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Great destinations of a lifetime / Claudia Martin.

by Martin, Claudia.

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Amber Books, 2020.

Adventure travel -- Pictorial works.

Travel -- Pictorial works.

9781782749875 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Destinations of a lifetime

223 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm. x 30 cm.

"Many of us spend our lives planning and dreaming of future travels. While some hope for sun-warmed beaches, others yearn for pristine wilderness or to reach the remnants of civilizations that marked the Earth millennia before we were born. Yet all of us who long to travel are hungering to escape the everyday, for a few minutes, days or months, and to discover for ourselves the world that we had imagined. While a few rare places are almost in our own backyard, others will take a large dose of determination to reach: the recently unearthed Rainbow Mountain of Peru, the glacier-carved peaks of the snaking Karakoram Highway or the ancient Batad rice terraces of Ifugao. Some destinations, from the Pyramids of Giza and the Great Wall of China to California's Big Sur and Australia's Barrier Reef, are much visited and rightly on most people's list of dream adventures. Others, no less remarkable, may be little known and rarely seen, from the dragon's blood trees of Socotra and Spitzkoppe granite peaks of Namibia to the mud volcanoes of Azerbaijan and the sea of wind-blown sand of Erg Chebbi in Morocco. A feast of color, dramatic geography and fascinating history from every part of the world, 'Great Destinations of a Lifetime' will define your bucket list of desirable locations for years to come."--Page [2] of cover.

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