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Summary: 1000 Places to See Before you Die
Review: This is the most comprehensive and interesting travel book I've ever read.The shear number of exciting destinations is overwhelming.I love the fact that contact info is included for every location.It's great that the author has places of interest every style of travel.I recommend it to all who travel or dream of visiting interesting destinations.
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Summary: Roadmap for the Rest of My Life
Review: I'm 55 years old and about to retire. Except for places that I was sent to courtesy of the US Army, I haven't seen much of the world. This book will make a fine roadmap for the rest of my traveling life! Come to think of it, the publisher could turn this book into the WORLD'S BIGGEST SCAVENGER HUNT----with a prize for the first person to visit all 1,000 places!!! As a retiring English teacher, I'll leave the other reviews to tell you about the literary merit of this inspiring book. I just want to say, "Thank you, Ms. Schultz, for writing a book that is written and organized in a way that coaxed an old English teacher out of his hobbit hole. With your book in hand, off I go. . . There's no time to waste."
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Summary: I bought two more copies for my sons
Review: so they can dream too about visiting the wonderful places around the world the author describes. I've visited many of the US destinations and a few foreign ones and agree with over 90% of her recommendations. I have one complaint, and for me it's large. The cost of most of the recommended accomodations are out of reach for most travelers except for the wealthy. I estimate the average hotel or resort will cost around $300 per night(rack rate). I subscribe to a business periodical whose subscribers have well above average incomes. Only 3% of them said in a recent survey that hotel costs are not a consideration. A notation that more moderately priced accomodations are available in a particular destination would have helped. This is a great bedtime book. Sweet dreams.
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Summary: My review of 1000 places to see before you die
Review: This book is perfect for people who love to travel but cannot afford to. This book is so well written and researched. I loved reading about the geography and history of all the places described in this book. All of these destinations seem so exotic and exciting. There are so many interesting places in this book such as national parks, museums, rivers, festivals, restaurants, mountains, places to view art, nature, and amazing works of architecture. I would love to go scuba diving off Australia's Great Barrier Reef and look at 1,500 varieties of fish. I would love to go to Egypt to take a cruise on the Nile River and view ancient ruins and royal tombs. I would like to see camels race in the Sinai desert. I would to see the artistic elegance of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. I wouldn't mind visiting the breathtaking marble architecture of the Taj Mahal in India either. I never knew some of these places even existed like Count Dracula's castle in Romania and Santa's village in Helsinki Finland. I would enjoy horseback riding through the mountains of South Africa. Looking at thousands of beautiful women in Ipanema Beach in Rio De Janeiro Brazil seems like a lot of fun too.
A lot of fun destinations described in this book are in the United States and North America too. I would love to go on a hot air baloon ride in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It would be exciting to watch the Iditarod dogsled race in Anchorage Alaska or go white river rafting in West Virginia. I would love to go on a polar bear safari in Manitoba Canada. Montreal Quebec would be an interesting destination choice for a lot of people. It is home to a world film festival, a jazz festival, and an international fireworks competition. 1000 places to see before you die is the most comprehensive world travel guide I have ever seen. I learned so much about different countries and their histories. I will take this book with me on every trip I go on in the future.
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Summary: transported
Review: This is the definitive 'eat your heart out' book, awakening a sense of urgency like none other. Thoroughly researched, exquisitely written and -- notwithstanding a tilt toward high-end fare -- a reminder of just how much authentic magic, richness and splendor really does exist in the world. So vivid, the reader is transported on an extraordinary trip without even leaving the armchair.
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Summary: Simply divine!!
Review: A literary litany of fabulous destinations - domestic and foreign - obviously well researched and described in titillating prose. Anyone desiring to go anywhere should take this along - no stone unturned, no alley too narrow, no specialty food too bland. A delicious foray into fantasy sites. I can't wait to visit the small hideaways as well as the landmark resorts. What fun to think about my next vacation - should it be to Chicago for the best hot dog or to Paris or to Scotland or ????? I think I'll do the random walk approach and let Patricia Schultz be my guide!!
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Summary: A great book, but no you don't need to see them all
Review: This book is informative and tremendous fun, but its title is misleading. This is not all about wonders of the world that you will see and feel fulfilled (or die wishing you hadn't passed them by); it is more of a general fantasy travel book. For example, in Europe alone (about 38%) of the book's entries, I counted 87 fancy hotels and almost as many megabucks restaurants, costing an average of $285 a night for a room in the low season and $75 for dinner. I like a great hotel as much as the next person but, no, I am not more fulfilled if I stay in them, and I don't need to see all 87 before I die (and that's just Europe; I gave up calculating after that). Patricia Schultz has done a great deal of homework; there is contact information, including websites, for almost every site she names, so it will be easy to find out more on your own. However, as much fun as it is, I would rather have had more emphasis on natural and man-made wonders than in fancy bedlinens and exotic appetizers.
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Summary: Ignore the gloomy title and buy it anyway
Review: Ignore the gloomy title and buy it anyway! There will be places where you will disagree with the author (with 1000 places it would be hard not to...) but for travel buffs anywhere a book like this is invaluable in telling you both where you do want to go and where it is vital NOT to, along with all sorts of fascinating places that you had never even thought of. Christopher Catherwood, author, traveller and writer (most recently of CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS AND ISLAMIC RAGE, Zondervan, 2003)
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Summary: Inspirational!
Review: Warning: Do not read Patricia Schultz's "1,000 Places To See Before You Die" until you get your passport in order because I guarantee you, you will be packing your bags by the time you've turned your second or third page. You might be heading off to ride a snow-white horse amid flocks of pink flamingoes in the Camargue region on the coast of Southern France or to sit blissfully transcendent as cherry blossoms kiss your upturned face on Yoshino Mountain just south of Kyoto, Japan but trust me, you will definitely be off somewhere, filled with wanderlust and inspiration. Many guide books tell you this and that about exotic and often expensive places but Schultz's book will remind you that travel opens the eye and offers the soul the chance to meet the world afresh. A must-read for the experienced and novice globetrotter alike.
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Summary: THIS BOOK IS TO DIE FOR!
Review: I want to thank Patricia Schultz for this wonderful book. I am an avid yet average reader of travel literature. I'll read anything that beckons with taunting overseas jaunts and depictions of lively local color. But this book got its hooks in me. The perfectly concise entries, the teasing pictures--uncommon in travel tomes, and the witty, enthusings of Ms. Schultz all served to keep me up reading well past bedtime last night. When, close to 3am, I reluctantly put the book on the nightstand, I made a promise to myself. Through combining local and overseas trips, I am going to do my best to see thirty places in the next year. We'll see how I do. If I make it to them all I will up the ante for the following year. If I fall short, I will lower my expectations next time. However things pan out, I'm excited to give it a try. There truly is so much to do and such little time!
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