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Atlas of the World: Sixteenth Edition Review

High quality and much entertaining world atlas. You can spend lots of hours on it. The presentations are clear and easy to follow. What's lacking is the depth of details of the maps. This atlas loses out to those atlases like National Geographic, Times and Hammond which show better details of every location comparatively.
Having mentioned that, nothing beats the price of this atlas - the most cost-effective atlas in its class.

Atlas of the World: Sixteenth Edition Overview

The only world atlas updated annually, guaranteeing that users will find the most current geographic information, Oxford's Atlas of the World is the most authoritative resource on the market. The Sixteenth Edition remains the finest international reference source of its kind available. Including new census information, dozens of city maps, gorgeous satellite images of Earth, and a geographical glossary, this atlas offers exceptional value at a reasonable price.
Full of crisp, clear cartography of urban areas and virtually uninhabited landscapes around the globe, the Atlas has maps of 69 cities and nearly 100 different regions at carefully selected scales that give a striking view of the Earth's surface. Opening with world statistics and a colorful, instructive 48-page Introduction to World Geography--beautifully illustrated with tables and graphs--this acclaimed resource provides details on such topics as climate, the greenhouse effect, plate tectonics, agriculture, population and migration, and global conflicts. As in years past, this edition includes the latest geographic information. The popular satellite image section has been refreshed with stunning new images of different regions and urban areas. A completely updated Gazetteer of Nations provides an invaluable A-Z reference of concise country profiles, including statistics on economies, politics, and historical profiles.
Providing the finest global coverage available, the Atlas of the World is not only the best-selling volume of its size and price, but also the benchmark by which all other atlases are measured.



· Interior pages designed for heightened accuracy and ease of use



· Detailed city plans and country profiles make it the ultimate geographic reference

The Design
Oxford's Atlas of the World is a sturdy, high-quality, large-format book that is filled with crisp cartography, spectacular satellite imagery, and a wealth of information on changing conditions around the planet.

The Special Sections
Oxford's Atlas of the World provides an extensive intro to World Geography, up-to-date information on current events of geographical significance, captioned satellite images of the Earth, facts and figures on every sovereign state, and detailed coverage of 69 major urban areas.

The Quality of Information
Oxford's Atlas of the World is the only world atlas that is updated annually, guaranteeing that users will find the most current geographic information. It is the most authoritative resource on the market and offers the most current global information available today through a combination of statistics, maps, and photographs.

The History
Oxford University Press is known around the world for excellence, tradition, and innovation. The Atlas of the World is the best-selling volume of its size and price and the esteemed benchmark by which all other atlases are measured.

The Price
You receive a lavish, top-quality product at an excellent price that is comparable or lower than the main competitors.

Atlas of the World: Sixteenth Edition Specifications

The sixteenth edition of the Oxford Atlas of the World is chock-full of page-turning information, including new census data, dozens of city maps, updated country profiles, the latest statistics on climate change, gorgeous satellite images of Earth, and an instructive 48-page Introduction to World Geography--beautifully illustrated with tables and graphs. Providing the finest global coverage available, the Oxford Atlas of the World is not only the best-selling volume of its size and price, but also the benchmark by which all other atlases are measured.

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The Solar System was formed about 5 billion years ago, when a spinning cloud of gas, mostly hydrogen but seeded with other heavier elements, condensed enough to ignite a nuclear reaction and create a star.

Sometimes called “The Crescent City,” New Orleans is situated between the south bank of Lake Ponchartrain (the largest in this view) and the Mississippi River.

This image shows glaciers flowing from the snow covered Himalayas on the northern Bhutan border.

This image shows just two of the more than 115 world city maps included in the Oxford Atlas of the World.

This diagram shows the wars fought around the world since 1945.

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Customer Reviews

great!!! - Julian Trejos Zelaya -
It's a wonderful book to have a t home, I bought this a s a gift for my mother, she's very pleased. I couldn't beleive the price, it's so low.



