A glorious celebration of the Britains geographical eccentricities.
Welcome to this compendium of interesting, unexpected and downright bizarre geographical anomalies that are guaranteed to delight and inspire.
Britain is one of the quirkiest parts of the world, and many of its quirks are covered in this unique Atlas of Geographical Curiosities, the first of its kind.
Put together by an acclaimed author and geographer, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain, the Atlas describes:
Britains forgotten rainforests
the worlds smallest island with a building
a British hotel room which became Yugoslavian for one day only
Britains only desert
the only bit of Britains territory still adhering to the Julian calendar
the lowest land point in Britain
the county that does not exist but still features in postal addresses
Britains narrowest street and its smallest city
Britains Great Barrier Reef
a bit of the Netherlands that briefly became part of Scotland
Britain is full of wonderful and strange geographical irregularities. Turn to the Atlas of Geographical Curiosities to uncover more little-known but important facts gathered together in this entertaining treasure trove.
Vitali Vitaliev is a UK-based multi-award-winning author, columnist, editor and broadcaster. Starting his career in the former USSR, where he became known as the countrys first investigative journalist, he was forced to defect in January 1990. Having worked and lived in Australia, England, Scotland and Ireland, and having travelled in over 70 countries, Vitali is the author of 15 books translated into many languages. He has worked as a journalist for some of the major English-language newspapers, and is now a Royal Literary Fund Fellow as well as a Writing Fellow and Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge, but also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain. Vitali lives with his partner Christine and Tashi, a furry Tibetan Terrier, in a small English town not far from London.
1 Britains forgotten rainforests - Northern Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland 2 The Centre of Britain - Lancashire - England 3. Claridges Hotel Suite 212 - London - England 4 Ely Place - London - England 5 Wolford Chapel - Devon - England 6 Bishop Rock - Cornwall - England 7 Sark - Channel islands 8 The Square Mile of London - London - England 9 Loch Ness - Scotland 10 Poole Harbour - Dorset - England 11 Dungeness - Kent - England 12 Fordwich - Kent - England 13 The island of Foula - Scotland 14 Four Shire Stone - Oxfordshire - England 15 Holme Fen - Cambridgeshire - England 16 Kielder Forest - Northumberland - England 17 The drystone dyke of the England-Scotland border 18 Lindisfarne (or Holy Island) - Northumberland - England 19 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch - Wales 20 Middlesex county - England 21 Parliament Street in Exeter, Devon - England 22 The Oldest Greenwich meridian markers - Hertfordshire - England 23 John F. Kennedy memorial - England 24 Soay, Inner Hebrides - Scotland 25 The Isle of Man - Irish Sea 26 Wells - Somerset - England 27 The serpentine mineral veins of Great Britain - Northern Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland 28 The Giants Causeway - Northern Ireland 29 Cromer Shoals Chalk Bed - Norfolk - England 30 The Severn Bore - England / Wales 31 Pitcairn Island - Pacific Ocean 32 The French domains of Saint Helena - Atlantic Ocean 33 Tristan da Cunha - Indian Ocean 34 Camp Zeist - Netherlands 35 Akrotiri and Dhekelia - Great Britain/Cyprus
