Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of The World (Vintage Departures)

Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of The World (Vintage Departures)

Pico Iyer
$15.75
Publication Date: April 26th, 1994
Publisher:
Vintage
ISBN:
9780679746126
Pages:
208

Description

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.

About the Author

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.

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