The best for the price - R. Larsen - Santa Cruz, CA, USA
This is an abosolutely top notch atlas and the best for the price of all that we looked at.



Amazing Book! - Carin A. Snell -
I got this book for my 12-year-old daughter for Christmas. She loves that the book will display the satelite image of an area of the Earth then a map on the following page. It's nice to be able to flip back and forth to the satelite image so that you know what you're looking at.


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How the States Got Their Shapes Review

One on those topics you don't think much about, then you get hooked and want to know everything. Excellent book, enjoyed every state!

How the States Got Their Shapes Overview

Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake?

We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities—the entire state of Maryland(!)—have become so engrained that our map might as well be a giant jigsaw puzzle designed by Divine Providence. But that's where the real mystery begins. Every edge of the familiar wooden jigsaw pieces of our childhood represents a revealing moment of history and of, well, humans drawing lines in the sand.

How the States Got Their Shapes is the first book to tackle why our state lines are where they are. Here are the stories behind the stories, right down to the tiny northward jog at the eastern end of Tennessee and the teeny-tiny (and little known) parts of Delaware that are not attached to Delaware but to New Jersey.

How the States Got Their Shapes examines:

• Why West Virginia has a finger creeping up the side of Pennsylvania
• Why Michigan has an upper peninsula that isn't attached to Michigan
• Why some Hawaiian islands are not Hawaii
• Why Texas and California are so outsized, especially when so many Midwestern states are nearly identical in size

Packed with fun oddities and trivia, this entertaining guide also reveals the major fault lines of American history, from ideological intrigues and religious intolerance to major territorial acquisitions. Adding the fresh lens of local geographic disputes, military skirmishes, and land grabs, Mark Stein shows how the seemingly haphazard puzzle pieces of our nation fit together perfectly.

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Customer Reviews

Not quite what I expected - Unknown - Illinois
I expected a more 'fun' approach to the topic. I do appreciate the detail offered for each state. It could have been about 1/2 the length though, since sections are basically repeated (often shortened though) for neighboring states. No footnotes or citations in the text. One thing that I thought was lame was the title page for each state. There were questions like "Why does this border have a section missing? Why does it suddenly go north?". They added nothing to the text, but are easily ignored. Must've been the editor's idea.



Interesting, But Dry - Steve Dickerson - Chicago, IL United States
Reading this book will automatically get you ten thousand nerd points, which is a good thing as far as I'm concerned, but it's probably not high on most peoples' priority list. I enjoyed How the States Got Their Shapes, but I wouldn't say it was a "fun" read. Finding out why our states have the borders they do is interesting and informative, and it really made me wish I'd paid more attention in my high school history class (how much do *you* remember about the French and Indian War?). Actually, it was a great refresher for me in terms of a lot of that early American history, and I get the feeling that Stein has clearly done his homework here. The problem is that this book skews much more towards an accounting of facts rather than an engaging narrative, so it winds up being very dry reading. Even the exciting parts aren't written in an exciting way - you just have to use your imagination to picture the drama and suspense that must have accompanied the early days of our nation. Nevertheless, if you're the kind of person who's ever looked at a map of the US and wondered, "Why on earth is the Upper Peninsula part of Michigan?", then you would probably like this book.



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Great book and very interesting. Fast shipping. Wrapped great. Would buy from again.




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101 Places Not to See Before You Die Review

Author Catherine Price has put together an eclectic collection of places that she, and several guest contributors, recommend that we don't bother visiting.

You might be saying, "But the world is out there to be explored: good, bad, and ugly." And I admit we were somewhat skeptical of the book's intent at first.. .but then came the chuckles and that led to laughing right out loud. After all, how can one read a book that includes "The Testicle Festival" (held each year at the Rock Creek Lodge outside Missoula, Montana) or "The Amsterdam Sex Museum" and not laugh?

