To the Ends of the Earth: A Grand Tour for the 21st Century - Richard Weller

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n The book takes the reader on an nintellectual adventure through a carefully curated selection of 120 nplaces that can be understood as metaphors of contemporary global nculture. Spread across all seven continents, from the depths of the nocean to outer space, these places are divided into six chapters: nParadises, Utopias, Machines, Monsters, Ruins, and Instruments. n n n n n The spectrum ranges from Steve Jobs' Apple Park in California to a nnational park in Costa Rica, a small field station for the protection of n wild orangutans in Borneo, the Great Green Wall in Central Africa, the nTrump resort Mar-a-Lago, to the border wall between Israel and nPalestine. This book is a grand tour of the most pertinent places in the n world today. n n n n n nn n- A unique and fascinating journey around the world of today n- Featuring custom-made maps created especially for this publication