1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List

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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 Canyon 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 subject-specific indexes-gorgeous beaches, destination restaurants, world-class museums-making the guide entirely user-friendly, no matter if you're dreaming or going.

What Customers Say About 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List:

Good job in investigating the 1,000 places. I wish the print was bigger.Very comprehensive.

And seeing as I want to see sites and not hotels I was a little pissed off. It was set up really good though. The book was great and it was full of some sites. After reading the first couple of pages you knew they were telling the truth. I read future reviews about it and they all said that it had to many hotels. This book is a little bit of good and a little bit bad. I thought maybe they were exaggerating so I got it. At least one half of the places it mentioned were about hotels.

The book has a lot of information about unique places all over the world, but I wouldn't recommend this for someone who is looking for details such as hotels, restaurants, etc. If you do a lot of international travel, it might be fun to use this book as a personal adventure checklist. Great book if you're interested in travel/landmarks or want to plan an international vacation and not sure where you want to go. for a trip that he/she has already planned.

The book is heavy on hotels - I'm not sure why. Although I don't agree with many of the author's inclusions in the book, I like the format, the layout, and I feel the information included on each location is sufficient to determine if I should research further as a destination I would like to visit. Perhaps not for reading cover to cover, but for getting ideas, conducting research, and another interesting travel perspective. First, 1000 things to do/see is a lot, however, when talking about the global travel picture, how can you narrow things down to 1000. Jodie -- Cruise Holidays of Grand Rapids, www.cruiseholidays.com/sail , jodie@cruiseholidays.com I think the way she tackled large cities is excellent.

Patricia Schultz is certainly well traveled.If you want to discuss further, the Travel Book Club in Grand Rapids, MI at Barnes & Noble will be discussing this book on Tuesday, 2/24/09 from 6-7 pm. I was looking forward to reading this book because 1)I love travel, 2)it's been on every top 10 travel book list for a couple years now, and 3)I own a travel agency and thought I might get some new, creative ideas for my clients that want to go/do something out of the box. This was a very difficult undertaking. As an adventure/outdoor person, I would have liked to see more destinations with active outlets.Overall, I would recommend this book.

And finally, a friend that has lived all over the world with the State Department was given this book as a Christmas gift, along with a rubber stamp to mark the pages with "Been there. Done that." I thought that was brilliant. On the bright side, it's put some locations on my itinerary that otherwise would have been left off -- for that, I thank the author. but any travel guide would have such shortcomings -- especially one with as broad a subject as the entire world. While it shouldn't be used as the ultimate resource for any adventure, it still offers some great suggestions and tips. All in all, a pretty fun, useful book. In checking out some places I've lived around the world, I was mildly surprised both at the author listing places I wouldn't suggest, and omitting sites I'd rate as don't-miss. Each site's cost estimates and best time of the year are great helps, too.