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Defoe, Gideon

 
9781609456801: An atlas of extinct countries
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ISBN 10: 1609456807 ISBN 13: 9781609456801
Editorial: Europa Editions, 2021

Sinopsis

Countries die. Sometimes it's murder, sometimes it's by accident, and sometimes it's because they were so ludicrous they didn't deserve to exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip away almost unnoticed. Often the cause of death is either 'got too greedy' or 'Napoleon turned up'. Now and then they just hold a referendum and vote themselves out of existence. This is an atlas of 48 nations that fell off the map. The polite way of writing an obituary is: dwell on the good bits, gloss over the embarrassing stuff. This book refuses to do so, because these dead nations are so full of schemers, racists, and con men that it's impossible to skip the embarrassing stuff. Because of this – and because treating nation-states with too much reverence is the entire problem with pretty much everything – these accounts are not concerned with adding to the earnest flag saluting in the world, however nice some of the flags might be.

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Acerca del autor

Gideon Defoe is the author of The Pirates! book series and wrote the screenplay for the Oscar nominated Aardman film The Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists. He has written about how animals have sex and penned a computer game tie-in novel for Gollancz. He does film development work with Locksmith Animation and Studio Canal, and is developing a sitcom with BBC studios.

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Editorial
Europa Editions
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1609456807
ISBN 13 
9781609456801
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
304
Contacto del fabricante
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780008393854: An Atlas of Extinct Countries: The Remarkable (and Occasionally Ridiculous) Stories of 48 Nations that Fell off the Map

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0008393850 ISBN 13:  9780008393854
Editorial: Fourth Estate, 2020
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