I disagree with many of Price's slam-dunks on places; for instance, she seems to have written off the whole state of Nevada -- a place where we recently completed one of the best road trips imaginable; or the Mummy Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico (so. . .it's not for the squeamish, but we thought it was interesting). Several items such as the smell of the (San Francisco Bay Area) BART rapid transit train carpet or 'an AAA meeting when you are drunk' seem almost to be 'fillers' and detracted from excellent tales such as the night spent at a Korean temple (that one had me laughing out loud).

However, she's included a good number of places -- such as The Gum Wall tucked away in an alley near Seattle's Pike Place Market -- that I'd never heard of before.

Each place gets no more than 2- 3 pages in the book making it a great over-all quick read. It might be the perfect gift for some travel-fanatic friend of yours who always is looking for some new off-beat destination; or for one who prefers the armchair to airline seats.

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Because bad places make good stories

The Testicle Festival • Garbage City • Rush Hour on a Samoan Bus • Y our Boss's Bedroom • Ibiza on a Family Vacation • Stonehenge • The Road of Death • A North Korean Gulag • Fucking, Austria • And 92 More!

From the Grover Cleveland Service Area to the Beijing Museum of Tap Water to, of course, Euro Disney, 101 Places Not to See Before You Die brings you lively tales of the most ill-conceived museums, worst theme parks, and grossest Superfund sites that you'll ever have the pleasure of not visiting. Journalist Catherine Price travels the globe for stories of misadventure to which any seasoned traveler can relate—including guest entries from writers such as Nicholas Kristof, Mary Roach, Michael Pollan, Rebecca Solnit, and A. J. Jacobs—and along the way she discovers that the worst experiences are often the ones we'll never forget.

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Customer Reviews

Possibly for those who live in a bubble - Elliott Bäck - New York, NY USA
Catherine Price's biggest gripe with the world is that it's just too damn dirty! 101 Places Not to See Before You Die is a germaphobe's view of the world, a pretentious trip into foreign culture that denigrates any experience that intrudes into her comfort zone of clean.

Some choice quotes:

- "When I hear about a destination whose main attraction is giving you the chance to kiss a piece of stone that's been kissed by hundreds of thousands of people, that is not something that I personally need to do"
- "I'm sorry to interrupt, but how is wiping my bowl with a radish going to make it clean? What about germs?"
- "The irony of the whole museum is that Beijing's water is not safe to drink from the tap"

I'd rather name it "101 places I went to and didn't like" by "Pretentious Hipster." If anything, you can use this book as a guide to things you might find interesting, and might even want to see! Every traveler is different; if you have a curious bone in your body, you will want to ignore 101 Places' advice.



slams the whole state of nevada! - Aramis - las vegas
Just like that, this author writes off my beloved state of Nevada. How could she? I know she is to be taken with a grain of salt, but really? the whole state? Her points: too much desert. does she know that the desert can be beautiful? Has she been to the valley of fire or red rock canyon? Has she been here in Vegas in October the best month to visit? How about northern NV Reno lake Tahoe etc. In her attempt to be funny and sell books she comes off as ignoramus and a less than thorough with her subject. She offends a lot of people.






The Travel Anti-Bucket List - Dick Jordan - Marin County, California
What do "The Testicle Festival", "Your Boss' Bedroom", "The Wiener's Circle", and "Groper's Night on the Tokyo Subway" all have in common? They are chapters in Catherine Price's new book, 101 Places Not To See Before You Die.

Seven years ago Patricia Schultz gave us the ultimate travel "bucket list" with 1,000 Places To See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List. In the introduction to her "sequel", Price said that she decided to create an "antidote" to all of the "must-do" tomes that followed in the wake of Schultz' book, so she came up with "a list of places and experiences that you don't need to worry about missing out on."

