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Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
by Alastair Bonnett
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 054410157X
- ISBN 13
- 9780544101579
- Seller
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Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Perfect for urban explorers, wilderness ramblers, and armchair travelers struck by wanderlust, Unruly Places will change the way you see the places you inhabit (from description on dust jacket). Light blue paper boards. Titled in white on spine. Indexed, 270 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Like new condition. Nice copy. Full refund if not satisfied.
Synopsis
The real-life answers to Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities , Unruly Places explores the most extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places on the planet. Alastair Bonnett’s tour of the planet’s most unlikely micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man’s lands shows us the modern world from surprising new vantage points, bound to inspire urban explorers, off-the-beaten-trail wanderers, and armchair travelers. He connects what we see on maps to what’s happening in the world by looking at the places that are hardest to pin down: inaccessible zones, improvised settlements, multiple cities sharing the same space. Consider Sealand, an abandoned gun platform off the English coast that a British citizen claimed as his own sovereign nation, issuing passports and making his wife a princess. Or Baarle, a patchwork city of Dutch and Flemish enclaves where crossing the street can involve traversing national borders. Or Sandy Island, which appeared on maps well into 2012 despite the fact it never existed. Illustrated with original maps and drawings, Unruly Places gives readers a new way of understanding the places we occupy.
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- Bookseller
- Shelley and Son Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 061197
- Title
- Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
- Author
- Alastair Bonnett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 054410157X
- ISBN 13
- 9780544101579
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2014
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Exploration;
- X weight
- 13 oz
Terms of Sale
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I offer a full refund if not satisfied as long as the book is returned in the same condition as sent.
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Shelley and Son Books
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Hendersonville, North Carolina
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