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Informationen zum Autor Jonn Elledge is a New Statesman columnist and a contributor to the Big Issue , the Guardian , the Evening Standard and a number of other newspapers. He was previously an assistant editor at the New Statesman , where he created and ran its urbanism-focused CityMetric site, spending six happy years writing about cities, maps and borders and hosting the Skylines podcast. He has written three books, as well as over a hundred editions of the Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything . He lives in London. Klappentext Praise for The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything 'Jonn Elledge is a charming and outstandingly nerdish guide. A big, generous, fascinating book' Robert Webb 'I love Jonn Elledge's brain' Marina Hyde 'Joyous, mind-expanding, laugh-out-loud funny, and full of nerdy gusto. Ian Dunt 'Consistently both entertaining and fascinating' Ahir Shah Vorwort A fascinating and surprising history of the world told through the lines people have drawn on maps, by the 'charming and outstandingly nerdish' author of The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything . Zusammenfassung 'Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND | 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER 'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those at once' GIDEON DEFOE People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped, why the world looks the way it does - and about the scale of human folly. From the Roman attempts to define the boundaries of civilisation, to the secret British-French agreement to carve up the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, to the reason why landlocked Bolivia still maintains a navy, this is a fascinating, witty and surprising look at the history of the world told through its borders. More praise for 47 BORDERS: 'Fascinating and hugely entertaining' MARINA HYDE 'You'll never look at a map the same way again' STEPHEN BUSH '[A] clever, confounding history' PATRICK MAGUIRE 'A witty grand tour' DORIAN LYNSKEY 'Warm, funny and sharply political' PHIL TINLINE ...
