Author: Lonely Planet
Publisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 1787019802
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Discover the planet’s weirdest and most wonderful places. Our travel experts have found 40 of the planet’s most bizarre sights and natural wonders – and ranked them in order of their oddness! With jaw-dropping facts and amazing photos, we reveal the incredible power of nature, amazing feats of human construction and the world’s most mysterious locations. The world is full of beautiful and strange places to visit and marvel at. Some are thousands of years old, others modern and recently discovered. Inside World’s Strangest Places, kids will discover the city where everything is underground, a post office you need a swimsuit to visit, and secret locations that, well, are far too secret to mention here. And with our ‘strange-o-meter’, they can compare each place based on its uniqueness, wow factor, surreality and mysteriousness. Places include: Pig beach in the Bahamas Plane Graveyard in Arizona Rainbow Mountain in Peru Chocolate Hills in the Philippines Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean Area 51 in Nevada Crooked Forest in Poland Salt flats of Uyuni in Bolivia Eye of the Sahara in Mauritania Snake Island in Brazil Stonehenge in England Bermuda Triangle Cave of the Crystals in Mexico Nazca lines in Peru Other titles in the series include: - World’s Strangest Predators - World’s Strangest Ocean Beasts - World’s Strangest Creepy Crawlies About Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let’s start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humour and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place – inspiring children at home and in school. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
World's Strangest Places
Author: Lonely Planet
Publisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 1787019802
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Discover the planet’s weirdest and most wonderful places. Our travel experts have found 40 of the planet’s most bizarre sights and natural wonders – and ranked them in order of their oddness! With jaw-dropping facts and amazing photos, we reveal the incredible power of nature, amazing feats of human construction and the world’s most mysterious locations. The world is full of beautiful and strange places to visit and marvel at. Some are thousands of years old, others modern and recently discovered. Inside World’s Strangest Places, kids will discover the city where everything is underground, a post office you need a swimsuit to visit, and secret locations that, well, are far too secret to mention here. And with our ‘strange-o-meter’, they can compare each place based on its uniqueness, wow factor, surreality and mysteriousness. Places include: Pig beach in the Bahamas Plane Graveyard in Arizona Rainbow Mountain in Peru Chocolate Hills in the Philippines Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean Area 51 in Nevada Crooked Forest in Poland Salt flats of Uyuni in Bolivia Eye of the Sahara in Mauritania Snake Island in Brazil Stonehenge in England Bermuda Triangle Cave of the Crystals in Mexico Nazca lines in Peru Other titles in the series include: - World’s Strangest Predators - World’s Strangest Ocean Beasts - World’s Strangest Creepy Crawlies About Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let’s start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humour and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place – inspiring children at home and in school. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
Publisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 1787019802
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Discover the planet’s weirdest and most wonderful places. Our travel experts have found 40 of the planet’s most bizarre sights and natural wonders – and ranked them in order of their oddness! With jaw-dropping facts and amazing photos, we reveal the incredible power of nature, amazing feats of human construction and the world’s most mysterious locations. The world is full of beautiful and strange places to visit and marvel at. Some are thousands of years old, others modern and recently discovered. Inside World’s Strangest Places, kids will discover the city where everything is underground, a post office you need a swimsuit to visit, and secret locations that, well, are far too secret to mention here. And with our ‘strange-o-meter’, they can compare each place based on its uniqueness, wow factor, surreality and mysteriousness. Places include: Pig beach in the Bahamas Plane Graveyard in Arizona Rainbow Mountain in Peru Chocolate Hills in the Philippines Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean Area 51 in Nevada Crooked Forest in Poland Salt flats of Uyuni in Bolivia Eye of the Sahara in Mauritania Snake Island in Brazil Stonehenge in England Bermuda Triangle Cave of the Crystals in Mexico Nazca lines in Peru Other titles in the series include: - World’s Strangest Predators - World’s Strangest Ocean Beasts - World’s Strangest Creepy Crawlies About Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let’s start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humour and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place – inspiring children at home and in school. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
Lonely Planet Kids World's Strangest Places 1
Author: Lonely Planet Kids
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781787013001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book covers forty of the world's most unusual places such as Christmas Island, Stonehenge, Devil's Causeway, the Bermuda Triangle, and Pompeii.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781787013001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book covers forty of the world's most unusual places such as Christmas Island, Stonehenge, Devil's Causeway, the Bermuda Triangle, and Pompeii.
