The New Traveler's Atlas: A Global Guide to the Places You Must See in Your Lifetime

by Chris Schuler, John Man, Mary-Ann Gallagher, et al.

Book Overview

Stunning color photos, vivid descriptions, and enlightening maps tell readers what they want to know before they travel to romantic destinations around the world. In this brand-new edition of a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764160184
• ISBN13: 9780764160189
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.9" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

This is much better than "1,000 places to see..."

If you are building your "lifelist" this is the book for you. It is much better at giving the reader a sense of the destination than the "1,000 places to see..." book.

The best travel book ever

This book sets forth the 47 places that you must visit in your lifetime. I am working on visitng all 47 places. Since I first reviewed the book some three years ago, my wife and I have visited six of the places--Tanzania, the west coast of Norway-the world's most beatiful voyage, Costa Rica, the Great Wall of China, the Yangtze Gorges and the Outer Hebrides. This is a wonderful book and makes a great gift.

Very well done

This is the book I was looking for to give my mother for Christmas. I wanted something about world travel, with beautiful pictures, descriptions of places, and geological maps. This book has that and more. In addition to these things, the book has a sidebar of facts on each place, summarizing climate, local language, currency, best time to go, health concerns and other useful information. There is also a world climate map in the front of the book which labels each area covered in the book.The photography is excellent and I think the coverage is fairly well-rounded. The book opens with information on Banff National Park in Canada, proceeds around the globe in a more or less eastward direction and finishes in the Pacific with Tahiti and Easter Island.A large spectrum of travel is covered, but there are some notable places missing. The authors left out some great cities in Europe, although they do cover Venice, Prague, Vienna and Krakow. These are all beautiful cities and deserve their place in this book, but absent are Paris, Rome, Athens, and London. It's easy enough to find books on these places though and I suspect the authors overlooked them for this reason.One place conspicously absent, which I cannot forgive them for overlooking is the Caribbean. I may be biased, but I do think the Caribbean is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Any well-traveled soul must see at least one of the islands of the Greater or Lesser Antilles.In spite of this, I still give the book 4 stars and feel that it is a wonderful place to look for travel ideas or to do some world exploration from the comfort of an easy chair.

A must have travel book

The authors set forth the 47 places you must see in your lifetime. They make a good case for each place and the pictures are great. There are some surprises in this list-like the Flaming Cliffs of the Gobi Desert. After reading this book I booked trips to the West coast of Norway and Kenya and Tanzania. (41 more places to go) I would be interested in hearing from anyone trying to visit all 47 places. I cannot say enough good things about this book. I have a hundred or so travel books and this is by far my favorite. It also makes a great gift.

Unique and informative.

"The Traveler's Atlas" is a fresh and informative volume.For author John Man, the true purpose of travel is not only "to see, experience, feel, and understand distant places," but to "gain a deeper knowledge of home, one's culture, of oneself."Through lucid prose and colorful photographs, Man takes us to places that, were we never to set foot on them, we "would remain impoverished" beings.How gloriously right Man reads when he speaks about the stunning beauty of, say, Banff National Park (Canada); certain regions of Florida; Venice; and the grand Aurlandsfjord in Norway.But Mexico City? Even Man has to admit that given that the city is perhaps the most polluted metropolis in the world, it is "not to everyone's taste."Besides his engaging essays on each location, Man thoughtfully includes a Fact File, which lists, among other things, Climate; Tourist Season; Nearest Airport; and Best Time to Visit.And in the back of the book, there's a very helpful Directory of Useful Addresses.