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The first edition of Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (ISBN 9780761169086) has somehow had its description changed to Chinese despite it being an English-language book. This needs to be changed. The correct description is as follows:

Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 600 of the most curious and unusual destinations around the globe.

Here are natural wonders – the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that’s so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M. C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils vault over rows of squirming infants.

Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan’s 45-year hole of fire called the Door to Hell, hanging coffins suspended off a cliff face in the Philippines, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England.

More cabinet of curiosities than traditional guidebook, Atlas Obscura revels in the unexpected, the overlooked, the bizarre, and the mysterious. Every page expands our sense of how strange and marvelous the world really is. And with its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, and maps for every region of the world, it is a book you can open anywhere. But with caution: It’s almost impossible not to turn to the next entry, and the next, and the next.

Let your curiosity be your compass.

English language default description restored. I think the display is cached, so wait 10-15 minutes to see it properly.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "English language default description restored. I think the display is cached, so wait 10-15 minutes to see it properly."

The correct description is now mostly there, but the last two sentences are missing and there aren't any paragraph breaks. Could you please add them? Thanks so much for your help.

Sorry. All I did was restore the original default description. I replaced it with the one you posted above.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Sorry. All I did was restore the original default description. I replaced it with the one you posted above."

Thanks so much for all your help!