BEYOND THE MAP

Following the international success of Off the Map (published as Unruly Places in the US) Alastair Bonnett returns to explore some of the world’s most unruly, off-grid and out-of-the-way places, locations that have dropped from the cartographer’s gaze.

In this new book Bonnett presents 43 tales of 43 extraordinary places, each with something to tell us about the shifting tectonics of place and place-making. From the Luhansk People’s Republic to the Islamic State, from Cybertopias to the Greenland Canyons, this is a travel book like no other, an engaging, thoughtful, politically astute work by one of our most exciting geographers.

There can't be a better guide to the world’s most extraordinary places than Alastair Bonnett; his instincts – his political, social and geographical curiosity – make, always with him, for an unexpected journey. He is a geographer and chronicler of the overlooked; in his hands the world feels more surprising, more spacious, more strange.

Further Off the Map will, like his last book Off the Map, draw new maps for us to ponder and wonder over.

Alastair Bonnet is Professor of Social Geography at Newcastle University. Previous books include Off the Map / Unruly Places, What is Geography? (Sage, 2008) and How to Argue (Pearson, 2001). 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. He was also involved for many years in situationist and anarchist politics. His latest research projects are about memories of the city and themes of loss and yearning in modern politics.