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“Hardcover with clean, unmarked pages and tight binding. Die-cut dust jacket with a couple of tiny ...
Signed
No
Custom Bundle
No
Book Series
NA
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Original Language
English
Inscribed
No
Intended Audience
Adults
Modified Item
No
Subject
Paranormal & Esoterica
Vintage
No
Personalize
No
Type
Illustrated History
Personalized
No
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9780761169086
Book Title
Atlas Obscura : an Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Item Length
10.5in
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication Year
2016
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
7.2in
Author
Ella Morton, Dylan Thuras, Joshua Foer
Genre
Travel, Référence
Topic
General, Essays & Travelogues, Curiosities & Wonders
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders--the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 40-year hole of fire called the Gates of Hell, a graveyard for decommissioned ships on the coast of Bangladesh, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England. Created by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, ATLAS OBSCURA revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious. Every page expands our sense of how strange and marvelous the world really is. And with its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, it is a book to enter anywhere, and will be as appealing to the armchair traveler as the die-hard adventurer. Anyone can be a tourist. ATLAS OBSCURA is for the explorer.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0761169083
ISBN-13
9780761169086
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219155821

Product Key Features

Book Title
Atlas Obscura : an Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Author
Ella Morton, Dylan Thuras, Joshua Foer
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Essays & Travelogues, Curiosities & Wonders
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Travel, Référence
Number of Pages
480 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
10.5in
Item Height
7.2in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
G465
Reviews
"I thought I had seen most of the interesting bits of the world. Atlas Obscura showed me that I was wrong. It's the kind of book that makes you want to pack in your workaday life, and head out into the places you'd never have dreamed of going to see things you could not even have imagined. A joy to read and to reread." --- NEIL GAIMAN, author of Sandman and American Gods "Atlas Obscura is a joyful antidote to the creeping suspicion that travel these days is little more than a homogenized corporate shopping opportunity. Atlas Obscura presents hundreds of surprising, perplexing, mind-blowing, inspiring reasons to travel a day longer and farther off the path.  . . . here are self-mummifying monks and shrines to slain insects. The Mound of Ears. The Jihad Museum. Bioluminescent squid and the world's largest drain . . . Bestest travel guide ever. " -- MARY ROACH, author of Stiff and Gulp "Atlas Obscura may be the only thing that can still inspire me to leave my apartment . As someone nearly pathologically afraid of the great unknown, this resource is essential for exploring the world and engaging adventure with wit and style (often from the comfort of my bed)." --LENA DUNHAM, creator of Girls and author of Not That Kind of Girl " What a strange and wonderful book! It is as curious and surprising as Saddam Hussein's very own Blood Qur'an--written in his own blood--that I would never have known about had I not read the amazing Atlas Obscura." --JON RONSON, author of So You've Been Publically Shamed   "This book is as curious and enthralling as the world it covers . Each page reveals some hidden realm--a realm that is frightening, or funny, or magical, or simply mad, but that always leaves the reader in wonder." --DAVID GRANN, author of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon " My favorite travel guide! Never start a trip without knowing where a haunted hotel or mouth of hell are!" --GUILLERMO DEL TORO, filmmaker, Pan's Labyrinth   "Your peregrine falcon needs a small talon trim? Go straight to the Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital . . . Be grateful when visiting the Karni Mata Rat Temple if one of the 20,000 venerated rodents runs across your bare foot--it is considered good luck . . . You won't be able to enter the 20-years-in-the-making and still abandoned tallest hotel in the world. It does not matter. Wherever you look around Pyongyang, North Korea, the 105-story skyscraper silently towers over all . . . Life is short. Our planet is filled with curiosities and marvels . . . and this wondrous book is your guide! "                  --PHILIPPE PETIT, high wire artist and explorer    
