Bibliograph

Falling off the map, some lonely places of the world, Pico Iyer

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Falling off the map, some lonely places of the world, Pico Iyer

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Falling off the map

Oclc number

26504650

Responsibility statement

Pico Iyer

Sub title

some lonely places of the world

Summary

Pico Iyer is a traveler, and he particularly likes places that the rest of us would make a point of avoiding. This book is about such places - "lonely places" Iyer calls them, "the places that don't fit in", places that in their psychic or geographical or political isolation become even stranger and more remote as time goes on, more posessed by claustrophobia and looney comedy

Table Of Contents

A prefatory note -- Lonely places -- North Korea: My holiday with Kim Il Sung -- Argentina: La Dolce Vita meets "The Hyper" -- Cuba: An Elegiac Carnival -- Iceland: Rock n' Roll Ghost Town -- Bhutan: Hidden Inside the Hidden Kingdom -- Vietnam: Yesterday Once More -- Paraguay: Up for Sale, or Adoption -- Australia: Five Thousand Miles from Anywhere

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