Beyond The Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands And Our Search For New Utopias

New Islands Are Under Construction Or Emerging Because Of Climate Change. Eccentric Enclaves And Fantastic Utopian Experiments Are Multiplying. Once-secret Fantasy Gardens Are Cracking Open Their Doors To Outsiders. Our World Is Becoming Stranger By The Day--and Alastair Bonnett Observes And Captures Every Fascinating Change. Introduction -- Unruly Islands. Les Minquiers ; The United States Minor Outlying Islands And The United Micronations Multi-oceanic Archipelago ; The New Spratly Islands ; Bothnia's Rising Islands ; The Philippines' 534 Discoveries ; Wild Strawberries: Traffic Island -- Enclaves And Uncertain Nations. The Ladin Valleys ; The Eruv At Bondi Beach ; The Ferghana Valley ; The Saharan Sand Wall ; New Russia ; The Sovereign Military Order Of Malta ; The Stratford Republic -- Utopian Places. The Islamic State Of Iraq And The Levant ; Cybertopia ; The New Nomads ; Nek Chand's Rock Garden ; Christiania ; Helsinki Wild Harvest ; City Of Helicopters ; City Without Ground -- Ghostly Places. The Phantom Tunnel Of Shinjuku Station ; Skywalks ; The Boys Village ; British Graveyard, Shimla ; Dau Movie Set ; Magical London ; Tsunami Stones And Nuclear Markers -- Hidden Places. Garbage City, Cairo ; Off Street View: Hidden Hills And The Slums Of Wanathamulla ; Trap Streets ; The Uncharted Congo -- Flat 2, 18 Royston Mains Street, Edinburgh ; Spikescape ; Yulin Underground Naval Base, Hainan Island ; Under Jerusalem -- Doggerland -- The New Arctic -- Conshelf Undersea Station -- Epilogue. Alastair Bonnett. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.