Beyond the Map (from the author of Off the Map): Unruly enclaves, ghostly places, emerging lands and our search for new utopias - Tapa dura

"Full of rich, strange anecdote, Beyond the Map skips restlessly around the globe... This fine book is an expert, engaged guide to how one might begin to start mapping these often perplexing processes."  (Prospect magazine)

"Bonnett has an eye for the fascinating corners of his subject... There's much to enjoy here..."  (Geographical magazine)

"...plenty to enjoy for readers interested in areas of the world with strange and surprising histories ....an intriguing whistle-stop tour of diverse attempts to create and define a sense of place and belonging."   (BBC World Histories magazine)

"An engrossing look at geographical eccentricities that will be revealing for even seasoned armchair travellers." 
  (Engineering & Technology)


‘The British geography professor Alastair Bonnett has a flair for communicating his passion for “the glee and the drama, the love and the loathing” that emanate from the earth’s most perplexing and mutable places. Prudently, he has gathered 39 of these protean zones between two covers, so readers will know what on earth (or water) he’s talking about.  Bonnett’s provocative detours show us how much more we can know of the known world, if we know where to look, and how.’

  (The New York Times)

‘...as much a kind of “39 places to see before you die” tour as it is a guide to reimagining places you may visit or have visited in the course of your own travels. Try finding such a place on a map during your summer travels, actual or armchair.’
  (The Hindu)

"witty, erudite, original...deserves a place between Mandeville's Travels and Umberto Eco's Book of Imaginary Lands" (Alberto Manguel, co-author The Dictionary of Imaginary Places)

"Beyond the Map takes us on a woozy romp through some of the kookiest, eeriest and most impossible places on Earth, under the sea, and in cyberspace.  In challenging us to imagine and explore the great unknown still out there Bonnett has, once again, made geography sexy." (Bradley Garrett, co-author Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities Within)

"Fans of Bonnett's earlier work, followers of Atlas Obscura and others in search of a fun read will no doubt find this book essential." (Geoff Manaugh, author A Burglar's Guide to the City)