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Great journeys : travel the world's most spectacular routes.

Material type: TextTextPublisher: Footscray, Victoria : Lonely Planet, 2013Description: 311 pages : colour illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
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  • cartographic image
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781743217184 (pbk.)
  • 1743217188 (pbk.)
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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*

Travel the World's Most Spectacular Routes. Have you dreamed of a travel experience where the journey is as much a part of the pleasure as the destination itself? Great Journeys presents more than 70 of the greatest journeys you could undertake, from ancient trails, like Machu Picchu, through to modern classics, like Route 66. Let Lonely Planet tell you what it feels like to take the trip and give you the information you need to start bringing your dreams to life. Explore the world!

Now available in paperback.

Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Andrew Bain, Sarah Baxter, Simon Sellars, Adam Skolnick

About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel.

TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times

'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 (Australia)

*#1 in the world market share - source: Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA. March 2012-January 2013

Originally published: 2011.

Includes index.

11 89

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (p. 6)
  • Overland (p. 9)
  • The Hippy Trail (p. 10)
  • Cairo to Cape Town (p. 14)
  • The Khyber Pass (p. 18)
  • The Grand Tour (p. 22)
  • Istanbul to Cairo (p. 26)
  • North Cape to Gibraltar (p. 30)
  • La Ruta Maya (The Maya Route) (p. 34)
  • Rail (p. 37)
  • The Ghan (p. 38)
  • The Glacier Express (p. 42)
  • The Pride of Africa (p. 46)
  • The Eastern & Oriental Express (p. 50)
  • The Orient Express (p. 54)
  • The Palace on Wheels (p. 58)
  • California Zephyr (p. 62)
  • Toy Train to Darjeeling (p. 66)
  • The Royal Scotsman (p. 70)
  • The Blue Train of South Africa (p. 74)
  • The Copper Canyon Railway (p. 73)
  • The Trans-Siberian Railway (p. 82)
  • New Zealand's TranzCoastal (p. 86)
  • Explorers & Conquerors (p. 89)
  • Ibn Battuta in Africa (p. 90)
  • Marco Polo's Exploration Route (p. 94)
  • Burke & Wills (p. 98)
  • Ferdinand Magellan (p. 102)
  • Captain Cook in the Pacific (p. 106)
  • Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight (p. 110)
  • Vasco da Gama Discovers the Sea Route to India (p. 114)
  • Alexander the Great: from Greece to Egypt (p. 118)
  • The Vikings: Scandinavia to the Mediterranean (p. 122)
  • Rivers & Seas (p. 125)
  • The Nile (p. 126)
  • Northwest Passage (p. 130)
  • Norway's Fjords (p. 134)
  • Down the Mississippi to New Orleans (p. 138)
  • The River Ganges (p. 142)
  • The Amazon River (p. 146)
  • Mekong River (p. 150)
  • The River Road (Rio Grande) (p. 154)
  • The Yangtze by Slow Boat (Three Gorges) (p. 158)
  • Ancient Trade Routes (p. 161)
  • Silk Road (p. 162)
  • Salt Train in the Sahara (p. 166)
  • Spice Route (p. 170)
  • The Incense Road of Antiquity (p. 174)
  • The Baltic Amber Road (p. 178)
  • Literary Journeys (p. 181)
  • Theroux in the Pacific (p. 182)
  • Homer's The Odyssey (p. 186)
  • Che Guevara's Motorcycle Diaries (p. 190)
  • Around the World in 80 Days (p. 194)
  • Italy's Literary Landmarks (p. 198)
  • Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (p. 202)
  • Mark Twain's USA (p. 206)
  • Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey (p. 210)
  • Road (p. 213)
  • Argentina's Patagonian Highway (p. 214)
  • Route 66 (p. 218)
  • The Dakar Rally (p. 222)
  • Karakoram Highway (p. 226)
  • Iceland's Ring Road (p. 230)
  • Tour de France - the Original Route (p. 234)
  • The Pan-American Highway (p. 238)
  • East Coast of Australia (p. 242)
  • The Amain Coast Road (p. 246)
  • Ring of Kerry (p. 250)
  • Icefields Parkway (p. 254)
  • Great Ocean Road (p. 258)
  • Milford Road (p. 262)
  • South Africa's Cape Route 62 (p. 266)
  • Walks & Pilgrimages (p. 269)
  • Inca Trail to Machu Picchu (p. 270)
  • In the Footsteps of Buddha (p. 274)
  • Coast to Coast Walk (p. 278)
  • The Holy Land (p. 282)
  • Camino de Santiago (p. 286)
  • The Great Wall of China (p. 290)
  • The Haj (p. 294)
  • Haute Pyrenean Route (p. 298)
  • Shikoku Pilgrimage (p. 302)
  • Index (p. 306)
  • Acknowledgements (p. 312)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Publishers Weekly Review

"Spectacular" is an understatement when applied to these 74 journeys, all stunningly rendered to make readers want to hit the road. The comprehensive array includes nearly every trip imaginable: from scenic railways, to conquerors' trails, to ancient trade routes and pilgrimages. Four pages and at least one full-page photo are devoted to each journey, while statistics sidebars give distances, suggested time commitments, best times of the year to go, and special tips. The "Journey Today" section updates information for modern travelers alongside shortcuts, detours, and an "Armchair" section for additional errata. Among the profiles are the route of Magellan's fleet, Alexander the Great's war march, renowned traveler Paul Theroux's Pacific kayak odyssey, a modern way to retrace Homer's Odyssey, and a venerable ride across America on Route 66. Breathtaking and impressive in all its facets, this wanderlust-inspiring volume is a feast for both mind and eye. Photos. (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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