These Travel Photo Coffee Table Books Bring Distant Lands Vividly To Life And Double As Travel Guides From Your Sofa
by Heather Cassell
Summer vacation beyond the borders of the United States and possibly the state we live in clearly has been forced to pull off the road with the pandemic this year.
The coronavirus, that causes COVID-19, that has become a global pandemic has crushed our summer plans not to mention the unknown foreseeable future as Europe and some other destinations ban Americans from visiting as the country’s reopen their borders.
Cooped up in our homes for four months and running out of projects to keep our minds off of our unexpected long staycation, Americans have taken to Instagram staging traveling from entering an airport to photo ops with a blown up photo of their dream destination as a backdrop. The Taiwanese took their desire to explore to another level by actually booking a flight and boarding a plane to nowhere just for the taste of travel.
Photo books are giving us another way to feed our wanderlust. Five new beautiful photo books, released within the past year, can help us escape, not physically, but in our imagination to far off destinations.
The Rough Guide To The 100 Best Places On Earth 2020
There are literally thousands of places around the globe worthy of seeing. As the world gets smaller and more affordable to traverse thanks to technology more places are opening up to explore. Narrowing down these destinations to 100 is tricky, but Rough Guide’s team managed to do it with a mixture of beloved destinations and lesser-known places in six regions to explore in its “The Rough Guide To The 100 Best Places On Earth 2020.”
Travelers will be inspired to pack their bags to visit distant lands and beloved destinations once we are allowed to roam again with this attractive coffee table book. Rough Guide’s team of editors, travel experts, and photographers take their audience on far off adventures to the Stone Town in Zanzibar Town and Ethiopia in Africa, the Nazca Lines in Peru, the Tuamotu and Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, the Taj Mahal, and the Great Barrier Reef. They take vacationers to well-known destinations like the Pacific Coast Highway, Berlin, Miami, New York, and Venice.
The cities, national monuments, and nature preserves are featured with stunning photography that highlight each place accompanied by brief descriptions of what makes each destination unique.
You will be transported with each turn of the page.
Hardcover, 232 Pages, Price: $18.99
100 Drives, 5,000 Ideas: Where To Go, When To Go, What To Do, What To See
The great North American road trip is captured in this photographic journey through the United States and Canada by Joe Yogerst and published by National Geographic. “100 Drives, 5,000 Ideas: Where To Go, When To Go, What To Do, What To See” is more than something pretty to look at on your coffee table, the book serves, as the title suggests, as inspiration to explore our own backyard as we stick close to home exploring within our own borders to satiate our wanderlust during the COVID-19 public health crisis.
Find your fortune along the gold and silver rush trails of Northern California and Nevada and explore the Sierra Mountains in Lake Tahoe, which straddles the Golden State and the Silver State. Road trip down the California Coast to Big Sur. Stop for a stroll through the Redwood forest. Motor along New Mexico’s Trail of the Ancients or Dinosaur Drive from Calgary, Canada to Denver, Colorado. Get your trip on with Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles.
You will find your American adventure on the great American road trip with this expert picturesque guide.
Paperback, 287 Pages, Price: $16.63
Frances Mayes Always Italy
Bestselling author Frances Mayes and travel writer Ondine Cohane personally guide readers on an Italian journey in “Frances Mayes Always Italy” latest adventure through the Italian landscape. Frances’ descriptions of Northern, central, and Southern Italy along with Ondine’s suggestions of where to stay and eat and what to do and see are paired with stunning National Geographic photos of the destinations featured in the photo book.
You will be swept away to Italy with every turn of the page with this book.
Hardcover, 416 pages, Price: $24.49
Dame Traveler: Live the Spirit of Adventure
Natasha Yakoub, founder of Instagram’s premiere solo female travel community @dametraveler, has compiled 200 of the best of the community’s solo girl travels in “Dame Traveler: Live the Spirit of Adventure.” The book not only features a diverse array of women – women of color, women of different nationalities, and women of all sizes – traveling solo to amazing destinations, it also offers tips for traveling solo and little factoids about the destinations featured.
This book will definitely inspire women to venture out into the world with each image.
Hardcover, 215 Pages, Price: $19.47
She Explores: Stories of Live-Changing Adventure on the Road and in the Wild
Interest in the great outdoors has never been greater than now and “She Explores: Stories of Live-Changing Adventure on the Road and in the Wild” has stories and photos that will inspire women to venture out into the wild.
Gale Staub, founder of She Explores outdoor women travel site and podcast and co-founder of the podcast Women on the Road with Laura Hughes, takes readers on a wild adventure on the road and through the untamed terrain in this photobook.
Gale along with 40 diverse women share their escapades on the open road accompanied by stunning photos. They talk about overcoming fears, healing from an injury,
This book will inspire any woman to venture out into the great outdoors with each photo and story.
Hardcover, 249 Pages, Price: $16.79
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