{"id":2926,"date":"2022-02-23T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T16:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2022-04-27T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T20:22:54","slug":"2926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/2022\/02\/23\/2926\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlas of the Week: Improbable Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Atlas Choice<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World\u2019s Most Unusual Corners <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Travis Elborough<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The following atlas was published in 2016 and is composed of geographical and informational maps of places across the globe, but its central focus happens to be some of National Geographic\u2019s weirdest and most unusual &#8211; ranging from hidden labyrinths to deserted cities. This atlas is a rather intriguing take on what we see with traditional geographic maps, instead of noting the mass of the world that we wish to know about, it pin points and highlights nitty gritty, unspoken of, and unknown places. It\u2019s interesting, because traditionally we see maps as our way of expanding our range of the world, but this atlas puts our focus on the miniscule \u2013 and we can argue that it certainly broadens our understanding of the spaces we occupy or don\u2019t occupy by calling into attention what we often don\u2019t pay attention to.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/28503920-atlas-of-improbable-places<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Atlas_of_Improbable_Places.html?id=zAZxDQAAQBAJ&amp;source=kp_book_description\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Atlas_of_Improbable_Places.html?id=zAZxDQAAQBAJ&amp;source=kp_book_description<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Atlas-Improbable-Places-Journey-Unusual\/dp\/1781315329\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Atlas-Improbable-Places-Journey-Unusual\/dp\/1781315329<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlas Choice Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World\u2019s Most Unusual Corners by Travis Elborough The following atlas was published in 2016 and is composed of geographical and informational maps of places across the globe, but its central &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/2022\/02\/23\/2926\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atlases-of-the-week"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}