Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World Condition:Like New featuring the most up-to-date research

featuring the most up-to-date research

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Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World Condition:Like New featuring the most up-to-date researchThe author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From Iceland to Bhutan to Argentina, Iyer remains both uncannily observant and hilarious. Iyer experiences and depicts these lonely places with the same wit, vitality and insight that distinguish his first two books and the result is a memorable gallery of countries poignantly