Table of Content
CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION ... ix EUROPE Great Britain and Ireland . . . 2 ENGLAND / IRELAND / NORTHERN IRELAND / SCOTLAND Western Europe . . . 22 AUSTRIA / BELGIUM / FRANCE / GERMANY / GREECE / CYPRUS / ITALY / NETHERLANDS / PORTUGAL / SPAIN / SWITZERLAND Eastern Europe . . . 74 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA / BULGARIA / CROATIA / CZECHIA / ESTONIA / HUNGARY / LATVIA / LITHUANIA / MACEDONIA / POLAND / ROMANIA / RUSSIA / SERBIA / SLOVAKIA / UKRAINE Scandinavia . . . 99 DENMARK / FINLAND / ICELAND / NORWAY / SWEDEN ASIA The Middle East . . . 114 IRAN / IRAQ / ISRAEL / PALESTINE / LEBANON / OMAN / QATAR / SAUDIA ARABIA / SYRIA / UNITED ARAB EMIRATES / YEMEN South and Central Asia . . . 125 AFGHANISTAN / BANGLADESH / BHUTAN / INDIA / KAZAKHSTAN / KYRGYZSTAN / NEPAL / PAKISTAN / SRI LANKA / TURKEY / TURKMENISTAN East Asia . . . 145 CHINA / HONG KONG / TAIWAN / JAPAN / NORTH KOREA / SOUTH KOREA Southeast Asia . . . 168 BRUNEI / CAMBODIA / INDONESIA / LAOS / MALAYSIA / MYANMAR / PHILIPPINES / SINGAPORE / THAILAND / VIETNAM AFRICA North Africa . . . 186 EGYPT / MAURITANIA / MOROCCO / SUDAN / TUNISIA West Africa . . . 196 BENIN / BURKINA FASO / CAMEROON / GABON / GHANA / MALI / NIGER / NIGERIA / SENEGAL / SIERRA LEONE / TOGO Central Africa . . . 206 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC / CHAD / DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO / REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO East Africa . . . 208 ETHIOPIA / KENYA / RWANDA / SOMALIA / SOUTH SUDAN / TANZANIA Southern Africa . . . 213 ANGOLA / BOTSWANA / MALAWI / MOZAMBIQUE / NAMIBIA / SOUTH AFRICA / SWAZILAND / ZAMBIA / ZIMBABWE Islands of the Indian and South Atlantic Oceans . . . 220 MADAGASCAR / SEYCHELLES / SAINT HELENA, ASCENSION, AND TRISTAN DA CUNHA OCEANIA Australia . . . 226 New Zealand . . . 240 Pacific Islands . . . 245 FIJI / MARSHALL ISLANDS / FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA / GUAM / NAURU / PALAU / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / SAMOA / SOLOMON ISLANDS / VANUATU CANADA Western Canada . . . 256 ALBERTA / BRITISH COLUMBIA / MANITOBA / NORTHWEST TERRITORIES / NUNAVUT / SASKATCHEWAN / YUKON Eastern Canada . . . .267 NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR / NOVA SCOTIA / ONTARIO / PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND / QUEBEC USA West Coast . . . 276 CALIFORNIA / OREGON / WASHINGTON Four Corners and the Southwest . . . .296 ARIZONA / COLORADO / NEVADA / NEW MEXICO / TEXAS / UTAH Great Plains . . . 311 IDAHO / KANSAS / MONTANA / NEBRASKA / NORTH DAKOTA / OKLAHOMA / SOUTH DAKOTA / WYOMING The Midwest . . . 319 ILLINOIS / INDIANA / IOWA / MICHIGAN / MINNESOTA / MISSOURI / OHIO / WISCONSIN The Southeast . . . 338 ALABAMA / ARKANSAS / FLORIDA / GEORGIA / KENTUCKY / LOUISIANA / MISSISSIPPI / NORTH CAROLINA / SOUTH CAROLINA / TENNESSEE / VIRGINIA The Mid-Atlantic . . . 353 DELAWARE / MARYLAND / NEW JERSEY / NEW YORK / PENNSYLVANIA / WASHINGTON, DC / WEST VIRGINIA New England . . . 366 CONNECTICUT / MAINE / MASSACHUSETTS / NEW HAMPSHIRE / RHODE ISLAND / VERMONT Alaska and Hawaii . . . 376 LATIN AMERICA South America . . . .383 ARGENTINA / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / CHILE / COLOMBIA / ECUADOR / PERU / URUGUAY / VENEZUELA Mexico . . . 412 Central America . . . 420 BELIZE / COSTA RICA / EL SALVADOR / GUATEMALA / HONDURAS / NICARAGUA / PANAMA Caribbean Islands . . . 426 BAHAMAS / BARBADOS / BERMUDA / CAYMAN ISLANDS / CUBA / CURAÇAO / DOMINICA / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / GRENADA / GUADELOUPE / HAITI / JAMAICA / MARTINIQUE / MONTSERRAT / PUERTO RICO / ST. KITTS AND NEVIS / ST. MAARTEN / TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO / ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES ANTARCTICA . . . 443 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . 452 INDEX . . . 453 PHOTO CREDITS . . . 469
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2016-041548
Dewey Decimal
910.202
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Atlas Obscura Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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