{"id":5819,"date":"2018-01-08T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2018-01-10T10:36:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T10:36:02","slug":"coffee-table-books-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/coffee-table-books-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Travel Coffee-Table Books You Need in Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we’re\u00a0lacking inspiration, there\u2019s only one thing for it: a good book. While we\u00a0enjoy publications of all shapes and sizes (we don’t discriminate), there’s something\u00a0extra lovely about coffee-table books and the dreamy worlds they\u00a0gracefully\u00a0invite us to explore – and we’ve explored a lot. Thankfully, there\u2019s plenty of new awe-inspiring reads kicking around\u00a0at the moment. Read on to find out\u00a0the brilliant, unconventional\u00a0travel books that we are particularly\u00a0enjoying dipping into right now. Beyond impressing your friends when they pop round, these five coffee-table reads will inspire you to think about travel, and the world, in a different way. <\/b><\/p>\n

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Made in North Korea\u00a0<\/b>
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By Nicholas Bonner, Phaidon Publishing<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo via Phaidon<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Nick Bonner has been visiting North Korea for the past twenty years. He runs a travel company, Koryo Tours in Beijing, and regularly hosts groups in Pyongyang, the only North Korean city which allows foreign visitors. After a while, Bonner began collecting and storing the bits and bobs he found on his trips to DPRK – notes, brochures, tickets, luggage tags, food labels and the like – which, after two decades,\u00a0has amounted to quite the collection. <\/span><\/p>\n

In <\/span>Made in North Korea<\/i><\/a><\/strong>, Bonner shares his most intriguing finds, with the hundreds of state-controlled graphic\u00a0designs\u00a0published here\u00a0being seen by the rest of the world for the first time.\u00a0This book\u00a0is not your standard travel read (ie. you may not want to drop everything, book last-minute tickets and head to Korea asap), but it does\u00a0provide\u00a0fascinating insights into a secretive culture and group of people\u00a0very much\u00a0unknown to us.\u00a0One man\u2019s trash\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n

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For Friends\u2026<\/b><\/h4>\n

By Alessandra d’Urso & Alessandra Borghese, Steidl Books<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photos via Steidl<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n

It\u2019s not where you go, it\u2019s who you travel with. Okay, not entirely – none of us are going to be cheering about heading to an isolated and boiling hot desert, no matter how many\u00a0close friends are by your side\u00a0– but for the most part, it\u2019s true: the people make the trip. Author and freelance journalist Alessandra Borghese agrees. Her latest book, <\/span>For Friends<\/i><\/a><\/strong>,<\/span><\/i> is a chic homage to cosmopolitan friendships made and enjoyed in the most luxurious of settings. “Luxurious” being the operative word, with featured locations\u00a0including the Borghese palace in Montevettolini, Jacques Garcia\u2019s Ch\u00e2teau du Champ-de-Bataille in Normandy, and private islands on the Rosario archipelago in Cartagena. Stunning landscapes and suggestive portraits captured by another Alessandra (a photographer this time, last name d\u2019Urso) span ten booklets, which follow nine glorious weekend jaunts. This is definitely a book for the jetsetter. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Women in Trees<\/b><\/h4>\n

By Jochen Raiss, Hatje Cantz<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo via Hatje Cantz<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n

A curious behaviour overcame women in the 1920s. The activity\u00a0gained enough momentum to\u00a0continue all the way up to the \u201850s and no, it wasn\u2019t illegal. <\/span>Women in Trees<\/i><\/a><\/strong> features the best vintage photographs of, yes, women in trees. After discovering the trend through photographs he found while scouring flea markets, German collector Jochen Raiss is bringing the phenomenon to light with a collection of the best vintage snaps he\u2019s held onto in the genre. From jolly climbers to posed portraits, each shot has a story to tell, and may even inspire you to\u00a0climb a tree\u00a0of your own sometime soon.\u00a0This book\u00a0gives\u00a0a lesson on the importance of life’s\u00a0little joys.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The New York Times: 36 Hours, 125 Weekends in Europe<\/b><\/h4>\n

By Barbara Ireland, Taschen<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo via Taschen<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n

Tight on time? Prefer to violently jab a fork in your eye than spend\u00a0one more\u00a0minute figuring out\u00a0yet another itinerary? This is the\u00a0book for you. When it comes to organising weekend jaunts through Europe, look no further than <\/span>The New York Times: 36 Hours, 125 Weekends in Europe<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/i> The holy grail of European travel planners features 125 weekend trips in total, all of which reveal the expected and unexpected places to travel\u00a0through the continent. Tourists and well-worn travellers alike should nab this handy guide. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Beaches<\/b><\/h4>\n

Gray Malin<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo via Gray Malin<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n

Photographer Gray Malin takes his job seriously. So seriously in fact, that he\u00a0often hangs from a doorless helicopter with a camera in-hand just to capture the striking aerial landscape shots he has become known for. \u00a0His New York Times bestseller, <\/span>Beaches<\/a>\u00a0<\/i><\/strong>(in which Malin again risks life and limb in helicopters from coast to coast) reveals remarkable scenes of the world’s goings-on from above. It\u2019s an ode to summer that we\u2019ll never get over.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What coffee-table books do you have at home?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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