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Lonely Planet's Beautiful World
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Journey to the planet's most magnificent places and see the world as you've never seen it before through the lenses of Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher. Forty years of passion and experience has been poured into this thought-provoking portrait of our beautiful world. Inspired by our love of travel, this lavishly-produced, landmark pictorial shares more than 300 sublime photographs of the world's most captivating spectacles and will renew your relationship with the place we call home.
Authors: Lonely Planet
About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.
'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
'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times
Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
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Lonely Planet's Beautiful World - Lonely Planet
ETERNAL
IT’S A
BEAUTIFUL
WORLD
Have you been to Yosemite Valley? That’s a place that can make you catch your breath: the scale of the rock faces, the delirious perfection of the valley floor’s meadows. It makes your head swim, a recognition of beauty so powerful, you just … stop.
The world is full of places like that. But we don’t see them every day and sometimes we need to be reminded that they are there. This book gathers together photography of some of the world’s most extraordinary places to share the wonder they bring.
Being in a beautiful place is more than observing what’s before your eyes. The experience of beauty is an emotional one, brought about through context; there’s the people you’re with, or the people you’re not with; there’s your mood, where you are in your life. All these factors come together to make the response to a place unique and personal, and different every time you visit.
When you look at a photograph of a beautiful place, that context disappears. We thought about that fact when we were making this book. We wanted to create a context that helped bring some of those connections to bear. The images here are arranged in chapters that reflect an aspect of life. As you turn the pages we hope that pondering the relationship between each image and the life stage with which it’s been connected will add another dimension to your experience.
The images in this book will take you to places far and wide, the kinds of places that you might never visit but that you can perhaps put on that If
list we all have tucked away. These places are surprising, remarkable, remote, familiar … dive in and marvel over the undeniable fact; it is a beautiful world.
Wrangell–St Elias National Park.
Alaska, USA
The advice on entering this park, which is larger than Switzerland and has few marked hiking trails, is to carry maps, extra food and a bear-proof canister.
Frans Lanting | Getty Images
ORIGINS
California, USA
The General Sherman Tree, a sequoia found in California’s Sequoia National Park, is the world’s largest tree. It is more than 83m tall and has a diameter of 7.7m. It’s thought to be around 2000 years