Unruly Places

Whether you are an urban explorer or an armchair traveller, Off the Map (published in the USA as Unruly Places) and Beyond the Map will inspire and enchant. You’ll never look at a map in quite the same way again

Winner: ITB BuchAwards (Special travel book) 2016 (Germany). Finalist: Audie Award for Nonfiction (2015)

See Translations page for non-English language editions. Published in the USA as:

see also An Uncommon Atlas (also published as New Views)

2020-23 Press coverage: Articles and interviews that are based on Off the Map or Beyond the Map

‘Buchtipp: Die seltsamsten Orte der Welt’, undated [Jan 2023], Wikommunity https://www.wikinger-reisen.de/blog/buchtipp-die-seltsamsten-orte-der-welt-bonnet/

’Алистер Боннет: Места по ту сторону карты’, [Alastair Bonnett: Places on the other side of the map] 12 November 2022, ПАРАНТЕЗА, https://www.paranteza.info/post/bonnett-beyond-the-map

Bonnett, A. 《地圖之外: 世界上最大的死城阿格達姆，僅僅幾十年前曾是熱鬧的地區首府 [“Beyond the Map”: Agdam, the world’s largest dead city, was a lively regional capital just a few decades ago], 3 September 2022, The News Lens, https://www.thenewslens.com/article/163257

Bonnett, A. 時間地景|封存三百年前的紐約, [Time Landscape | New York preserved three hundred years ago] 9 September 2022, 眼底城事/ Eyes on Place, https://eyesonplace.net/2022/09/09/21551/

‘Алистер Боннет: Места, которых нет на карте’, [‘Alastair Bonnett: Off the Map Places’] 2 July, 2022, syg.ma, https://syg.ma/@paranteza/alistier-bonniet-miesta-kotorykh-niet-na-kartie

‘¿Viajar está sobrevalorado?,’ Elle, 3rd June 2022, https://www.elle.com/es/living/viajes/a40148811/turismo-masificado-viajes-diferentes/

‘Die Seesterntäuschung’, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 13 May 2022, https://www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/starfish-weltkrieg-bomben-frankreich-england-1.5583983

‘Fakes und Wieder­verzauberung’, Taz, 3 May 2022, https://taz.de/Orte-der-Taeuschung/!5844586/

Bonnett, A. ‘Russia’s colonial legacy and the war in Ukraine’, 16 March 2022, Geographical, https://geographical.co.uk/geopolitics/geopolitics/item/4299-ukraine-invasion-russia-s-colonial-war

Bonnett, A. 渴望一個「更純粹、更親切」的俄羅斯──豐饒村，森林裡的烏托邦 [Desire for a “pure, kinder” Russia – a village of abundance, a utopia in the forest] 11 March 2022, Crossing, https://crossing.cw.com.tw/article/15948

Bonnett, A.《地圖之外：世界上最大的死城阿格達姆，僅僅幾十年前曾是熱鬧的地區首府 [“Beyond the Map”: Agdam, the world’s largest dead city, was a lively regional capital just a few decades ago], 9 March 2022, The News Lens, https://www.thenewslens.com/article/163257

Bonnett, A. 富麗堂皇的中國鬼城鄂爾多斯　政府暴富後自視皇帝反彰顯權力脆弱 [Ordos, a palatial Chinese ghost town, sees itself as the emperor after the government’s sudden wealth shows that its power is weak], 6 March 2022, up media, https://www.upmedia.mg/news_info.php?Type=3&SerialNo=139008

Bonnett, A. 被人類遺棄的烏克蘭城市普里皮亞特　車諾比核災後從蘇聯模範城陷入死寂　[Abandoned Ukrainian city of Pripyat turned from Soviet model city after nuclear disaster], March 5, 2022, up media, https://www.upmedia.mg/news_info.php?Type=3&SerialNo=138998

Bonnett, A. 烏克蘭東部紛爭的起點　掀起多年內戰的叛軍欲組「新俄羅斯聯邦, [Beginning of strife in eastern Ukraine: Rebels who have sparked years of civil war want to form a ‘new Russian Federation’], 5 March 2022, up media, https://www.upmedia.mg/news_info.php?Type=3&SerialNo=139003

Interview, ‘Le nuove isole della Finlandia, i fiumi sotto l’Artico È il mondo alla fine del mondo’, Corriere Della Sera, Pianete 2030, 26 Jan 2022, p.37.

