Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World - Couverture souple

Iyer, Pico

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0552995851 ISBN 13 : 9780552995856

Editeur : Black Swan, 1994

Synopsis

Using the same sympathy and eye for the absurd that characterized his "Video Night in Kathmandu", the traveller Pico Iyer describes countries ranging from Paraguay to Iceland, North Korea to Argentian, Cuba to Bhutan, and Vietnam to Australia - places which many people make a point of avoiding and which he calls "lonely places". In a tightly-sealed North Korea, he sees no tourists, yet notes that the Koreans are building the largest tourist hotel in the world, 105 storeys high. The Vietnamese, conversely, declared 1990 the "Year of the Tourist", yet chose the same year to tear down all their hotels for remodelling. In Cuba Iyer finds an effigy of Ronald Reagan in "Cretins' Corner" in the Museum of the Revolution and "shortages of everything except ironies", while in Paraguay, perhaps the loneliest place of all, where corruption is raised to the level of an art form, he notes: "Everyone has a price, and usually it was discounted".

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Black Swan
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0552995851
• ISBN 13: 9780552995856
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible