This ten pound baby (I stood on the bathroom scale with it and used it to hold a poster flat) gives serious meaning to the concept `Coffee Table Book', but it's a big world out there Momma and if you're going to call a book THE Travel,it had better be impressive. A huge and dynamic undertaking by our Lonely Planet pals, this second edition opulent treasure chest sparkles with photographic gems for every nation in the world (there are 229 including the 11 small dependencies tossed in as appetizer) from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The book's goal is to present a "subjective" view of the world--which if you think about it, is very Lonely Planet.See the rest of this review at Wanderlust and Lipstick, [...]