Review: Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

After reading this (very heavy) book, I'm under the impression it should have stayed in on-line form. There is no reason to spend paper on a collection of facts not united in any special way and chosen from a bigger collections for no apparent reason. Plus, some factual mistakes make the book even less appealing. Unsurprisingly also, this atlas makes the reader think that USA is the weirdest country in the world. Every state has more noteworthy "obscure" places most other countries! Including the whole of Russia, which is mostly just an uninteresting place-holder apparently between its European part and the Far East. Most of the places in the atlas are not enticing in the least, anyway. I would not visit most of them even going by, not to mention traveling specifically to them.

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