Atlas Of Holy Places & Sacred Sites

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Summary: Minaret of Djam was omitted
Review: I wish that the author had included a discussion of the Minaret of Djam, located in Ghor Province, Afghanistan.

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Summary: The Modern Pilgrims Travel Guide
Review: One of my top things to do on my "fantasy list" is to visit every sacred site listed in this informative book. I love the lay-out and ease of use of most "DK" books. This book is particularly interesting in that it gives a fairly decent summary of each holy site. It is a good beginning guide and may help to "spur" interest in a particular area that you can then delve more deeply into at a later time. However, I thought they could have given a bit more information on some of the English sites. They also tended to focus mainly on pagan sites.

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Summary: Excellent For The Explorer
Review: This book is just what is claims to be: an Atlas of Sacred Sites. It is not chock full of brilliant ideas like Wilson'e more typical books, but neither is it intended to be. It is designed for the explorer who intends to visit these sites and to show the interested where these sights are. unless you have done a great deal of reading, the book will seem woefully inadequate in explaining most of these sights as mere curiosities. So if anything here interests you, a great deal of supplementary reading will be necessary.