Invisible Lines (eBook)

[An] intricately detailed explanation of how each invisible line came to be, as well as what it can tell us about the world and our place within it...a fascinating read

The world is a mesh of lines. We don't normally see them, and so we blunder on, unaware of where we really are and missing out on so much. Samson's iconoclastic new geography will make the scales fall from your eyes. A tremendous and important read

A chance to see the world anew through the eyes of a wonderfully curious new writer

Old worlds enhanced, new worlds exposed and challenged ... a wise and thought-provoking series of raids across borders we thought we knew and others made visible to us, by Maxim Samson's forensic eye, for the first time

A fascinating book ... a truly original adventure into new ways of exploring what we mean by a sense of place

Utterly engrossing! Samson's literary atlas of the world's unseen boundaries and how they've shaped our lives demands to be read

A journey to the unmarked and unseen borders that shape our world ... a fascinating, extraordinary and insightful exploration of the many boundaries that define us

A fascinating exploration of the lesser-known and more subtle borders across the earth and the surprising ways in which they shape our lives

An illuminating glimpse of the chain reactions of human and physical geography

Endlessly interesting

This absorbing book is an accessible and wide-ranging read, built upon erudition, curiosity and careful compilation. It reveals and reflects upon many types of divisions between places - stretching from the Antarctic to the Urals, and from the turfs of passionate soccer fans in Buenos Aires to linguisitic divisions in Brittany, to name but a few