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Richard Cavendish, General Editor; Preface by Koichiro Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General - All books by this author B oth casual travelers and dedicated history buffs will relish this visitor’s guide to palaces, cathedrals, temples, battlefields, homes of great artists and statesmen—places and monuments that bear witness to thousands of years of human history. Packed with vivid color photos and detailed textual entries 1001 Historic Sites carries its readers off to places that include—
From the reviews: “Here’s a vacation challenge: Visit as many historical sites as you can. If you can’t get there by train, plane or boat, let your fingers do the walking through the 960 pages of this colorful, insightful book.” —Carol Parker, The Tampa Tribune, March 23, 2008 MEDIA COVERAGE From the Kirkus Reviews Feature interview with Richard Cavendish: It begins in Dawson City, a small town in Canada that birthed the Klondike Gold Rush. It ends with the imposing stone heads that dominate Easter Island’s Rapa Nui National Park. In between, armchair explorers will find almost 1,000 pages of stunning photographs and evocative thumbnail sketches of the world’s greatest historical sites. “It was absolutely desperate,” says historian Richard Cavendish of his daunting commission to choose the attractions that would make the cut. “When I drew up the original contents list and set off cheerfully on this job, I realized that 1,001 places is a hell of a lot of places when you’re trying to write them all down. We tried to spread them all around the world to the extent that we could and tried to make them as varied as possible so they weren’t all stately homes and churches.” Many of the sites correspond to UNESCO’s 851 World Heritage Sites, and the book earned a preface and high praise from Koïchiro Matsuura, the organization’s director general. It’s a doorstop-sized volume, but one Cavendish hopes will prove a valuable resource to travelers around the globe. “This isn’t a book that anyone will sit down and read from start to finish,” he says. “ I think it’s a book that you dip into from time to time when it’s nice to look at a few more entries. The ideal outcome is that someone reads an entry and thinks, ‘Gosh, that’s somewhere that I would really like to see for myself. ’ ” —Kirkus Reviews, May 1, 2008 About the Author: Richard Cavendish is an authority on Britain’s historic heritage and a regular columnist for the British magazine History Today. As both author and editor, he has contributed to many travelers’ guidebooks. (0764160443) Hardcover w/jacket / 960 Pages / 6 1/4 x 8 1/4 / 2008 |
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