The Resource Atlas obscura : an explorer's guide to the world's hidden wonders, Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras & Ella Morton
Atlas obscura : an explorer's guide to the world's hidden wonders, Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras & Ella Morton
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The item Atlas obscura : an explorer's guide to the world's hidden wonders, Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras & Ella Morton represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- "It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders-- the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 40-year hole of fire called the Gates of Hell, a graveyard for decommissioned ships on the coast of Bangladesh, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England ..."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 470 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
-
- Europe
- Asia
- Africa
- Oceania
- Canada
- USA
- Latin America
- Antarctica
- Isbn
- 9780761169086
- Label
- Atlas obscura : an explorer's guide to the world's hidden wonders
- Title
- Atlas obscura
- Title remainder
- an explorer's guide to the world's hidden wonders
- Statement of responsibility
- Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras & Ella Morton
- Title variation
- Guide to the world's hidden wonders
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders-- the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 40-year hole of fire called the Gates of Hell, a graveyard for decommissioned ships on the coast of Bangladesh, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England ..."--
- Award
- Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults, 2016.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10543829
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Foer, Joshua
- Dewey number
- 910.202
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
-
- Thuras, Dylan
- Morton, Ella
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- True
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- Travel
- Historic buildings
- Civilization, Ancient
- Historic sites
- Voyages and travels
- Curiosities and wonders
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Atlas obscura : an explorer's guide to the world's hidden wonders, Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras & Ella Morton
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- still image
- cartographic image
- text
- Content type code
-
- sti
- cri
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- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Europe -- Asia -- Africa -- Oceania -- Canada -- USA -- Latin America -- Antarctica
- Control code
- 000058838620
- Dimensions
- 28 cm.
- Extent
- 470 pages
- Isbn
- 9780761169086
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2016041548
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- colour illustrations, colour maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)959200507
- Label
- Atlas obscura : an explorer's guide to the world's hidden wonders, Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras & Ella Morton
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- still image
- cartographic image
- text
- Content type code
-
- sti
- cri
- txt
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Europe -- Asia -- Africa -- Oceania -- Canada -- USA -- Latin America -- Antarctica
- Control code
- 000058838620
- Dimensions
- 28 cm.
- Extent
- 470 pages
- Isbn
- 9780761169086
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2016041548
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- colour illustrations, colour maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)959200507
Subject
- Historic sites -- Guidebooks
- Travel -- Guidebooks
- trueVoyages and travels
- trueCivilization, Ancient
- trueCuriosities and wonders
- Historic buildings -- Guidebooks
Genre
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- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Travel
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Expeditions
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Adult Nonfiction for Young Adults: 2016
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