Informationen zum Autor Jonn Elledge is a New Statesman and New World columnist, a regular on the podcasts Oh God, What Now? and the late, lamented Paper Cuts , and a frequent contributor to The i Paper , the Guardian and assorted other publications. He was previously an assistant editor at the New Statesman, where he created and ran its urbanism-focused CityMetric site, spending six happy years writing about cities, maps and borders and hosting the Skylines podcast. He has written three books, as well as over 200 editions of the Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything . He lives in London, with the best dog in the world. Klappentext Praise for The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything 'Jonn Elledge is a charming and outstandingly nerdish guide. A big, generous, fascinating book' Robert Webb 'I love Jonn Elledge's brain' Marina Hyde 'Joyous, mind-expanding, laugh-out-loud funny, and full of nerdy gusto. Ian Dunt 'Consistently both entertaining and fascinating' Ahir Shah Vorwort A fascinating and surprising history of the world told through the lines people have drawn on maps, by the 'charming and outstandingly nerdish' author of The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything . Zusammenfassung A fascinating and surprising history of the world told through the lines people have drawn on maps, by the 'charming and outstandingly nerdish' author of The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything.

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Jonn Elledge is a New Statesman and New World columnist, a regular on the podcasts Oh God, What Now? and the late, lamented Paper Cuts, **and a frequent contributor to The i Paper, the Guardian and assorted other publications. He was previously an assistant editor at the New Statesman, where he created and ran its urbanism-focused CityMetric site, spending six happy years writing about cities, maps and borders and hosting the Skylines podcast. He has written three books, as well as over 200 editions of the Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything. He lives in London, with the best dog in the world.

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Praise for The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything

'Jonn Elledge is a charming and outstandingly nerdish guide. A big, generous, fascinating book' Robert Webb

'I love Jonn Elledge's brain'
Marina Hyde

'Joyous, mind-expanding, laugh-out-loud funny, and full of nerdy gusto.
Ian Dunt

'Consistently both entertaining and fascinating'
Ahir Shah

Zusammenfassung
A fascinating and surprising history of the world told through the lines people have drawn on maps, by the 'charming and outstandingly nerdish' author of The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything.