For the lover of trivia in your family this book would make an ideal present, if there are travellers too it’s a sure winner.
If travel is a passion and facts and figures impress then this is a book that will delight the reader and listener alike.
Travia is a travel book with a difference it’s absolutely packed with that great useless information which is fun to quote. Covering just about every travel theme imaginable it’s chapters include:
- At Sea
- Our Home, Planet Earth
- Winging it
- This ‘n’ That
- Where in the World?
- Travail, et al
- Pastimes
- On Track
- Sleep on It
- Looking Back
- Business Matters
An Interesting Trivia Tidbit From the This ‘n’ That Travia Chapter
J.R.R Tolkein visited Cheddar in England on honeymoon. He visited the Cheddar Caves where Cheddar cheese was developed and one of these caves were his inspiration for Helm’s Deep in “Lord of the Rings”. These caves are still open to visitors today.
Whether the facts on how much tea is served on the Queen Mary for afternoon tea and scones or who won the World Haggis Hurling championships there’s enough facts and figures between these pages to keep a trivia buff happy for weeks.
It’s fun, fascination and will have wow! comments flowing from all partakers of the fact-filled pages.
Want to know how many kilos of coconuts the Pride of Aloha cruise ship serves?
Who was the first person to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel?
How many shops are there in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey?
Where the world’s smallest one-room hotel is?
Which country had fifteen official languages?
How much did Northwest Airlines save by eliminating those tiny bags of pretzels?
Find the answers to this tiny sample from the incredible range of facts presented in Travia. It’s a page after page, fact after fact book of fun that well deserves a place on the book shelf and a party piece sharing of travia.
The Ultimate Book of Travel Trivia by Nadine Godwin, the Editor at Large for Travel Weekly is priced at $15.95 and is published by The Intrepid Traveler. It is available from most city bookstores, online booksellers and www.IntrepidTraveler.com
The ISBN: 978 – 1-887140 – 75 -1
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