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Lonely Planet's Wild World
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From Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher, Wild World, the follow-up to the super-sized bestseller Beautiful World, is a vivid and compelling portrait of the world in which we live. Featuring breath-taking images of the natural world, this gorgeous collection of full-page photographs, carefully curated by Lonely Planet's photography experts, brings the world's wildest corners into your home. Incredible and majestic wildlife spectacles and natural phenomena are spellbindingly on display in this beautiful, no-expense-spared hardback.
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 Wild World
Автор: Lonely Planet
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From Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher, Wild World, the follow-up to the super-sized bestseller Beautiful World, is a vivid and compelling portrait of the world in which we live. Featuring breath-taking images of the natural world, this gorgeous collection of full-page photographs, carefully curated by Lonely Planet's photography experts, brings the world's wildest corners into your home. Incredible and majestic wildlife spectacles and natural phenomena are spellbindingly on display in this beautiful, no-expense-spared hardback.
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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Puffin in a snowstorm.
Norway
Jan Vermeer | Getty Images
AFRICA
EUROPE
ASIA
AUSTRALASIA
ANTARCTICA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
IT’S A
WILD
WORLD
What do you feel when you stand somewhere breathtakingly wild? Or as a tropical thunderstorm crashes cataclysmically overheard or when a heavy wave smashes on a remote shore? For many, it’s a combination of peacefulness and exhilaration. England’s Romantic poets described these natural experiences, those that inspired awe, reverence and an almost transcendental emotional response, as ‘the sublime’. They sought these reveries, often alone, walking in England’s Lake District and beyond, in Europe’s alpine regions.
This book is intended to share some of every continents’ most sublime corners, from the Arctic’s tundra to the great deserts of central Asia, from the world’s largest cave to its wind-whipped mountain peaks. We’ll meet some of the planet’s quirkier residents and be immersed in its most extraordinary natural phenomena.
Scientific studies repeatedly show that being in nature decreases stress. We feel mentally invigorated, spiritually connected, and more optimistic in the wild. Indeed, if we don’t get outdoors enough we may even suffer from ‘nature deficit disorder’, a term coined by author Richard Louv. These photographs will take you to wonderful places, far and wide, and inspire new journeys off the beaten track.
Curating this book, it was clear that humans have left their mark on almost every inch of the globe, from the rainforests of South America and Africa to the oceans’ reefs. But, despite all the changes we have wrought upon it, our home still has the power to evoke awe, respect, passion and protectiveness, to comfort and thrill us, to change our lives. Billions of years after it was forged, it’s still a wild world.
Chugach Mountains.
Alaska, USA
Michael Heffernan
AFRICA 
Chobe National Park, Botswana
During the dry season, 50,000 Kalahari elephants occupy the Chobe and Linyanti river areas, before migrating 200km to the park’s southeast in the rains.
Frans Lanting | Getty Images
Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia
Africa’s largest game park takes in the Sossusvlei – a vast clay- and salt-pan ringed by massive dunes – parts of Namib Desert and the Naukluft mountains.
Westend61 | Getty Images
Madagascar
Endemic to east Madagascan rainforests, this endangered and large species of lemur is covered in silky fur. It has evolved independently to its mainland African cousins.
Mariusz Kluzniak | Getty Images
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This book, by Lonely Planet, is the best book, by far, that I have received from them. It may just be pictures, but the effort put into taking the pictures inside the book was easily identified. In the index, there are small summaries about where the pictures were taken, and a fact or two about the area where the pictures were taken. The book contains amazing pictures, such as aerial views of rarely-seen animals and places. Some include: The Gaberoun Oasis, in LibyaFedera Lake, in ItalyThe Korowai tribespeople, in IndonesiaSeveral National Parks from all over the world, and more!The pictures found in this book are rarely-seen views of the world and the world's treasures, and it's making me start to wonder what I'm missing out on. I would definitely recommend this beautiful book to all readers! Thanks to Lonely Planet for providing this book in exchange for a review.