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| Author: Michael Bright
Publisher: Barron''s Educational Series
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
Buy New: $18.53
You Save: $16.47 (47%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 68135
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 960
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.5
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 6.7 x 2.5
ISBN: 0764158171
Dewey Decimal Number: 551.41
EAN: 9780764158179
ASIN: 0764158171
Publication Date: May 1, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent Book, Beautiful Photos August 30, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book should be on everyone's coffee table and in every school library. The many beautiful full-color photos will inspire even the most reclusive to pack that suitcase and go! Very inspiring photographs.
1001 Natural Wonders : You must see before you die March 24, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
We found the facinating, with places we never knew existed. An atlas of we you would love to go. Presentaion and place descriptions are first class.
 The coffee table book for armchair travellers February 13, 2006
38 out of 53 found this review helpful
I love to travel and thus peruse lots of books to explore and plan my future trips. I liked "1000 places to see before you die" as it did decent job in describing places worth visiting in all countries and continents. This book is a very weak copycat.
It seems that the criteria for choosing "natural wonders" was their proximity to US and south US in particularly and/or availability of the pictures. For instance, the book has tons of places in Texas, Arizona, etc. Not that these places are not nice, but the book completely ignores Moorea in Pacific, New Zealand has only marginal coverage and there are only couple of places in the whole India worth mentioning.
The book does have nice pictures, so it would qualify as a coffee table book for people who do not travel further than nearest McDonald yet like to dream or talk about faraway places. But do not take it as a guide for places you must see before you die: you will miss much of the world then!
Astonishing photography and compelling places January 4, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Astonishing photography and compelling places
Beautiful Photography December 30, 2005
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
Bought as a Christmas Gift for our family. The book is printed on high quality glossy photo paper with maybe more than 400 gallery-quality photos of the wonders around the world. Many are truely breathtaking. I was tempted to read it from cover to cover at the begining and it soon proved to be a daunting task to cover the 900+ pages. So I was content to flip from page to page glancing at the photos and occasionally read the descriptions, which are simple and to the point. This is truely a wonderful book to own. I'd keep it close at hand on a coffee table or a bed-side table and once a while pick it up and let myself wander among the wonders.
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