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A very interesting book. Lots of pages, pictures and information. A nice addition to every travel seeker library.
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The perfect book for the armchair traveller
UNESCO World Heritage sites include some of the most famous places in the world, such as the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in Jordan, the legendary Acropolis in Athens, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, and Machu Picchu, the ‘Lost City of the Incas’, in Peru.
The World’s Heritage has been fully updated to include the latest sites added to the World Heritage List, making it the go-to guide to all 1,199 UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Inside you'll find:
- Descriptions of all the UNESCO World Heritage sites
- Location map for every site
- More than 850 colour photographs
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This book is BIG! Literally a big old book. It's chunky because it has a whopping 1032 pages! Laying the book flat on it's back and measuring how thick it is I see it is 5 cms thick. Whilst I have the tape measure out I may as well tell you it is 21 cms tall and a shade over 16 cms wide. Now that I'm in the groove I may as well stick it on my digital scale as well....the book weighs 1756 grams - that's a kilogram and three quarters! Mercifully I am done with the dimensions talk now, however I confess I am not done with the book. I would normally prefer to finish a book before reviewing but I confess that is not the case here. I'm sure you can forgive me given the 1030+ pages involved that I mentioned earlier!. Anyway this is a guidebook and to be fair I'm not sure you're ever really "done" with a guidebook are you? Even if I had read every page I could still see myself referring back to the book in future for specific reasons or thumbing through it at leisure. The book is well printed and densely packed with information. Barely a centimetre of a page is wasted, however because of this the font is quite small. Glasses wearers will almost certainly have to wear their glasses to read through this. The pictures though are colourful and vibrant. It is clear they are professional standard photographs. I think overall it is a very informative, dense and attractive book. It would make a good point of reference for people interested in travel, general knowledge and quizzes, parents perhaps with curious children and you could buy it as a gift for any of these kinds of people also. Grandparents also could do worse than gifting this to their grandchildren perhaps. Personally I am very happy to have it and like I said earlier - I can see myself thumbing through it forever and never getting bored of it.
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 May 2025Format: Paperback
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 September 2024
This book is BIG! Literally a big old book. It's chunky because it has a whopping 1032 pages! Laying the book flat on it's back and measuring how thick it is I see it is 5 cms thick. Whilst I have the tape measure out I may as well tell you it is 21 cms tall and a shade over 16 cms wide. Now that I'm in the groove I may as well stick it on my digital scale as well....the book weighs 1756 grams - that's a kilogram and three quarters!
Mercifully I am done with the dimensions talk now, however I confess I am not done with the book. I would normally prefer to finish a book before reviewing but I confess that is not the case here. I'm sure you can forgive me given the 1030+ pages involved that I mentioned earlier!. Anyway this is a guidebook and to be fair I'm not sure you're ever really "done" with a guidebook are you? Even if I had read every page I could still see myself referring back to the book in future for specific reasons or thumbing through it at leisure.
The book is well printed and densely packed with information. Barely a centimetre of a page is wasted, however because of this the font is quite small. Glasses wearers will almost certainly have to wear their glasses to read through this. The pictures though are colourful and vibrant. It is clear they are professional standard photographs.
I think overall it is a very informative, dense and attractive book. It would make a good point of reference for people interested in travel, general knowledge and quizzes, parents perhaps with curious children and you could buy it as a gift for any of these kinds of people also. Grandparents also could do worse than gifting this to their grandchildren perhaps. Personally I am very happy to have it and like I said earlier - I can see myself thumbing through it forever and never getting bored of it.
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 October 2024
As it turns out, the world's heritage is substantial, so this volume is also massive. It feels very heavy and it's a bit hard to hold to just casually leaf through. It's also got a thick spine so it doesn't really open and parts of the text that were too close to the gutter on some pages were hard to read as a result.
Those minor inconveniences aside, this is a brilliant book, vivid and rich in detail, and it was a genuine pleasure to read. It really is a "definitive guide" as it covers every region of the world and showcases the most important and interesting facts about each site. I found the maps and the paginated index very useful. The photos were absolutely gorgeous too. I think this would be an excellent gift for world travellers, history buffs, and anyone who appreciates nature's beauty and humanity's ingenuity.
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PLMIRRORReviewed in Italy on 29 September 2024
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- ♫NewHorizons♫Reviewed in the United States on 6 March 2025
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