Drives of a Lifetime: 500 of the World’s Most Spectacular Trips

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Nationwide Geographic presents the nice outside by the world’s greatest auto journeys, for nature lovers, hikers, and adventurers. Pack your suitcase, load up the automotive, and head for the open highway! This lavishly illustrated, hardcover journey planner and reward guide offers you each bit of knowledge you may must navigate 400 superb driving routes in a number of the world’s most fascinating locales.   This sensible journey planner gives particular, in-depth descriptions of the sights every drive affords. A transparent, detailed, easy-to-read map of every route. Helpful data on the very best time to journey. And insider suggestions that can assist you get essentially the most out of each fabulous journey. Considerable sidebars name your consideration to standout sights alongside the drive or entertaining background data on the area and its tradition.   Whereas useful certainly as a planner, Drives of a Lifetime doubles as a full-color reward guide with greater than 200 dazzling, large-format images and crisp, evocative textual content that may enchant armchair vacationers. The guide immerses you within the distinctive attraction and great thing about tons of of inviting locales.   Pattern entries embody the highway to the spectacular historic ruins in and round Angkor Wat in Cambodia; the Natchez Hint Parkway, alongside an historic Native American path by Mississippi; the scenic previous coastal route from Dublin to Wexford in Eire; an off-road dune drive in Dubai; the well-known ocean views alongside the Cabot Path in Nova Scotia, Canada; the Winelands Route by South Africa’s Western Cape; a drive among the many unbelievable land formations in South Dakota’s Badlands; and an archaeological tour by Syria. As well as, you may discover a number of enjoyable Prime Ten lists: skyscraping drives, Mediterranean island roads, African wildlife excursions, and extra.   Chapters organized by theme embody Final Street Journeys, that includes well-known drives equivalent to Freeway One down the California coast; Over Hill and Mountains; By Sea and Shore; The Street Much less Traveled, highlighting unpaved and untamed routes and safaris; Village Byways by a number of the world’s most picturesque hamlets; and Historic Trails, tracing the paths of historical past’s nice builders and explorers.   Whether or not you journey these storied routes by automotive or by the pages of the book–countless wonders await your discovery in Drives of a Lifetime.
Writer ‏ : ‎ Nationwide Geographic (October 26, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 319 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1426206771
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1426206771
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.6 kilos
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.35 x 1.2 x 12.1 inches