An Atlas Of Extinct CountriesPrisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated and timely history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist.Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. Theyre all equally implausible once you get up closeCountries die. Sometimes its murder, sometimes its by accident, and sometimes its because they were so ludicrous they didnt deserve to exist in the first place.

After years of living vicariously through the heroines in her novels

And what was the dreadful plan of the Bithynian emperor

When Sophie Anderson's husband leaves her

" His work which brought about a foundational shift in our understanding of human development shows that our highly evolved sense of self makes us separate yet our survival depends on connection

pace is what Simon Kernick does best' DAILY MIRROR

and London is in crisis

How do I reflect

from a sadistic king to a doctor who became an artist of death

this book helps enhance vocabulary and comprehension skills

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she turned her new empire from peripheral pariah to European great power