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1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die by Richard Cavendish (Editor), Koichiro Matsuura, Koichiro Matsuura (Preface by)

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  • Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
  • Pub. Date: April 2008
  • ISBN-13: 9780764160448
  • Sales Rank: 88,858
  • 960pp
 
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Synopsis

Both casual travelers and dedicated history buffs will relish this visitor's guide to palaces, cathedrals, temples, battlefields, homes of great artists and statesmen--places and monuments that bear witness to thousands of years of human history. Packed with vivid color photos and detailed textual entries 1001 Historic Sites carries its readers off to places that include:

  • Prehistoric Sites: Stonehenge, England; the Lescaux Cave Paintings, France, and others
  • Battlefields: Waterloo, Belgium; Gettysburg, U.S.A.; Hastings, England; Ypres, Belgium, and others
  • Buildings and Monuments: St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow; Nishi Hogan-Ji (Buddhist temple), Kyoto, Japan; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; the Eiffel Tower, Paris; the Empire State Building, New York City; the Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy; the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem; the Pyramids, Egypt; and many others
  • Homes of the Famous and Infamous: Mozart's Birthplace, Salzburg, Austria; Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, England; Jane Austen's home, Chawton, England; Hitler's retreat at Berchtesgaden, near Munich, Germany; and many others

    1001 Historic Sites makes a great book for browsing, an idea-packed source for vacation planning, a handy reference volume for students of history, and a sheer pleasure for the general reader.

    Biography

    Richard Cavendish is an authority on BritainÂ's historic heritage and a regular columnist in the British magazine History Today. As both author and editor, he has contributed to many travelersÂ' guidebooks.

    Koichiro Matsuura is Director-General of UNESCO.

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