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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*

Celebrate the world.

229 countries & destinations to explore, 817 beautiful images to inspire - this international best seller features 100% all NEW images and text.

Bigger, brighter and bolder than ever, the second edition of Lonely Planet's definitive travel pictorial has been revised and updated to be even more inspiring than the last. The Travel Book captures the essence of every country on the planet through stunning photographs and atmospheric text. User-friendly A-to-Z coverage and double-page spreads of every country make this book a total delight - and an amazing gift. Includes cultural insights, key facts and maps. Also available in hardback, mini edition, and children's Not For Parents: The Travel Book - cool stuff to know about every country in the world

"It just reminds me how much of the world there is still to see" - Tony Wheeler, Lonely Planet founder, 145 countries visited and counting ...

'At a time when the world feels as if it's becoming a larger, more divided and increasingly impossible place to understand, let alone discover, The Travel Book is a reminder that the world is truly an amazing place.' The Age (Melbourne, Australia)

Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet.

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

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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Take a journey through every country in the world. 850 images. 230 countries. One complete picture.

With details of every United Nations-approved country in the world, and a few more principalities and dependencies besides, Lonely Planet's Travel Book is the ultimate introduction to a world of travel and the essential travel reference book for every household!

Each country is profiled by Lonely Planet's expert authors and features details of when to visit, what to see and do, and how to learn more about the country's culture from its film, music, food and drink. Every entry has a map and statistics about the country.

All brand new, incredible photography illustrates each country, depicting what life is like in each nation from photographic portraits of people, beautiful landscape photographs and vibrant street photography.

This premium packaged 448-page book with beautiful rainbow foil on the cover will make an impressive gift.

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, gift and lifestyle books and stationery, as well as an award-winning website, magazines, 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 they find themselves in.

TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 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)

• Print length 448 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Lonely Planet
• Publication date 1 Oct. 2016
• Dimensions 27.81 x 3.94 x 35.43 cm
• ISBN-10 9781786571205
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• ASIN ‏ : ‎ 178657120X
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lonely Planet; 3rd edition (1 Oct. 2016)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781786571205
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1786571205
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 27.81 x 3.94 x 35.43 cm
• 340 in World Atlases & Maps
• 946 in Travel Pictorials
• 2,954 in Travel Reference & Tips

About the authors

Lonely planet.

With over 150 million guidebooks in print, Lonely Planet is a trusted source for any traveler. Since our inception in 1973, we've inspired generations of travelers to discover amazing places and enabled curious travelers to get off the beaten paths to appreciate different cultures and become agents of positive change.

Robin Barton

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Joseph Bindloss

Joe Bindloss has been writing travel books for more than a decade, roaming across India, Nepal, Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe and Australasia. As well as writing guidebooks for Lonely Planet, Time Out and other publishers, Joe writes for numerous newspapers, magazines and websites, including the Guardian, the Independent, Wanderlust and Real Travel. Joe was born in Cyprus but grew up in rural East Anglia. He studied science and journalism in Brighton and London. Since then, Joe has lived all over the place, including in Chicago, Manila and Melbourne. He is currently based in Northeast London with his partner, press photographer Linda Nylind.

Stephen Lioy

When not in the field researching as a guidebook author, Stephen Lioy is a photographer, hiker, and travel blogger based in Central Asia. A “once in a lifetime” Eurotrip and post-university move to China set the stage for what would eventually become a semi-nomadic lifestyle based on sharing his experiences with would-be travellers and helping provide that initial push out of comfort zones and into all that the planet has to offer. Follow Stephen's travels at www.monkboughtlunch.com or see his photography at www.stephenlioy.com.

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Take a journey through every country in the world. 850 images. 230 countries. One complete picture.

With details of every United Nations-approved country in the world, and a few more principalities and dependencies besides, Lonely Planet's Travel Book is the ultimate introduction to a world of travel and the essential travel reference book for every household!

Each country is profiled by Lonely Planet's expert authors and features details of when to visit, what to see and do, and how to learn more about the country's culture from its film, music, food and drink. Every entry has a map and statistics about the country.

