Unruly Places Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
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Erscheinungsdatum
11.06.2020
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Houghton Mifflin HarcourtSeitenzahl
288 (Printausgabe)
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9450 KB
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Englisch
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9780544101609
This "guide to weird, ruined, and wonderful spots" across the globe explores disappearing islands, forbidden deserts, and much more-a "terrific book" (
Los Angeles Times).
At a time when Google Maps Street View can take you on a virtual tour of Yosemite's remotest trails, it's hard to imagine there's any uncharted ground left on the planet. But in
Unruly Places, Alastair Bonnett rekindles our geographical imaginations with excursions into some of the world's most peculiar places-such as moving villages, secret cities, no man's lands, and floating islands.
Bonnett investigates Sandy Island, a place that appeared on maps until just two years ago despite the fact that it never existed; Sealand, an abandoned gun platform off the English coast that a British citizen claimed as his own sovereign nation, issuing passports and crowning his wife as a princess; Baarle, a patchwork of Dutch and Flemish enclaves where walking from the grocery store's produce section to the meat counter can involve crossing national borders; and many other curious locales. In this "delightfully quirky" guide down the road much less traveled, Bonnett reveals that the most extraordinary places on earth might be hidden in plain sight (Ron Charles,
Washington Post).
Los Angeles Times).
At a time when Google Maps Street View can take you on a virtual tour of Yosemite's remotest trails, it's hard to imagine there's any uncharted ground left on the planet. But in
Unruly Places, Alastair Bonnett rekindles our geographical imaginations with excursions into some of the world's most peculiar places-such as moving villages, secret cities, no man's lands, and floating islands.
Bonnett investigates Sandy Island, a place that appeared on maps until just two years ago despite the fact that it never existed; Sealand, an abandoned gun platform off the English coast that a British citizen claimed as his own sovereign nation, issuing passports and crowning his wife as a princess; Baarle, a patchwork of Dutch and Flemish enclaves where walking from the grocery store's produce section to the meat counter can involve crossing national borders; and many other curious locales. In this "delightfully quirky" guide down the road much less traveled, Bonnett reveals that the most extraordinary places on earth might be hidden in plain sight (Ron Charles,
Washington Post).
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