Looking for a special gift for a spa aficionado? Then this beautiful book - SPA: The Sensuous Experience - makes a wonderful present. Written by award-winning architect Robert D. Henry and by Julie D. Taylor, a former magazine editor, SPA: The Sensuous Experience is a fantasy tour of 50 of the world's most spectacular and photogenic spas, with beautifully written descriptions of the aesthetic environment and treatments offered.

Just turning the pages of SPA: The Sensuous Experience is the stuff of dreams, a fantasy tour of an impossibly perfect world of beauty, indulgence and pampering…

bythebook-1The book is divided into seven categorized chapters: Thermal Spas, Resort Spas, Wellness & Medical Spas, Day Spas, Destination Spas, Thalasso Spas and Hotel Spas, with each chapter featuring an expert-written introductory essay. Penned by such spa experts as Sonu Shivdasani (founder of Six Senses Resorts & Spas) and the well-known Bernard Burt, these cover the fascinating history of spa from ancient traditions to the sensuous experience of the modern spa.

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This glorious weighty volume deserves to grace every spagoer's coffee table or bookshelf, though it is a little too heavy to be popped into a suitcase or used as a holiday guide, despite its useful directory of addresses and contact details for all the spas featured.

Just turning the pages of SPA: The Sensuous Experience is the stuff of dreams, a fantasy tour of an impossibly perfect world of beauty, indulgence and pampering far removed from the humdrum of everyday life. Having experienced several of the spas in this book, I can recommend them unreservedly, even if they didn't quite live up to their flawless images in these exquisite photographs!

With just 50 entries featured in SPA: The Sensuous Experience there is scope for other editions, so start by collecting this one.

SPA: The Sensuous Experience (ISBN 1 92074 440 1) is published by Images Publishing Group:
www.imagespublishing.com at $65.