A glorious celebration of the Britain's geographical eccentricities.
Welcome to this compendium of interesting, unexpected and downright bizarre geographical anomalies that are guaranteed to delight and inspire.
Britain is one of the quirkiest parts of the world, and many of its quirks are covered in this unique Atlas of Geographical Curiosities, the first of its kind.
Put together by an acclaimed author and geographer, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain, the Atlas describes:
Britain's forgotten rainforests
the world's smallest island with a building
a British hotel room which became Yugoslavian for one day only
Britain's only desert
the only bit of Britain's territory still adhering to the Julian calendar
the lowest land point in Britain
the county that does not exist but still features in postal addresses
Britain's narrowest street and its smallest city
Britain's 'Great Barrier Reef'
a bit of the Netherlands that briefly became part of Scotland
Britain is full of wonderful and strange geographical irregularities. Turn to the Atlas of Geographical Curiosities to uncover more little-known but important facts gathered together in this entertaining treasure trove.
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978-2-36195-910-4 (9782361959104)
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Vitali Vitaliev is a UK-based multi-award-winning author, columnist, editor and broadcaster. Starting his career in the former USSR, where he became known as the country's first investigative journalist, he was forced to defect in January 1990. Having worked and lived in Australia, England, Scotland and Ireland, and having travelled in over 70 countries, Vitali is the author of 15 books translated into many languages. He has worked as a journalist for some of the major English-language newspapers, and is now a Royal Literary Fund Fellow as well as a Writing Fellow and Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge, but also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain. Vitali lives with his partner Christine and Tashi, a furry Tibetan Terrier, in a small English town not far from London.
1 Britain's forgotten rainforests - Northern Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland
2 The Centre of Britain - Lancashire - England
3. Claridge's Hotel Suite 212 - London - England
4 Ely Place - London - England
5 Wolford Chapel - Devon - England
6 Bishop Rock - Cornwall - England
7 Sark - Channel islands
8 The Square Mile of London - London - England
9 Loch Ness - Scotland
10 Poole Harbour - Dorset - England
11 Dungeness - Kent - England
12 Fordwich - Kent - England
13 The island of Foula - Scotland
14 Four Shire Stone - Oxfordshire - England
15 Holme Fen - Cambridgeshire - England
16 Kielder Forest - Northumberland - England
17 The drystone dyke of the England-Scotland border
18 Lindisfarne (or Holy Island) - Northumberland - England
19 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch - Wales
20 Middlesex county - England
21 Parliament Street in Exeter, Devon - England
22 The Oldest Greenwich meridian markers - Hertfordshire - England
23 John F. Kennedy memorial - England
24 Soay, Inner Hebrides - Scotland
25 The Isle of Man - Irish Sea
26 Wells - Somerset - England
27 The serpentine mineral veins of Great Britain - Northern Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland
28 The Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland
29 Cromer Shoals Chalk Bed - Norfolk - England
30 The Severn Bore - England / Wales
31 Pitcairn Island - Pacific Ocean
32 The French domains of Saint Helena - Atlantic Ocean
33 Tristan da Cunha - Indian Ocean
34 Camp Zeist - Netherlands
35 Akrotiri and Dhekelia - Great Britain/Cyprus
