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A Spotter's Guide to Toilets (Lonely Planet) Paperback – Illustrated, April 19, 2016

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Loos with incredible views, lavish lavatories, outstanding outhouses - all are featured in this pictorial guide to the world's most stunning toilets. Whether they're high-tech or arty, amusing or amazing, each toilet has a photo and a description of its location. More than 100 restrooms to remember are featured, from Antarctica to Zambia.

As any experienced traveller knows, you can tell a whole lot about a place by its bathrooms. Whatever you prefer to call them - lavatory, loo, bog, khasi, thunderbox, dunny, bathroom, restroom, washroom or water closet - toilets are a (sometimes opaque, often wide-open) window into the secret soul of a destination.

It's not just how well they're looked after that's revealing, but where they are positioned and the way they've been conceptualised, designed and decorated. Toilets so often transcend their primary function of being a convenience to become a work of art in their own right, or to make a cultural statement about the priorities, traditions and values of the venues, locations and communities they serve.

The lavatory is a great leveller - everyone feels the call of nature, every day - but being ubiquitous doesn't make it uniform. Around the planet (and beyond it, see page 12), toilets have followed various evolutionary pathways to best suit their environment.

In these pages you'll find porcelain pews with fantastic views, audacious attention-seeking urban outhouses, and eco-thrones made from sticks and stones in all sorts of wild settings, from precipitous mountain peaks to dusty deserts. So, wherever you're reading this, we hope you're sitting comfortably.

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 they find themselves in.

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Spotter's Guide to Toilets

A Spotter's Guide to Toilets

Nature's call has never been so beautifully answered

Discover the world’s most amazing and, at times, amusing toilets. Nature’s call has never been so beautifully answered.

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"And for lovers of interesting restrooms, earlier this year backpacker bible Lonely Planet published a handsome book featuring more than 100 of them."―CNN

"Lonely Planet is flushed with success after its latest publication, a guide to the world's most extraordinary loos."―The Irish Independent

"Now nature's call has been celebrated in a fascinating new book from travel gurus Lonely Planet."―Mirror

"Lonely Planet – that internationally renowned travel magazine which has arguably set the bar for the tourism industry the world over – have published a book about the best places on the planet to park your arse."―The debrief

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Loos with incredible views, lavish lavatories, outstanding outhouses all are featured in this pictorial guide to the world's most stunning toilets.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lonely Planet; 1st edition (April 19, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1760340669
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1760340667
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.13 x 0.38 x 7.13 inches
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J. P.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great white elephant gift
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britishgirl91
5.0 out of 5 stars For all those who value their "thrones"
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Fabulous photos. I bought it for two people as gifts, knowing that these people really value the precious moments (or hours) spent on the can. They were instantly in love and are planning their trips around some of these amazing toilets (as I knew they would).
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interesting.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Interesting and Colorful Book
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My father is a retired plumber and got a kick out of this book that I gave him for his birthday. It arrived on time. It is well made and the photographs are excellent. Interesting information too!
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Funny book for the bathroom, beautiful photography.
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Amazing pictures and text. A fun collection
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There are a few really neat bathrooms there :)
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Ailsa
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent coffee table conversation starter
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2018
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I love this book. It’s not one you can plan a holiday from as there aren’t enough toilets in similar areas, & there are some in places you probably wouldn’t want to visit, but the pictures are great & do inspire conversation. Too lovely to be a left-in-the-toilet book, in my opinion. It made my friend & I start sending each other photos of loos we encounter. Although the ones in Starbucks don’t really compete with the ones in this book...
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はれよし
5.0 out of 5 stars よくぞ調べた、生きる基本
Reviewed in Japan on March 4, 2017
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よくぞ調べた、さすがロンリープラネットって感じです。トイレは生きる基本で、風土、文化、国がらが色濃く表れておもしろいですね。こういう本を通して、日本と言えばハイテクトイレ、が広まるのでしょう。もだまだ古風な和式も多いので、ステレオタイプでものを見るのも良くないのですが。
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5.0 out of 5 stars Potty
Reviewed in Canada on June 17, 2016
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Great read for, among other places, the toilet of course...
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klubi
5.0 out of 5 stars Unterhaltsam!
Reviewed in Germany on September 20, 2016
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Wie auch immer die Autoren auf all die Bilder gekommen sind, die Sammlung ungewöhnlicher Toiletten auf der ganzen Welt (einige sehr schöne auch in Deutschland) ist irgendwie unterhaltsam. Das liegt einerseits an den handwerklich wirklich gut gemachten Fotos und der sehr schönen Haptik des Bandes aber vor allem an den Motiven. Irgendwie hat man das Gefühl, man erfährt mehr über Land und Leute, indem man das Design und den Standort der stillen Orte bewundert.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Quirky purchase
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2019
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This was a gift for my husband as he already has 'Soviet Bus Stops' which is a bizarre book of photos but highly enjoyable. This book fitted in just nicely photo-wise but the commentary left a little to be desired.
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