Following on from the bestselling The Travel Book comes Lonely Planet’s The Europe Book. This stylish coffee-table book explores Europe in detail, through stunning images and informative text.

The Europe Book features profiles of 52 European countries covering topics such the landscape, people, urban scene, cuisine, history and festivals.

Written by 37 specialist Lonely Planet authors, The Europe Book is the perfect gift for armchair travellers with fond memories of this enduringly popular continent, or anyone looking for inspiration to discover new parts of Europe for the first time.

Find out where to attend a wife-carrying competition, jump in and out of feezing water before being beaten by birch twigs, celebrate the summer solstice in a prehistoric stone circle, or choose between sweltering beaches, semi-desert, permafrost, glaciers, volcanoes, hot springs, and the Arctic.

The Europe Book (1st edition), published by Lonely Planet. Available in all good bookstores.