Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies

From urban fox dens to micro-nations to temporary islands, Bonnet explores strange geography and ungrounded spaces found throughout the world. It is a veritable travelogue into unknown and limbo-like states. Perkins speaks in a deep voice and a refined British accent that can be hypnotically engaging when combined with Bonnet’s prose. His steady narrative pace regularly shifts in tone as needed, capturing the excitement of Bonnet’s travels exploring 50 different places. For each location, coordinates are given (when possible) according to Google maps. This addition makes sense for the book, but it feels distracting in the audiobook as it is not as easy to recall or search for when listening. A Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover. (Sept.)