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

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Nationwide Geographic presents the nice outside by means of 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 e-book offers you each bit of knowledge you may must navigate 400 superb driving routes in a few of the world’s most fascinating locales.   This sensible journey planner offers 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. Plentiful sidebars name your consideration to standout sights alongside the drive or entertaining background data on the area and its tradition.   Whereas helpful certainly as a planner, Drives of a Lifetime doubles as a full-color reward e-book with greater than 200 dazzling, large-format photographs and crisp, evocative textual content that can enchant armchair vacationers. The e-book immerses you within the distinctive enchantment and great thing about lots of of inviting locales.   Pattern entries embody the highway to the spectacular historical ruins in and round Angkor Wat in Cambodia; the Natchez Hint Parkway, alongside an historical Native American path by means of 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 means of South Africa’s Western Cape; a drive among the many unimaginable land formations in South Dakota’s Badlands; and an archaeological tour by means of Syria. As well as, you may discover a number of enjoyable High 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 similar 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 means of a few 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 means of 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