Jonn Elledge Bücher

Von den am weitesten von uns entfernten Galaxien bis hin zum nebulösen Ursprung von Austern-Eiscreme: Hier wird alles diskutiert, von dem man gar nicht wusste, dass man es wissen will. Zum Beispiel, wie man das Land mit der durchschnittlichsten Größe der Welt bestimmten könnte, kuriose Details zu den lächerlichsten Kriegen der Menschheitsgeschichte und, natürlich, die Frage, wer bei einem Duell zwischen Harry Potter und Spider-Man gewinnen würde. Eine verblüffende Reise durch Wissenschaft, Kunst, Kultur, Spirituelles und Weltliches, die Weiten und unendlichen Tiefen des Menschseins. Eine definitiv vollständige Enzyklopädie unserer Welt und eine wahre Schatztruhe voller wissenswerter, verrückter und überraschender Fakten. Noch nie war Allgemeinwissen so unterhaltsam – viel Spaß beim Entdecken, Staunen und Schmunzeln! Ausstattung: ca. 10 s/w-Abbildungen

People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped, why the world looks the way it does - and about human folly. From the Roman attempts to define the boundaries of civilisation, to the secret British-French agreement to carve up the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, to the reason why landlocked Bolivia still maintains a navy, this is a fascinating, witty and surprising look at the history of the world told through its borders.

People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped, why the world looks the way it does - and about human folly.From the Roman attempts to define the boundaries of civilisation, to the secret British-French agreement to carve up the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, to the reason why landlocked Bolivia still maintains a navy, this is a fascinating, witty and surprising look at the history of the world told through its borders.