Atlas of Natural Wonders: A Guide to the World's Most Sensational Sites

Perhaps, if you could afford to go anywhere on earth for your holidays, you might consider buying a copy of this book. Then you could spend the rest of your life's vacations visiting the 52 most outstanding natural wonders that the earth is able to provide. My only disappointment was with trying to marry the word "Atlas" in the book's title with the content. By it's very definition, any Atlas is a book of maps or charts and this is the first time I have ever picked up anything claiming to be an Atlas where there are "NO" maps whatsoever. Not one. Secondly, the 52 chosen sites are put together in no apparent order - logical or otherwise. For example, in successive chapters we visit Ayers Rock in Australia, Mount Fuji in Japan and then it's all the way back to Australia for the Great Barrier Reef. More preferable would have been to depict each of the sites in question as a number shown on a map of the world - and then to visit each of those numbers in turn as though it were a single journey. Nevertheless, this is still a first class book which - but for a slight lacking in organisation, could so easily have scored a full 5 stars. The content is still there, the outstanding photographs are still there and so are the facts surrounding an incredible selection of places. NM