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Defoe, Gideon.
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Failed states -- History -- Miscellanea.
Political geography -- Humor.
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Defoe, Gideon.
Failed states -- History -- Miscellanea.
Political geography -- Humor.
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An atlas of extinct countries : the remarkable (and occasionally ridiculous) stories of 48 nations that fell off the map / Gideon Defoe.
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Defoe, Gideon.
Europa Editions, 2022, c2020.
Call #:
828
.92
D314a
Subjects
Failed states -- History -- Miscellanea.
Political geography -- Humor.
ISBN:
9781609457662 (pbk.)
Edition:
[New ed.].
Description:
245 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes selected bibliography.
Summary:
"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. This is an atlas of forty-eight nations that fell off the map. Their causes of death range from the implausible (jerky prices) to the unfortunate (too evil) to the downright bizzare (the flip of a coin). 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 ridiculous that it's impossible to skip the embarrassing stuff. [Gideon Defoe is a British novelist and the author of 'The Pirates!,' a series of comedy books following a group of pirates on their adventures. 'The Atlas of Extinct Countries' is his newest book.]" --Back cover.
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Wit and humor.
Trivia and miscellanea.
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