Atlas of Geographical Curiosities (Jonglez Photo Books) - Hardback book

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Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. 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. I wish there had been more detailed maps for some of them, but overall a very enjoyable book (and Baarle in Belgium and the Netherlands is clearly an inspiration for China Miéville’s ‘The City and the City’). La risposta non si trova a Bruxelles, ma nelle enclave dimenticate d'Europa: piccoli frammenti di un Paese completamente circondate da un altro.

Es geht um winzige Flecken auf der Erde, die aufgrund merkwürdiger politischer Machtverhältnisse willkürliche Zugehörigkeiten erfahren und dadurch auch oft willkürlich wirkenden Gesetzen unterworfen sind.It is perhaps more a book for armchair reading than to inspire wanderlust, although I have to confess that I have added one or two places to my bucket list as a result of reading it!

Atlases are collections of maps in book form, and are a valuable resource for learning more about the world. Each entry starts with a map (naturally), and then a page or two of explanatory text, detailing how the curiosity came to be. Leider konnte ich nichts davon so richtig genießen, da die Übersetzung aus dem Englischen grauenhaft ist. The pre-loved books are carefully cleaned and maintained offering a wide variety of general and specialist titles from children's to adults. The world is full of little-known facts that have sometimes been a source of diplomatic or military struggle.The bulk of the entries are exclaves or enclaves, or some variation thereof and the book is best consumed in short bursts, as all the administrative minutiae starts to run together if one reads too much at a go. The photos are a nice inclusion, though would be better with captions, so we know what we're looking at. The world is full of very little-known geographical anomalies that are, or have often been, a source of diplomatic and/or military struggles. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).