Fahrenheit, Rai Radio 3, 12 January 2022, https://www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2022/01/Fahrenheit-del-12012022-bc34181a-142c-476f-8380-c537abbfa9a9.html

‘Il più pazzo dei grandtour: VIAGGIO IN LUOGHI INSOLITI – Il geografo Bonnett va “Oltre le mappe”,’ 12 January 2022, il fatto quotidiano, https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2022/01/12/il-piu-pazzo-dei-grandtour/6452900/

‘Da città dei servizi a città dormitorio: il sogno tradito di Giarre e la Sicilia che non cambia’, Sicilian Post, 31 July 2021, https://www.sicilianpost.it/da-citta-dei-servizi-a-citta-dormitorio-il-sogno-tradito-di-giarre-e-la-sicilia-che-non-cambia/

‘Creadoras de ‘Fóra de mapa’: “Sabemos de escoceses ou galeses, mais pouco de arromaneses ou rutenos”, 24 April 2021, Nós Diario,  https://www.nosdiario.gal/articulo/cultura/sabemos-escoceses-galeses-mais-pouco-arromaneses-rutenos/20210423155419120148.html

‘Les últimes fronteres’, Lletraferit, Valencia Plaza 28 March 2021, https://valenciaplaza.com/les-ultimes-fronteres

 ‘Deppendorf, Einsamkeit, Pups: Kuriose Ortsnamen, die schmunzeln lassen’, Badische Zeitung, February 20, 2021, https://www.badische-zeitung.de/reise-1/von-nach-broemsenknoell-und-brasilien-liegt-an-der-ostsee–200152604.html

‘Città invisibili e cimiteri viventi: ecco i 48 luoghi ancora inesplorati’, il Giornale.it, 29 November 2020, https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/cultura/citt-invisibili-e-cimiteri-viventi-ecco-i-48-luoghi-ancora-1906301.html

Bonnett, A. ‘The World’s Most Unruly Places: Sealand’, GoNomad, 25^th January 2020, https://www.gonomad.com/5627-sealand-unruly-places-alastair-bonnett

Interview, ‘Radio Di Bordo’, RAI Radio 1 (Italy), 11 January, 2020. https://www.raiplayradio.it/audio/2020/01/RADIO-DI-BORDO-953349bd-79d2-4a80-869d-c77d622fe569.html

‘Columnist joins a “micronation”’, The Ledger-Transcript, 20 November 2020,
https://www.ledgertranscript.com/arHolden-ml-111920_-37360737

‘Alla ricerca dell’insolito fra rifiuti, labirinti, deserti’, 16 November, La Stampa, https://www.lastampa.it/viaggi/2020/10/18/news/alla-ricerca-dell-insolito-fra-rifiuti-labirinti-deserti-1.39427986

‘Sealand, el insólito microestado con moneda y bandera propias sobre una plataforma marina: “Al llegar me regalaron un título de lord”’ El Mundo, 16 November 2020, https://www.elmundo.es/viajes/europa/2020/11/16/5fabfe58fc6c831c6c8b4593.htm

Passport Podcast: The World Islands in Dubai, 29 September 2020, https://pod.fo/e/9eb6e

‘38 destinos a los que no irás este verano’, Lavozdelsur.es 11 August 2020, https://www.lavozdelsur.es/38-destinos-a-los-que-no-iras-este-verano/

‘As outras xeografías’, Faro de Vigo, 11 June, 2020, https://www.farodevigo.es/faro-cultura/2020/06/11/as-outras-xeografias-15172265.html

‘Czy na Ziemi jest jeszcze coś do odkrycia? Tak! Wciąż istnieją białe plamy. Na szczęście’ ‘National Geographic Polska’, 2020, https://www.national-geographic.pl/galeria/czy-na-ziemi-jest-jeszcze-cos-do-odkrycia-tak-wciaz-istnieja-bia/poza-mapa

‘Lugares sin mapa’ en la era de Google Maps, una nueva aventura de Alastair Bonnett’, 2 March 2020 Valencia Plaza,, https://valenciaplaza.com/lugares-sin-mapa-en-la-era-de-google-maps-una-nueva-aventura-de-alastair-bonnett

‘Un libro para escapar dos mapas’, Nós Diario, 29 January 2020, https://www.nosdiario.gal/articulo/cultura/un-libro-para-escapar-dos-mapas/20200128143211090313.html

links to talks on micronations in Moscow and and St Petersburg

‘Micronations and Microstates’, Invited presentation, The Loft, St. Petersburg, 29^th Nov. 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDPtq7p1Jng

