Falling Off The Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

Iyer, Pico

ISBN 10: 0394280091 / ISBN 13: 9780394280097

Published by Knopf, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1993

About this Item

Very Good Condition. Light Wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Dust Jacket has slight shelf-wear to edges. Pictures available upon request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Falling Off The Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
• Publisher: Knopf, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394280091
• ISBN 13: 9780394280097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Showing the same sympathy and eye for the absurd that made VIDEO NIGHT IN KATHMANDU such a delight, Pico Iyer now turns to places that most of us would make a point of avoiding. Places like Paraguay, Iceland, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam and Bhutan. "Lonely places," Iyer calls them, "the places that don't fit in," places that in their psychic or geographic or political isolation become even stranger and more remote as time goes on, more possessed by claustrophobia and loony comedy. "Immensely a funny, stimulating, eminently humane work." (Kirkus Reviews)

About the Author

Pico Iyer has written nonfiction books on globalism, Japan, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and forgotten places, and novels on Revolutionary Cuba and Islamic mysticism. He regularly writes about literature for The New York Review of Books; about travel for the Financial Times; and about global culture and the news for Time, The New York Times, and magazines around the world.