All brand new, incredible photography illustrates each country, depicting what life is like in each nation from photographic portraits of people, beautiful landscape photographs and vibrant street photography.

This premium packaged 448-page book with beautiful rainbow foil on the cover will make an impressive gift.

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, gift and lifestyle books and stationery, as well as an award-winning website, magazines, 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 they find themselves in.

TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 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)

• Print length 448 pages
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• Publisher Lonely Planet
• Publication date 18 October 2016
• Dimensions 27.81 x 3.94 x 35.43 cm
• ISBN-10 9781786571205
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• ASIN ‏ : ‎ 178657120X
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lonely Planet; 3rd edition (18 October 2016)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781786571205
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1786571205
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3 kg 160 g
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 27.81 x 3.94 x 35.43 cm
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About the authors

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With over 150 million guidebooks in print, Lonely Planet is a trusted source for any traveler. Since our inception in 1973, we've inspired generations of travelers to discover amazing places and enabled curious travelers to get off the beaten paths to appreciate different cultures and become agents of positive change.

Stephen Lioy

When not in the field researching as a guidebook author, Stephen Lioy is a photographer, hiker, and travel blogger based in Central Asia. A “once in a lifetime” Eurotrip and post-university move to China set the stage for what would eventually become a semi-nomadic lifestyle based on sharing his experiences with would-be travellers and helping provide that initial push out of comfort zones and into all that the planet has to offer. Follow Stephen's travels at www.monkboughtlunch.com or see his photography at www.stephenlioy.com.

Joe Bindloss

Joe Bindloss has been writing travel books for more than a decade, roaming across India, Nepal, Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe and Australasia. As well as writing guidebooks for Lonely Planet, Time Out and other publishers, Joe writes for numerous newspapers, magazines and websites, including the Guardian, the Independent, Wanderlust and Real Travel. Joe was born in Cyprus but grew up in rural East Anglia. He studied science and journalism in Brighton and London. Since then, Joe has lived all over the place, including in Chicago, Manila and Melbourne. He is currently based in Northeast London with his partner, press photographer Linda Nylind.

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Buzzy novels, compulsively readable non-fiction, and a few deliciously guilty pleasures.

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This season, you have no excuse for being without something good to read. Offerings include explosive novels, revealing memoirs, brilliant biographies, and everything in between. No matter what kinds of books you like, there's a title coming out this summer that's sure to be just what you're looking for.

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The Other Olympians

With the 2024 Paris Olympics on everyone's mind, we're in the mood to look back on the games' forgotten legends. Author Michael Waters covers nearly a century, revisiting the stories of Zdeněk Koubek, one of the fastest sprinters in European women's sports who declared that he was living as a man, and field athlete Mark Weston, also a trans man. After their transitions, the two became global celebrities but eventually faded in relevance. Waters cinematically paints the true story of the two and other trans athletes, while exploring how the Olympic Committee ignored the Nazi atrocities for the Berlin Games. Today, the conversation about trans athletes has taken center stage, and Water's subjects feel more relevant than ever.

Anne Frank, Sylvia Plath, John Updike, Julia Child… what did they all have in common? The brilliant editor Judith Jones, who catapulted their literary careers and turned them into household names. A new biography, using interviews and never-before-seen papers, charts Jones’s 50-plus years in the industry, which all began when, as a 25-year-old secretary tasked with drudging through manuscripts, she came upon the draft for what would become Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and convinced her boss to publish it. The rest, as they say, is history.

The Friday Afternoon Club

Griffin Dunne might be best known as an actor, producer, and director ( Practical Magic , anyone?) but in this funny, revealing, and fascinating memoir, he makes a strong case for himself as his storied family's latest brilliant writer. Here, Dunne recalls growing up in Hollywood with well known parents (and an arguably, frustratingly, better known aunt and uncle) and recounts the ups and downs of life among American royalty. But despite the charm of his relationship with Carrie Fisher or making movies with Scorsese, the heart of Dunne's story is his family, including his late sister Dominique, whose murder (and the subsequent trial for it) is explored with tenderness and heart.

