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1,000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz
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- Paperback: 972 pages ; Dimensions
(in inches): 1.80 x 7.66 x 5.24
- Publisher: Workman Publishing
Company; (September 2003)
- ISBN: 0761104844
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Book Description
Introducing the Eighth Wonder of travel books. A
joyous, passionate gift book for travelers-both the real and the
armchair variety-1,000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE delivers
exactly the promise of its an around-the-world,
continent-by-continent listing of places guaranteed to give you
shivers, the unique and wonderful places you must see on and off
the beaten track.
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.
Reviewer: Nathan Clark Foote, Writer, Traveler, Rancher (see more
about me) from NE BookWorks, Publishers of Riding Into The Wind: On
Horseback Out of Patagonia, A Life Journey
This is a beautifully written travel guide and millions are not
only reading it, they're swallowing the poetic packaging of paradise
whole, even as they connect to Travelocity and pack their bags! And
that's wonderful, really, because that will mean that all the
affluent lemmings will now be rushing off in new directions,
conveniently mapped out by Patricia Schultz. Thank you, thank you,
Patty!
What it means for me is that this makes it much easier to really
get off the beaten track and explore truly out-of-the-way places.
But then, I don't travel. I wander. I meander around without maps,
itinerary, or destinations, or reservations. I let intuition and
chance guide me to unexpected places and encounters. And things
always happen, often splendid, enlightening things; sometimes
difficult and harrowing things too, but no less instructive and
valuable.
The journey unfolds as I make myself available to all that this
life abundant offers to me. I might be helping to build a school in
some barrio because I happened to drop by and decided to stay
awhile. Later I might be sharing a grass hut with an Aymara Indian
family somewhere high in the Peruvian Andes because I got lost and
they asked me to share their barley gruel and their mud floor to
sleep on.
Or perhaps I would stay with a priest in a monastery and chant
with him and fast and not think about moving on because the moment
was full and nothing else beckoned. And all these experiences keep
on coming, as long as I am free in thought and action and receptive.
That seems to be the secret: being open and aware of the gifts being
given. And being grateful and then giving them on to others, which
is what I do when I write and share my thoughts, like the book I
have just published here on my mountaintop in northern British
Columbia called "Riding Into The Wind."
Because I want people to know that there's plenty of wide open
spaces and unexplored hinterlands and miriads of ordinary human
dramas going on almost anywhere you look. Only one thing is
required: leave the crowd behind. Go it alone.
Be brave and everything will happen! And mostly what you least
expected. Now back to another book I'm working on.......
If you know someone who travel's for business, even occasionally,
this book is a must have. As a business traveler offices and
conference rooms are all alike regardless of continent. Weather I
have a free hour, evening or weekend I find this a terrific handbook
of options to enrich each journey. Organized by continent, country
and cross-referenced, wherever I find myself, 1,000 Places is a
great guide of interesting destinations to enjoy my time away from
home.
In search of a vacation destination? 1,000 Places provides
delicious food for thought with wonderful destinations and
activities. A reader from New York, NY
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