Visit some interesting places!

"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."
Mason Cooley

Especially in coronatimes like these - when travelling is not an easy feat - reading books about special places all around the world really inspires me.

In this book 51 places are discussed and they're divided in 6 categories:

• dream creations
• deserted destinations
• architectural oddities
• floating worlds
• otherworldly spaces
• subterranean realms

Although I'd already heard of some of the mentioned places, the author always succeeded to learn me some new facts about them.
Other places were totally unknown to me and thus formed interesting introductions to some of the earth's strangest places.

As you can also read in the extensive biography on his website, Travis Elborough is an acclaimed author and social commentator. He already wrote several books, including 'Atlas of Vanishing Places' which won the 2020 Illustrated Book of the Year Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award.

In 'Atlas of Improbable Places' every continent is represented and various environments are talked about (both natural ones conquered and artificial ones made by humankind).
The only downpoint was the fact that the underlying explanation was always quite negative. The places that were selected for this book didn't often appeal to that positive 'sense of wonder' you can experience when discovering new places. They rather showed the darker side of humanity (war, discrimination, …) and of nature (disasters, inhospitable places, ...).
But besides that, the info which was given always contained interesting facts and certainly prompted me to look for footage. So if you'd like to know where you can find the door to hell, the creepy doll island or some of the other interesting discussed places, feel free to head over to my blog.

*Thanks to NetGalley and 'Quarto Publishing Group – White Lion, Aurum' for providing a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.