Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders: 1

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I adore this book, and I can only hope that the authors publish a second book with new findings in the future. Entdecke die 100 abenteuerlichsten Orte der Welt" - so lautet der Untertitel und verspricht damit eine Reise zu wundersamen Orten, die für Kinder interessant sein könnten. From the world’s largest beaver dam in Alberta, Canada, to a boiling river in Puerto Inca, Peru, the book now includes some of the most incredible places we’ve come across since publishing the first edition. 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.I spent hours engrossed in the pages, reading the facts and viewing the charts and maps that were included throughout. It examines extraordinary places from across the globe and includes informational tidbits about each. 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. A very rare book, Interesting, inspiring and engaging read, great for just digging into at random, or as a coffee table curiosity, or simply old school read from cover to cover. It's not a complete list, of course—even leaving aside the physical limitations of the printed page, not to mention the subjective nature of what counts as obscure—but editors Joshua Foer, Ella Morton and Dylan Thuras have made sure it's a comprehensive one.

But I would love to be a Traveler… you know the women, who casually walk into the terminal in a perfectly polished outfit, precisely the right time to not be early or late, zip their little tiny suitcases full of Essentials into the overheads, and then manage to somehow look like they are not on a plane for the next 4 hours.Any place my husband alone cannot drive to in a day is a place we are likely to talk ourselves out of visiting. Now the best gets better and the weirdest gets weirder with this completely revised and updated second edition that includes 120 new entries that offer readers even more of the most unusual, curious, bizarre, and mysterious places on earth. 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. I'd much rather go watch the bums roll each other on Carnaby Street (affectionately known as "Cannabis Street" to us teenagers and, which has become way more commercialized now than when I was a kid hanging out there in the mid-'80s) than step foot in Madame Tussauds (I even had to cheat to see how to spell that).

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. there are amazing places in it that not only kids will long to see but most of the illustrations are rather rough, more eye-catchers than real representations of the places and most of them don't invite to browse and linger on the pages. Memory Championship "speed cards" event by memorizing a deck of 52 cards in 1 minute and 40 seconds.It informs us on every page of something we never knew - and paints a rich panorama of what a marvellously strange world we live in. I am a curious cat, maybe nosey would be a better word for me but I like to know things, I especially like to know things about bits of the world that remain under the radar. There are footnotes containing other nearby oddities, which would be a great help if someone was planning an Oddity Odyssey. Me gustan las guías de viajes, pero las que no son convencionales y van más allá de cualquier Lonely Planet. After reading some of the descriptions, I think most people would be somewhat hesitant to visit, for example, the Temple of Rats, home of thousands of rats, considered sacred by the residents.