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A glorious celebration of the Britain's geographical eccentricities. Welcome to this compendium of interesting, unexpected and downright bizarre geographical anomalies that are guaranteed to delight and inspire. Britain is one of the quirkiest parts of the world, and many of its quirks are covered in this unique Atlas of Geographical Curiosities, the first of its kind. Put together by an acclaimed author and geographer, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain, the Atlas describes: Britain’s forgotten rainforests the world’s smallest island with a building  a British hotel room which became Yugoslavian for one day only Britain’s only desert the only bit of Britain’s territory still adhering to the Julian calendar the lowest land point in Britain the county that does not exist but still features in postal addresses Britain’s narrowest street and its smallest city Britain’s ‘Great Barrier Reef’ a bit of the Netherlands that briefly became part of Scotland Britain is full of wonderful and strange geographical irregularities. Turn to the Atlas of Geographical Curiosities to uncover more little-known but important facts gathered together in this entertaining treasure trove.

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Vitali Vitaliev is a UK-based multi-award-winning author, columnist, editor and broadcaster. Starting his career in the former USSR, where he became known as the country’s first investigative journalist, he was forced to defect in January 1990. Having worked and lived in Australia, England, Scotland and Ireland, and having travelled in over 70 countries, Vitali is the author of 15 books translated into many languages. He has worked as a journalist for some of the major English-language newspapers, and is now a Royal Literary Fund Fellow as well as a Writing Fellow and Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge, but also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain. Vitali lives with his partner Christine and Tashi, a furry Tibetan Terrier, in a small English town not far from London.

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