Lonely Planet's bestselling The Cities Book is back. Fully revised and updated, it's a celebration of 200 of the world's most exciting urban destinations, beautifully photographed and packed with trip advice and recommendations from our experts - making it the perfect companion for any traveller deciding where to visit next.
- Highlights and itineraries help travellers plan their perfect trip
- Urban tales reveal unexpected bites of history and local culture
- Discover each city's strengths, best experiences and most famous exports
- Includes the top ten cities for beaches, nightlife, food and more
- Lonely Planet co-founder Tony Wheeler shares his all-time favourite cities
- Fully revised and updated with the best cities to visit right now
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OUR STORY A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
I love these big coffee table books to inspire ideas of where to go next and to do a little armchair travel to places I will probably never go. I was complaining about another one that was poorly done on here the other day. This giant slab of a book (too big, my only complaint: I'm not a small guy and I could barely lift this thing) gets it right.
The cities are diverse, including the usual suspects, but a lot of smaller places that might be less familiar. For each location, it includes lists of strengths and weaknesses, a perfect day in the city, films and books in which the city has been featured, and much more. The pictures are great and there are enough of them to give you the beginning of a sense of each place. Just two pages per city, but in a format this large, it's enough. I would have preferred a more geographic organization rather than alphabetic, but that's a quibble.
Er is een Nederlandse uitgave verschenen: Ultieme Stedentrips (van Unieboek|Het Spectrum)!
Dit boek heeft een erg aangename en duidelijke opmaak. Elke stad (twee bladzijdes) heeft een paar knappe foto's en dan basisinformatie over de stad zelfs, hoe je er je weg vindt, de mensen, wanneer je best kan gaan, een perfecte dag in de stad, de sterke en zwakke punten, import en export, een opvallend verhaal (de stadsmythe) en nog een paar andere. Dat maakt het echt eenvoudig en duidelijk om je weg door het boek te vinden. Ik heb niet alle steden gelezen - wel een heel aantal - maar ik heb overal de stadsmythes gelezen omdat dat dikwijls van die kleine random facts zijn, en daar hou ik erg van. Er zitten de normale keuzes in - L.A., Kaapstad en natuurlijk Venetië (want anders zou het een slecht boek zijn, lol) - maar ook een aantal andere die je niet meteen zou verwachten, zoals Kotor, Sighisoara enzovoorts. De stijl is mooi overgenomen uit het Engels, zo'n typisch Engelse reisgidsstijl, en daar ben ik heel blij om dat ze dat in de vertaling behouden hebben. Het leest veel aangenamer dan zo'n droge opsommingen die je bij ons dikwijls vindt. Nu zit er wat droge commentaar bij, een grappige opmerking, hier en daar ironisch en sarcastisch getint. Het enige nadeel: er stonden redelijk wat fouten in, typfouten, lidwoorden die herhaald werden, en nog wel een paar andere dingen. Na een tijdje viel het wel op. Maar goed, ik kan ermee leven.
Stock photography and a short list of stereotypes. Compared with the other guides, even the perishable information is out of the question. And everything is done on the cheap. Take Barcelona. There is a single paragraph of legend about Sagrada Familia. Well, a good popular choice. Artsier than F.C. Bacelona. And very popular as every tourist bus seems to stop there. Yet the illustration below is from another building designed by Gaudi.