Lonely Planet How to Land a Jumbo Jet A Visual Exploration of Travel Facts, Figures and Ephemera

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*

A Visual Exploration of Travel Facts, Figures and Ephemera! How to Land a Jumbo Jet is your visual guide to the way we live, travel and inhabit the globe. Everything you ever needed to know about the world, brought to life and made intelligible by designers from all around the world.

INFORMATION VISUALISED!

• Where is the best place to experience a volcano?
• How do you eat an ackee (and not get sick)?
• Which edible bugs are really worth the calories?
• Which nation is the proudest in the world?
• Why does your luggage occasionally disappear?

Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Nigel Holmes

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 where they travel.

TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 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)

*#1 in the world market share - source: Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA. March 2012-January 2013

Nigel Holmes (born 1942) grew up in England, and moved to the US in 1978 to work at Time Magazine. When he left in 1994 he was the graphics director, and had written three books about graphic design. (They're out of print now, but Amazon usually has second-hand copies.) Other books include Wordless Diagrams (2005) and Nigel Holmes on Information Design (2006), by Steven Heller.