Discover the world's most remote and mysterious islands in this beautifully designed book. Spanning continents and cultures, it explores exotic, hard-to-reach locations with an international appeal. Divided into four sections—Strange, Scary, Remote, and Naturally Odd—it unveils the haunting beauty and enigmatic allure of these isolated and extraordinary places.
Discover the world's most remote and mysterious islands in this beautifully designed book. Spanning continents and cultures, it explores exotic, hard-to-reach locations with an international appeal. Divided into four sections—Strange, Scary, Remote, and Naturally Odd—it unveils the haunting beauty and enigmatic allure of these isolated and extraordinary places. Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
Table of Contents Introduction Strange Islands Ocean Flower (China): The Lotus Archipelago The World (Dubai): A Man-Made Map Green Float/Floating City: The Eco-Utopia Pheasant Island: The Bilingual Border North Brother Island (New York): The Forgotten Quarantine Eustasia: Larry Page’s Private Retreat Caye Sable (Haiti): The World’s Densest Island Kihnu Islands (Estonia): Europe’s Last Matriarchy Scary Islands Runit (Marshall Islands): The Nuclear Tomb Hashima (Japan): The Battleship Island Vozrozhdeniya Island: The Biological Weapons Graveyard Fiery Cross (South China Sea): China’s Military Outpost The Sierra Madre (Philippines): The Rusting Frontier Thilafushi (Maldives): The Trash Island The Pacific Trash Vortex: The Floating Waste Remote Islands The Robesons (Panama) The Hidden Kuna Nauru: The Stripped-Down Nation Inaccessible Island: The Ultimate Isolation The United States Minor Outlying Islands: America’s Hidden Outposts Fort Jefferson (Florida): The Distant Fortress North Sentinel Island: The Uncontacted Tribe San Nicolas (California): The Lone Woman’s Refuge Naturally Odd Islands Rene-Lavasseur (Quebec): The Crater Island Chars of Assam (India): The Shifting River Islands The Minkies (Jersey): The Tidal Mirage Magic Island (Titan): The Enigmatic Moon Socotra (Yemen): The Island of Unusual Flora Kvarken Archipelago (Finland/Sweden): The Emerging Islands Pumice Island: The Floating Lava Graham Island: The Vanishing Island La Rota (Italy): The Floating Island of Lazio Hunga Tonga: The Erupting Newcomer Surtsey (Iceland): The Pristine Laboratory Acknowledgments About the Author Index
Table of Contents Introduction Strange Islands Ocean Flower (China): The Lotus Archipelago The World (Dubai): A Man-Made Map Green Float/Floating City: The Eco-Utopia Pheasant Island: The Bilingual Border North Brother Island (New York): The Forgotten Quarantine Eustasia: Larry Page’s Private Retreat Caye Sable (Haiti): The World’s Densest Island Kihnu Islands (Estonia): Europe’s Last Matriarchy Scary Islands Runit (Marshall Islands): The Nuclear Tomb Hashima (Japan): The Battleship Island Vozrozhdeniya Island: The Biological Weapons Graveyard Fiery Cross (South China Sea): China’s Military Outpost The Sierra Madre (Philippines): The Rusting Frontier Thilafushi (Maldives): The Trash Island The Pacific Trash Vortex: The Floating Waste Remote Islands The Robesons (Panama) The Hidden Kuna Nauru: The Stripped-Down Nation Inaccessible Island: The Ultimate Isolation The United States Minor Outlying Islands: America’s Hidden Outposts Fort Jefferson (Florida): The Distant Fortress North Sentinel Island: The Uncontacted Tribe San Nicolas (California): The Lone Woman’s Refuge Naturally Odd Islands Rene-Lavasseur (Quebec): The Crater Island Chars of Assam (India): The Shifting River Islands The Minkies (Jersey): The Tidal Mirage Magic Island (Titan): The Enigmatic Moon Socotra (Yemen): The Island of Unusual Flora Kvarken Archipelago (Finland/Sweden): The Emerging Islands Pumice Island: The Floating Lava Graham Island: The Vanishing Island La Rota (Italy): The Floating Island of Lazio Hunga Tonga: The Erupting Newcomer Surtsey (Iceland): The Pristine Laboratory Acknowledgments About the Author Index
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