Gideon Defoe

An Atlas of Extinct Countries

The Remarkable (and Occasionally Ridiculous) Stories of 48 Nations that Fell off the Map

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harper Collins Publ. UK
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 111mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9780008393908
• ISBN-10: 0008393907
• Artikelnr.: 60479705

Autorenporträt

Gideon Defoe is the author of The Pirates! book series, and wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-nominated Aardman film The Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists. He has also written about how animals have sex and penned a computer game tie-in novel because he is bad at staying on brand.

Rezensionen

'This entertaining atlas of nations that fell off the map is a joyously compiled catalogue of chancers, conmen, madmen, mistakes, lies and far fetches schemes that laid waste the genuine hopes of a nation or exploded the overreaching ambitions of bombastic megalomaniac ... a riot of revisionist history and political ambition' Traveller Magazine

'A whirlwind tour through the pleasingly oddball tales of history's also-rans ... If you're looking for a delightful stocking stuffer for the travel and history aficionado in your life, look no further' Frommers

'This entertaining atlas of nations that fell off the map is a joyously compiled catalogue of chancers, conmen, madmen, mistakes, lies and far fetches schemes that laid waste the genuine hopes of a nation or exploded the overreaching ambitions of bombastic megalomaniac ... a riot of revisionist history and political ambition' Traveller Magazine

'A whirlwind tour through the pleasingly oddball tales of history's also-rans ... If you're looking for a delightful stocking stuffer for the travel and history aficionado in your life, look no further' Frommers