The Bottom Line
- Great descriptions!
- Location and best times included on each place.
- More photos would be welcome.
Description
- Short interesting descriptions on suggested locales throughout the world that are worthwhile to see.
- Well-organized continent-by-continent, country-by-country, state-by-state.
- Great for the armchair traveler or to plan your life-long travel itinerary.
Guide Review - 1,000 Places To See Before You Die
Author, Patrica Schultz, already a published travel writer as co-author of "Made In Italy" and former "Frommer's Berlitz" and "Access" travel guides, is obviously a first-class world traveler. In the book, she includes famous and not-so-famous locales which she manages to present in concise easy-to-read reviews. Whether you'll find her selections on or off the beaten path, you're sure to find them interesting.
Florida is well-represented in "1,000 Places To See Before You Die." Besides the obvious "must sees" like Disney World, the Kennedy Space Center, the Everglades, and Key West, Schultz offers glimpses into one of the south's best all-inclusive beach resorts and a family-owned crab house.
Where I think Schultz misses the travel boat, in Florida anyway, is not including more of the kitschy locations. They are a dying breed themselves. After all, who wouldn't want to see a mermaid (at Weeki Wachee) in their lifetime. And, maybe you wouldn't need to worry about dying at all if you visited and drank from the Fountain of Youth in St. Augustine.
