1,000 Places To See Before You Die Picture-A-Day Wall Calendar 2017 Read Free Books and Download eBooks

                
              
1,000 Places To See Before You Die Picture-A-Day Wall Calendar 2017 Read Free Books and Download eBooks
Explore the world with Patricia Schultz, author of the phenomenally bestselling travel series with 6.3 million books and calendars in print. Each month, 1,000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE offers a full-color photographic itinerary—a large image at the top of the page and smaller ones throughout the grid—for a thrilling destination, from South Africa to Thailand to Spain to remote and exquisitely beautiful Alaska. Accompanying the pictures is a map, plus engaging and authoritative text filled with history, on-and-off the beaten track sights, traveler’s tips, lore, and more. 
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Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; Wal edition (July 5, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0761188525
ISBN-13: 978-0761188520
Product Dimensions:  11.8 x 0.2 x 13.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:  3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (437 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #88,939 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)   #82 in Books > Calendars > Movies   #83 in Books > Calendars > Music   #2531 in Books > Travel
I was prepared to really dislike this book, if for no other reason than because it takes one of my passions -- travel -- and reduces it to a kind of grocery list. Travel, I have always thought, is about experiencing a different culture and its history and not about checking the most important cathedral or museum in a city off a to-do list.But I must admit this small-but-thick book intrigued me. Most of the criticisms of something like this will be of specific choices the author makes: How could she overlook X? Or what was she thinking when she included Y? And while I admit that I scratched my head at a few curious omissions and chuckled at some of the choices that did make the cut, I must say that overall, the selection is very good. Every traveler or would-be traveler will find selections of interest on its pages, whether they are looking for luxury or natural beauty or history or art or culinary masterpieces or thought-provoking journeys.But I think the real strength of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die is author Patricia Schultz' lively writing. Ms. Schultz has a real gift for description, and her love and enthusiasm for the places she writes about at once manage to excite the reader about the place being described and to give him or her a small taste of it before even diverting the eyes from the page.All that said, I would be disappointed to scan someone else's copy of this book and see places that have been already visited crossed off in red ink or to discover that future trips were being planned to maximize the number of the 1,000 places that can be visited in a short time.
If grandma and grandpa are getting bored in retirement, this is a fantastic book to buy them. If *you* are looking to explore the world, consider a Lonely Planet or guide better geared at the under-65 crowd.Certainly people would quibble with my list of 1000 places, but here is why I believe this book is not appropriate for anyone who doesn't get an AARP discount:- Euro-american focus. The book is almost insulting in its lack of coverage of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. For instance, there is nothing listed in Delhi except a restaurant vs. nine sites in over-touristed Morocco. There is virtually nothing in places not covered by travel guides, such as Central Asia and almost anywhere in Africa that doesn't have pyramids or characters from "The Lion King." Iraq is the cradle of civilization, but apparently UFOs in Roswell and Disney theme parks are more important. At least Schultz acknowledges the bias, saying that places like Kolkata and Madagascar are "arduous choices."- Cultural insensitivity. Schultz's use of the most anglicized names possible and long-replaced colonial monikers (like Calcutta and Laotian for Kolkata and Lao) makes her occasionally sound like Mr. Burns asking for "the Prussian consulate in Siam."- Intended for traveler-writers with unlimited budgets. Despite claiming with a straight face that she's "never a travel snob," Schultz typically choses the most expensive way to see a place. I am a travel snob, but sometimes Schultz's recommendations of tours are too outrageous even for me. For instance, Ayuthaya, Thailand, is easily reached by a comfortable air-con first class bus from Bangkok for 95 cents, but Schultz recommends a $390 tour.- Questionable rationales.
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