‘1776′ at the same time but have not yet received it. When might I expect manner of language?
Dushan Angius
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Before you buy this book and stoke a desire to place home and see the world, take a moment to reflect on what you desire out of travel.
In “Self-Reliance,” Emerson wrote: “It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans…. He who travels to be amused, or to get to some extent which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows ancient even in youth among ancient things…. The rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness distressing the whole intellectual action.”
In “Discourse on Method,” Descartes wrote: “When one takes too much time traveling, one becomes finally a weirder in one’s own country; and when one is too curious about things that took place in past centuries, one ordinarily becomes ignorant of what is taking place in one’s own country.”
I used to have a laundry-list mentality when I travelled. I’d want to see A, B, and C just because some book told me to. But then I tried a different approach: slowing down and talking to people who lived there. If you just want to see the world as a giant circus that’s made to amuse you, by all means get this book. But if you want to learn something, about a different place and about yourself, just go somewhere and talk to a name who lives there. You’ll get a richer (and ironically, probably less expensive) experience than this book can deliver.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve seen this book in a number of bookstores. I have mortal cancer and everytime I see this title it makes me wince.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve travelled a bit in my life, but have by no means tried to keep up with trends in travel destinations. The whole contemporary craze for travelling itself has more or less passed me by. As I get older, though, I tend to get increasingly nervous about all the places in the world I haven’t seen yet, and a book like this is bound to present me with many travel thoughts I hadn’t considered. The book’s emphasis, though, presents a to some extent disturbing scenario to all potential readers. On one hand, it’s excellent that, by building the list so long, the leader is encouraging us to live for a long time, but what about persons of us whose time is running out? For an untravelled person in their autumn years, 1000 places is an dreadful lot to be expected to get through, and attempting it could even shorten whatever time they have left. Conversely, younger, well-travelled people, who have already been to all 1000 places, will be disturbed to learn that they have nothing left to live for…
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
As a native Missourian, I was officially offended that the ONLY fantastic place mentioned in my home state(according to the leader) was a (drumroll…please….)barbecue joint in Kansas City! Patricia, you clearly have not been around this gorgeous state enough to know where the “places to go” really are. Why didn’t you just place us out altogether? With all of our natural attractions, historic monuments, national and state parks, caves, museums, and countless additional “secret treasures,” it seems sad to me that a silly dining establishment was all you could come up with. Sorry, you lost this reader….
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5