Life: Heaven on Earth: 100 Places to See in Your Lifetime

by LIFE, Robert Andreas (Editor)

Gorgeous full-color photography, accompanied by detailed descriptions, captures some of the world's most beautiful and intriguing travel destinations, ranging from Australia's Great Barrier Reef or Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro to the Grand Canyon and Nantucket Island. 25,000 first printing.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Photography, Reference

128 pages, Hardcover

First published April 4, 2006

About the author

Life was an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and as a monthly from 1978 until 2000. During its golden age from 1936 to 1972, Life was a wide-ranging weekly general interest magazine known for the quality of its photography.

Reviews

[Isabel Rebelo da Silva · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book to make you dream but also teach you geography and makes you search information. Easy to read and more a reference book, I LOVE LIFE Magazine books.

[Adam · Rating 1 out of 5]

Weak picture quality, poor slight descriptions, not the best inspirational travel book to pick up.

[Zach · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the photos could have better represented the selected locations. Also, indexing by "America" and "World" seemed strange.

Most of the selections were good, but a few weren't "heavenly."

[Nattapan · Rating 2 out of 5]

It must have been better if you added more explanations to all selected places.

PS. The locations of Krabi (Thailand) and Angkor Wat (Cambodia) on your map are inaccurate.

[Dray · Rating 4 out of 5]

beautiful book. 100 stunning places, each with a great photo and a one page, short description. As such it is really an index that sets the serious traveler to lloking at specific places in other sources. Still, nice quick overview.

PS - there are more than 100 places, but not in this book.

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The pictures are fun to look at. I wouldn't have minded more than one picture or more text about each location, though.

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful pictures of many places around the world. I've only been able to see a few of these sites.

[Jessica · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is more of a photography book than a travel guide. It has beautiful pictures, although I found this book to be a little predictable and also found that it centred too much on the United States. There are many beautiful places in the world and quite a few of those are found in the US - but there are a myriad of other places to be visited. But I guess that's Life Magazine perogative as the editor.

[Jimmy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a bad book, it has some nice pictures. However, one picture and a short paragraph isn't enough to "inspire" me to visit these places, which I understand to be the purpose of this book. Might have been better if they had used three or four pictures and two or three paragraphs per location.

[Eric Williams · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is supposed to a collection of the 100 best places to visit. While I'm sure many of these places would be nice, I really don't think a single photo and a few sentences do much for inspiration. Spending four or five pages on each destination might have helped make a better book.

[julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

How I decide where to go next.

[Melissa]

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[Caesaree · Rating 5 out of 5]

Certainly earmarked many of these pages. The photos are fantastico!

[Carolyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mostly great pictures!
Some pictures were not so great; e.g., Vienna was a photo of a statue. Wish there was more of a description for each picture.

[Jim Blessing · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book had extremely interesting pictures of must see destinations. The pictures were amazing!

[Nura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Curi-curi kesempatan di tengah deadline. Mengistirahatkan mata sejenak, berharap bisa menyambangi these heaven on earth suatu hari nanti. Aah...

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

WOW...wonderful photography...some interesting stories, too

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm a little (okay a lot) obsessed with seeing everyplace in this book!!