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Discover the destinations that have inspired the world’s greatest art, cinema, food, novels and music.Pure armchair travel, this book is for anyone with a sense of wanderlust and curiosity: immerse yourself in 100 places that have inspired a remarkable cultural environment.In Paris, visit the labyrinth streets of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables and the charming streets of Montmartre, the backdrop of Amélie; in New York visit Brooklyn, home of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s stomping ground round the East Village. Split by continent, and with fascinating text and charming hand-drawn illustrations for each entry, this is the ultimate atlas of 100 cultural places every armchair traveller needs to know about.

Go beyond the big screen and explore the real places that inspired some of the greatest films of all time – brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork.Travel journalist Sarah Baxter reveals 25 essential cinematic destinations around the globe, spanning different decades, directors and movie genres. Full-page colour illustrations instantly transport you to each location. You’ll find that these places are not just backdrops to the tales told, but characters in their own right.Travel to the sweeping deserts of Lawrence of Arabia in Jordan, escape to the tumbling hills of San Francisco as seen in Hitchcock’s Vertigo or lose yourself in the cobbled lanes of In Bruges.Featured locations: London, England, PaddingtonWells, England, Hot FuzzDumfries & Galloway, Scotland, The Wicker ManBelchite & the Sierra de Guadarrama, Spain, Pan’s LabyrinthMontmartre, Paris, France, AmélieBruges, Belgium, In BrugesGörlitz, Germany, The Grand Budapest HotelFårö, Sweden, PersonaSalzburg, Austria, The Sound of MusicRome, Italy, La Dolce VitaMatmata & Tozeur, Tunisia, Star Wars: A New Hope Wadi Rum, Jordan, Lawrence of ArabiaMumbai, India, The LunchboxHong Kong, China, Enter the DragonSeoul, South Korea, ParasiteTokyo, Japan, Lost in TranslationOutback, Australia, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the DesertKarekare Beach, New Zealand, The PianoAlberta, Canada, The RevenantPhiladelphia, USA, RockySan Francisco, USA, VertigoBrooklyn, New York, USA, Do the Right ThingDead Horse Point State Park, Utah, USA, Thelma & Louise Jamaica, Dr NoCusco & Machu Picchu, Peru, The Motorcycle DiariesDelve into this book to discover some of the world’s most fascinating cinematic places and the films that celebrate them.Each book in the Inspired Traveller's Guides series offers readers a fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide to must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series, explore intriguing: Artistic Places, Spiritual Places, Literary Places, Hidden Places, Mystical Places and Wild Places.

Discover 25 mystical destinations from around the globe in this enchanting guide full of magic, folklore and exquisitely beautiful places.Travel writer Sarah Baxter expertly curates the world's most wonder-filled sites where magic is made manifest. Discover the history and geography of each site and learn their most significant and spellbinding stories, with suggestions of features to look out for and information on ceremonies. Filled with beautifully bewitching illustrations, this guide aims to transport you, in the comfort of your own armchair, to sacred and mystical spots, digging into their legends and evoking their supernatural essence.Seeking a transcendent travel experience? Take a magical pilgrimage to Alfaborg, the City of Elves; marvel at the otherworldly splendour of Xandadu, the heart of a lost dynasty; and discover the gateway to the afterlife in the Alepotrypa Cave. In these pages we meet mythical kings, explore sacred summits and enchanted architecture, and find a cast of giants, ghosts, golems and sea creatures.Featured locations:Tintagel, EnglandCadair Idris, WalesLoch Coruisk, ScotlandAlfaborg, IcelandChartres Labyrinth, FranceHarz Mountains, GermanyOld-New Synagogue, Czech RepublicLake Bled, SloveniaAlepotrypa Cave, GreeceTartessos, SpainCyclops Riviera, ItalyGedi Ruins, KenyaStone Circles of Senegambia, Senegal & The GambiaXanadu, ChinaTakachiho, JapanSpiti Valley, IndiaMount Mani, South KoreaThe Pinnacles, AustraliaNan Madol, MicronesiaMajorville Medicine Wheel, CanadaBonaventure Cemetery, USAMount Shasta, USAMalinalco, MexicoLake Guatavita, ColombiaNazca Lines, PeruEach book in the Inspired Traveller's Guides series offers readers a fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide to must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series, explore intriguing: Artistic Places (March 2021), Spiritual Places, Literary Places and Hidden Places.

