Off the map : lost spaces, invisible cities, forgotten islands, feral places, and what they tell us about the world / Alastair Bonnett.
Publication details: London : Aurum, 2014.Description: ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781781312575 (hbk.)
- 1781312575 (hbk.)
- 910 23
- G116
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"Our fascination with remarkable places is as old as geography. Eratosthene's Geographika, written around 200 BC, offers a tour of numerous 'famous' cities and 'great' rivers, while the seventeen volumes of Strabo's Geography, written in the first years of the first century AD for Roman imperial administrators, provides an exhaustive compendium of journeys, cities and destinations. Yet, although our appetite for curious tales from afar has been continuous, today our need for geographical re-enchantment is of a different order." - Back cover