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# Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies Hardcover – July 8, 2014

**Brand:** alastair bonnett
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## Customer Reviews

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    Good book, but some are missing.
  

*by V***H on Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2022*

I was a little disappointed to not find anything in this book about the Sámi people who inhabit Lapland (Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia).

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    History, anthropology, and theory
  

*by A***. on Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2015*

A blend of history, anthropology, and theory, Bonnett's writing here often has the journalistic feel of a series of particularly engaging New Yorker articles. I'm not sure the book will make me think about my own relationship to places and spaces -- which is a slight failure of the theoretical parts -- but there were at least enough "Wow, really?!" moments that I would happily recommend it to friends who are interested in random interesting geographical bits.The places are grouped into the following categories/chapter headings: Lost Spaces, Hidden Geographies, No Man's Lands, Dead Cities, Spaces of Exception, Enclaves and Breakaway Nations, Floating Islands, and Ephemeral Places. I found the first six sections better than the final two. The former had more detail about each place while the latter by their very natures were more theoretical. Like some other reviewers, I would have preferred either a longer book which covered each place in greater detail, or a book of the same length which covered fewer places, leaving room for... greater detail. In a book about places, and peoples' relationships to them, why not write even more about, well, the places themselves?One of the main takeaways for me is that I now want to seek out more information on some of the places that Bonett discusses so briefly. Make of that what you will.** I received a Review Copy of this book via NetGalley **

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Unruly Places
  

*by L***H on Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2016*

This book tells of forgotten, destroyed, transformed, impermanent places, small bits of land left over, man and nature that create place and strives for you to imagine a world that's off the map.You can tell the author is very enchanted by these places and you start to feel the same sort of fascination. He wants you to think about the mystery, the history and the possibility.I read many geographical tellings and even in my love for them, I find most of them to be dry but Unruly Places was one of the easiest books to get through. It's full of his own musings and makes cause for you to reimagine your own surroundings and find places you've seen, but not thought of, and imagine a world where place may exist, even if you can't see it.Each chapter tells of a different place, and it's been said that brevity is the soul of wit, but merely five pages per place just wasn't enough. I found myself just getting to know these places when the chapter would end and after 47 chapters it's a little heartbreaking. He visited many of these places and I'm jealous that he got to see their beauty and I'm left with coordinates to peer down from above. It seems to me that a book with less places, more in depth tellings and photos of his travels would have better appealed to me, but nonetheless, I very much enjoyed the book and I have many places to learn more about.

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