We learn from the bio on the back flap that author Chris Santella is also a marketing consultant.
It shows, as his "Fifty Places" series has grown to include Hike, Play Golf, Dive, Go Birding, Sail, and others. Now along comes the beginning of the Fifty More franchise with Fifty More Places to Fly Fish Before You Die as well as Fifty More Places to Play Golf Before You Die.
At this rate we'll never die...
Anyway, the formula works, even though it's more of the same.
These destinations are exotic, clearly off the beaten track, and fun to read about on cold winter evenings when the real thing seems very far away.