Capital Cities Book
A Journey Around The World Through 118 Capital Cities
By The Travel is Life Creators
$60.00
Step into the beauty, culture, history, and lifestyle of capital cities around the world through photography and short story. In this ode to capital cities, the Travel is Life Creators showcase 118 cities from every continent, including Antarctica!
A Collaboration By 68 Travel Bloggers & Photographers
Hardcover: 258 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 8.5″ x 11″ x 0.81″
Weight: 2.46 lbs
ISBN 13: 978-0-9977710-2-2
Color: Full Color
Also Available Internationally On Amazon
The best way to begin traveling a country is from its capital city. You can get anywhere from the capital.
Capital cities are the melting pots of countries that bring their culture and people together from all walks of life. They are where countries unite and history happens.
Capital cities are often overlooked and underappreciated on travel itineraries. They become a placemark on a map to catch a connecting flight or a destination in which to spend a night recovering from jet lag after leaving one time zone and entering another.
There are countless travel books about where to go after the capital city… like the beaches, mountains, pueblos, wonders of the world, and everything in between. And don't get me wrong — I love visiting those places and reading those books too. However, I wanted to create a book that explored the capital cities themselves, which are equally special, but don't always get as much attention.
This book is my ode to capital cities, but since I've only been to tens of capital cities myself, I asked for help from my friends. In this book, a group of professional travel bloggers and I, collectively called Travel is Life Creators, have showcased 118 capital cities from every continent in the world (including Antarctica).
Our mission was not to create a travel guide, but instead, to capture the culture, history, and lifestyle of capital cities through photography and short story. I hope that reading this book will allow you to step into each capital city through the eyes and lens of each photographer and writer so that you can see, hear, touch, taste, smell, and experience that city, even if just for a brief moment, before traveling to the next page.
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About The Publisher
Hi Travelers!
Thanks for being here — wherever you are in the world.
It's my pleasure to bring you Capital Cities: A Journey Around The World Through 118 Capital Cities. Creating this book has been a labor of love for the past two years, and I hope you love it. I certainly do!
Since founding Travel is Life in Dec 2015, I've been on a mission to teach you about the incredible people, culture, and history that make our world so special, and inspire you to travel with a global compassion, open mind, and open heart.
This book is an extension of that mission. I hope that it inspires hours of conversation about traveling the world in your home (or in those of your loved ones).
Happy Travels!
-Paul Drecksler
450+ Color Photos
Take a visual trip of a lifetime through every continent – including Antarctica! This 258 page hardcover coffee table book features 450+ full color photographs by 60 photographers from around the world. Here's a sneak peak at what's inside.
Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
Amman Jordan
Antarctica
Ashgabat Turkmenistan
Banjul Gambia
Beirut Lebanon
Bratislava Slovakia
Buenos Aires Argentina
Cairo Egypt
Cape Town South Africa
Copenhagen Denmark
Edinburgh Scotland
Havana Cuba
Kabul Afghanistan
Manila Philippines
Nairobi Kenya
Paris France
Port Louis Mauritius
Porto Novo Benin
Prague Czech Republic
Pyongyang North Korea
Rabat Morocco
Riga Latvia
Rome Italy
San Marino
Santiago Chile
Singapore
Suva Fiji
Tokyo Japan
Valletta Malta
Valparaiso Chile
Yerevan Armenia
Contributors
Capital Cities Book is a collaboration by a community of professional travel bloggers around the world. Special thank you to the following contributors for your hard work, ongoing effort, and dedication to seeing this project through completion.
Aga Goodman
Traveling with Aga
Traveling Tulls
Happy Days Travel Blog
Can Travel Will Travel
Anisa Alhilali
& Russell Wood
Two Traveling Texans
Ann The Adventurist
Let's Go Mum!
43 Blue Doors
Maps ‘N Bags
Wayfaring Views
White Sands & Cool Breezes
Travel with CG
Claire's Itchy Feet
Ipanema travels to…
Travels with Daphne
Plan, Ready, Go!
