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Off the Mapis a journey through the final remaining hidden places. Whether it is Sealand, an abandoned gun platform off the English coast, or Baarle, a patchwork of Dutch and Flemish enclaves where crossing the road can involve traversing multiple national borders; or moving villages, unclaimed deserts or underground labyrinths, fully llustrated with original maps and drawing. It shows the world from vantage points that will inspire explorers, and armchair travellers to consider a new way of understanding the world. And itis a celebration of both our love of places and the desire to imagine new places…mehr

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Off the Mapis a journey through the final remaining hidden places. Whether it is Sealand, an abandoned gun platform off the English coast, or Baarle, a patchwork of Dutch and Flemish enclaves where crossing the road can involve traversing multiple national borders; or moving villages, unclaimed deserts or underground labyrinths, fully llustrated with original maps and drawing. It shows the world from vantage points that will inspire explorers, and armchair travellers to consider a new way of understanding the world. And itis a celebration of both our love of places and the desire to imagine new places
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ALASTAIR BONNETT is Professor of Social Geography at Newcastle University. Previous books include Off the Map, What is Geography? and How to Argue. He has also contributed to history and current affairs magazines on a wide variety of topics, such as world population and radical nostalgia. Alastair was editor of the avant-garde, psychogeographical, magazine  Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration between 1994-2000. Alastair lives in Newcastle.