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| Unforgettable Places to See Before You Die | 
 enlarge | Creators: Steve Davey, Marc Schlossman
Publisher: Firefly Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 13627
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 1552979555
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.202
EAN: 9781552979556
ASIN: 1552979555
Publication Date: July 3, 2004
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 Great details and pictures! March 18, 2007
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Having trouble choosing your next exciting destination? This book makes it simple with detailed photographs, helpful visa and immunization information, as well as a "best time to visit" section on each destination. My new favorite travel book.
Dreaming March 16, 2007
A friend of mine had this book. The pictures are fantastic, BUT BEWARE, it will give you a severe case of wanderlust. Some of the places are not real well known, but after reading about them you want to see them.
Great travel choices, decent photos November 12, 2006
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I bought this book to get travel ideas. I was not disappointed. It includes several terrific places I've already planned to go to such as Guilin, China, Ngorongoro Crater, and Bangkok, Thailand as well as many beautiful places I had never known about before. Only three of the places are from the United States so it does a good job of depicting places from every continent except the south pole.
The photos, for the most part, are good but not great. The author's explanation for that was that he wanted to use photographs that would accurately show how you would see the place if you go as a tourist, rather than show amazing photographs with beautiful sunsets that only happen once in a while. On the plus side it has multiple photos of each place as well as a six to eight page description of each place.
Another very good book is "Heaven on Earth: 100 Places to See in Your Lifetime." The descriptions in that book are very short, but the photos are better. There's not that much overlap since only about 15 places are in both books.
 Striking Photographs Support One Man's Perspective on the World's Must-Sees July 18, 2006
34 out of 34 found this review helpful
I guess I should count myself lucky for having been to 22 of the forty places that travel photographer Steve Davey has identified as essential stops before dying. Along with a similar Time-Life photo essay book ("Heaven on Earth: 100 Places to See in Your Lifetime") and the Lonely Planet coffee table books ("The Travel Book" and "The Cities Book"), there seems to be a sudden flurry of these types of dream destination books on the market now. Even Patricia Schultz provides 960 more places than Davey ("1,000 Places to See Before You Die"), but the benefit of his entry is that we get a singular perspective based on the notion that we have a two-week holiday to get to each one of them. The usual suspects are here - the Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Machu Picchu in Peru, the Alhambra in Granada, Petra in Jordan - but there are some choices that are not as high profile and seem more personal to Davey such as Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland and Lalibela in Ethiopia. I am certain he would be the first one to tell you that this is not meant to be a comprehensive list since one can easily itemize the glaring omissions, but none of the forty seem superfluous.
Perhaps a slight exception is the inclusion of Manhattan and the Bund in Shanghai, both of which brings to question why other top-ranked metropolises are not included. Alas, this is apparently the start of a series of books Davey plans to put out, in which future volumes may put such questions to rest. The photographs are superb, and that is inarguably the main reason to consider purchasing this book. In case you're wondering, the remaining destinations are St. Petersburg; the Grand Canyon; Aitutaki in the Cook Islands; Pyramid of Kukulchan in the Yucatan; Iguassu Falls; Rio de Janeiro; Taman Negara Rainforest in Malaysia; Havana; Wat Phra Keo in Bangkok; Venice; Dead Vlei in Namibia; College Fjord in Alaska; Jaiselmer Fort in Rajastan; Karnak Temple in Luxor; the Galapagos Islands; Lake Titicaca; Greece's Santorini; Drakensberg in South Africa; the Great Barrier Reef; Tibet's capital Lhasa; Ephesus in Turkey; Monet's Garden in Giverny; both Ngorongoro Crater and Zanzibar in Tanzania; Makalu in the Himalayas; Australia's Uluru (Ayers Rock); Varanasi in India; Guilin in China; Dubrovnik; Samarkand in Uzbekistan; and Killlary Harbour in Ireland.
Intriguing and inspiring June 20, 2006
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Obviously not everyone is going to agree on what places in the world are "must-see." And while it's hard for me to understand how places like Paris and the Alps didn't make Mr. Davey's list, this book is full of awe-inspiring places that peaked my imagination and made me want to run out and buy lots of plane tickets. There are very few destinations in this book that I would not have included. In fact, there are many that I had not even heard of, or only vaguely recognized. Mr. Davey has done an excellent job of compiling his list. The photographs are colorful and stirring, and the descriptions (including some detailed logistical information) are informative. This is a great book for someone who is planning a trip, dreaming about taking a trip, or just interested in some of the world's more intriguing places. I really wish I could have given it 4.5 stars, because it seems unfair to knock a whole star off simply because I didn't think it was perfect. But because the book does leave out a few places that I think are fairly obvious for a list like this while including a handful that I don't think had any business making the list, I didn't quite earn a full five-star rating from me.
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