Every country in the world, in one guidebook: Lonely Planet's The World. A Traveller's Guide to the Planet.

We've taken the highlights from the world's best guidebooks and put them together into one 900+ page whopper to create the ultimate guide to Earth. This user-friendly A-Z gives a flavour of each country in the world, including a map, travel highlights, info on where to go and how to get around, as well as some quirkier details to bring each place to life. In Lonely Planet's trademark bluespine format, this is the ultimate planning resource.

From now on, every traveller's journey should start here..

Nearly 1000 colour photos of must-visit highlights

More than 200 colour maps

The guidebook every traveller needs to own