Off the Map

Lost Spaces, Invisible Cities, Forgotten Islands, Feral Places and What They Tell Us About the World

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Alastair Bonnett

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From forgotten enclaves to floating islands, from hidden villages to New York gutter spaces, Off the Map charts the hidden corners of our planet. And while these are not necessarily places you would choose to visit on holiday - Hobyo, the pirate capital of Somalia, or Zheleznogorsk, a secret military town in Russia - they each carry a story about the strangeness of place and our need for a geography that understands our hunger for the fantastic and the unexpected. But it also shows us that topophilia, the love of place, is a fundamental part of what it is to be human. Whether you are an urban explorer or an armchair traveller, Off the Map will inspire and enchant. You'll never look at a map in quite the same way again.

Author Biography:

Alastair Bonnett is Professor of Social Geography at Newcastle University. Previous books include What is Geography? and How to Argue. He has also contributed to history and current affairs magazines on a wide variety of topics, such as world population and radical nostalgia. Alastair was editor of the avant-garde, psychogeographical, magazine Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration between 1994-2000. He was also involved for many years in situationist and anarchist politics. His latest research projects are about memories of the city and themes of loss and yearning in modern politics.

Release date Australia

April 2nd, 2015

Author

Alastair Bonnett

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

320

ISBN-13

9781781313619

Product ID

22281960

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