‘Micronations and Microstates’, Invited presentation, The Telegraph, Moscow, 28^th Nov. 2014, https://theoryandpractice.ru/videos/775-alister-bonnett-mikrogosudarstva-i-mikronatsii

Older Press Coverage

Bonnett, A. ‘El triángulo de Tokio’, Esquire [Spain], December, 2019

Bonnett, A. ‘The Bermuda Triangle in Tokyo: Ghost Tunnel at Shinjuku Station’ [東京的百慕達三角洲──「新宿站的鬼魂隧道], 28th June, 2019, niusnews [Taiwan] https://www.niusnews.com/=P1nb3m30

Bonnett, A. ‘The “finest country” in the world: The Knights of Malta’, [世界上「最細國家」——馬爾他騎士團] 28th June, 2019, The News Lens [Taiwan] https://www.thenewslens.com/article/98780

Bonnett, A. ‘A place forgotten by the map!’ [被地圖遺忘的地方] Vogue [Taiwan] 19th June 2019, https://www.vogue.com.tw/feature/content-34341

‘Plasmando la realidad, inventando la certeza: sobre “Lugares sin mapa”, de Alastair Bonnett’, 10 December 2019, The Citizen, http://thecitizen.es/literatura/lugares-sin-mapa

‘Viaje a lugares que no existen’, 28 November, 2019, eitb.eus, https://amp.eitb.eus/es/radio/radio-euskadi/programas/graffiti/detalle/6849833/lugares-mapa-viaje-lugares-no-existen-/

‘La pregunta por el lugar’, 10 November 2019, Diario de Sevilla https://www.diariodesevilla.es/delibros/lugares-sin-mapa-alastair-bonnett_0_1407759467.html

‘El deshielo del Ártico está propiciando nuevos conflictos territoriales’, 7^th November 2019, Xataka Ciencia,  https://www.xatakaciencia.com/medio-ambiente/deshielo-artico-esta-propiciando-nuevos-conflictos-territoriales

‘Città segrete e isole fantasma: ecco i luoghi introvabili che non sono sulle mappe’, 21 October 2019 la Repubblica, https://video.repubblica.it/socialnews/citta-segrete-e-isole-fantasma-ecco-i-luoghi-introvabili-che-non-sono-sulle-mappe/346355/346939?refresh_ce

‘Herontdek de ontdekte wereld’ [Rediscover the discovered world] 20th October, 2019, Historiek [Netherlands],  https://historiek.net/de-ontdekte-wereld-herontdekken/48887/

‘’Lugares sin mapa’, el libro con el que cuestionarse cómo entendemos la Geografía’, 9^th October, 2019, Conde Nast Traveller, https://www.traveler.es/experiencias/articulos/lugares-sin-mapa-libro-alastair-bonnett-blackie-books/16328

Interview, ‘Apple Maps’ Crimea border shift’, Global News Canada, 22 December 2019, https://globalnews.ca/news/6306941/apple-maps-crimea-statehood/

‘Vụ đắm tàu giúp bộ lạc “thấy người lạ là giết” ’ [The shipwreck helped the tribe ‘see strangers kill] Dan Viet [Vietnam]

 12th October 2018, https://danviet.vn/vu-dam-tau-giup-bo-lac-thay-nguoi-la-la-giet-biet-dung-den-kim-loai-7777937674.htm

‘The Italian Town of Giarre Dreamt Up A ‘Children’s City.’ Now It’s in Ruins’, 1^st June 2019, The Daily Beast,, https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-italian-town-of-giarre-dreamt-up-a-childrens-city-now-its-in-ruins

‘Inseln, Enklaven und utopische Orte’ 15 February 2019, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/alastair-bonnett-die-allerseltsamsten-orte-der-welt-inseln.950.de.html?dram:article_id=441094

‘Off course’, The Mercury, 27 January 2019, https://themercury.com/features/books_and_writing/beyond-the-map-a-quirky-tour-of-geography/article_6768148a-2cd3-59b5-9a04-ef75fd4d54aa.html

Bonnett, A. ‘Living Underwater with Jacques Cousteau’, Lapham’s Quarterly, 17 May, 2018, https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/living-underwater-jacques-cousteau

Interview on Lisa Valentine Show, BYU Radio, Utah, 16 October, 2018, http://www.byuradio.org/episode/d64cb059-09f4-475a-987d-52aec101dba6?playhead=3898&autoplay=true​

Interview on ‘Upfront’, KPFA [US radio station], Monday July 23 2018, https://kpfa.org/episode/upfront-july-23-2018/

Bonnett, A. ‘”The Place Outside the Picture”: Physically Penetrable, Religiously Not: The Wire Wall at Bondi Beach’[《圖外之地》：物理上可穿透、宗教上卻不行——邦代海灘的線牆], The News Lens, 27th June 2018, https://www.thenewslens.com/article/98170

Bonnett, A.’10 weird places you’ve never heard of’, Publishers’ Weekly, 13 April 2018, https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/76605-10-weird-places-you-ve-never-heard-of.html

Bonnett, A. ‘Beyond the Map: Spikescapes and Wild Strawberries’, Places, April 2018, https://placesjournal.org/article/beyond-the-map-spikescapes-and-wild-strawberries/

‘Shipwrecked Hong Kong sailors’ brush with Indian island tribe that killed US missionary John Allen Cha’, 9^th December 2018, South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/culture/article/2177003/shipwrecked-hong-kong-sailors-brush-indian-island-tribe-killed-john-allen#add-comment

‘Lieux qui n’existent pas’, 30 October 2018, rfi, https://amp.rfi.fr/fr/culture/20181030-lieux-existent-pas

‘GeoInspirations: Alastair Bonnett – Defining Geography Beyond the Map’, Directions Magazine, 5^th September 2018, https://www.directionsmag.com/article/8046

‘Islands are disappearing worldwide. But a new one has formed from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano’, The Washington Post, July 18 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/07/18/islands-are-disappearing-worldwide-but-a-new-one-has-formed-from-hawaiis-kilauea-volcano/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2f248a991940

‘6 Questions for Alastair Bonnett’, The Chicago Blog, July 13 2018, http://pressblog.uchicago.edu/2018/07/13/7-questions-for-alastair-bonnett.html

‘Why Old Enclaves and New Islands Matter to Travelers’, New York Times, 24 May 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/travel/alastair-bonnett-geography-interview.html

‘New medieval geography & third cultural space: mapping the modern world’ Strelka [Moscow], 29 January 2018, http://strelka.com/en/magazine/2018/01/29/explaining-the-modern-world-through-third-cultural-spaces

‘Dünya’yı Hiç Olmadığı Gibi Görselleştiren 10 Büyüleyici Harita!’, [
10 Fascinating Maps That Visualize The World As Never Before] 2018, Webtekno, https://www.webtekno.com/dunya-yi-hic-olmadigi-gibi-gorsellestiren-10-buyuleyici-harita-h34598.html

Bonnett, A. ‘How to find a new perspective on maps’, The Big Issue, 21-27 August 2017, p.15

‘Seeing the world: Digital travel’, film profile of Alastair Bonnett, Zeiss, released December, 2017, 

‘Das Ertse’, ARD, television interview broadcast 19th November 2017, http://www.daserste.de/information/wissen-kultur/ttt/videos/ttt-19112017-menschen-mit-mission-video-100.html

‘Reality Check‘, Radio FM4, Österreichischer Rundfunk, 3rd November 2017, http://fm4.orf.at/player/20171103/RC

‘Paradojas habitadas’ 28 September, 2017, Informacion, https://www.informacion.es/arte-letras/2017/09/28/paradojas-habitadas-5878912.html

The Daily with Dave Hodgson, Talk Radio Europe, 26^th September 2017

‘Lugares fuera del mapa’, Radio Nacional de España, 24^th September 2017, http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/equilibristas/equilibristas-mujer-fantastica-lugares-fuera-del-mapa-24-09-17/4238051/

‘Science Says We Care More About Places Than Things’, Condé Nast Traveller, 14 December 2017, https://www.cntraveler.com/story/science-says-we-care-more-about-places-than-things

地圖之外．書評: 完整編碼之境 [‘Outside the map. The Realm of Complete Coding’] 29th November 2017,hk01 [Hong Kong],  https://bit.ly/3dO959l

‘La disparatada ciudad belga en la que Puigdemont sería un exiliado feliz’, 11^th November 2017, El Confidencial, https://www.elconfidencial.com/cultura/2017-11-01/puigdemont-belgica-exilio-indepencia-baarle-hertog_1470110/

‘Gute karten Öffnen einem die Augen’ Der Standard, 2nd November 2017, http://derstandard.at/2000067007245/Geograf-Gute-Karten-oeffnen-einem-die-Augen

