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LIFE Dream Destinations | 100 Of The World’s Best Vacations

by Scott on April 26th, 2008

I know this may be something a little better suited for the Travel & Culture Channel but I was given an opportunity to review this book and do a promo on it. Below my review is the press release for the book.

LIFE always brings pictures and text in books together in a beautiful way, everyone knows that. Dream Destinations is no exception. This book is filled with some of the most beautiful pictures of 100 Dream Destinations as they state. Africa’s Victoria Falls is always an exhilarating scene whether it’s in a book, on TV but I imagine nothing is more sureal than actually being there. Borneo’s Rainforests, Cape Town, the cover picture of Captain Cook’s Polynesia, Beijing’s Forbidden City, The Netherlands and Transylvania are just a few of the 100 Dream Destinations you can see within this book.

Cooperstown NY, a town I’ve been to a few times as a child, holds some great places to visit such as The Farmers Museum where you can take a tour of an 18 century style town where everything is done authentically as they did back then. Even some of the buildings in the tour were brought in piece by piece and rebuilt. Historic Doubleday Field is just steps away from on of my favorite places we used to go on school field trips…The Baseball Hall Of Fame! Where else can you see Babe Ruth’s original Yankees uniform among thousand of other baseball artifacts so to speak. The book even states “For problematic reasons Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens may never get in-but you can!”. There are many other places in Cooperstown to visit. I do recall somewhere around or in Cooperstown a Life Saver Candy factory if I’m not mistaken. I’m not sure if it is still there or active but it was always fun going by and seeing this giant Life Saver.

I’m not a big book buyer of this sort but I’m very happy that I got this opportunity to do a review on this book and sit with my 1 and a half year old daughter who loves books and flip through it and enjoy the beauty of places that I will probably never see in my lifetime. If your a collector and/or reader of books of this type I would highly recommend picking up Dream Destinations for you collection and reading enjoyment.

LIFE’s Dream Destinations:

100 of the World’s Best Vacations

—Visit Snowdonia and Reykjavik , Rajasthan, Denali, The Forbidden City and Cuzco ,

As Well as Six “Impossible Dream” Destinations, from Your Living Room—

­—ETA: May 1, 2008—

New York, NY — Paradise . Xanadu. Oz. They don’t hold a candle to the 100 real-life examples of heaven on earth found within the pages of Dream Destinations: 100 of the World’s Best Vacations.  The latest release from iconic LIFE comes in the form of a stunning, oversized hardcover book.  Transporting readers around the globe to little-known gems such as the Masai Mara and iconic wonders like Montezuma, this must-have hits bookstores May 1. 

Over 100 alluring photos are complemented by evocative text, which provides further understanding of the culture and history, cuisine and accommodations, and lifestyle and lore of each storied locale.  

“Working on Dream Destinations was a dream assignment,” says LIFE Books editor Robert Sullivan. “We got to travel to the most wondrous places in the world, right in our offices. Now we hope to share that experience with LIFE’s readers.”

A book of distinctions—experiences, places and imagery—Dream Destinations is organized by specific types of vacations for easy navigation:

• For Families. Destinations include London , Orlando , and Snowmass in Colorado
• For Culture Vultures. Giverny , France ; Lenox , Massachusetts ; and Nanjing , China
• For Sightseers. The Bosporus Strait, Ireland’s Burren, and Le Marche , Italy
• For Sporty Types. Golfing in Oregon and white-water rafting in the Sun Kosi River in Tibet
• For History Buffs. Captain Cook’s Polynesia and Crete
• For Romantics. Montreal , The Point in the Adirondacks, and Saint Lucia

LIFE has also selected six of “The Impossible Dream” destinations that go above and beyond.  For Families, that destination is Space; for History Buffs, Lost Atlantis; for Romantics, Kennedy Cottage in Montecito, California.

With many of the dream destinations located here in North America, readers will have to fight the urge to jump right into their cars.  North American sites include New York City , Montreal , the Riviera Maya, Memphis , Napa Valley , and the Kalaupapa Peninsula .

Dream Destinations publishes on May 1, 2008 and is available at www.life.com/dreams and wherever books are sold for $29.95.

About LIFE

LIFE Books vigorously carries on the traditions of excellence in photography, in journalism, and in telling the story of our country and our world which began with LIFE magazine in 1936 by founding editor and publisher, Henry R. Luce. LIFE Books publishes six to as many as 10 hard- and soft-cover books each year, as well as new volumes of the New York Times #1 Best Seller LIFE: Picture Puzzle. LIFE Books is charged with forwarding the legacy of the great American magazine, and this is a charge it takes seriously.

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