Climate change is literally affecting every aspect of life on earth – from the animals, to nature to humankind – and climate change is also affecting tourist monuments. The recently published Frommer’s 500 Places To See Before They Disappear, by Holly Hughes and Larry West, is a book about tourist destinations that soon may be extinct. Holly Hughes explains the book with “When all is said and done, this book is, above all, meant to be a travel guide, not a scientific treatise or an eco-sermon”.
Frommer’s explains their guide as enabling “…passionate travellers and the eco-conscious to learn about and plan a visit to see rare cultural, historic, and natural places before they are irrevocably altered or even gone forever”.
The unconventional guide book includes information about unique landscapes, vulnerable ecosystems, rare bird and animal habitats, places where you can see the last remaining species of big game in the wild, cityscapes in peril, and more — 500 thoughtfully-chosen places that will delight, or depress, travellers of all ages.
Some of the sites included in Frommer’s 500 Places To See Before They Disappear include: the Tower of London under threat from the rising River Thames; Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England's foremost World Heritage Site threatened by an oil spill in 2007; the Dead Sea in Israel, where water levels are dropping; the Willow Creek Preserve in Oregon, home to the lovely Fender's blue butterflies; Nineveh, Iraq, once the capital of the Assyrian empire, which is under threat of destruction from the war between the United States and Iraqi insurgents; and the Mayan pyramids and other structures at Tikal that are extremely vulnerable to erosion by wind, rain, and the relentless humidity of the surrounding jungle because they are made from sandstone.
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