Nick Middleton est un géographe physique britannique spécialisé dans la désertification. Son travail l'a conduit dans plus de 50 pays, où il a exploré des conditions de vie extrêmes et des cultures. À travers ses voyages et ses projets documentaires, Middleton offre aux lecteurs une compréhension plus profonde de la résilience de l'esprit humain face aux environnements hostiles.
This text accompanies a four-part TV series in which Nick Middleton spends a month in the world's coldest, hottest, wettest and driest inhabited places. Nick Middleton considers why people settled in these palces, how they manage to live under such difficult conditions, and why on earth they stay.
Focusing on environmental issues, this book explores the interplay between the physical environment and the political, economic, and social frameworks that shape these challenges. It provides a comprehensive introduction to how these elements interact, highlighting the complexities of global environmental dynamics.
Acclaimed travel writer and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton takes us on a magical tour of countries that, lacking diplomatic recognition or UN membership, inhabit a world of shifting borders, visionary leaders and forgotten peoples. Most of us think we know what a country is, but in truth the concept is rather slippery. From Catalonia to the Crimea, and from Africa's last colony to the European republic that enjoyed just a solitary day of independence, the places in this book may lie on the margins of legitimacy, but all can be visited in the real world. Beautifully illustrated by fifty regional maps, each shadowy country is literally cut out of the page of this book. Alongside stories, facts and figures, An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist brings to life a dreamlike world of nations that exist only in the minds of the people who live there.