Inspired Traveller’s Guides: Literary Places takes you on an enlightening journey through the key locations of literature’s best and brightest authors, movements and moments – brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork.Travel journalist Sarah Baxter provides comprehensive and atmospheric outlines of the history and culture of 25 literary places around the globe, as well as how they intersect with the lives of the authors and the works that make them significant. Full-page colour illustrations instantly transport you to each location. You’ll find that these places are not just backdrops to the tales told, but characters in their own right.Travel to the sun-scorched plains of Don Quixote’s La Mancha, roam the wild Yorkshire moors with Cathy and Heathcliff or view Central Park through the eyes of J.D. Salinger’s antihero. Explore the lush and languid backwaters of Arundhati Roy’s Kerala, the imposing precipice of Joan Lindsay’s Hanging Rock and the labyrinthine streets and sewers of Victor Hugo’s Paris.Featured locations:Paris, Les MiserablesDublin, UlyssesFlorence, A Room with a ViewNaples, My Brilliant FriendBerlin, Berlin AlexanderplatzNordland, Growth of the SoilSt Petersburg, Crime and PunishmentSierra de Guadarrama, For Whom the Bell TollsLa Mancha, Don QuixoteDavos, The Magic MountainBath, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion London, Oliver TwistYorkshire Moors, Wuthering HeightsCairo, Palace WalkSoweto, Burger's DaughterKerala, The God of Small ThingsSaigon (Ho Chi Minh City), The Quiet AmericanKabul, The Kite RunnerHanging Rock, Picnic at Hanging RockNew York, The Catcher in the RyeMonterey, Cannery RowMississippi River, Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMonroeville, To Kill a MockingbirdCartagena, Love in the Time of CholeraChile, The House of the SpiritsDelve into this book to discover some of the world’s most fascinating literary places and the novels that celebrate them.Each book in the Inspired Traveller's Guides series offers readers a fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide to must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series, explore intriguing: Artistic Places (March 2021), Spiritual Places, Hidden Places and Mystical Places.

Get back to nature and explore sites unspoilt by humankind with the latest addition to the Inspired Traveller’s Guide series.We humans don't just love wild places. We need them; we need their scale, their breath, their drama and enigma. Wild places can be a balm and a solace; an escape or a returning; a best friend; an inner cleanse. And they can remind us of our unimportance in the world.Travel writer Sarah Baxter presents 25 untameable natural wonders that reveal the curious story of our wild planet and why we need to protect it.Despite all the advances of human civilisation, we’ve yet to come up with anything to rival the majesty of Lapland's snow-capped mountain summits, the haunting song of humpback whales in a Namibian paradise or the epic sculptural forms of Utah's vast Canyonlands.Escape to each of these unforgettable sites and more with Wild Places, an insightful and stunningly illustrated guide to all Mother Nature has to offer. Discover spectacular and little-known gems with visits to...Great Dismal Swamp, USA Canyonlands, USA Great Bear Rainforest, Canada Cenotes, Mexico Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Kaieteur Falls, Guyana South Georgia, Atlantic Ocean Ennerdale, England Strumble Head, Wales St Kilda, Scotland Camargue, France Sápmi, Lapland, Sweden Green Belt, Germany Wadden Sea, Netherlands Stromboli, Italy Las Medulas, Spain Coa Valley, Portugal Skeleton Coast, Namibia Erg Chigaga, Morocco Kinabatangan, Malaysia Mount Siguniang, China Raja Ampat, Indonesia Gangkar Puensum, Bhutan Wilpena Pound, Australia Wahipounamu, New Zealand This is the perfect title for anyone who is fascinated by the marvels of the natural world.For more wanderlust-filled adventures, discover and collect the complete Inspired Traveller's Guide series: Artistic Places, Spiritual Places, Literary Places, Hidden Places and Mystical Places.

