Lonely Planet's Beautiful World (General Pictorial) Hardcover Author: Lonely Planet | Language: English | ISBN:
174321717X | Format: PDF, EPUB
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The Daily Beast, December 2013
“These photographs are meant to inspire wanderlust and they are successful in doing just that.”
Every Day with Rachael Ray, December 2013
“A friend once said, ‘The world is painfully full of beautiful places.’ This book is a coffee table-size testament to that idea.”
ForeWord Reviews, November 30, 2013
“Nature photography at its highest level serves to both overwhelm our senses and deepen our relationship with this planet, our home. To describe this book as anything less than the end-all coffee table book would be an injustice.”
Alaskan Apple Users Group Blog, November 26, 2013
“I found reading the book more of a meditation, seeing our amazing planet, discovering places I’d only heard about, and yet wanting to know more.”
GeekDad, November 12, 2013
“In addition to the colorful photos, you can sense the sounds, smells, and feelings that your eyes can’t quite experience on their own. Page after page of gorgeous photography will leave you speechless and aching to travel, pick up a camera, or both. . . . Celebrate nature, wildlife, and the masterpieces of Man as you page through this book.”
PopSugar, November 1, 2013
“From the land to the sea,
Lonely Planet’s Beautiful World features handpicked photographs that can only bring one saying to mind: ‘A picture is worth a thousand words.’ If you have a case of wanderlust, the following destinations have views like you've never seen before.”
City Style & Living, November 2013
“It creates a sense of place through iconic images of destinations on every continent.”
Refinery29, October 14, 2013
“Lonely Planet's new coffee table book will cure your wanderlust.”
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- Series: General Pictorial
- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Lonely Planet (November 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 174321717X
- ISBN-13: 978-1743217177
- Product Dimensions: 14.3 x 10.9 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 5.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Generally, I love anything published by Lonely Planet. Their "The Travel Book" was so well done that I bought both versions (they revised and updated the original) and enjoyed reading them cover to cover. This book is not of that caliber. First, the oddity of the physical assembly: instead of a regular dust jacket, which covers the entire cloth binding, they chose to put a 3/4 dust jacket. Naturally, the first thing I did was pull it off to see if there was a problem with it. No problem, it was intentional. When you pull it off and unfold it, you find more photographs on the inside of it. But since this book is unlikely to be purchased by a teenager looking for posters, I don't see the point to this gimmick. Also, because it's folded, it would make a bad poster anyway with the creases.
More troubling is the artistic or editorial assembly. The photos are supposedly in order by theme, such as Untamed, Transformation, and Harmony. I didn't find all the photos in each section to be especially true to its theme, and there was a bit of jarring disconnect among some placements. For example, a photo of a cemetery in Mexico and the opposite photo of an albatross nesting site? A sardine run following a mob scene during a religious holiday? (That actually seemed a bit insulting, but maybe that was just me).
Worst, from my point of view, is that there is practically no text. A terse fragment of a line barely identifies the photo. There's an index at the back with more information - a tiny paragraph - but this is an oversized, heavy book, a typical coffee table size, and who wants to be flipping back and forth to find out information that should have been presented with the photo?
On the other hand, most of the photos are beautiful.
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