Price didn't visit each of the 101 don't ever go there locations in her book; she "called on travel-loving friends, family members, and, in some cases, complete strangers to tell [her] about overhyped tourist sites, boring museums, stupid historical attractions, and circumstances that can make even worthwhile destinations miserable." Some chapters are actually a "Guest Entry" by another author: Michael Pollan, who wrote The Omnivore's Dilemma, contributed "The Worst Meal in Barcelona"; Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell, described the bureaucratic Purgatory she found herself in at "The Customs Office at the Buenos Aires Airport." And Brendan Buhler, staff reporter for the Las Vegas Sun, entices readers with "Fan Hours at the Las Vegas Porn Convention."

Most of us would deem a visit to "A Vomitorium", or being stuck on "The Top of Mount Washington in A Snowstorm", or landing on "Jupiter's Worst Moon" as a travel experience to be avoided. Bypassing "Hell" or an overnight stay in "Garbage City" seems like good advice. Skipping "An AA Meeting When You're Drunk" is a no-brainer. And what traveler would want to be trapped on "The Inside of a Spotted Hyena's Birth Canal"?

But some readers will will undoubtedly find that at least a few of Price's "anti-bucket list" choices rank among their most memorable travel venues. I'm sure that Euro Disney and the Winchester Mystery House have legions of fanatical fans. "Times Square on New Year's Eve" may not be Price's favorite place to celebrate the beginning of the new year, but are the throngs that gather to watch the famous ball begin its descent counting down to 12:01 a.m. mere fools? Devotees of Wall Drug, Mount Rushmore, and the Blarney Stone may be so incensed that they will set "vanity bonfires" and send Price's book from ashes to ashes.

I enjoyed visiting Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona, even though Price says that the "U.S. Park Rangers Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police named it the most dangerous national park in the United States" and that you have "to deal with the desert's 116-degree summer heat, venomous snakes, spiders, scorpions, centipedes, and of course, drug traffickers..." As as often can be said about travel, "your experience may differ from mine"; I had a good time there during March a few years back when the weather was fine and the nasty critters, bad bugs, and evil people were nowhere to be found.

101 Places Not To See Before You Die isn't really a guidebook for figuring out where not to go on your summer vacation. But it's a good "summer read" that will give you plenty of chuckles especially when you're stuck at the airport, or on the tarmac, two places you hope you not to find yourself even one more time before you die.



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St. Petersburg (Eyewitness Travel Guides) Review

The book helped me a lot on my visit to St. Petersburg as I don't know Russian. The maps have the street names in English and Cyrillic Also the street index. There is also a metro map with stations written in both languages. The metro map and phrase book at the end - should be written in bigger letters. The book is very colorful and helps you to identify the sights and find your way.
I didn't read all the history section which seems very detailed but for a traveler - there should be a summery page of the important events and people who had an impact on St. Petersburg's history and Architecture.
Information that I found lacking or should be improved (Only from my experience in the city and I didn't see or visit all the sites)
1.Yosupuv Palace - no information about the beautiful interior and collections (p. 120) A gallery or hall guide should be added.
2. There are three guided walks ( P. 133-139) but a very important one "Dostoevsky walk" ("Crime and Punishment") around the area of Sennaya Ploshchad is missing . there is a small map on p.115 with "sights at glance" without the buldings were Dostoevsky lived. There is a mention of him on page 123 with limited information.
A map, the walk and more information linking the area to the relevant books (" Crime & Punishment"," The Gambler" etc.) must be added.
3. Traskoe Selo or Pushkin (P.152-155) - no mention of the impressive Holocaust "Formula of Grief " also not on the map on page 155.

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DK Eyewitness Travel's full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled photography, 3-D mapping, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations.



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Customer Reviews

Best Travel Guides - Gad About Romana - Longwood, FL, USA & Rome, Italy
The "Eyewitness Guides" are the best travel guides I have ever used. I discovered them over 15 years ago and have been relying on them ever since. I own more than 15 of them, for major cities and countries throughout Europe. They are accurate and make travel much easier to plan if they are read in advance. I particularly like the architectural cutaways used for museums and sites of interest. The maps and geographical area breakdowns are also extremely helpful. I can't recommend them strongly enough.



