Main entry:

Bonnett, Alastair, 1964- author.

Title & Author:

Unruly places : lost spaces, secret cities, and other inscrutable geographies / Alastair Bonnett.

Edition:

Canadian edition.

Publication:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Viking, [2014]
©2014

Description:

xvi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [254]-256) and index.
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 -- Aghdam -- 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.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Alastair Bonnett explores extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places including micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man's lands. 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"--Supplied by publisher.

ISBN:

9780670067183
0670067180

Subject:

Geography Miscellanea.
Geography.
Géographie Miscellanées.
Géographie.

Form/genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288150
Call No.: BIB 229771
Status: Available