Go beyond the big screen and explore the real places that inspired some of the greatest films of all time – brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork.Travel journalist Sarah Baxter reveals 25 essential cinematic destinations around the globe, spanning different decades, directors and movie genres. Full-page colour illustrations instantly transport you to each location. You’ll find that these places are not just backdrops to the tales told, but characters in their own right.Travel to the sweeping deserts of Lawrence of Arabia in Jordan, escape to the tumbling hills of San Francisco as seen in Hitchcock’s Vertigo or lose yourself in the cobbled lanes of In Bruges.Featured locations: London, England, PaddingtonWells, England, Hot FuzzDumfries & Galloway, Scotland, The Wicker ManBelchite & the Sierra de Guadarrama, Spain, Pan’s LabyrinthMontmartre, Paris, France, AmélieBruges, Belgium, In BrugesGörlitz, Germany, The Grand Budapest HotelFårö, Sweden, PersonaSalzburg, Austria, The Sound of MusicRome, Italy, La Dolce VitaMatmata & Tozeur, Tunisia, Star Wars: A New Hope Wadi Rum, Jordan, Lawrence of ArabiaMumbai, India, The LunchboxHong Kong, China, Enter the DragonSeoul, South Korea, ParasiteTokyo, Japan, Lost in TranslationOutback, Australia, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the DesertKarekare Beach, New Zealand, The PianoAlberta, Canada, The RevenantPhiladelphia, USA, RockySan Francisco, USA, VertigoBrooklyn, New York, USA, Do the Right ThingDead Horse Point State Park, Utah, USA, Thelma & Louise Jamaica, Dr NoCusco & Machu Picchu, Peru, The Motorcycle DiariesDiscover some of the world’s most fascinating cinematic places and the films that celebrate them.Each book in the Inspired Traveller's Guides series offers readers a fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide to must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series, explore intriguing: Artistic Places, Spiritual Places, Literary Places, Hidden Places, Mystical Places and Wild Places.

Eat your way around the globe with this mouthwatering tour of the tastiest, most inventive, most diverse food on the planet.A region’s food is truly a window into its rich history and culture – nothing tells the story of a place so profoundly as the food it serves.  FoodiePlaces is a stunning, hand-illustrated guide for gastronomic adventurers intrigued by the rich cultural heritage behind the world's best food. Travel journalist Sarah Baxter visits 25 food capitals from across the globe, includingtraditional foodie havens as well as surprising places with their own world-class offering. Accompanied by stunning illustrations, each entry simmers with the flavour and buzz of the location.  The food featured includes restaurant-ready pastries handmade by nuns and pilgrimage-worthy curries, and many more. Featured locations:   Marrakesh, Morocco, couscousSichuan, China, SichuancuisineJeonju, South Korea, BibimbapandbanchanOsaka, Japan, variousHanoi, Vietnam, PhoUdupi & Karnataka, India, UdupicuisineMelbourne, Australia, variousLisbon, Portugal, PasteldenataMarseille, France, BouillabaisseLyon, France, BouchonslyonnaisrestaurantsBologna, Italy, RaguVenice, Italy, CicchettiNuremberg, Germany, gingerbreadSan Sebastian, Spain, PintxosValencia, Spain, PaellaOostduinkerke & Belgium coast, Belgium, shrimpCopenhagen, Denmark, newNordiccuisineWhitstable, UK, oystersKrakow, Poland, obwarzanekTusheti, Georgia, dumplingsTel Aviv, Israel, humousetalLima, Peru, CevicheBuenos Aires province, Argentina, asadoNew Orleans, USA, creole,CajunMontreal, Canada, Jewishfood  Each book in the Inspired Traveller's Guides series offers readers a fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide to must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series, explore intriguing: ArtisticPlaces, SpiritualPlaces, LiteraryPlaces, HiddenPlaces, MysticalPlaces, CinematicPlaces and WildPlaces.

Eat your way around the globe with this mouthwatering tour of the tastiest, most inventive, most diverse food on the planet.A region’s food is truly a window into its rich history and culture – nothing tells the story of a place so profoundly as the food it serves.  FoodiePlaces is a stunning, hand-illustrated guide for gastronomic adventurers intrigued by the rich cultural heritage behind the world's best food. Travel journalist Sarah Baxter visits 25 food capitals from across the globe, includingtraditional foodie havens as well as surprising places with their own world-class offering. Accompanied by stunning illustrations, each entry simmers with the flavour and buzz of the location.  The food featured includes restaurant-ready pastries handmade by nuns and pilgrimage-worthy curries, and many more. Featured locations:   Marrakesh, Morocco, couscousSichuan, China, SichuancuisineJeonju, South Korea, BibimbapandbanchanOsaka, Japan, variousHanoi, Vietnam, PhoUdupi & Karnataka, India, UdupicuisineMelbourne, Australia, variousLisbon, Portugal, PasteldenataMarseille, France, BouillabaisseLyon, France, BouchonslyonnaisrestaurantsBologna, Italy, RaguVenice, Italy, CicchettiNuremberg, Germany, gingerbreadSan Sebastian, Spain, PintxosValencia, Spain, PaellaOostduinkerke & Belgium coast, Belgium, shrimpCopenhagen, Denmark, newNordiccuisineWhitstable, UK, oystersKrakow, Poland, obwarzanekTusheti, Georgia, dumplingsTel Aviv, Israel, humousetalLima, Peru, CevicheBuenos Aires province, Argentina, asadoNew Orleans, USA, creole,CajunMontreal, Canada, Jewishfood  Each book in the Inspired Traveller's Guides series offers readers a fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide to must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series, explore intriguing: ArtisticPlaces, SpiritualPlaces, LiteraryPlaces, HiddenPlaces, MysticalPlaces, CinematicPlaces and WildPlaces.

