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Unruly Places
Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
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About this book
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).
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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Topic
Personal DevelopmentSubtopic
Human GeographyIndex
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
Ababda people/territory, 75
Ackroyd, Peter, 50
Action Squad, 39–40
Aerial Navigation Act (1911/Britain), 142
African Development Fund, 72
Afweyne (Mohamed Abdi Hassan), 170–71, 173
Adam
before conflict, 109
ethnic war over Karabakh and, 109, 111–12
ignored/forgotten, 110–11, 113
rebuilding and, 112–13
ruins/description, 108, 109–10, 113
soccer and, 113
Adam Brandy Company, 109
airspace
above seas, 142, 143
airborne cities, 143–44
balloon flights and, 141–42
international airspace, 71, 142
legal issues and, 141–43
national airspace, 142
spy zone/satellites and, 143
Al Qaeda, 138, 163
Almeida, Alfredo Wagner Berno de, 162
alveolar echinococcosis, 54
Ames, Justin, 110
Anastasia Movement, 150–52
Andaman and Nicobar islanders’ origins, 59–64
Andrews, David, 130–31, 132
anti-claims
purpose/examples, 76
See also Bir Tawil
Aral Sea
Amu Darya/Syr Darya rivers and, 29
description/history, 29–30, 31, 33
fishing/human settlements and, 29
irrigation/results, 29–30
island within/nature reserve, 31
maps and, 30
See also Aralqum Desert
Aralqum Desert
climate/health impacts, 30
description, 28, 29, 30–31, 32
history, 32–33
natural adaptation vs. human impact, 29, 31, 32
primary succession limits and, 31, 32
“Small Aral Sea” and, 31
See also Aral Sea
Arc of Triumph, North Korea, 107
Archaeological Park of Sicilian Incompletion, The
Alterazioni Video/tour guide, 120–21, 122–23
Bonnett’s visit, 120–21, 123
children’s city, 121
Giarre/incomplete structures, 119–21, 122–23
...Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Introduction
- LOST SPACES
- Sandy Island
- Leningrad
- Arne
- Old Mecca
- New Moore
- Time Landscape
- The Aralqum Desert
- HIDDEN GEOGRAPHIES
- The Labyrinth
- Zheleznogorsk
- The Underground Cities of Cappadocia
- Fox Den
- North Cemetery, Manila
- North Sentinel Island
- NO MAN’S LANDS
- Between Border Posts (Guinea and Senegal)
- Bir Tawil
- Nahuaterique
- Twayil Abu Jarwal
- Traffic Island
- DEAD CITIES
- Wittenoom
- Kangbashi
- Kijong-dong
- Ağdam
- Pripyat
- The Archaeological Park of Sicilian Incompletion
- SPACES OF EXCEPTION
- Camp Zeist
- Geneva Freeport
- Bright Light, 4 Mures Street, Bucharest
- International Airspace
- Gutterspace
- Bountiful
- Mount Athos
- Ranch of Sprouts: Brotas Quilombo
- FARC-controlled Colombia
- Hobyo
- ENCLAVES AND BREAKAWAY NATIONS
- Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog
- Chitmahals
- Sealand
- United Kingdom of Lunda Tchokwe
- Gagauzia
- FLOATING ISLANDS
- Pumice and Trash Islands
- Nipterk P-32 Spray Ice Island
- The Floating Maldives
- The World
- EPHEMERAL PLACES
- Hog’s Back Lay-By
- LAX Parking Lot
- Nowhere
- Stacey’s Lane
- Conclusion: Sympathy for a Place-Loving Species
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author