Main entry:

Bonnett, Alastair, 1964- author.

Title & Author:

Beyond the map : unruly enclaves, ghostly places, emerging lands and our search for new utopias / Alastair Bonnett.

Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
©2018

Description:

296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
"First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Aurum Press, an imprint of the Quarto Group"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-286) and index.
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.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

New islands are under construction or emerging because of climate change. Eccentric enclaves and fantastic utopian experiments are multiplying. Once-secret fantasy gardens are cracking open their doors to outsiders. Our world is becoming stranger by the day--and Alastair Bonnett observes and captures every fascinating change.

ISBN:

9780226513843 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
022651384X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
(electronic book)
9780226513980

Subject:

Geography Miscellanea.
Curiosities and wonders.
Géographie Miscellanées.
Curiosités et merveilles.
SCIENCE Earth Sciences Geography.
TRAVEL.
Geography.
Geografie
Kuriosität

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
miscellanies.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Miscellanées.
Miscellanea.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300720
Call No.: BIB 246939
Status: Available