Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders: 1

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I realize that this is inevitable with a book fo this sort - everyone is fascinated by different things.

Thuras and Foer met in 2007, and soon discussed ideas for a different kind of atlas, featuring places not commonly found in guidebooks. Whether you want to swim in a lake full of jellyfish, enjoy a swing ride in a cooling tower that’s part of an amusement park in the grounds of a nuclear power plant or take a zip line to school, this book has got you covered.

Dies hat mir gefallen, denn so bekommt man gleich einen Bezug, wie groß das Land im Vergleich zu anderen ist und wo auf der Welt es liegt. And having read several cool-blog-got-a-book-deal books, this is decidedly in the better half of that genre, which tends to be shit, because blogs and books are very different media, and they often can’t be translated from one to the other.

It informs us on every page of something we never knew - and paints a rich panorama of what a marvellously strange world we live in. I skipped ahead to the bit about California and read something about the city of Guadalupe being in the Colorado Desert. Created by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, ATLAS OBSCURA revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious.For example, it instructs you take a harness to the Caminito Del Rey, but no safety equipment has been required (other than a hard-hat, provided upon entry) since it's reopening in 2015.

Mit kurzen, prägnanten, informativen, aber dennoch humorvollen Texten schüren die Autoren Neugier, Interesse und Faszination für die Welt und ihre ungewöhnlichen Orte sowie atemberaubende Naturspektakel.After covering consumer technology at CNET she hosted Rocketboom NYC, a web show about New York’s quirkier people and places. This book should be read wherever you find yourself right now, at a bus stop, in the schoolyard or even at the kitchen table. There is an entire world out there that I haven't seen (though I have seen my fair share) and I intend to see as much of it as possible before I'm done.