1. Galloping reindeer herd, Swedish Lapland - Close to Gällivare, a remote town 60 miles inside the Arctic Circle, reindeer run through snow. In most breeds, males and
females have antlers, but lose them at different times
2. Stunning pictures from the most remote places on earth where you can truly
get away from it all
Wild World features 198 full-page images that have been carefully curated by
Lonely Planet’s photography experts
The incredible collection aims to showcase the world’s wildest corners and
the animals that call them home
The book includes the heartwarming moment a baby longtailed macaque
tucks into fruit in its mother's arms in Bali
Lonely Planet ‘s Wild World
3. Gaberoun oasis, Idehan Ubari, Libya - In
the Sahara’s sand sea lies this oasis of
greenery around the intensely salty
Gaberoun lake. There’s a Tuareg tribal
settlement at the lake
4. King penguins, South Georgia - Adult
and young King penguins, a quarter of a
million of them, congregate on
Salisbury Plain on South Georgia in the
southern Atlantic Ocean
5. Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada -
A setting sun over St Margaret’s
Bay means the red lamp in Peggy’s
Cove Lighthouse will soon begin its
life-saving turn. The winking
lighthouse is an icon of Canada’s
Atlantic coast
6. Ao Phang-Nga National Marine
Park, Thailand - Established in
1981, Ao Phang-Nga Marine
National Park is noted for its
classic Karst scenery
7. Elephant in Liwonde
National Park, Southern
Malawi - Over 900 African
elephants call bio-diverse
Liwonde home, alongside
2,000 hippos and many other
mammals, plus some 600
bird species
8. An ice flow with seal, Wilhelmina Bay,
Antarctica - A seal rests on an ice floe
but must beware of local pods of
predatory orca that have learned how
to sweep them off and into the ocean
9. Flying foxes above Mataranka
in the Northern Territory. Pic:
Regis Martin/Getty Images and
Lonely Planet’s Wild World
10. Aoraki/Mt Cook, South Island, New
Zealand - The vista across Canterbury
Plains towards New Zealand's Southern
Alps is simultaneously a gift and an
order to put on some boots and go
explore
11. Moai, Easter Island, Chile - Seven stone
statues, or moai, look out to sea from Aku
Akivi, in Rapa Nui National Park. The
island society’s fate is a cautionary tale
about how not to deplete natural
resources
12. Aerial view rain forest with trees hit by
lightning strike Daintree Forest Daintree
National Park nr Cairns Queensland
Australia from Lonely Planet's Wild World
13. Papua New Guinea, Oceania, Pacific
ocean, South Pacific Ocean, Crocodile
From Lonely Planet's Wild World
14. Iguazu Falls, Argentina - These
waterfalls straddle the border
between Argentina and Brazil.
There are up to 300 separate
falls as the Iguazu river rushes
over the Paraná Plateau
16. Spinifex grass and termite mound near
Halls Creek, Western Australia, Australia,
from Lonely Planet's Wild World
17. Lofoten wall and village, Nordland,
Norway - Within the grasp of the Arctic
Circle, Lofoten is an archipelago where
alpine peaks tower over beaches, bays
and traditional villages
18. Thuringian Forest,
Thuringia, Germany - The
‘green heart of Germany’,
Thuringia is a small,
densely forested state,
well known for
wilderness, winter sports
and Germany’s most
famous hiking trail, the
Rennsteig
19. Paine Massif, Torres del
Paine, Chile - The main
attraction of Chilean
Patagonia, this National
Park has lakes,
mountains, glaciers and
rivers
20. Longtailed macaque, Bali,
Indonesia - An infant longtailed
macaque tucks into a piece of
fruit in the arms of its mother,
within the Ubud Monkey Forest
nature reserve and Hindu
temple in the village of
Padangtegal
21. Mossy beech trees, Mt
Aspiring National Park,
New Zealand - A wild
walker’s wonderland, the
rain-prone southwest
flank of the South Island is
also an ideal habitat for
moss – of which New
Zealand has 550 species
22. Picos de Europa, Asturias, Spain - Tracks
wend through Picos de Europa
mountains in northern Spain, in the
country’s oldest national park, whose
wild inhabitants include Cantabrian
brown bear and Iberian wolf
23. Chugach Mountains, Alaska - Snowcapped mountains contrast with vibrant green trees in the valleys below
26. Cape Race,
Newfoundland,
Canada - The Avalon
Peninsula bares its
fangs here, where
rocks, fog and
transatlantic
shipping lanes have
caused carnage. The
Cape Race
Lighthouse received
the Titanic’s distress
call
27. Lago di Carezza. The Dolomites, Italy -
This spring-fed puddle is famed for its
stunning colours. The ‘lake of the
rainbow’, fringed by dense fir-tree
forest, reflects Latemar – the
westernmost mountain of the
Dolomites
28. Kahurangi National Park, South Island,
New Zealand - The snow-sprinkled tops
of the mountains in New Zealand’s
second largest park are reflected in the
glasslike surface of the river