The Globe Trotter
It's Not About The Miles
Adventures of a London Kiwi
Veronika Primm
Travel Geekery
Emma Huffam
Cut Lunch Adventures
Erika's Travelventures
Sol Salute
Fiona Lawless
& Jerry Scott
A Couple of Drifters
Hanna Thomas
& Boyan Ortse
Solar Powered Blonde
Raulerson Girls Travel
Heather Wicksted
& Matthew Daw
Reason 2 Roam
Jacob Laboissonniere
On The Way Around
Jessica Fergen
One Girl Whole World
Joel Marrinan
In My Korea
Julie Cao
Always On The Way
Travel As Much
Worldwide Honeymoon
Our Globetrotters
Kesi Irvin
Kesi To And Fro
Kimberly DeCarrera
RV Tailgate Life
Lieze Neven
Glitter Rebel
Marcea Cazel
My Cornacopia
Mary Jo Manzanares
Traveling with MJ
Matěj Halouska
Czech The World
Menty Yu
Gusto Beats
Mona Molayem
Mona Corona
Above Us Only Skies
Ophélie Schaffar
Limitless Secrets
Directionally Challenged Traveler
Paul Drecksler
Travel is Life
Rachel Story
& Sasha Savinov
Grateful Gypsies
Sage Scott
Everyday Wanderer
Getaway Mavens
Sarah Vanheel
Cosmopoliclan
Nomads RTW
The Present Road
This Big Wild World
Team Hazard Rides Again
Wanders Miles
Reviews
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Capital Cities Book
A Journey Around The World Through 118 Capital Cities
By The Travel is Life Creators
$60.00
Step into the beauty, culture, history, and lifestyle of capital cities around the world through photography and short story. In this ode to capital cities, the Travel is Life Creators showcase 118 cities from every continent, including Antarctica!
A Collaboration By 68 Travel Bloggers & Photographers
Hardcover: 258 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 8.5″ x 11″ x 0.81″
Weight: 2.46 lbs
ISBN 13: 978-0-9977710-2-2
Color: Full Color
Also Available Internationally On Amazon
Andrea Wade –
I am so proud to have contributed content to this glorious book! I have read every page of the e-book and can't wait to get my hands on a hard copy. The photos are exquisite and the personal stories add a dimension that is missing from other books on the topic. This is a unique volume that belongs in the home of every traveller!
Bonnie Truax (verified owner) –
What I love most about this beautiful book is the content. It tells me what each place is like. It's not just the boring stuff about where it is and what to do.
Emma –
This is going to be an incredible book – I can't wait to have it firmly in my hands!!
Kat –
Loved every photo in the book and all the information about Europe's capital cities! I saw the E-Version of it, and I can't wait to see the final copy!
Veronika Primm –
I feel honored that I could have contributed to this wonderful book (Prague, Warsaw). And beyond grateful that Paul took on the mammoth task to put together all the different contributions and turn it into this masterpiece. There’s so much behind publishing a book, I had no idea.
I’d love to see the book at every café I visit, all over the world. The words and photographs bring such a unique perspective to each of the capital cities. To flip through the beautifully designed pages and experience the cities through the eyes of curious travelers is just the best pastime. I’m sure it’ll inspire many to go see the places themselves and I can’t wait to hear about it. I have found a lot of inspiration myself as if I needed to be enticed even more to travel! 🙂
Emma –
A wonderful armchair tour around the world. This book is a great example of how travel bloggers across the world adapted in difficult times due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and collaborated to produce this beautiful book. In times of uncertainty and no travel, it was a privilege to be able to contribute to this book and to read the personal stories of so many other travellers.
Joel Marrinan –
I've flicked through every (e)page of this book and I'm so excited by it. Beautifully presented, loads of knowledgable and interesting insights, and bright, colourful pictures. This will be proudly on display for guests to flick through and I'm sure it'll raise awareness of not only the world's capitals, but the people, culture, sights, food, and energy each major city brings to the world. 5 stars, no doubt.
Claire Summers –
I'm so excited for the launch of this book and super stoked to have been a contributor. Having seen a preview of the full book I was amazed at just how well designed it is. It really is the perfect coffee table book, full of beautiful images and interesting personal stories that connect the people to the places. great job Paul and everyone involved. I can;t wait to get my copy!
Mona Molayem –
I was a contributor to this book (Oranjestad, Aruba and Suva, Fiji) but didn’t see the rest of the contributions until the book was finished and was completely blown away! I loved how personal each story was, and how the book was completely unlike generic fact-based travel books. The information you’ll find in this book you won’t find anywhere else, and touches deeply on the authentic culture, people, and atmosphere, as told through the lens of seasoned travelers. The photographs also feel equally as personal. Truly a unique work of art that I am so proud to be a part of.
Paul @ Travel is Life –
I love this book! It's been a labor of love for the past two years, and I'm extremely proud of how this book came out. Thank you to all the contributors who made it possible.
Creating a book of this caliber was a tremendous responsibility. Curating photos and stories from our community of travel creators, working with different photography and writing styles, designing a book that encapsulated their voices and vision while still offering thematic and visual cohesiveness, and finally bringing it to print in a hardcover coffee table book that looked and felt as quality as the contents of the inside involved a lot of patience (for everyone involved), trial and error, and willingness to dive into unknown territory.
The outcome of this journey is something I'm extremely proud of. I hope that you love this book and that it inspires hours of conversation about traveling the world in your home.