Photo Tour of New York, Second Edition Book

I put this book down 3 years ago when I left the UK and finally picked it up again when going back to collect some things.

The good thing about this book is being able to put it down and pick it up at any time. It's is a comprehensive (though rushed) surface blurb across a large number of very varied cities around the world. It gives just a slight taste of what each of these cities are like (best to have Google images & Wikipedia at your fingertips while reading this).

Now unfortunately some, if not many of the "journeys" seem to be geared towards an all American audience (who aren't the most well travelled in the world and often don't let the truth get in the way of a good story). Unfortunately this gearing leads to a bit of exaggeration and sometimes blatantly untrue points.
In my 20 years of living in Sydney, never have I heard it referred to as Sin City, Oslo is located about 20 metres above sea level, not 629, and the final comment on Warsaw is just blatantly ignorant and offensive. I would've assumed each city's descriptions would've been written by a resident or former resident, but it doesn't seem as such.

This is good if you would like a broad overview of some of the best cities in the world and I believe that have done a very good job at including some lesser know gems, unfortunately the truth can get a bit lost sometimes.