World heritage sites : a complete guide to 936 UNESCO world heritage sites.

Includes indexes.

"Covering 153 countries, the World Hertiage List is a valuable tool in the battle to preserve cultural and natural heritage, its strict criteria mean only the most extraordinary and important sites make it onto the list, such as the Statue of Liberty, the Great Barrier Reef, the Historic Center of Vienna, Vatican City, the Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site, Robben Island, Ancient Damascus, and the Tower of Londen. Some of the new sites added in 2011 and included in this book are: Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia; Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, Barbados; Saloum Delta, Senegal; Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley; Fagus Factory in Alfeld, Germany; Ancient Villages of Northern Syria; Citadel of the Ho Dynasty, Vietnam; and Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai."--Back cover.