Falling Off the Mapby Pico Iyer | |
| Category: |
"Travel" |
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| Pages: | 190 |
| Year of Publication: | 1993 |
| Date Added: | 08/07/2006 |
| Date Read: | 09/12/2001 |
| Notes: | Iyer turns his attention to the quirky and the quixotic — what he calls "the et ceteras in the list of nations." Included in these "lonely places" are Iceland, Paraguay, Vietnam, Argentina, and Australia. Iyer confesses early on to a lifelong attraction to regions that in "their very remoteness" take on an "air of haunted glamour." He doesn't necessarily mean geographically distant, though Bhutan and Patagonia are among his destinations. Rather, it's the psychological and economic isolation of these areas — occasioned by, for example, lack of tourism and international investment — that intrigues the author. |
| My Rating: | 7 |