Atlas of geographical curiosities - Couverture rigide

Vitaliev, Vitali

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 236195530X ISBN 13 : 9782361955304

Editeur : Jonglez, 2022

Synopsis

The world is full of very little-known geographical anomalies that are or have often been a source of diplomatic and/or military struggles. Many still exist under the radar and are, or could become, the source of a major international crisis.

Countries that do not really exist, the world's only town that lies entirely underground, a UK hotel room that became Yugoslavian for one day only, an island which is Spanish for six months of the year and French for the other six months, a city which is officially constituted by one single skyscraper, the world's first and only railway that belonged to one country and ran across another, a hotel room whose bedroom is in France and whose bathroom is in Switzerland, Bir Tawil which is one of the very few territories on Earth not claimed by any country, the only place in the world where you can find the so-called counter-enclaves and where in a 20-minute walk around the village you can cross an international border over 50 times at 50 different points...

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vitali Vitaliev is a UK-based multi-award-winning author, columnist, editor and broadcaster. 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. Having worked and lived in Australia, England, Scotland and Ireland, and having travelled in over 70 countries, Vitali is the author of 15 books translated into many languages. He has worked as a journalist for some of the major English-language newspapers, and is now a Royal Literary Fund Fellow as well as a Writing Fellow and Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge, but also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain. Vitali lives with his partner Christine and Tashi, a furry Tibetan Terrier, in a small English town not far from London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonglez
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 236195530X
• ISBN 13: 9782361955304
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 157
• Coordonnées du fabricant: GPSR Kontakt; info@jonglezpublishing.com; ; 17 boulevard du Roi; Versailles; 78000; France