Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Pico Iyer is a traveller who particularly likes places that the rest of us would make a point of avoiding. This is a book about such places 'lonely places' as Iyer calls them 'the places that don't fit in'. Here is Iyer in North Korea (It had seemed, at the time, a good idea') in Argentina (five national economic plans in eight months and a 600% bank interest); in Cuba (where the hotel in Holguin offered only beer for breakfast); in Iceland (where the rock formation in the Westman Isles formerly known as Cleopatra is now known as Marge Simpson. ); in Bhutan and Vietnam and Australia. With the same wit he showed in VIDEO NIGHT IN KATHMANDU, Iyer illuminates the oddities of these places. His world is unlike anybody else's - and irresistable.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Pico Iyer was born in Oxford in 1957, and educated at Eton, Oxford and Harvard. He is an essayist for Time magazine and the author of two books: Video Night in Kathmandu and The Lady and the Monk.