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    LIFE Paradise Found: 100 Places - Beautiful Beyond Belief
    LIFE Paradise Found: 100 Places - Beautiful Beyond Belief
    LIFE Paradise Found: 100 Places - Beautiful Beyond Belief
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    LIFE Paradise Found: 100 Places - Beautiful Beyond Belief

    By The Editors of LIFE

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    LIFE takes you on a beautiful tour of some of the world's most exquisite and exotic natural settings. We travel to the canyons of Kauai and the white-sand beaches of Australia's Gold Coast. LIFE Paradise Found includes the work of some of the world's most accomplished travel photographers, accompanied by inspiring, poetic text.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLife
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781683305606
    LIFE Paradise Found: 100 Places - Beautiful Beyond Belief

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      LIFE Paradise Found - The Editors of LIFE

      Copyright

      INTRODUCTION

      Pleasures and Treasures off the Beaten Path

      KAREN BLEIER/AFP/GETTY

      PHOTO OP A gaggle of photographers gather to await the sunrise in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park.

      There is a strong fashion in popular books today that can be understood as: Try this, not that. Paradise Found can be considered an entry in the Global Travel section.

      Oh, certainly we feature sites and attractions that are well known, your Jackson Holes and St. Moritzes. But they are fewer and farther between than in some of our earlier books. As the title of this volume implies, we wanted to discover new places and share them with you. The world is a very big place, and in many, many parts it is astonishingly beautiful. We wanted, this time, to take the road less traveled, and surprise you with each turn of the page.

      That said, right away we present a site familiar to any who have visited the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Waimea Canyon. Many of you, we realize, have not been fortunate enough to make that distant journey. You’ve gone on a family trip to the rim of Arizona’s Grand Canyon, perhaps, but haven't visited Waimea or the Copper Canyon in Mexico or Antelope Canyon, also in Arizona, or the Gorges du Verdon in France. You may never go. But we want to show you these places nonetheless, since enjoying the sites as an armchair traveler is the next best thing to going. We have summoned the best nature photography from many fine shooters known to us here at LIFE. This isn’t a book of calendar art. The beauty reflected herein is really and truly out there, in both senses of the phrase.

      We certainly hope that, too, we can inspire some of you to get out of that armchair, or to put some of these ideas in your back pocket for the next time you find yourself in this region or that one. You may never climb Mount Logan, even if you find yourself in the Yukon, but when you are next in the Midwest, plan a trip to Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes. You’ve been to Boston, but have you ever driven the half hour out to Concord to think things over on the shores of Thoreau’s Walden? Next time you’re playing golf in Ireland, take an afternoon off for a side trip to Skellig Michael. Australia isn’t all about Adams Rock and the Great Barrier Reef. When you head out on that once-in-a-lifetime trip Down Under, make a longer list. And then again, if small Iceland offers as much as we claim—and it does—maybe Iceland needs to be the next vacation.

      So this book works in many ways, but our overarching goal is that it serve as a source of surprises, constant and beautiful surprises. And whether you are in your armchair or gazing into the canyon itself, there’s a final crucial advantage to seeking out secret little bits of paradise: You’ll have them all to yourself.

      MICHELE FALZONE/JAI/CORBIS

      LANDSCAPE MASTERPIECE The wait and the cold are well worth it, as sunrise gilds the skies.

      AMERICA

      JERRY AND MARCY MONKMAN/AURORA

      WALDEN POND enticed Thoreau to its leafy environs in 1845.

      LANIKAI BEACH

      Oahu, Hawaii

      DAVID SCHRICHTE/PHOTO RESOURCE HAWAII

      Located on the windward, southeast, side of Oahu, this tiny half-mile beach draws locals, tourists and photographers to its turquoise waters, fine white sand and stunning views of the two islands that serve as bird sanctuaries just offshore. Lanikai means heavenly sea in the Hawaiian language, and with a reef near shore to keep the water warm and the waves child-friendly, it is easy to see why. Erosion has cut the length of the beach in half in recent years, so those considering a visit should plan one soon.

      WAIMEA CANYON

      Kauai, Hawaii

      KERRICK JAMES/CORBIS

      Given its astonishing size at 14 miles long, one mile wide and 3,600 feet deep, it is not surprising that this geological wonder is known as the Grand Canyon of the Pacific. Formed by an unusual combination of erosion (a result

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