I love landscape photography and, as someone who’s never travelled outside of my country, I enjoy imagining all of the places I’ll travel when I stumble across the millions of dollars that have been hiding from me.
This book takes you around the world in 180 photos, highlighting some lesser known places. My travel bucket list has grown extensively as a result.
There’s the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto, Canada, with over 15 million items!
As someone who collects sea glass, I need to see Glass Beach in California. There are colours there I don’t have in my collection.
I definitely need to learn how to abseil so I can see the ‘heavenly light’ above the sinkhole in Jomblang Cave in Indonesia.
I want to wander around the Maol-bhuidhe bothy in Scotland and see Cueva de los Verdes, a network of lava tubes, in Lanzarote, Spain. I need to explore the island of Porto Santo in Madeira, Portugal.
Teufelsbrücke (‘Devil’s Bridge) in Rakotzbrücke, Germany fascinates me and I’ve wanted to see the Crooked Forest in Gryfino, Poland for years.
My favourite photo was of Thor’s Well in Oregon, USA.
Thank you so much to NetGalley and Amber Books for the opportunity to read this book.
Once Upon a Blurb
From the psychedelic salt mines of Yekaterinburg in Siberia to the rugged, green-tinted Copper Canyon in the Sierra Madre in Mexico, Hidden Places roams across the globe in search of hidden treasures and secret places off the beaten track. Explore the Silfra Deep Trench in Iceland, where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet to create a remarkable rift and freshwater dive site; experience the weirdest of woodland walks through the Crooked Forest in Pomerania, Poland, where a grove of 400 pines are uniformly curved; marvel at the colourful, gold-plated temple of Doi Suthep in northern Thailand; or visit the world’s highest sand dune, Grande Dune du Pilat, on the Bordeaux coast. Each location is accompanied by a caption explaining the geography and history of the place. Illustrated with 180 colour photographs, Hidden Places ranges from the sparse landscape of the Arctic Circle to the rich rainforests of the Amazon basin. Read this book and discover the special, hidden places that will come to define your bucket list – many of which are much closer to home than you think.
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