Beyond the map
Subtitle: unruly enclaves, ghostly places, emerging lands and our search for new utopias
By: Alastair Bonnett
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780226513843
Subjects: Miscellanea; Curiosities and wonders; Geography
Description: New islands are under construction or emerging because of climate change. Eccentric enclaves and fantastic utopian experiments are multiplying. Once-secret fantasy gardens are cracking open their doors to outsiders. Our world is becoming stranger by the day--and Alastair Bonnett observes and captures every fascinating change.
Notes: "First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Aurum Press, an imprint of the Quarto Group"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Unruly islands. Les Minquiers ; The United States Minor Outlying Islands and the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago ; The new Spratly Islands ; Bothnia's rising islands ; The Philippines' 534 discoveries ; Wild strawberries : traffic island; title: Enclaves and uncertain nations. The Ladin Valleys ; The eruv at Bondi Beach ; The Ferghana Valley ; The Saharan sand wall ; New Russia ; The Sovereign Military Order of Malta ; The Stratford Republic; title: Utopian places. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ; Cybertopia ; The new nomads ; Nek Chand's rock garden ; Christiania ; Helsinki wild harvest ; City of helicopters ; City without ground; title: Ghostly places. The phantom tunnel of Shinjuku Station ; Skywalks ; The Boys Village ; British graveyard, Shimla ; Dau movie set ; Magical London ; Tsunami stones and nuclear markers; title: Hidden places. Garbage city, Cairo ; Off street view : Hidden Hills and the slums of Wanathamulla ; Trap streets ; The uncharted Congo; title: Flat 2, 18 Royston Mains Street, Edinburgh ; Spikescape ; Yulin underground Naval Base, Hainan Island ; Under Jerusalem; title: Doggerland; title: The new Arctic; title: Conshelf Undersea Station; title: Epilogue.