Unruly Places : Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies

from TheAmpersand

A fascinating little book that gives the curious layman a wonderfully readable rundown of geographical oddities, theory relating to cartography and place, and historical and current thinking about what the concept of "place" might mean to us. The author writes in a style that is both accessible a...

from PRGore

I have a fascination for lost, hidden, and forgotten places, so I enjoyed learning about several new ones mentioned in this book. The book is a collection of essays about these places, some of which the author visited. Others are off limits, so he relied on other primary sources. The essays are t...

from PDCRead

Apart from some obscure bits of the Amazon rainforest and Indonesian jungles we think that there can be no undiscovered parts of the world; can there? Surely, we must have discovered everything on Google Earth by now. Off The Map sets about putting that record straight. In this book, Bonnett help...

from classyhomemaker

This was just a really fantastic book. Some parts dull, some parts memorable, all parts fascinating. The concept of studying the importance of place was just genius to begin with. Add in a very thorough working over of most the world's geography, and I was just intrigued and inspired to up my sma...

from sscarllet

This book was ok. I've decided to give it 4 starts because it was well written and more importantly well researched. I think the only challenge I had was that I really need to be in the correct mood to read about places that I will never visit. Also, Bonnett does get a bit too philosophical for m...