I Want You More

If last summer's hit The Guest taught us anything, it's that nothing in the Hamptons is quite what it seems. That's an understatement when it comes to Zara Pines's summer in East Hampton, where she's gone to ghost write a cookbook for a celebrity chef and escape the troubles of her real life at home. But, much like food made for TV, not everything is as good as it looks on screen, and Zara finds herself pulled into a strange and unusual relationship with her new boss that changes everything. Bring some extra sunscreen, this one is going to be a scorcher.

Gabriel Smith's debut novel weaves together ideas about grief, growing up, and ghosts to create a smart, scary, and altogether unforgettable tale. In it, a young man also named Gabriel moves into his late parents' house to prepare it for sale, but in his time there discovers family secrets that aren't quite ready to be put to rest. It's a book about loss and the anxiety of the modern age, tinged with humor and deep insight that will stay with readers long after the last page is turned.

Peter Marino: Ten Modern Houses

He's worked with Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Tiffany & Co. You'd know him if you saw him: leather, leather, leather. Peter Marino is one of the most prolific architects of today, and this book chronicles his numerous commercial and residential projects. Author Sam Lubell profiles 10 individual residences, from New York to Aspen, Turks & Caicos, and more. What makes Marino so in demand? Now, you can see for yourself.

I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself

There's plenty of reading to do if you're looking to get into a Parisian state of mind, but this new memoir from T&C contributor Glynnis MacNicol should go to the top of the pile. After months of lockdown in 2020 New York City, MacNicol jumped at the chance to sublet a friend's place in Paris, and her book charts the fearless and fascinating adventures she made sure to have while she was there. And while there's plenty of wine, dancing, and international romance in these pages, there's also a bigger picture to consider—what would happen if you decided to free yourself of society's expectations and truly indulge? The results could be delicious.

Who among us hasn't spent some time wondering what if ? Jenny Green certainly has, and with her life in disarray and a milestone college reunion coming up, the thoughts about how things might have been different seem louder and more urgent than ever. But while life famously comes without a handbook, when Jenny arrives on campus she's pulled into an expected situation and given an actual memo on how to find all the success of which she ever dreamed. But is finding a shortcut actually the answer? In this smart, funny, and impossible to put down novel from T&C contributors Rachel Dodes and Lauren Mechling, we're forced to ask ourselves whether reaching the destination is worth foregoing the journey.

JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography

Much has been written and said about John F. Kennedy, Jr., though not all of it by people who actually knew him. In this new oral biography from RoseMarie Terenzio and Liz McNeil, JFK Jr.'s closest friends open up about who he was outside of the spotlight and what made him such a compelling figure that we're still besotted even 25 years after his untimely death.

Same As It Ever Was

Julia Ames has never really been at home in her own skin, but in her late 50s, she might be as close as she's ever going to get. That is, until her comfortable life—the one, it sometimes seems, for which she's just going through the motions—is upset by a family member's surprise announcement as well as the bubbling up of an old secret. Lombardo's charming, well-built, and engrossing story follows Julia through an incredibly difficult season and plumbs the depths of her unhappiness, reminding us all that what lurks beneath the serene facades of our friends and neighbors is always much more complicated than we can know.

Do Something

T&C contributor Guy Trebay might be best known for writing about the lives of others, but in this memoir, the writer shares his own story—and we should all be paying attention. Trebay writes beautifully about his childhood (both before and after his entrepreneur father struck it rich) and takes readers deep into the world where he escaped it, an exciting, dangerous, overwhelming 1970s New York where he spent time with some of the era's most celebrated characters and ultimately discovered himself.

Loving Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath is best remembered as a genius poet and novelist, but her legacy comes with an asterisk. That's due in part to her death by suicide at 30 years old, but also to the way that her story has been told. In this book, the scholar Emily Van Duyne takes a deeper look at Plath and does away with the trappings of her sad-girl persona—perpetuated, in many ways, by Plath's husband, the writer Ted Hughes—to focus on her accomplishments and the enduring power of her work. This book is part celebration and part repossession, looking at the writer on her own terms instead of through the lens for her that others have created.

