The World's Heritage: The best-selling guide to the most extraordinary places

by UNESCO (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2012

  $4.79

  Best-selling guide to all 936 UNESCO World Heritage sites. Fully updated to include the latest sites added to the list in June 2011. The list is managed by the World Heritage Committee with strict criteria, and only the world's most spectacular and extraordinary sites make it onto the list.

  The prestigious list includes some of the most famous places in the world, such as the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in Jordan, the legendary Acropolis in Athens, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, and Machu Picchu, the `Lost City of the Incas', in Peru.

  The volume includes the 25 sites added to the List by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in June 2011, including The Persian Garden (Iran), Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia (Colombia), Selimiye Mosque Complex at Edirne (Turkey) and Citadel of the Ho Dynasty (Vietnam).

  * Over 650 colour photographs
  * Descriptions of all 936 UNESCO World Heritage sites
  * Location map for every site

  Background
  The World Heritage List includes properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value. In 1972 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted the Convention concerning the Protection of the World's Cultural and Natural Heritage. Since then, 936 sites in 153 countries have been inscribed onto the list, 725 of which are cultural, 183 natural and 28 mixed properties.

• Used

  Paperback
  2009

  $3.29

  A unique guide to every UNESCO World Heritage site. The global list has proved a valuable tool in the battle to preserve the world's heritage. Managed by the World Heritage Committee with strict criteria, only the world's most spectacular and extraordinary sites making it onto the List.

  Major sites
  Details of all 878 UNESCO sites including....the remarkable Dazu Rock Carving of China......the last substantial expanse of monsoon forest in Thailand, the Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex....Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania which contains the highest mountain in Africa one of the largest volcanoes in the world....one of the greatest Mayan temples Tikal in Guatemala...the legendary Acropolis in Athens.....the ancient Nabataean city of Petra in Jordan....the unique ecosystem of the Serengeti, Tanzania.

  * Over 650 colour photographs
  * Descriptions of 878 UNESCO World Heritage sites
  * Location map for every 878 site

  Background
  The World Heritage List includes properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value. In 1972 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted the Convention concerning the Protection of the World's Cultural and Natural Heritage. Since then 878 sites have been inscribed onto the List 679 of which are cultural, 174 natural and 25 mixed properties in 145 countries.