Inspired Traveller’s Guides: Literary Places takes you on an enlightening journey through the key locations of literature’s best and brightest authors, movements and moments – brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork.Travel journalist Sarah Baxter provides comprehensive and atmospheric outlines of the history and culture of 25 literary places around the globe, as well as how they intersect with the lives of the authors and the works that make them significant. Full-page colour illustrations instantly transport you to each location. You’ll find that these places are not just backdrops to the tales told, but characters in their own right.Travel to the sun-scorched plains of Don Quixote’s La Mancha, roam the wild Yorkshire moors with Cathy and Heathcliff or view Central Park through the eyes of J.D. Salinger’s antihero. Explore the lush and languid backwaters of Arundhati Roy’s Kerala, the imposing precipice of Joan Lindsay’s Hanging Rock and the labyrinthine streets and sewers of Victor Hugo’s Paris.Featured locations:Paris, Les MiserablesDublin, UlyssesFlorence, A Room with a ViewNaples, My Brilliant FriendBerlin, Berlin AlexanderplatzNordland, Growth of the SoilSt Petersburg, Crime and PunishmentSierra de Guadarrama, For Whom the Bell TollsLa Mancha, Don QuixoteDavos, The Magic MountainBath, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion London, Oliver TwistYorkshire Moors, Wuthering HeightsCairo, Palace WalkSoweto, Burger's DaughterKerala, The God of Small ThingsSaigon (Ho Chi Minh City), The Quiet AmericanKabul, The Kite RunnerHanging Rock, Picnic at Hanging RockNew York, The Catcher in the RyeMonterey, Cannery RowMississippi River, Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMonroeville, To Kill a MockingbirdCartagena, Love in the Time of CholeraChile, The House of the SpiritsDelve into this book to discover some of the world’s most fascinating literary places and the novels that celebrate them.Each book in the Inspired Traveller's Guides series offers readers a fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide to must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series, explore intriguing: Artistic Places (March 2021), Spiritual Places, Hidden Places and Mystical Places.

Wander off the beaten track to uncover the world’s most secret destinations through insightful text and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations: discover an ancient gateway to the Mayan underworld, a mysterious underwater monument sunken off the Ryukyu Islands in Japan or a prehistoric village covered for centuries by a huge sand dune in the Orkney Islands.In Inspired Traveller's Guides: Hidden Places travel journalist Sarah Baxter’s evocative words instantly transport you to 25 of the world’s most obscured places. From remote locations that visitors must trek and wade just to catch a glimpse of, to forgotten cities only recently revealed and places purposefully hidden as sanctuaries from persecution, each destination has a very human story at its heart.Featured locations:Tyneham, Dorset, EnglandSkara Brae, Orkney, ScotlandMenlo Castle, Galway, IrelandLadby Ship, Kerteminde, DenmarkOur Dear Lord in the Attic, Amsterdam, NetherlandsMontsegur, FranceKaisertal, AustriaBlack Forest, GermanyRok Runestone, Ödeshög, SwedenVilla of Tiberius, Sperlonga, ItalyBulnes, Cabrales, SpainLalibela, EthiopiaGreat Zimbabwe, ZimbabweTurpan Oasis, Turpan, ChinaPhnom Kulen, Siem Reap Province, CambodiaYonaguni, Yaeyama Islands, JapanMount Borradaile, Arnhem Land, AustraliaCurio Bay, Southland, New ZealandSpirit Island, Alberta, CanadaThe Green Mill, Chicago, USAHavasu Canyon, Arizona, USAPlymouth Church of the Pilgrims, New York, USAActun Tunichil, BelizeChoquequirao, PeruEl Mirador, El Petén, GuatemalaSavour a moment to delight in the serenity and seclusion of the secret escapes collected in this beautifully illustrated guide, full of surprise, wonder and sights otherwise unseen.Each book in the Inspired Traveller's Guides series offers readers a fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide to must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series, explore intriguing: Artistic Places (March 2021), Spiritual Places, Literary Places and Mystical Places.