From Russia with love - Dave -
We were planning to take a Russian River Cruise and wanted to have an advanced insite into what we were going to see.
This book as well as the Moscow book gave us knowledge to understand what we were going to see as well as giving us a method to review what we had seen and enjoy it further. We have found over the years that the Eyewitness books are the best books out there for us.



Great book series - Nick Zeragia - Manville, NJ United States
I have purchased couple books from DK eyewitness, like: Prague, New york and Egypt. I couldn't live out Saint Petersburg this amazing city. great book with wonderful pictures




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Prague (Eyewitness Travel Guides) Review

I love the Eyewitness series because the pictures and illustrations are both beautiful and informative. Also, I'm a visual learner so they are always appreciated. This book is no exception. If at any point I was confused about what I was looking at or where exactly I was, the images helped orientate me.

It took a little while to fully understand the maps of the different neighborhoods of Prague, but that may be because the city is not on a grid system. By the end of a week in the city, I only had to consult and not study the maps to find where I was headed. In any case, if you have the time to read through the book prior to opening up the maps while you're trying to navigate the streets, you'll greatly benefit. The Metro map is very helpful, too.

I found that the historical info provided for the major sites was thorough. Depending on your taste for information (or the time you have to spend at certain sites), it may be enough to warrant not renting an audio guide.

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Few cities have as much to offer as Prague, so it can be difficult to decide how best to spend your time, but the Eyewitness Travel Guide helps you to get the most from your stay. This guide will introduce you to Prague by locating the city geographically, setting modern Prague in its historical context. Learn about the city's main attractions and sights including a feature on the River Vltava. Discover other places around Prague with the day trips listed in the section Prague Area by Area. It is the carefully researched tips for hotels and restaurants, shops, markets, cafes, bars, entertainment and sporting events that separates this guide from the rest. Let the maps, photography and detailed illustration of the Eyewitness Travel Guide show you what others only tell you.

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Customer Reviews

Awesome travel book - reddog mom -
If this book doesn't get you excited about a trip to Prague nothing will. The pictures and info are great. Will be going in a few weeks and can't wait to put it to use.



Fantastic sightseeing book; go elsewhere for restaurant info - Penn C. Huston - Houston, Texas United States
We just returned from Prague and got real value from this book. The information on the sights was perfect for us. It helped prioritize our list of things to see, explained the layout of the city, and gave good background information. The book's emphasis on visual communication works better for me than the traditional purely narrative guidebook. The book also contains good street level maps for the central parts of the city. The walking tours were great.

The information on restaurants, however, was weak. It is out of date. I gather that the same is true of the hotel information but did not use it for that purpose. Rely on the web for up to date restaurant information.







Eyewitness Prague - J. Mount - Northwest Indiana
Like all Eyewitness Travel Guides, Prague is no exception. The history and culture are covered at the beginning of the book. Detailed town maps and points of interest are contained throughout. At the end of the book you'll find common terms, restaurant tips, and other useful information for navigating Prague. I always use Eyewitness Travel Guides when I travel outside the US.

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Retirement Without Borders: How to Retire Abroad--in Mexico, France, Italy, Spain, Costa Rica, Panama, and Other Sunny, Foreign Places (And the Secret to Making It Happen Without Stress) Review

Golson's book should be required reading for anyone considering retiring to a foreign country.

Essentially, the book is divided into three sections. The first deals with all the thorny issues (Why you might/might not consider moving, medical, housing, costs, and most importantly, your personal temperament) that should be taken into consideration if you are planning on becoming an ex-pat. The second and third sections are an in-depth look at the details of living in selected foreign countries. Section two deals with Latin American countries such as Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua and so forth. The third section is devoted to Europe with old stand-bys like France and Italy, but includes places one might not have considered such as Croatia.

In the two sections dealing with individual countries the details are not just the usual "let me describe the county, climate and people" treatment. An author who actually has lived in/is living in that country writes about each country. Therefore, each author is able to speak knowledgeably concerning culture, customs, living standards, government and bureaucracy, housing, cost of living, etc.

