Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

By Dylan Thuras, Ella Morton, Joshua Foer

Book Overview

"A wanderlust-whetting cabinet of curiosities on paper."
--New York Times

Praised as the "bestest travel guide ever" (Mary Roach) and "a joy to read and reread" (Neil Gaiman), Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of travel books: "Odds are you won't get past three pages without being amazed" (San Francisco Chronicle). It rocketed to the top of bestseller lists and has over 626,000 copies in print since its publication in late 2016. Now the best gets better and the weirdest gets weirder with this completely revised and updated second edition that includes 120 new entries that offer readers even more of the most unusual, curious, bizarre, and mysterious places on earth. In addition, the second edition includes a full-color gatefold Atlas Obscura road trip map, with a dream itinerary.

Created by the founders of AtlasObscura.com, the vibrant travel community that's grown substantially since the original edition--not only online but in stores, too, with the recent publication of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid--Atlas Obscura expands the reader's sense of what's possible. Oversized, beautifully packaged, compellingly written, scrupulously researched, and filled with photographs, illustrations, maps, charts, and more, it is the book that inspires equal parts wonder and wanderlust. It informs us on every page of something we never knew--and paints a rich panorama of what a marvelously strange world we live in. For the travel lover and curious reader, it's a gift book that's literally impossible to put down.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1523506482
• ISBN13: 9781523506484
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 3.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.2" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

Book is great! But they lied.

Book is great, so please get it! But it said like new, and that is a lie. Terrible edges looks like some water damage, package was not protected at all!

Atlas Obscura from website to book.

Ella Morton (English accent from the Commonwealth, born in New Zealand) at the Wisconsin Book Festival. Her most popular interview was a chat with Cookie Monster on the set of Sesame Street. It started as a website in 2009. There are Obscura societies throughout the U.S. I already own the book, believe it or not, bought it on the clearance shelf of a secondhand book store before it became famous. I watched BookTV on S-SPAN2, which helped bring the book to life. Everything could not be selected for the view, but what was viewed had more information than the book contained. This is a selection of over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. The authors are not only looking at volume 2. They are looking for a new book with more focus on the subject or area.

Fascinating source of the rare and wonderful around the world.

The entire book is well done, with maps and geographical locations for each site in the book. So many places that would be amazing to discover and explore or view. Strongly recommend for anyone who's sense of wonder is intense.