Customer Reviews
Gift received with great enthusiasm - By: Dippy, 07 Mar 2008 
I had this book sent to a friend who is recovering from an operation as I thought it would cheer her up. I haven't looked at the book at alll but she was on the phone to me incredibly excited & enthusiastic about it. If I had given her £100 I don't think she would have been more grateful! She particularly enthused about the quality of the photos & the vast amount of information. All in alll, obviously a very good choice!
Fantastic!!! - By: Ms. Megan K. Jones, 21 Feb 2008 First time buyer -
Service was brilliant. Product arrived two days after having been bought.
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A good rough one! - By: Ms. N. L. Bolton, 10 Feb 2008 
This is a great book to get the juices flowing when planning a round the world trip. It highlights some countries you may never have thought of & has fantastic pictures to represent each of them. It makes you wish you were going on holiday the next day!
The downfalll of this book is its lack of information that is given. It is something nice to browse through a few times for a bit of daydreaming but is nothing too helpful on the information front.
An armchair traveller's perfect book! - By: BookWorm, 13 Jan 2008 If you love travel & love books, then this is the coffee table book for you! It's big & glossy, & features a double page spread on every country in the world. All nations get two pages, regardless of size, wealth or popularity with tourists. So favourite destinations like Spain, Australia & Thailand are on an equal footing with the likes of the Solomon Islands, Iraq & Burkina Faso.
What it isn't is a guidebook. If you're looking for specific travel advice, you'll need to get a more standard country guide. There is no practical information here, just a few snippets about each country. Rather this is the sort of book you can spend hours with on a wet afternoon, opening at random to discover new countries, or flicking through to enjoy the pictures. For anyone who loves to dream of where to go next it's the perfect present.
Unlike the Lonely Planet guides themselves, the Travel Book steers away from warnings & caveats, although it does mention where nations have problems with security and/or poverty. I found this optimistic outlook quite refreshing, & it is nice to look at countries which might be 'no-go' zones at the moment, but may be able to become tourist destinations in the future. I felt it gave a positive reflection to every country.
The pictures are one of the major selling points, with lots of large, full colour images for each country. There's a good mix for each country, including shots of people, landscapes, cities & landmarks. There are some of the classic travel pictures (the Taj Mahal, Machu Pichu etc.) but mostly there are unusual images giving a different slant on the country & its people than the usual hackneyed tourist images.
For the kind of person who's idea of bliss is thumbing through their atlas, imagining they are on the other side of the world, this book is an absolute must.
A MUST have for all backpackers - By: D. Harris, 02 Apr 2007 Lonely Planet are famous for being in every backpackers back pocket, this book should be on every travellers coffee table! It gives a reallly brief but informative overview of each & every country, providing you with facts, best time to visit, some history, languages, phrases & alll the other best bits, for example the cuisine on offer & some amazing photographs!
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