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Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2009 (General Reference) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lonely Planet Publications
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Category: Book
List Price: $22.99
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 11299
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 328
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 1741792436
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9781741792430
ASIN: 1741792436
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
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Product Description
Lonely Planet's "Best in Travel" takes on the world's hottest trends, destinations, journeys, and experiences, profiling more than 300 unique travel adventures. It contains snapshots on every country in the world, and sets the year's travel agenda with the top pick cities, countries, and regions.
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 Travel Ideas December 2, 2008
Great book to help those who love to travel on ideas of where to go next. Beautiful color photography, soft bound book that offers many great places to add to your list of places to visit. Makes a great coffee table book also!
Just about awesome December 2, 2008
So I got this book today and flipped through it and said, "Damn. Easiest review ever." This book is made of cool and awesome and, if you're actually a traveler, will run up your frequent flyer miles in a hurry. I'm not, but still a very cool book.
The oddball lad-mag design language masks a truly impressive book of travel trivia, with lists (semi-ordered, with top three and everything else) ranging from ecotourism to romance to food, as well as more restricted tastes like jumping from really tall places, skywtching, water safaris, and really really salty locations. The illustrations are travel photography at its best, with a strong emphasis on history (both past and current). Surprises abound -- Rwanda as a recommended destination for example, or travel theme by chemical element -- and it's pretty much as good as travel browsing books get.
It's worth noting, of course, that you'll need more than just this book for planning your trip, and a lot of these places might have hidden dangers that the book, by necessity, glosses over (Beirut, Lebanon, for example, is one of their top ten cities); fortunately, there's a country-by-country gazetteer in the back to give you the ten-cent basics without having to leaf through the World Almanac or the CIA World Factbook. And the vast majority of the sights you'll see in this book aren't on the bus tour. But this book is an excellent purchase for both the armchair traveler or the adventure travelers. (Whitebread travelers who never bother with the local language or even getting off the bus need not apply. But then ur doin it rong anyway.)
 Rather random December 1, 2008
This isn't a reference book. You will not use it to find a travel destination based on criteria you have.
How you will use this is by simply flipping through the top-10 lists to get ideas for trips/destinations you might not have previously considered. You might say "Lebanon? Really?" and then read about why it's a good destination. Or you might say "Wow! That festival sounds awesome!" and decide you need to travel to that location for those dates. Maybe the interesting facts about some of the places intrigue you, or maybe you had no idea you could take a London to Cape Town driving trip.
This book was kind of a cure for "vacationer's block", and makes a decent coffee table book with the nice color photos; though as an idea generator I think it is not as comprehensive as other books such as the 1000 Places To Go type.
Great fun December 1, 2008
Travel plus trivia. Just my sort of book. While the information in the book is a bit of the sketchy side for a reader hoping to actually select a travel destination or plan a trip, it's great fun for anyone who enjoys reading about obscure (and slightly less obscure) destinations that they might want to visit in 2009 ... or someday.
Looking for trendy and up-and-coming destinations? Looking for tips on reducing your carbon footprint while traveling? Or just curious about whether St. Eustatius or Belarus might be worth a visit this year? It's all here. Of course once you decide where to go you'll still need to buy the relevent local guidebook. And Lonely Planet will, I'm sure, be glad to sell it to you.
 a travel sampler for browsers only November 29, 2008
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This latest offering from Lonely Planet is not a travel planner, and I would hesitate to give it coffee table status either. More of a sampler to tease the eyeballs.
It is splashy, glib, and some of the profiles are unhelpfully cute ie, the best places to have a mid-life crisis, to go for deep thinking, to find deadly sins, etc. Not really for the person who needs relevant information.
I think Lonely Planet intended this as a book for browsers only. It attempts to capture in thumbnail sketches places that are still unique and out-of-the-ordinary; even eccentric and bizarre perhaps. This is done in a big glossy Conde Nast format, which I can't say really works.
By attempting to cover the whole world, a book is produced that is unsatisfactorily thin and devoid of much content. The section in the book that does have some useful information is the middle section with the water theme. And, the photography on these pages is the best part of this offering - there are some truly some stunning photos.
So, if you are in the sit down traveler category, this book could be entertaining.
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