CHECKLIST: Tick off the Okavango Delta, and there are only 999 places left to visit
If you love travel and have a fetish for lists, then rejoice: Patricia Schultz's new book,
1,000 Places to See Before You Die
(Workman Publishing; 800 pages), should keep you happily occupied for the rest of your natural term. It's a work as provocative as it is encyclopedic. Not everyone is going to agree with Schultz's choices, and the author is aware of the quagmire she's got herself into. "Why give the Pork Pit in Montego Bay the same weight as Paris' legendary Taillevent?" she asks, referring to two well-known but very different restaurants. The answer is that the world would...
