Invisible Lines

Praise for INVISIBLE LINES * : * An illuminating glimpse of the chain reactions of human and physical geography * Financial Times * Fascinating...a truly original adventure into new ways of exploring a sense of place -- Simon Jenkins A chance to see the world anew through the eyes of a wonderfully curious new writer * Observer * Endlessly interesting * Spectator * Old worlds enhanced, new worlds exposed and challenged ... a wise and thought-provoking series of raids across borders we thought we knew and others made visible to us, by Maxim Samson's forensic eye -- Iain Sinclair Invisible Lines is a fascinating, detailed exploration of the hidden boundaries that carve up the world ... it is a pleasure to accompany Samson to the Malaria Belt, inside eruvim (markers of a single domestic space within which fewer Sabbath regulations apply), or along the border of Portugal to discover why vultures prefer not to cross it * Telegraph * Utterly engrossing! Samson's literary atlas of the world's unseen boundaries and how they've shaped our lives demands to be read -- Professor Lewis Dartnell, author of Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History A fascinating exploration of the lesser-known and more subtle borders across the earth and the surprising ways in which they shape our lives * i news *