A Spotter s Guide to Toilets (Lonely Planet)

A Spotter s Guide to Toilets (Lonely Planet) (Lonely Planet) Loos with incredible views, lavish lavatories, outstanding outhouses - all are featured in this pictorial guide to the world s most stunning toilets. Whether they re high-tech or arty, amusing or amazing, each toilet has a photo and a description of its location. More than 100 restrooms to remember are featured, from Antarctica to Zambia. As any experienced traveller knows, you can tell a whole lot about a place by its bathrooms. Whatever you prefer to call them - lavatory, loo, bog, khasi, thunderbox, dunny, bathroom, restroom, washroom or water closet - toilets are a (sometimes opaque, often wide-open) window into the secret soul of a destination. It s not just how well they re looked after that s revealing, but where they are positioned and the way they ve been conceptualised, designed and decorated. Toilets so often transcend their primary function of being a convenience to become a work of art in their own right, or to make a cultural statement about the priorities, traditions and values of the venues, locations and communities they serve. The lavatory is a great leveller - everyone feels the call of nature, every day - but being ubiquitous doesn t make it uniform. Around the planet (and beyond it, see page 12), toilets have followed various evolutionary pathways to best suit their environment. In
these pages you ll find porcelain pews with fantastic views, audacious attention-seeking urban outhouses, and eco-thrones made from sticks and stones in all sorts of wild settings, from precipitous mountain peaks to dusty deserts. So, wherever you re reading this, we hope you re sitting comfortably. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world s leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet s mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. TripAdvisor Travelers Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other. - New York Times Lonely Planet. It s on everyone s bookshelves; it s in every traveller s hands. It s on mobile phones. It s on the Internet. It s everywhere, and it s telling entire generations of people how to travel the world. - Fairfax Media (Australia)
A Spotter s Guide to Toilets (Lonely Planet)

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Author : Lonely Planet
Pages : 128 pages
Publisher : Lonely Planet 2016-04-19
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1760340669
ISBN-13 : 9781760340667

A Spotter s Guide to Toilets (Lonely Planet)