The Imagination Muscle

For those of us who grew up in a world before tablets and smart phones, it wasn't uncommon to be instructed to alleviate boredom by using our imaginations. In Albert Read's new book, he argues that imagination itself is a muscle that needs to be trained and used regularly, and that doing so can result in a fuller, more creative life. Read delves into the history of great imaginations from around the world and offers practical advice for expanding our own—the results could be, well, unimaginable.

Catherine de' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen

What does it take to lead a dynasty? For Catherine de Medici, it started with a bit of scandal. Don't get it wrong though: she was a patron of arts, often supporting poets and artists. She revived ruined buildings and made them lavish again. She entertained frequently and hosted tournaments that added to the splendor and rituals of the courts. But, she, the most powerful woman in the 16th century, was able to do this by using other women as bait to seduce courtiers for political ends, dabbling in the dark arts, and being the epitome of a scheming monarch. Author Mary Hollingsworth's biography gives us a juicy look into the life of one of the most powerful woman in history.

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

It is practically the birthright of every American to have a fascination with the Kennedys—and the infamous Kennedy curse. Maureen Callahan does us one better, stripping away the veneer of Camelot to present a searing, no holds barred account of scandal by zeroing in on the numerous destructions wrought by generations of Kennedy men against the women in their orbit. There are revelations about Jackie Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, and Carolyn Bessette, of course, but also about the various crimes committed against women outside the family too, including famous figures, like Marilyn Monroe, and lesser known individuals, like Martha Moxley.

Random House Long Island Compromise

The Fletcher family seems to have everything that anyone could want. There are sprawling houses, well-educated children, and a sterling reputation among friends and neighbors. But, of course, there's a dark spot: the long-ago kidnapping (and eventual, mostly safe return) of patriarch Carl has cast a shadow over the family for generations. In this smart, sprawling, darkly comic novel, the author of Fleishman Is In Trouble tells the tale of the Fletchers across the years, giving readers an intricate, unforgettable story of family, money, and faith, and how all three can wreak havoc even when it's least expected.

Anyone's Ghost

August Thompson's debut novel follows David, a New Hampshire teenager working at a convenience store, as he meets Jake, a cool, slightly older coworker, and his world is expanded. The friendship the two form is complicated and life-changing, and Thompson's touching, unforgettable story follows the two across the years as their relationship changes, but their shared history continues to hold them together.

We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay

Hiccups in air travel are never enjoyable. But, is there a way to turn a bad situation around? Gary Janetti's new book suggests that the answer is yes. In We are Experiencing a Slight Delay, Janetti takes his audiences around the world, recounting some of his own most memorable travel moments. There's the unexpectedly transformative stay at an Italian spa; a ride on the Orient Express to Venice; and a dinner with the actress Maggie Smith. It's not all just fun and games, however. Janetti meditates on the wonders of dining alone, and the fruitful experience of traveling to destinations that are diverse and unfamiliar. If the stories aren't enough for you, he also offers practical advice such as packing and how to get upgrades throughout your stay. Going somewhere? Don't forget to take this book with you.

Women in the Valley of the Kings

When one thinks of an Egyptologist, the idea that comes to mind might be of an Indiana Jones type academic, sprung from the classroom to dig for artifacts. In Kathleen Sheppard's fascinating new book, however, the world of women who helped uncover the secrets of Ancient Egypt is explored. Using travelogues, diaries, and maps, the rarely told stories of the women who helped create our understanding of the history of the world are brought to the forefront here, both correcting a lacking historical record and also sharing thrilling tales of adventure and discovery.

Adam Rathe is Town & Country 's Deputy Features Director, covering arts and culture and a range of other subjects. 

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The Umbrella Academy Season 4 Just Showed How The Hargreeves Regain Their Powers (& It Comes With Twist)

The umbrella academy season 4 desperately needs to explain 1 big thing it's currently ignoring, i can’t believe it took me 7 years to finally watch hbo’s best mystery drama from the last decade.