From prehistory to the present day, take a grand tour of world events at eye-level perspective with accounts that combine knowledgeable commentary with practical detail. You may even be inspired to lace up your own boots! From geologic upheavals and mad kings to trade routes and saints' ways, this book relates the tales behind the top 500 walks that have shaped our society. It's easy to imagine travelling back in time as you read about convicts and conquistadors, silk traders and Buddhists who have hiked along routes for purposes as varied as the terrain they covered.

History is everywhere, and is never as complete as when it can be accessed on a part of history itself.  The locomotive is one of the great steps in progress of civilisation that undoubtably connects us to land and history that was shaped by the machine itself. Although a basic form of railway, or rutway, did exist in Ancient Greek and Roman times – notably the ship trackway between Diolkos and the Isthmus of Corinth around 600 BC – it would take several thousand years before the first fare-paying passenger service was launched in the early nineteenth century. Some two hundred years on, it is possible to travel by train to some of the world's most remote and remarkable destinations, and track the many wonderful legacies of the Earth's extensive history – man-made and otherwise.  From prehistoric rock formations to skyscraper cities, slow steam engines to high-speed bullet trains, let A History of the World in 500 Railway Journeys be your guide. Through its beautifully illustrated pages, and 500 awe-inspiring railway journeys, you can chart your own transcontinental itinerary through time. Chug through canyons, steam past ancient monuments, speed through cities, luxuriate in the railcars of presidents and queens, or make express connections between key historical moments or epic eras, A History of the World in 500 Railway Journeys has it all. A must-read for travellers, railfans and history buffs alike, offering inspiration and information in equal measure.

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Where To Go When, the ultimate trip planner for every month of the year, is a beautifully illustrated book that is both practical and inspiring. For every month of the year it presents 30 recommendations of destinations that are at their best during each month, whether due to their climate, or value or because there's a lot going on. The suggestions feature every flavour of travel experience from culture-rich city breaks and tropical beach holidays to adventurous road trips and wildlife-watching expeditions. Every corner of the planet is covered so you'll find out when the best time to see mountain gorillas is or to go shopping in Paris. The book is organised by month. At the start of each chapter a flowchart guides you through the options so readers can filter the recommendations according to their interests. Whether you're into beaches, trying the local specialities or backpacking off the beaten path, there will suggestions for you. Diagrams also depict the climate, value for money and family friendliness of each suggestion in the month. Then Lonely Planet's authors explain in detail why each destination has been selected. The text describes the place and why it's special at that particular time. The destinations are illustrated by inspiring photographs and have a small infographic that shows the key reasons to go. Practical details make the first step of planning a trip easier. Packed with facts, photos and new ideas for your next adventure, Where to Go When will inspire and interest anybody who loves travel. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, gift and lifestyle books and stationery, as well as an award-winning website, magazines, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Discover the destinations that have inspired the world’s greatest art, cinema, food, novels and music.Pure armchair travel, this book is for anyone with a sense of wanderlust and curiosity: immerse yourself in 100 places that have inspired a remarkable cultural environment.In Paris, visit the labyrinth streets of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables and the charming streets of Montmartre, the backdrop of Amélie; in New York visit Brooklyn, home of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s stomping ground round the East Village. Split by continent, and with fascinating text and charming hand-drawn illustrations for each entry, this is the ultimate atlas of 100 cultural places every armchair traveller needs to know about.

Hay una historia a desvelar en todas partes. Vaya donde vaya, y vaya cuando vaya -es fantástico caminar mucho y a menudo-, casi seguro que alguien o algo habrá estado ahí antes que usted. Y eso enriquece el paseo. Significa que podemos recorrer paisajes de una rareza maravillosa gracias a la actividad geotérmica, que podemos visitar castillos derruidos, murallas que impedían el paso a la gente, zanjas cavadas por esclavos y fugitivos, calles bordeadas de piezas arquitectónicas que definieron una época, o árboles realmente ancianos.