by Pico Iyer · BLACK SWAN · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552995856
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«Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World» is Pico Iyer's travel book, published by Black Swan in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Iyer visits countries many avoid, from Iceland to Bhutan, Argentina or Paraguay, and describes them with irony and intimacy. In North Korea, Cuba and Vietnam, Iyer observes contradictions such as a tourist hotel in a closed country or the scarcity of everything except ironies, and turns loneliness and rootlessness into a perspective on the globalized world.
The New Ed edition from Black Swan was published in 1994; the book, 208 pages, is written in English.
For readers of travel literature and essays seeking an ironic and reflective perspective on other countries.
Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer, known as Pico Iyer, is an English-born essayist and novelist known chiefly for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul. He has been a contributor to Time, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times.
