Atlas of Geographical Curiosities (Jonglez Photo Books) - Hardback book

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Es geht um winzige Flecken auf der Erde, die aufgrund merkwürdiger politischer Machtverhältnisse willkürliche Zugehörigkeiten erfahren und dadurch auch oft willkürlich wirkenden Gesetzen unterworfen sind. In accordance with The Post Office, the last recommended date for Christmas posting is 18th December (2nd Class) and 20th December (First class).Each entry starts with a map (naturally), and then a page or two of explanatory text, detailing how the curiosity came to be. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), he has worked as a journalist for some of the major English-language newspapers of the world and is now also a Royal Literary Fund Fellow as well as a Writing Fellow and Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge. If you are a geography fan, a history fan or someone who likes weird, interesting facts, try this book.

Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Starting his career in the former USSR, where he became known as the country’s first investigative journalist, he was forced to defect in January 1990.Welcome to this hardback compendium of interesting, unexpected and downright bizarre geographical anomalies that are guaranteed to delight and inspire. The bulk of the entries are exclaves or enclaves, or some variation thereof and the book is best consumed in short bursts, as all the administrative minutiae starts to run together if one reads too much at a go. Welcome to this compendium of interesting, unexpected and downright bizarre geographical anomalies that are guaranteed to delight and inspire. There were a lot of facts in here I did not know, and reading about all these extraordinary places was fun. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.