Description: Atlas Obscura : An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden WondersBy: Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras & Ella MortonISBN: 978-1-5235-0681-1Condition: Dust Jacket has minimal wear. Pages are clean and in excellent condition. Binding is solid. Inspiring Equal Parts Wonder And Wonderlust Atlas Obscura celebrates over 600 of the most curious and unusual destinations around the globe. Here are natural wonders, the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably, Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Esher like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils fault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 45-year hole of fire called the Door to Hell, hanging coffins suspended off a cliff face in the Philippines, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England. More cabinet of curiosities than traditional guidebook, Atlas Obscura revels in the unexpected, the overlooked, the bizarre, and the mysterious. Every page expands our sense of how strange and marvelous the world really is. And with its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, and maps for every region of the world, it is a book you can open anywhere. But with caution: it's almost impossible to not turn to the next entry, and the next, and the next.
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Signed: No
Book Series: Atlas Obscura
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: Reprint
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Type: Picture Book
Era: 2010s
Personalized: No
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Country/Region of Manufacture: Korea, Republic of
Book Title: Atlas Obscura : an Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Item Length: 10.5in
Item Height: 7.2in
Item Width: 7in
Author: Ella Morton, Dylan Thuras, Joshua Foer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: General, Essays & Travelogues, Curiosities & Wonders
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Travel, Référence
Item Weight: 24.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 480 Pages
