{"id":4486,"date":"2017-02-11T00:33:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T00:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelwithachallenge.com\/?page_id=4486"},"modified":"2018-01-26T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T01:00:43","slug":"review-earthbound","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.travelwithachallenge.com\/?page_id=4486","title":{"rendered":"Review Earthbound"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Rediscovering the World<\/h2>\n<p>With great writing from the best of Rough Guides&#8217; stable of authors, <em><strong>Earthbound: A Rough Guide to the World in Pictures<\/strong><\/em> (ISBN: 978-1-84836-194-2) captures the essence of travel: why we do it, what we get out of it, and the sheer richness and pleasure of the world at large. Rough Guides&#8217; photographers have traveled to every corner of the globe &#8230;. their mission to capture the spirit of a place, its people, its sights and monuments, its heart and soul. Mission accomplished!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelwithachallenge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Earthbound400.jpg\" alt=\"Book review: Earthbound: A Rough Guide to the World in Pictures.\" width=\"400\" height=\"395\" \/>With this 265-page large format book published in 2009, Rough Guide has cherry-picked its library of hundreds of thousands of accumulated images, recognizing that some were so outstanding that they deserved to be in a book of their own. Hence, the concept of <em>Earthbound<\/em> took shape. All pictures are about a specific location with longitude\/latitude coordinates given so you may find it with Google Maps online and go there instantly.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nEarthbound<\/em> is a visioning book, not a nuts and bolts volume, designed to make you smile, exclaim and even laugh out loud, peppered with mini-stories by the photographers and writers who encourage viewing the world with different eyeglasses.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a &#8220;snapshot&#8221; from Lydia Evans, photographer for <em>The Rough Guide to Paris<\/em>: &#8220;I started the morning in Oscar Wilde&#8217;s bedroom, lying on the bed, trying to find an angle to shoot the gorgeous peacock wallpaper without too much reflection. Next, I popped by to see <em>Mona Lisa<\/em>. Tired of the endless tourists, she barely smiled. My brief was to turn the camera on the snappers! There were some puzzled expressions and a few huffs and puffs, but I stood my ground in a prime position up against the rope until I got my shot.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rediscovering the World With great writing from the best of Rough Guides&#8217; stable of authors, Earthbound: A Rough Guide to the World in Pictures (ISBN: 978-1-84836-194-2) captures the essence of travel: why we do it, what we get out of it, and the sheer richness and pleasure of the world at large. Rough Guides&#8217; photographers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelwithachallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelwithachallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelwithachallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelwithachallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelwithachallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelwithachallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15512,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelwithachallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4486\/revisions\/15512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelwithachallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}