Books by Alastair Bonnett and Complete Book Reviews

Unruly Places: Lost Spaces
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
Alastair Bonnett. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-544-10157-9
In short, four-to-five page essays, social geographer Bonnett explores forbidding cities like the pirate stronghold of Hobyo, Somalia, the abandoned town of Pripyat, hard by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and the underground towns of Turkish...
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Unruly Places: Lost Spaces
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
Alastair Bonnet, read by Derek Perkins. Tantor Audio, , unabridged, 6 CDs, 7.5 hrs., $37.99 ISBN 978-1-4945-0582-0
From urban fox dens to micro-nations to temporary islands, Bonnet explores strange geography and ungrounded spaces found throughout the world. It is a veritable travelogue into unknown and limbo-like states. Perkins speaks in a deep voice and a...
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Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves
Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias
Alastair Bonnett. Univ. of Chicago, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-226-51384-3
Ranging from downright funny to deadly serious, each chapter in this guide from social geography professor Bonnett (New Views) takes the reader on a journey to an unusual location. These spots are physical (infamous Mokattam Village, also known as...
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