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

This book was about the importance of place, viewed through the lens of 46 geographical cusiosities. And fascinating it was too. In covering so many locations, we never go into any great depth, but it makes for an easy read. Geographer he may be, but Bonnett must be an aspiring Oulipian. The fact th......more

2.5 Sterne Ich habe mich lange nicht mehr so durch ein Buch durchgekämpft, es hat mich einfach zu vieles gestört. - Das Buch ist sehr subjektiv geschrieben, der Autor kommentiert alles, egal ob es Sinn macht, ob es passend ist oder nicht. Generell fand ich den Schreibstil auch für mich nicht angenehm -......more

This is a great book to pick up when you don't have the time (or attention span) to sit down and get engrossed in something lengthy. It feels almost like a compilation of a column from a magazine - a couple of pages devoted to each entry. The theme is interesting places around the world. The focus is......more

In "Unruly Places," Alastair Bonnett has written neither a tour guide nor a history book. Instead, it's a sort of mash-up of history, philosophy and sociology applied to the geography of little-known places on the earth. In separate chapters, the author examines places as diverse as islands that app......more