Falling Off the Map Some Lonely Places of The World
by IYER, PICOEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1994-04-26
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary
The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From Iceland to Bhutan to Argentina, Iyer remains both uncannily observant and hilarious.
Author Biography
Pico Iyer has written nonfiction books on globalism, Japan, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and forgotten places, and novels on Revolutionary Cuba and Islamic mysticism. He regularly writes about literature for The New York Review of Books; about travel for the Financial Times; and about global culture and the news for Time, The New York Times, and magazines around the world.
Table of Contents
| A Prefatory Note | |
| Lonely Places | p. 3 |
| North Korea: My Holiday with Kim Il Sung | p. 11 |
| Argentina: La Dolce Vita Meets "The Hyper" | p. 24 |
| Cuba: An Elegiac Carnival | p. 48 |
| Iceland: Rock 'n' Roll Ghost Town | p. 66 |
| Bhutan: Hidden Inside the Hidden Kingdom | p. 84 |
| Vietnam: Yesterday Once More | p. 112 |
| Paraguay: Up for Sale, or Adoption | p. 142 |
| Australia: Five Thousand Miles from Anywhere | p. 173 |
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