Sad Topographies. A Disenchanted Travellers Guide

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Sad Topographies is an illustrated guide for the melancholic among us Dispirited travellers rejoice as Damien Rudd journeys across continents in search of the world s most joyless place names and their fascinating etymologies Behind each lugubrious place name exists a story, a richly interwoven narrative of mythology, history, landscape, misadventure and tragedy From Disappointment Island in the Southern Ocean to Misery in Germany, across to Lonely Island in Russia, or, if you re feeling intrepid, pay a visit to Mount Hopeless in Australia all from the comfort of your armchair With hand drawn maps by illustrator Kateryna Didyk, Sad Topographies will steer you along paths that lead to strange and obscure places, navigating the terrains of historical fact and imaginative fiction At turns poetic and dark humoured, this is a travel guide quite like no other Damien Rudd is the founder of the hugely popular Instagram account sadtopographies. Read Sad Topographies. A Disenchanted Travellers Guide – kino-fada.fr d nya zerindeki en g zek al ma olabilir ve nihayet kitapla t r ld allah m a r mutluyum a l cam mutluluktanRather than the morbid curiosities I might have been unconsciously seeking out, this delivers on its promise of sad isolated places The accompanying essays are enthralling pieces of writing.loved itHad the pleasure of having the French editor as a professor in school, and it was pretty neat to nerd out with him on sad topographies when he spoke about publishing this book It s because of things like these that I am SO STOKED about being in publishingF r alla atlaskramare, som t.ex gillade Fifty islandsDetta projekt b rjade som ett instagramkonto, men bokversionen r mer n en hafsig blok , faktiskt p gr nsen till otympligt format N r f rfattaren beskriver ...Siempre me han fascinado la geograf a y la historia, as como en especial las mapas, recorri ndolos y curioseando con los top nimos curiosos que se pueden encontrar De esta forma, es un regalo la edici n, magn fica, de este libro, en que el autor presenta varios top nimos, con el rasgo com n de presentar u...If your main subject of interest is the meaningless of human existence, if you like maps and and weird road signs, if your phone is full of classical art memes, then go for it You ll definitely laugh If not, don t But then you don t what s good in life.This is a beautifully written book It s a kind of imaginary travel guide All the stories are non fiction but many are almost too strange to be real Most but not all of them recount the events of the place s history Each...Oh wow this book is stunning.I made myself wait so long to get this, trying to convince myself it was just another pretty book that I didn t need I still ended up buying it The places mentioned include Isle of the Dead, Nothing, Doom Town and L...I rather enjoyed this book, but if you find the title off putting, don t read it, it s exactly what it says it is In sum, it s intriguing, both in style and in content.This is essentially a representative exploration of human misery identified through aptly named locations Each entry provides a different glimpse into history, most often ending badly, but at the...

Sad Topographies. A Disenchanted Travellers Guide
  • English
  • 02 April 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 224 pages
  • 1471169308
  • Damien Rudd
  • Sad Topographies. A Disenchanted Travellers Guide