As you climb mountains, zip-line over forests, and dive into oceans, this book is your passport to a world of hidden wonders, illuminated by gorgeous art. He is the author of the forthcoming 2018 kids book “The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid. a wonderful browse [for] armchair travelers who enjoyed Brandon Stanton's Humans of New York and Frank Warren's PostSecret. It is not even focused on pictures, photography in the book and the site is very light, it’s not that kinda travel blog, one to five modest-res pictures will suffice, and you can imagine the rest. I guarantee it will be much more fulfilling than merely walking like well-behaved sheep along well-manicured routes led by well-spoken tour guides.

On one page there’s a Thai monk standing in saffron serenity in a village temple built of brown and green beer bottles; on another a bust of Vladimir Lenin, erected in 1958 by Soviet scientists who made it to Antarctica’s “Southern Pole of Inaccessibility. Und auch die Auswahl der Infos und Geschichten war eine schöne Mischung und unterhaltsam und auch altersgerecht geschrieben für Kinder ab 8 Jahren. Me gustan las guías de viajes, pero las que no son convencionales y van más allá de cualquier Lonely Planet. I managed to snag Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders on Kindle when it was recently discounted and am even more interested in reading it now. It is an entertaining travel book that makes me want to reach out of my comfort zone and begin exploring the world, but it is also filled with history on places and people that I would have not otherwise learned, which makes it all the more captivating.

This was also true when I lived in England, where our favorite thing to do was to break into an old, supposedly haunted 12th-century priory, complete with trap doors in the floors and passageways hidden within the walls. I did learn the neato word "traboule" (from Latin transambulare via vulgar Latin trabulare meaning "to cross") a type of semi-secret passageway or stair.

Memory Championship "speed cards" event by memorizing a deck of 52 cards in 1 minute and 40 seconds. Thuras and Foer met in 2007, and soon discussed ideas for a different kind of atlas, featuring places not commonly found in guidebooks.Here are natural wonders, like the dazzling glow-worm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can sit and drink comfortably.

Mind-boggling events, like the Baby-Jumping Festival in Spain—and no, it’s not the babies doing the jumping, but masked men dressed as devils who vault over rows of squirming infants. Odds are you won’t get past three pages without being amazed at something truly strange that you didn’t know existed. There is an entire world out there that I haven't seen (though I have seen my fair share) and I intend to see as much of it as possible before I'm done. Included are hundreds of photographs, charts, and maps for every region of the world, and compelling descriptions on each place. The second edition of “Atlas Obscura” is a gift so enthralling that it may draw the recipient into a kind of extended trance.For me, what makes this book stand out, is that as readers, we are challenged to find and connect the elements of wonder in the places around us now. My only other complaint about this book is I wish real life pictures were used for at least some of the locations instea Reading this book reminds me of the thrill of the first time reading a choose your own adventure book when I was a child. Atlas Obscura reminds readers that the world is a weird and wonderful place full of amazing things to see.

Created by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras (the founders of Atlas Obscura) and Ella Morton, Atlas Obscura revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious. This book takes you around the world to many countries and gives you details on two unusual places to visit in each country. On one page there's a Thai monk standing in saffron serenity in a village temple built of brown and green beer bottles; on another a bust of Vladimir Lenin, erected in 1958 by Soviet scientists who made it to Antarctica's "Southern Pole of Inaccessibility.Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of a travel book that shot to the top of bestseller lists when it was first published and changed the way we think about the world, expanding our sense of how strange and marvellous it really is. So, the “100 extraordinary places to visit” that was written on the front of the cover was hard to believe for this children’s book. Dies hat mir gefallen, denn so bekommt man gleich einen Bezug, wie groß das Land im Vergleich zu anderen ist und wo auf der Welt es liegt. It's definitely not well suited for a "normal" read, nor as a travel atlas or an unusual encyclopedia. Normally I'd hold off on a review, but due to the unique structure of this book I feel comfortable giving my review without completing it.