Stranger Places
Author: Hannah Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783125036
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
It's unbelievable Explore some of the weirdest, wildest places on Earth through the pages of this fascinating book. Get ready to visit the world's strangest and most surprising places From animal islands filled with deadly snakes to terrifying towns and decaying buildings, these natural features and man-made structures will blow your mind. Journey to a giant blue hole in Belize that's filled with toxic gases and sea-creature skeletons, a lake in Tanzania that runs red, a town so overrun with spiders its residents are forced to eat them, and a vast 226-foot-wide crater that is always on fire. You won't believe your eyes The strange places include Terrifying terrains: Deadmen Valley, Canada Spine-tingling towns: Chernobyl, Ukraine and Miyake Village, Japan (the "toxic terror") Weird Water: Devil's Kettle, US and and Blood Falls, Antarctica Beastly abodes: Snake Island, Brazil Fright sites: the Church of Bones, Czech Republic
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783125036
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
It's unbelievable Explore some of the weirdest, wildest places on Earth through the pages of this fascinating book. Get ready to visit the world's strangest and most surprising places From animal islands filled with deadly snakes to terrifying towns and decaying buildings, these natural features and man-made structures will blow your mind. Journey to a giant blue hole in Belize that's filled with toxic gases and sea-creature skeletons, a lake in Tanzania that runs red, a town so overrun with spiders its residents are forced to eat them, and a vast 226-foot-wide crater that is always on fire. You won't believe your eyes The strange places include Terrifying terrains: Deadmen Valley, Canada Spine-tingling towns: Chernobyl, Ukraine and Miyake Village, Japan (the "toxic terror") Weird Water: Devil's Kettle, US and and Blood Falls, Antarctica Beastly abodes: Snake Island, Brazil Fright sites: the Church of Bones, Czech Republic
The World's Weirdest Places
Author: Nicholas Redfern
Publisher: New Page Books
ISBN: 9781601632371
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Just in time for that most mysterious and macabre of all nights--Halloween, of course--Nick Redfern unleashes The World's Weirdest Places, his latest darkly entertaining supernatural title. In its mysterious pages, you will find Redfern's personal top 25 paranormal-themed locales, and the strange, amazing, and diabolical things that lurk within them. From the legendary Loch Ness, Scotland, to the slopes of Mount Shasta, California; from the dark depths of the Solomon Islands to the heart of the Kremlin; and from the magical landscape of Sedona, Arizona, to the turbulent waters of the Devil's Sea of Japan, The World's Weirdest Places reveals the sheer astonishing scale of strangeness that dominates our planet. Bigfoot, aliens, ghosts, vampires, UFOs, lake monsters, strange energies, enigmatic vortexes, werewolves, and terrifying demons are just some of the bizarre things that populate these parts of our planet, which provoke as much fascination and intrigue as they do fear and horror.
Publisher: New Page Books
ISBN: 9781601632371
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Just in time for that most mysterious and macabre of all nights--Halloween, of course--Nick Redfern unleashes The World's Weirdest Places, his latest darkly entertaining supernatural title. In its mysterious pages, you will find Redfern's personal top 25 paranormal-themed locales, and the strange, amazing, and diabolical things that lurk within them. From the legendary Loch Ness, Scotland, to the slopes of Mount Shasta, California; from the dark depths of the Solomon Islands to the heart of the Kremlin; and from the magical landscape of Sedona, Arizona, to the turbulent waters of the Devil's Sea of Japan, The World's Weirdest Places reveals the sheer astonishing scale of strangeness that dominates our planet. Bigfoot, aliens, ghosts, vampires, UFOs, lake monsters, strange energies, enigmatic vortexes, werewolves, and terrifying demons are just some of the bizarre things that populate these parts of our planet, which provoke as much fascination and intrigue as they do fear and horror.
Atlas of Improbable Places
Author: Travis Elborough
Publisher: Aurum Press
ISBN: 0711264015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Atlas of Improbable Places shows the modern world from surprising new vantage points that will inspire urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in.
Publisher: Aurum Press
ISBN: 0711264015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Atlas of Improbable Places shows the modern world from surprising new vantage points that will inspire urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in.
Atlas Obscura
Author: Joshua Foer
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 076118967X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 076118967X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
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.
Don’t Go There
Author: Adam Fletcher
Publisher: Adam Fletcher
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
How much would you risk to change your life? Would you go where everyone else is trying to leave? Bestselling author Adam Fletcher did… In this unusual, hilarious travel memoir, he visits ten of the strangest places on earth. There's something he wants to know. Something no-one is telling him. To find the answer he’ll enter a blizzard in China armed with only a pack of biscuits; ponder the apocalypse in Chernobyl; be chased by the Croatian police on his way to Liberland (the world’s newest country); stalk the Sheriff of Transnistria (its most corrupt); and come face-to-face with two (dead) dictators in North Korea (its most dystopian), and much more. Packed full of interesting characters, unusual destinations, and British humour, this is an unforgettable journey with an award-winning travel writer that’s a mixture of Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, and Douglas Adams. But this quest to understand the world (and himself) will also threaten his sanity, safety and relationship to his eccentric German girlfriend, Annett. Will he make it back safely? Will anyone be waiting when he does? What do you give the dictator that has everything? Discover the answer in Don’t Go There… The books in this series can be read in any order.
