Strange world amazing places
Subtitle: a tour of earth's marvels and mysteries
Publisher: Reader's Digest
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Balmain, N.S.W
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781921077524
Subjects: Geography; Miscellanea; Curiosities and wonders
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Our incredible earth (Mont Blanc ; Frasassi Caves ; Great Western Erg ; Namib Desert ; Ruwenzori ; Krakatoa ; Galápagos Islands ; San Andreas Fault ; Grand Canyon ; Meteor Crater ; Rainbow Bridge ; Monument Valley ; Petrified Forest ; White Sands ; Badlands ; Surtsey); title: Monumental wonders (Alhambra ; Mont St-Michel ; Assisi ; Neuschwanstein ; Delphi ; Mycenae ; Knossos ; Hagia Sophia ; Troy ; Tomb of Tutankhamun ; Jerusalem ; Petra ; Mecca ; Takht-i Sulaiman ; Samarkand ; Taj Mahal ; Potala ; Shwe Dagon Pagoda ; Angkor ; Forbidden City ; Great Wall of China ; Teotihuacán ; Copán ; Machu Picchu); title: Watery worlds (River Nile ; Red Sea ; Ganges ; Galápagos Rift ; Great Barrier Reef ; Ross Ice Shelf ; Milford Sound ; Casiquiare Waterway ; Sargasso Sea ; Amazon River ; Iguaçu Falls ; Blue holes ; Strokkur) ; Riddles & symbols (Giants of the hills ; Stonehenge ; Carnac ; Chartres ; The Externsteine ; Giza ; Great Zimbabwe ; Hong Kong ; Uluru (Ayers Rock) ; Easter Island ; Earth mounds ; Nazca lines ; Mazes & labyrinths); title: Timeless landscapes (Haleakala Crater ; Giant's Causeway ; Metéora ; Mount Ararat ; Cappadocia ; Nefta Oasis ; Great Rift Valley ; Kilimanjaro ; Vale of Kashmir ; Himalayas ; Mount Fuji ; Shenandoah Valley); title: Legendary realms (Camelot ; Avalon ; Elsinore ; Atlantis ; Shangri-La ; Garden of Eden ; El Dorado).