• The Umbrella Academy season 4 introduces time travel through the subway, solving a big comic book issue.
• The subway will take the Hargreeves to different points in time as a replacement for the Televator.
• The structure of the subway lines makes understanding the multiverse easier for the audience.

The Umbrella Academy season 4 is introducing a new way for the Hargreeves to travel in time, and thanks to it, the show is solving a big comic book issue. The Umbrella Academy has been full of twists and turns as the Hargreeves have done their best to stop the end of the world more than once, and they’re about to face their biggest mission in the show’s fourth and final season. The Umbrella Academy season 4 has many questions to answer and mysteries to solve, while also introducing new characters, weapons, and more.

Although plot details about The Umbrella Academy season 4 continue to be a mystery, the first teaser trailer gave viewers an idea of what to expect in the show’s final season. The Umbrella Academy season 3 ended with the Hargreeves landing on Reginald’s custom-made timeline, where he and his wife are alive, Allison has her daughter and her 1960s husband, Sloane is missing, and Lila and the Hargreeves are powerless. The Umbrella Academy season 4 has teased more time travel for the team as they try to fix this mess, and their new time travel transport solves a huge comic book problem.

The Umbrella Academy season 4 teaser trailer showed how the Hargreeves will regain their powers, this will come with a potentially dangerous twist.

The Umbrella Academy Season 4 Introduces Time Travel Through The Subway

The subway will take the hargreeves to different points in time.

It’s likely Five spent the years between seasons 3 and 4 investigating ways to return to their correct timeline and ended up discovering that the subway could take them back in time.

Up until now, the only ways for the Hargreeves to travel in time were through Five’s powers or with one of The Commission's briefcases – but Five will start season 4 without his powers and The Commission is no longer around. However, The Umbrella Academy season 4 teaser trailer has now revealed how the Hargreeves will time travel from now on, solving the mystery of why the promotional posters used subway maps. The trailer shows Five alone at a subway station, with Lila as they look at the map, and them coming out of a subway station and into a post-apocalyptic world .

It’s likely Five spent the years between seasons 3 and 4 investigating ways to return to their correct timeline and ended up discovering that the subway could take them back in time. The subway as a time travel machine in The Umbrella Academy season 4 is the perfect replacement for the Televator , which was teased in an Easter egg in season 2, where it was seen among Reginald’s plans back in 1963.

Why The Subway Works Better Than The Televator In Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy

The subway will do the televator’s work in netflix’s the umbrella academy.

The Televator is an elevator lift through which the users can travel through time and space and even different dimensions.

In the Umbrella Academy comic books, the Televator is an invention by Reginald. The Televator is an elevator lift through which the users can travel through time and space and even different dimensions, and is used multiple times in the comics. The Televator might already exist in the world of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy as, at the end of season 3, the Hargreeves and Lila exited an elevator and stepped into Reginald’s new timeline, though this could have also simply been added to bring the Hargreeves into the new timeline in a visually pleasant and coherent way.

The structure of the subway lines makes it easier for the audience (and characters) to understand the multiverse of The Umbrella Academy and how the many timelines connect and even overlap.

Despite being a fantasy series, Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy has been more grounded and realistic than its source material, and as such, the subway is a much better time travel alternative than the Televator. The structure of the subway lines makes it easier for the audience (and characters) to understand the multiverse of The Umbrella Academy and how the many timelines connect and even overlap, whereas the Televator would be a more square way of explaining these upcoming multiversal travels .

While it could still be possible that the Televator exists in The Umbrella Academy and could have a place in season 4, the subway as a time-travel transport will make the Hargreeves’ new mission a lot easier to follow and understand.

The Umbrella Academy

The Umbrella Academy is based on the comic book of the same name created by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá. The Hargreeves — collectively known as The Umbrella Academy — were born with superpowers, and their adoptive father utilized their abilities. However, as they grew older, the siblings grew apart as they dealt with their trauma. They are brought back together after their father dies and Five returns from the future with grave news: The world will end, and The Umbrella Academy has to stop it before it happens.