After the reader is lead through the facts of what they can expect in a specific country, they are then given an intimate view into actual life there through interviews with ex-pats currently living in country. These interviews are candid, giving the reader not only insight into the country, but into the psyche of Americans being interviewed. Golson does not attempt to censor his interviewees. What he does do is give numerous viewpoints from people who have varying perspectives/outlooks on their lives, their reasons for retiring abroad, their likes/dislikes about their "home," the people, culture, customs, and how they are managing in their new country, to name a few. In other words, these are personal "opinions," and should be taken as such. Learn to accept that if a person wants to rile against life, politics, or the number of dogs and cats for that matter, in the states, that is, "just their opinion." Forget being offended and move on because Golson has done what many writers of books concerning living in a foreign country have failed to do...giving the reader several unvarnished views, represented by a balance between good, bad and sometimes ambivalence. For instance, one couple he interviewed in Italy is struggling financially, but consider their life there as, "a dream come true." While another woman, from a couple who were also interviewed about Italy, will have the reader scratching their head wondering how anyone could be so naive as to think because she is of Italian descent, she would just naturally fit into a foreign country, that speaks a different language, and has totally different culture, customs and history? Is it any wonder she is disillusioned and disparaging?

Having once lived for several years in Europe, I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has ever considered retiring/moving/taking an extended stay outside the United States. If nothing else, it will get the reader to begin considering all aspects of a life in a foreign country, not just the picture-perfect-ones presented in most books dealing with living abroad.

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Barry Golson knows all about retiring abroad -- he and his wife, Thia, have lived in six different countries. Now they choose expatriate-friendly locales around the world for their low cost and their high quality of living and explain how to investigate and settle in each country with minimum hassle and maximum pleasure.

Taking you step-by-step through the process of researching, testing, and finally living abroad, the Golsons' practical how-to guide covers all the major issues, including health care, finances, real estate, taxes, and immigration. Each location is profiled by an expatriate writer who has made that country his or her home and who knows how to answer all the questions about living richly and economically in some of the world's most beautiful places.

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Customer Reviews

quick, enjoyable read - Randy Froehlich -
I enjoyed the book for learning where I did not want to retire to as much as where I might want to retire to.



A Bit Misleading - M. Scott - Virginia Beach, VA USA
I challenge the book's title, because the writers clearly maintained their political borders when writing the book. In 3 years as an expat, I have a completely different view of living overseas than those shared by the contributors to the book. It seems, whether intentional or unintentional, the selection of contributors was biased toward views held by those who might be categorized as "left wing" and seemed to have escaped the USA due to some political or religious persecution. No problem with that, and I feel sorry for them. Yet, there are an equal number, if not more, expats who like the USA, and politics played no part in their decision to move abroad. Some actually live overseas because it is fun and exotic. Their voices are largely left out of this book, so a good portion of the expat experience is not shared with the reader.

With quotes like, "we don't hang out with other expats," many of the contributors show a bit of chip on their shoulders. Most expats actually like hanging out with each other. That doesn't mean that they don't interact with the local citizens, it just means they are living without borders.

Additionally, the selection of informational sources seemed biased. Quoting the Vision of Humanity rating that shows the USA as being less peaceful than Mexico or Croatia is very misleading. Living in Mexico being more peaceful than living in the USA? Please. How deep do you need to look to find an organization called Vision of Humanity? I think adding these types of politically biased "surveys" was unnecessary.

Some people look to retire overseas because it is fun. Retirement should be fun, not political asylum. So, if you read this book, be warned that it is a partial picture of retirement outside the USA. And if you are looking for reading material that is objective and informative, remember you'll only be getting a partial view from this book.



excellent book - Arthur D. Youmans Jr. - Tulsa, Ok
This book is well-worth its modest purchase price for Americans considering retiring to a warm climate in a low-cost area of the world, before the U.S. out-of-control + trillion National Debt creates an economic disaster where hyperinflation allows your monthly pension check to purchase no more than half a Kit Kat candy bar.

