ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2011.
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Amazing Journeys: 22 of the World`s Most Legendary Road Trips
Izdavac: AA Publishing
Tvrd povez 176 str.

If you`re undergoing a major attack of wanderlust, this is the book that will cure your ills! Published by Britain`s AA Publishing, this wonderfully-appealing, sumptuously-illustrated coffee-table book details 22 OF THE WORLD`S MOST LEGENDARY ROAD TRIPS.

AMAZING JOURNEYS spans the globe with road trip ideas. The first trip takes the reader along the Appian Way from Rome to Brindisi; the last, covers the Swahili Coast from Lamu to Dar es Salaam. In between are trips along the Klondike Highway, the Inca Road, Route 66, the Friendship Highway between Lhasa and Kathmandu, an Adelaide-to-Darwin jaunt, the Grossglockner Highway in Austria, Skippers Road in New Zealand, the Road of Emperors between Budapest and Prague, the Antrim Coast Road in Ireland and so on.

Each chapter interweaves background history with a travelogue highlighting items to watch for, satellite maps and color photographs. While not exhaustive, the chapters are quite effective in catching the flavor of that particular journey. The write-ups are done by various authors, 11 in all.

AMAZING JOURNEYS was first published in 2007. This edition dates from 2011.

Armchair travelers and other, more mobile souls will undoutedly enjoy AMAZING JOURNEYS. It wisks them around the world, offering up informed, entertaining and nicely-illustrated commentaries on trips through some wonderous locales. Recommended.