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Luxist Giveaway: Travel + Leisure's 100 Greatest Trips Book

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If you are planning your spring and summer travel, we've got a great book for you, the fifth edition of Travel + Leisure's 100 Greatest Trips book. This annual enterprise compiled by the editors of Travel + Leisure, is a compendium of 100 getaways to destinations around the world. The book is stuffed with more than 350 pictures from the magazine's photographers as well as mini-guides to each destination with insider tips on hotels, resorts, restaurants, shops, nightlife, and must-see spots.

The 100 featured trips cover a range of destinations and themes including culinary tours in Italy, Hong Kong, California, and New Zealand; shopping expeditions in Paris, Kyoto, New York City, and Marrakesh; beach escapes in Belize, the Bahamas, Zanzibar, and Maine and arts and culture trips in Barcelona, Beijing, Las Vegas, and Lisbon. It's like having a stack of fantastic travel magazines all in one book; it just begs for a quiet weekend afternoon, a cup of warm tea and time to curl up in a chair and dream away.

The book is available now in hardcover for $34.95 at www.TravelandLeisure.com/books and in softcover for $19.95 but we've got one hard copy to give away here on the site to a commenter chosen at random.

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* The comment must be left and confirmed before March 15, 2011 at 5:00PM Eastern Time.
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* One winner will be selected in a random drawing to receive Travel + Leisure's 100 Greatest Trips, 2011 edition with a retail price of $34.95.
* Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, and the District of Columbia, who are 18 and older.

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Luxist Giveaway: Atlas of Remote Islands Book

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Many of the books that are offered to Luxist for giveaway are big lavish coffee table books with rich photography. We love those but there's also a lot to love about today's more modest tome too. Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky (Penguin Books) is magic in its own way, a fascinating compendium of 50 remote islands far from the mainland, from people, from airports and from the public eye. Schalansky gives each of these little treasures individual attention on a single page with an accompanying map. The result is a cross between a history lesson and a short story, full of spare poetry and fascinating historical details.

Some of the islands from Pitcairn Island (the place the Mutiny on the Bounty settlers chose to inhabit) to Easter Island are familiar, others, like Russia's Lonely Island or Mexico's Socorro Island are less known but no less worthy of exploration.

Schalansky's opening chapter is titled "Paradise Is An Island, So Is Hell" and the islands that the book covers range from tropical atolls to frozen, rocky spits of land. The author is a writer and designer who lives in Berlin and lectures on the fundamentals of typography. She not only wrote the text but designed and typeset the book, an act perhaps as solitary as a life lived on a remote island.

We are giving away one copy of this book. The book sells for $28 and we are giving away one copy to a reader chosen at random.

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* One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
* One winner will receive a copy of Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky, which has a retail price of $28.
* Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia.

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Luxist Review And Giveaway: Tropical Homes of The Eastern Caribbean

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We love beautiful travel photography books and "Tropical Homes of the Eastern Caribbean" by Ozone Zone Books certainly fits the bill. The hardcover book recently won the Benjamin Franklin Award 2010 from the Independent Book Publishers Association.

This bilingual (English and French) book showcases the colorful and rich architecture of the Eastern Caribbean region, taking readers on a virtual adventure through Barbados, Grenada, Bequia, Mustique and St. Lucia. The book covers the full breadth of the architectural experience in the region covering small dwellings in fishing village as well as heritage plantation houses, designer homes and multi-million-dollar mansions and a modern boutique-hotel that defies all standards.

The authors, Derek Galon, experienced art photographer from Europe, and Margaret Gajek, an art historian, researcher and writer, are working on a series of books, of which "Tropical Homes of the Eastern Caribbean" is the first one. The project was born of the authors' passion for fine architecture,nature and for beauty in every form.

I'm giving away my review copy of "Tropical Homes of the Eastern Caribbean" from Ozone Zone Books valued at $44.95.

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* One winner will receive a copy of "Tropical Homes of the Eastern Caribbean" from Ozone Zone Books valued at $44.95.
* Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia.

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Luxist Book Giveaway: Travel + Leisure's The World's Greatest Hotels, Resorts + Spas 2010

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We love Travel + Leisure's photography books, they offer a fantastic travel escape from the comfort of your own couch. From a laid-back beach escape on the coast of Brazil to a Renaissance palazzo in the heart of Florence, Travel + Leisure's The World's Greatest Hotels, Resorts + Spas (2010) showcases 138 noteworthy properties around the globe. The new volume is the fifth in an annual series from the magazine and will be on sale at retailers nationwide, including Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Borders, beginning May 17, for $34.95 (hardcover) and $19.95 (softcover).*

The book features nearly 200 images from Travel + Leisure photographers throughout its 288 pages including the Viceroy Miami; Ace Hotel & Swim Club, Palm Springs; Peninsula House, Dominican Republic; Estancia Vik José Ignacio, Uruguay; and Hotel Missoni Edinburgh, Scotland. In addition, there are spotlights throughout on destinations with standout properties-New York City; Miami; Barbados; Salta, Argentina; the Cotswolds, United Kingdom; Venice; Namibia; Goa; and Southland, New Zealand--and a section featuring the magazine's annual World's Best Awards winners and T+L 500 listings, a collection of hotels, resorts, and spas selected by the magazine's readers. A directory in the back of the book organizes the properties by location and by category.

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* The comment must be left and confirmed before May 14, 2010 at 5:00PM Eastern Time.
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* One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
* One winner will receive a copy of Travel + Leisure's The World's Greatest Hotels, Resorts + Spas (2010), valued at $34.95
* Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia.

See complete contest rules here.

This contest has ended.Thank you for your participation.

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