Hai, blog ini
akhirnya memuat Wishful Wednesday lagi untuk yang ke-5 kali,
padahal kalau intip blog pembuat WW, sekarang ini sudah lebih dari 200
postingan WW. Kali ini WW muncul lagi di blog ini, karena saya tiba-tiba sangat
menginginkan satu buku yang beberapa hari lalu saya temukan di halaman facebook
salah satu Astronot NASA yang baru landing di bumi awal maret tahun ini setelah
melakukan misi ke international space station sejak tahun 2015, siapa lagi
kalau bukan Scott Kelly. Yuk diintip bukunya.
Inspiring equal parts
wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscuracelebrates over 600
of the strangest and most curious places in the world.
Here are natural wonders—the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that’s so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan’s 45-year hole of fire called the Door of Hell, coffins hanging off a side of a cliff in the Philippines, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England.
Atlas Obscura revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden, and the mysterious. Every page expands our sense of how strange and marvelous the world really is. And with its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, it is a book you can open anywhere.
Here are natural wonders—the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that’s so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan’s 45-year hole of fire called the Door of Hell, coffins hanging off a side of a cliff in the Philippines, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England.
Atlas Obscura revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden, and the mysterious. Every page expands our sense of how strange and marvelous the world really is. And with its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, it is a book you can open anywhere.
(synopsis taken from Goodreads)
Sebenarnya Atlas Obscura
ini juga sebelumnya sudah ada dalam bentuk website, tapi namanya juga bookish,
tetap lebih menarik kalau baca yang berbentuk buku kan?
So, buat yang mau ikutan
Wishful Wednesday dan bemimpi tentang buku-buku yang kamu inginkan atau apapun
yang berhubungan dengan buku, bisa ikutan yukkk.
Caranya:
- Silahkan follow blog Books To Share - atau tambahkan di blogroll/link blogmu =)
- Buat posting mengenai buku-buku (boleh lebih dari 1) yang jadi inceran kalian minggu ini, mulai dari yang bakal segera dibeli, sampai yang paling mustahil dan hanya sebatas mimpi. Oya, sertaan juga alasan kenapa buku itu masuk dalam wishlist kalian ya!
- Tinggalkan link postingan Wishful Wednesday kalian di Mr. Linky (klik saja tombol Mr. Linky di bagian bawah post). Kalau mau, silahkan tambahkan button Wishful Wednesday di posting kalian.
- Mari saling berkunjung ke sesama blogger yang sudah ikut share wishlistnya di hari Rabu =)