"The Insight World Travel Encyclopedia" is a fascinating and comprehensive guide to the world combining 1,300 photographs, modern cartography and informative text. Structured by continent to aid orientation, this book offers a stimulating look at the geography, population, culture, economy, history and political system of every country on the planet. Sumptuous double-page spreads capture the essence of colourful African cultures, faces of Asia, the great cities of Europe and much more, illustrated by breathtaking images. It explores natural wonders and the most spectacular landscapes on Earth, from the Grand Canyon to the Sahara and from the Great Barrier Reef to the Amazon. It includes a 50-page World Atlas with clear, digital, physical relief mapping in addition to the numerous maps that appear throughout the book.
This is the ideal arm chair travelling companion for people of all ages. This fully revised and updated edition combines modern, user-friendly mapping with over 2,000 full-colour photographs, cross-referenced to informative texts. 96-pages of touring maps explore 80 Dream Routes of the World, from the Silk Road to Route 66 and beyond, illustrated by a further 1,000 full-colour photographs plus texts. An interactive DVD ROM features the distinctive atlas cartography and offers direct access to more than 25,000 official tourist websites, as well as route planning tools and personal travel log facility. This comprehensive index contains over 100,000 entries.