‘Off the Map and Beyond’, Interalia Magazine, 33, May 2017, https://www.interaliamag.org/interviews/alastair-bonnett-off-the-map-and-beyond/

‘Dangerous Idea: The Multispecies City’, To The Best of Our Knowledge [Radio/internet show], https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw43jvJa8_Q; first aired Published on 29 Dec 2016

Sputnik Radio (Moscow), Author interview, 9^th June 2016

DRadioWissen, ‘Eine insel verschwindent von der landkarte’, 24^th August 2015, http://dradiowissen.de/beitrag/seltsame-orte-eine-insel-verschwindet-von-der-landkarte

Radio National Breakfast, ABC, interview with Gregg Borschmann, 16th March, 2015

Conversations with Richard Fidler, Author interview, ABC, nationally syndicated, 6th March, 2015

Annie Hastwell, ‘The Wire’, Independent current affairs on community radio around Australia, Author interview, 3rd March, 2015

‘Off the Map’, On Art and Aesthetics, 1 December 2016, https://onartandaesthetics.com/2016/12/01/unruly-places/

‘Geschlossene Städte und Papierpaläste’ 2nd March 2016, Deutschlandfunk, https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/aussergewoehnliche-orte-geschlossene-staedte-und.700.de.html?dram:article_id=347243

‘Im Niemandsland’, Münchner Merkur 23 April, 2016

‘Vom Reisen’, Die Zeit, 21 January, 2016, https://tinyurl.com/mdkrtp4k

‘Kosmos der Wunderlichkeiten’, Sonntagsblatt, 10 January, 2016

‘Und es gibt sie doch!’, Märkische Oderzeitung, 21 November 2015

‘Vom Reisen oder So seltsam ist die Welt’, Frankenpost, 19 November, 2015

’Wenn Geografie zur Freakshow mutiert’, Tageblatt, 13 October, 2015

‘Fesselnde Orte müssen nicht schön sein’, Falter, 7 October 2015, https://issuu.com/falter.at/docs/buecherherbst_2015

’Stadt Land Stuss – so wird Geografie zur Freakshow’, Die Welt¸28 August 2015

‘Exotisch, aber attracktiv’, Münchner Merkur 18 August, 2015

‘Faszinierend’, Neue Westfälische, 15 August, 2015

‘Gibt es unentdeckte Orte auf der Welt, Herr Bonnett?’ Die Spiegel, 14 August 2015, https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gibt-es-unentdeckte-orte-auf-der-welt-herr-bonnett-a-54425c51-0002-0001-0000-000138148072

‘Geisterstädte und verschwundene Inseln: “Wir brauchen widerspenstige Orte”’, Die Spiegel, 6 August 2015, http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/die-seltsamsten-orte-der-welt-buch-von-alastair-bonnett-a-1047031.html

’Ohne Titel’, Abendzeitung München, 5 August, 2015

‘Sachbuch über kuriose Orte’, Buchkritik, Deutschlandradio Kultur, 25 July, 2015

‘Reise zu den seltsamsten Orten der Welt’, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger 21 July 2015

‘Wir brauchen widerspenstige Orte’, Spiegel Reise 6th July 2015, https://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/die-seltsamsten-orte-der-welt-buch-von-alastair-bonnett-a-1047031.html

‘Poza mapą z Alastairem Bonnettem’ [In addition to the map, with Alastair Bonnett], Interia [website], June 23, 2015, http://fakty.interia.pl/tylko-u-nas/news-poza-mapa-z-alastairem-bonnettem,nId,1840365

5 шагов по созданию собственной микронации, [5 steps to create your own micronations] Apparat, December, 2014, http://apparat.cc/world/how-to-micronations/

Алистер Боннетт: «Микрогосударства и микронации» [Alastair Bonnett, Micronations and microstates], Theory and Practice, November, 2014, http://theoryandpractice.ru/seminars/73226-alister-bonnett-mikrogosudarstva-i-mikronatsii-29-11 and https://theoryandpractice.ru/posts/10150-micronations

“Find something you are good at and write about that” says Alastair Bonnett , Travelling Book Junkie, 14 October 2014, https://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/alastair-bonnett/

Interview for Esquire (Russia), November, 2014, pp.42-46. [‘Географ Алистер Боннетт объясняет, чем большие государства хуже крошечных и каксоздать собственное при помощи ржавого автомобильного двигателя’]

A VerySpatial Podcast: Episode 478: 14 September 2014: Main Topic: Alastair Bonnett, Author of Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies

