Beyond the map unruly enclaves, ghostly places, emerging lands and our search for new utopias
In Beyond the Map, Bonnett presents stories of the world's most extraordinary spaces-many unmarked on any official map-all of which challenge our assumptions about what we know-or think we know-about our world. As cultural, religious and political boundaries ebb and flow with each passing day, tradi...
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Unruly islands. Les minquiers ; The United States minor outlying islands and the united micronations multi-oceanic archipelago ; The new spratly islands ; Bothnia's rising islands ; The Philippines' 534 discoveries ; Wild strawberries: traffic island
- Enclaves and uncertain nations. The Ladin Valleys ; The eruv at Bondi Beach ; The Ferghana Valley ; The Saharan sand wall ; New Russia ; The sovereign military order of Malta ; The Stratford Republic
- Utopian places. The Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant ; Cybertopia ; The new nomads ; Nek Chand's rock garden ; Christiania ; Helsinki wild harvest ; City of helicopters ; City without ground
- Ghostly places. The phantom tunnel of Shinjuku station ; Skywalks ; The boys village ; British graveyard, Shimla ; Dau movie set ; Magical London ; Tsunami stones and nuclear markers
- Hidden places. Garbage city, Cairo ; Off street view: hidden hills and the slums of Wanathamulla ; Trap streets ; The uncharted Congo
- Flat 2, 18 Royston Mains street, Edinburgh ; Spikescape ; Yulin underground naval base, Hainan Island ; Under Jerusalem
- Doggerland
- The New Arctic
- Conshelf undersea station
- Epilogue.
