Off the map
Alastair Bonnett2014

From forgotten enclaves to floating islands, from hidden villages to New-York gutterspaces, Off the Map charts the hidden corners of our planet. While these are not necessarily places you would choose to visit on holiday - Hobyo, the pirate capital of Somalia, or Zheleznogorsk, a secret military town in Russia - they each carry a story about the strangeness of place, a concept which continues to enthral us in a world that is not quite as exhaustively mapped as it can sometimes appear and continues to hold many secrets.

Off the Map takes us to the ends of the earth to show us some of the most remarkable but least known places on the planet. But it also shows us that topophilia, the love of place, is a fundamental part of what it is to be human.

Titre original : Off the map (2014)