‘Città invisibili LEGENDA (e altre stranezze)’, Focus, October 2014

‘Hidden in plain sight: Destinations that lie off the map’, 5 September, 2014, USA Today, https://eu.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/travel/destinations/10greatplaces/2014/09/04/hidden-in-plain-sight-destinations-that-lie-off-the-map/15071865/

‘Off the map study by Newcastle University professor highlights secret places’, The Journal, 13^th August, 2014

‘How To Cross 5 International Borders In 1 Minute Without Sweating’, 5 August 2014, NPR [National Public Radio], Krulwich Wonders, https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/08/05/337795842/how-to-cross-five-international-borders-in-one-minute-without-sweating

‘Explaining the Pull of the World’s ‘Unruly Places’: Alastair Bonnett on the intersection of place, identity, and imagination’,  28 July 2014, Citylab, https://www.citylab.com/equity/2014/07/explaining-the-pull-of-the-worlds-unruly-places/375008/

‘Unruly Places: Alastair Bonnett explores a feral world untamed by geography’, Atlas Obscura, 21 July, 2014

‘Le città invisibili che esistono solo su Google Maps’, La Repubblica, 10^th July, 2014

‘North Korea’s creepy fake civilian village’, 8 July 2014, boingboing, https://boingboing.net/2014/07/08/north-koreas-creepy-fake-civ.html

‘Siri, where am I?’, Washington Post 10 July, 2014

‘Exploring the odd and unexpected’ New York Times 8th July, 2014

‘Secret cities, lost isles & pirate lands’ The Daily Beast, 8^th July 2014

‘Charting the last wild places on the planet’, Men’s Journal (USA), 9^th July 2014

 ‘Maps and their makers … and the pretence of objectivity’, The National (Abu Dhabi) 19^th July, 2014

‘Wioska propagandowa w Korei Północnej’ [A propaganda village in North Korea] na:Temet [Poland] 11th July 2014, https://natemat.pl/109533,propagandowa-wioska-w-korei-polnocnej-niewielka-osada-ma-160-metrowy-maszt-z-wielka-flaga#

Bonnett, A. 2014 ‘Oh the place you’ll go’ Hemispheres Magazine, July 6^th, p.26

Bonnett, A. 2014 ‘Writer’s reads’ Geographical Magazine, June p.59

Bonnett, A. 2014 ‘The land no man would claim’, Outside, July 18th https://www.outsideonline.com/1924636/land-no-man-would-claim

Radio Moscow, Author interview, 28^th Nov. 2014

National Public Radio, New Zealand, Author interview, 13^th November, 2014

Doug Fabrizio, RadioWest (Salt Lake City), Author interview,  6^th November, 2014

‘The Digital Human’, Contribution to programme, ‘Abandon’, BBC Radio 4, 27^th October 2014

BBC Radio Newcastle, Author interview, 28^th August, 2104.

‘Think’, KERA Public Radio, Author interview, 18^th August 2014

Sirius XM “Bob Edwards”, Author interview, 6^th August, 2014.

WMJI 105.7-FM (Cleveland), Author interview, 5^th August 2014

‘To the Best of Our Knowledge’, Wisconsin Public Radio, Author interview, 4^th August 2014

Frommer’s Travel Radio, Author interview, 12th July 2014

‘Tommy Schnurmacher Show’, CJAD (Canada), Author interview, 8th July, 2014

National Public Radio (USA) Author interview, first broadcast July 5, 2014

National Geographic Weekend Radio (USA) (July 2014) Author interview

‘Future Tense’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Author interview (recorded June, 2014)

‘The Forum’, BBC World Service (first broadcast 12 April, 2014)

Newstalk, Author interview (Ireland) (May, 2014)

Monocle Radio, Author interview (May, 2014)

‘Walking with Attitude’, 2011(first broadcast 03/12/11) BBC Radio 3

Bonnett, A. 2014 ‘The Archaeological Park of Sicilian Incompletion: My surreal trek through unfinished Italy’ The Atlantic, July 7th

Bonnett, A. 2014 Unruly Places serialised in Orion Magazine May/June; July/August

Bonnett, A. 2014 ‘The world’s most fascinating abandoned cities’ Huffington Post, first posted 9^th July.

Bonnett, A. 2014 ‘North Korea’s creepy fake civilian village fools no one’, BoingBoing, first posted 8^th July 2014

Bonnett, A. 2014 ‘Alastair Bonnett’s Unruly Places’, The 99 Test, first posted 9^th July 2014