Falling off the map: some lonely places of the world

IYER, Pico

ISBN 10: 0224037188 / ISBN 13: 9780224037181

Editore: Jonathan Cape, London, 1993

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• Titolo: Falling off the map: some lonely places of the world
• Editore: Jonathan Cape, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0224037188
• ISBN 13: 9780224037181
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Edizione: 1st ed.

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Pico Iyer is a traveller who particularly likes places that the rest of us would make a point of avoiding. This is a book about such places 'lonely places' as Iyer calls them 'the places that don't fit in'. Here is Iyer in North Korea (It had seemed, at the time, a good idea') in Argentina (five national economic plans in eight months and a 600% bank interest); in Cuba (where the hotel in Holguin offered only beer for breakfast); in Iceland (where the rock formation in the Westman Isles formerly known as Cleopatra is now known as Marge Simpson. ); in Bhutan and Vietnam and Australia. With the same wit he showed in VIDEO NIGHT IN KATHMANDU, Iyer illuminates the oddities of these places. His world is unlike anybody else's - and irresistable.