Fuori dalle mappe
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Synopsis
Imagine:
~ Bask in the sun on an artificially created island of frozen foam.
~ Colonize a city near Chernobyl that has never been inhabited.
~Spending the night in a populated (living) cemetery in northern Manila.
~ Visit a microstate located on a military platform in the middle of the ocean.
~ Meet the love of your life in the British countryside, home to the capital of open-air sex.
Alastair Bonnett talks about 48 places you can’t find on the maps.
A hymn to the unexpected on a planet now entirely mapped (and therefore explained) by Google.
A moving tribute to blurred boundaries and true fantasies, to the idea that man does not know everything, nor can everything be discovered and conquered.
And again, an ode to the territory as the factory of our lives, where we build our identity and our memory.
Details
Translation by Lorenzo Vetta
Year of publication: October 2024
Number of pages: 355 pages
Format: 14 x 21 cm
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9788831321983
Author
Alastair Bonnett was born in Epping, a suburb of London, in 1964. From an early age he felt a special affection for his village, looking at the big city as an invasive force and a threat capable of sweeping away its charm. This relationship between the individual and space becomes the fulcrum of all his work. During adolescence he scribbled entire notebooks with his first poems, until he began to devote himself exclusively to non-fiction. Professor of Social Geography at Newcastle University, Bonnett combines his production as an academic with that of an author of books intended for the general public.
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