Nowherelands: An Atlas of Vanished Countries 1840-1975
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.44 (610 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0500519900 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. About the Author Bjørn Berge is an architect, researcher, and writer
. Bjørn Berge is an architect, researcher, and writer
Drawing on fiction and eye- witness accounts as well as historical sources, Bjorn Berge’s witty text casts an unconventional eye on these lesser- known nations. But all of these lost nations have stories to tell, whether they were as short- lived as Eastern Karelia, which lasted only a few weeks during the Soviet– Finnish War of 1922, or as long- lasting as the Orange Free State, a Boer Republic that celebrated fifty years as an independent state in the late 1800s. A refreshingly original history of the lost countries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examined and illustrated with the countries’ postage stampsThese are the stories of fifty countries that once existed but have now have been erased from the map. Others, such as Labuan, T