The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, … and continues on to the last country Zimbabwe, Lonely Planet has put together an extraordinary travel book that brings us to every country in the world. Listed alphabetically from A-Z, each country occupies 2 pages with vivid pictures and some impression of the lands. Even tiny Pacific islands get the same amount of space as everybody else, regardless of their size and popularity in tourism. Using a more liberal concept of ‘country’, it brings the total number to 230. Read more »

Hotel Babylon

The anonymous author, who now manages an unnamed five-star hotel, has spent the past 15 years working in London’s top lodgings. The author compresses these years into a 24-hour period (divided into one chapter for every hour) and places the events at a fictitious Hotel Babylon (to protect the guilty who may include the author).
This book is nonstop fun as the narrator divulges all the dirty little details of the hospitality business. I would recommend Read more »