Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670067183 (0670067180)
Publish date: July 8th 2014
Publisher: Viking Canada
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies by Alastair Bonnett is essentially a sociological and philosophical study of what 'place' really means to each of us. The author explores 47 different locales around the globe (usually with GPS coordinates included) and div...
Years ago, I read a strange travel memoir by Daniel Kalder, Lost Cosmonaut, which sparked a love in me for travelogues of places most people don't visit. When I saw Alastair Bonnett's Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies, I jumped at the chance to review it. O...