Most of the countries listed in this book do NOT tax income from the U.S.A., including pensions, investment income or other passive income and some, like Panama, have better banking secrecy laws than Switzerland. The guy who said that "Death & taxes are the only way to escape the IRS" never read Golson's "Retirement Without Borders." :)

Even if you don't plan to move anywhere, the book gives you all the information you need to phantasize, in Walter Mitty fashion, about native gals in bikinis swinging palm leaves over your head as you relax on a warm, pristine beach in Pavones, Costa Rica, watching surfers looking for the perfect wave.





Just OK - Kevin B. - Portland, OR USA
Well written but not as good as his first book, Gringos in Paradies. It's more like a compilation of essays from others who have moved to different countries. Some of them are fairly negative about the US or have strong negative political points of view. Not really pertinent to the country they are suppose to be writing about. Some of the country reviews are pretty good. If you are interested, go to the book store and look through it before you buy.

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The Patisseries of Paris: Chocolatiers, Tea Salons, Ice Cream Parlors, and more Review

This is a wonderful book that combines a very organized review of a wide variety of pastry/ sweet/ snack shops in Paris, and a stunning collection of pastries and sweets that can be found at each shop. The book is not only gives respect to the pastry chefs as true artists, but can also serve as a tour guide while visiting the City of Lights- albeit a guide of the most wonderful sweet shops in Paris. The chapters of the book are divided into the regions- or arrondissement that Paris is divided into. A visitor to the city can simply look up the area or areas that they are in, such as closest to a favorite hotel- and visit the most fun looking shop in the chapter for that area! I simply can't do justice in trying to adequately describe the wonderful full-color photos of the beautiful pastries featured throughout the book. Suffice it to say the author gives credit in the book to the professional photographer who contributed. The photos would be suitable to proudly display framed on a wall! After reading this book, I dare you to pick just a few shops you "just have to visit!" Death- by chocolate- in Paris, sounds like something I could live with!

The Patisseries of Paris: Chocolatiers, Tea Salons, Ice Cream Parlors, and more Overview

Parisians know that a perfect pain au chocolat or wild strawberry tart is among life's greatest pleasures. But which patisserie has the most intensely flavored macarons, the most sophisticated chocolates, or a croissant that is truly beyond compare? In the pages of The Patisseries of Paris, you'll find the most enticing sweets in Pairs. You'll discover what time of day Parisians in the know get items as they come out of the oven, the museums with the most stylish cafes, and other charming spots for light meals. This is the essential guide for anyone who wants to experience French culture, bite by delicious bite.

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Customer Reviews

Almost Perfect - Mom of 2 -
This book was a fantastic travel companion for our "food tour" of Paris. The only con was that the information regarding Lenotre was incorrect. We planned to enjoy tea there primarily because of the pastry buffet...unfortunately there was no such buffet. In fact, our waitress told us this was only offered during the month of December. The lesson, of course, is to call ahead before you plan an afternoon around a recommendation from a book. If you are a foodie, however, this book is a MUST!






Better than Expected - Lisette - Annandale, New Jersey United States
The author's enthusiasm is palpable-beautifully photographed and conveniently arranged according to arrondissements. The index is very helpful since it's divided into shops with seating, what is open on Sunday, glaciers, etc. I was delighted to learn about " A Day in the Life of a Patissier" and explanations of the various types of coffee, ice creams and more. Since I have been to quite a few of the shops highlighted I found the reviews extremely accurate; one exception is Angelina that I found to be totally without charm and was not overly impressed with the pastries or hot chocolate. This is a book that I will definitely pack along with "The Plan" and Pudlo's restaurant reviews.



paris book - Musme R. Oneil -
The book was cut in the cover and went thru a few pages, look like they cut it with a knife in 3 ways. very bad

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