An Atlas of Extinct Countries

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An Atlas of Extinct Countries

75,00 lei

Categorii: Necatalogate, Neclasificat

Limba: Engleza

Data publicării: 2020

Editura: HarperCollins

Tip copertă: Hardcover

Nr Pag: 289

ISBN: 9780008393854

Dimensiuni: l: 14cm | H: 21cm | 3.2cm | 384g

An Atlas of Extinct Countries

75,00 lei

Descriere

Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated - and timely - history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist.

'Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They're all equally implausible once you get up close'

Countries die. Sometimes it's murder, sometimes it's by accident, and sometimes it's because they were so ludicrous they didn't deserve to exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip away almost unnoticed. Often the cause of death is either 'got too greedy' or 'Napoleon turned up'. Now and then they just hold a referendum and vote themselves out of existence.