- 280 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Apocalyptic futures surround us. In films, books and in news feeds, we are subjected to a barrage of end-time possibilities. Award-winning writer Hedley Twidle, in quixotic mood, sets out to snatch utopia from the jaws of dystopia.Whether embarking on a bizarre quest to find Cecil Rhodes's missing nose (sliced off the bust of the Rhodes Memorial) or cycling the Scottish islands with a couple of squabbling anarchists; whether learning to surf (much too late) in the wild, freezing waters off the Cape Peninsula or navigating the fraught polities of a Buddhist retreat centre, the author explores forgotten utopias, intentional communities and islands of imagination with curiosity, hope and humour.Ranging from the science fiction of Ursula Le Guin to the 'living laboratory' of Auroville in south India, Show Me the Place investigates the deep human desire to imagine alternatives to what we take as normal or inevitable.
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Table of contents
- Title page
- Motto
- Offshore
- To spite his face
- The transformation workshop
- A line of light
- The utopia project
- The lonely planet
- Otro mundo
- Monsoon raag
- Five by three
- Notes and sources
- Acknowledgements
- About the Book
- About the Author
- Imprint page