World Famous Comics: Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Greatest Trips
Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Greatest Trips
By: National Geographic Publisher: National Geographic Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: National Geographic Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 400 Publication Date: October 16, 2007 Release Date: October 16, 2007
Product Description: No one knows the world like National Geographic—and in this lavish volume, we reveal our picks for the world's most fabulous journeys, along with helpful information for readers who want to try them out.
Compiled from the favorite trips of National Geographic's travel writers, Journeys of a Lifetime spans the globe to highlight the best of the world's most famous and lesser known sojourns. It presents an incredible diversity of possibilities, from ocean cruises around Antarctica to horse treks in the Andes. Every continent and every possible form of transport is covered.
A timely resource for the burgeoning ranks of active travelers who crave adventurous and far-flung trips, Journeys of a Lifetime provides scores of creative ideas: trekking the heights of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania... mountain biking in Transylvania... driving through the scenic highlands of Scotland... or rolling through the outback on Australia's famous Ghan train... and dozens of other intriguing options all over the world.
Journeys of a Lifetime also features 22 fun Top 10 lists in all sorts of categories. What are the world's top 10 elevator rides, bridges to walk across, trolley rides, ancient highways, or underground walking adventures? Readers will love evaluating and debating the selections.
Each chapter showcases stunning photography, full-color maps, evocative text, and expert advice—including how to get there, when to visit, and how to make the most of the journey—all packaged in a luxurious oversize volume to treasure for years to come.
Great Travel Book, Average+ Photo Book This book generally fulfilled my expectations as a travel book. It gives a great number of amazing destinations with enough info to allow you search further. I also liked the idea of splitting the trips by means of travel (boat, plane, train, car, 2-legs, 4-legs, etc).
On the other hand, as an amateur photographer/photo enthusiast and an overall National Geographic fun, I found the photos as well as the printing quality of the book not of the best quality, or at least not of the quality that NG normally provide in their photo books.
Overall, a great publication that I would recommend!
Check out also "Where To Go When" (Eyewitness Travel Guides) - DK Publishing. Highly recommended, great travel book, great photo book too!!!
Great Birthday/Christmas Present I bought this book for my dad for his birthday. He is semi-retired and has been bitten by the travel bug. It is a beautiful book and well priced. He loves it.
Not the best of its kind I was hoping for something along the lines of A Year of Adventures: Lonely Planet's Guide to Where, What And When to Do It but I didn't like this as much. It's divided up into chapters for different modes of travel, which means (for example) that there's a whole section on train trips. That's not really my thing.
When I buy travel books, I want to learn about places I'd never heard of before. That's getting tougher, 'cause I've heard of all kinds of places - did you know we have a whole state called "Delaware"? - but there are still a few out there. Most of them aren't in this book.
Get "A Year of Adventures" instead.
Well worth the price! This book was purchased as a gift for someone who travels around the world. I was not disappointed! The quality of the book is great! The pictures are beautiful. There were so many different suggestions of places to travel. I was very satisfied!
Journeys of a lifetime-500 greateast trips The photography is stunning and the text is is clear. The book gives good ideas for a tailormade type of vacation. My niece uses it for school projects as she has no internet access.
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