Publisher: Adam Fletcher
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
How much would you risk to change your life? Would you go where everyone else is trying to leave? Bestselling author Adam Fletcher did… In this unusual, hilarious travel memoir, he visits ten of the strangest places on earth. There's something he wants to know. Something no-one is telling him. To find the answer he’ll enter a blizzard in China armed with only a pack of biscuits; ponder the apocalypse in Chernobyl; be chased by the Croatian police on his way to Liberland (the world’s newest country); stalk the Sheriff of Transnistria (its most corrupt); and come face-to-face with two (dead) dictators in North Korea (its most dystopian), and much more. Packed full of interesting characters, unusual destinations, and British humour, this is an unforgettable journey with an award-winning travel writer that’s a mixture of Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, and Douglas Adams. But this quest to understand the world (and himself) will also threaten his sanity, safety and relationship to his eccentric German girlfriend, Annett. Will he make it back safely? Will anyone be waiting when he does? What do you give the dictator that has everything? Discover the answer in Don’t Go There… The books in this series can be read in any order.
The Scariest Places in the World
Author: Bob Curran
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1477706844
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
There are certain places in the world where people fear to tread. From castles where horrific executions took place to tombs where paranormal creatures are said to gather, the author takes readers on a world tour to some of the scariest places on Earth. The author examines the history and folklore regarding these sites, many of which have a sinister past, and explores the feelings and experiences they evoke in visitors. Readers will enjoy feeling a chill down their spine while remaining safely at home.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1477706844
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
There are certain places in the world where people fear to tread. From castles where horrific executions took place to tombs where paranormal creatures are said to gather, the author takes readers on a world tour to some of the scariest places on Earth. The author examines the history and folklore regarding these sites, many of which have a sinister past, and explores the feelings and experiences they evoke in visitors. Readers will enjoy feeling a chill down their spine while remaining safely at home.
Strange Places
Author: Alexandra Kogl
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739114759
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Strange Places: The Political Potentials and Perils of Everyday Spaces offers a conceptual framework for thinking politically about place and space in an era in which globalization seems to be destabilizing places and transforming spaces at an unprecedented rate and scale. Responding critically to the tendencies within contemporary political theory to dismiss places as inherently confining spaces, author Alexandra Kogl explores the roles that places play in supporting a democratic politics of efficacy and resistance. Using concrete examples and cases, this interdisciplinary work is accessible to a broad scholarly audience, including political theory, urban affairs, geography, and sociology scholars. Book jacket.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739114759
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Strange Places: The Political Potentials and Perils of Everyday Spaces offers a conceptual framework for thinking politically about place and space in an era in which globalization seems to be destabilizing places and transforming spaces at an unprecedented rate and scale. Responding critically to the tendencies within contemporary political theory to dismiss places as inherently confining spaces, author Alexandra Kogl explores the roles that places play in supporting a democratic politics of efficacy and resistance. Using concrete examples and cases, this interdisciplinary work is accessible to a broad scholarly audience, including political theory, urban affairs, geography, and sociology scholars. Book jacket.
Strange Places
Author: Jefferson Smith
Publisher: Indie Ink Publishing
ISBN: 0986693618
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"Holy crap This book freaking powns " That's what fans are saying about Jefferson Smith's debut fantasy novel. Spunky and irreverent, 13-year-old Tayna is every villain's worst nightmare: an uncooperative victim who refuses to play by his rules. After living her entire life in a cruel orphanage, Tayna discovers that she may never have actually been an orphan in the first place and flees from nunnish captivity to search for her real family. But time is running out and she has two entire worlds to search: one filled with shopping malls and televisions, and another filled with Brownies, Djin and magic
Publisher: Indie Ink Publishing
ISBN: 0986693618
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"Holy crap This book freaking powns " That's what fans are saying about Jefferson Smith's debut fantasy novel. Spunky and irreverent, 13-year-old Tayna is every villain's worst nightmare: an uncooperative victim who refuses to play by his rules. After living her entire life in a cruel orphanage, Tayna discovers that she may never have actually been an orphan in the first place and flees from nunnish captivity to search for her real family. But time is running out and she has two entire worlds to search: one filled with shopping malls and televisions, and another filled with Brownies, Djin and magic