The trip that takes a year to plan.

Six hundred pages of Mediterranean coastline. Ports, hill towns, capers, vineyards, the small islands you have to take two ferries to reach. The travel book that sits on the coffee table for the year between deciding and going. By the time the trip happens, the pages are tabbed, the corners are folded, and the bookmark hasn't moved in months. A retirement gift, a wedding gift, an anniversary trip planner, a daydream made physical.

For the friend planning the big anniversary trip. For the retiree booking the catamaran. For the couple whose honeymoon plans got bigger somewhere around month three.

Hardcover. 608 pages.