Book
Atlas obscura : an explorer's guide to the world's hidden wonders / Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras & Ella Morton.
Record details
- ISBN: 0761169083
- ISBN: 9780761169086
- Physical Description: 470 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps
- Publisher: New York : Workman Publishing, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "atlasobscura.com"--Page [4] of cover. Includes indexes. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 50.00 |
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| Subject: | Travel > Guidebooks. Curiosities and wonders. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 910.202 Foe | 31681020032421 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Offers a tour of the world's most unique and amazing places, highlighting natural wonders, weird and magical structures, and mind-boggling events from around the globe, from New Zealand to Turkmenistan to Virginia. - Baker & Taylor
"Wonder meets wanderlust in an extraordinary new travel book. Created by the founders of AtlasObscura.com, the vibrant online destination and community with over 3 million visitors a month, Atlas Obscura is the bucket-list guide to over 700 of the most unusual, curious, bizarre, and mysterious places on earth" -- - Baker & Taylor
The founders of Atlas Obscura offer a tour of the worldÆs most unique and amazing places, highlighting natural wonders, weird and magical structures and mind-boggling events from around the globe, from New Zealand to Turkmenistan to Virginia. - Workman Press.It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world.
Talk about a bucket list: 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. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 40-year hole of fire called the Gates of Hell, a graveyard for decommissioned ships on the coast of Bangladesh, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England.
Created by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, ATLAS OBSCURA revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden 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, maps for every region of the world, it is a book to enter anywhere, and will be as appealing to the armchair traveler as the die-hard adventurer.
Anyone can be a tourist. ATLAS OBSCURA is for the explorer. - Workman Press.
'A joy to read and reread.' 'Neil Gaiman
Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates the most curious destinations around the globe. With compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, charts and maps, it's everything you need to visit the far corners of our surprising world. Even if you never leave home.
