To the Ends of the Earth

To the Ends of the Earth – A Grand Tour for the 21st Century by Richard Weller (Birkhäuser 2024) takes the reader through selected metaphoric sites of contemporary global culture.

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To the Ends of the Earth – A Grand Tour for the 21st Century by Richard Weller (Birkhäuser 2024) takes the reader through selected metaphoric sites of contemporary global culture.

The book takes the reader on an intellectual adventure through a carefully curated selection of 120 places that can be understood as metaphors of contemporary global culture. Spread across all seven continents, from the depths of the ocean to outer space, these places are divided into six chapters: Paradises, Utopias, Machines, Monsters, Ruins, and Instruments.
The spectrum ranges from Steve Jobs’ Apple Park in California to a national park in Costa Rica, a small field station for the protection of wild orangutans in Borneo, the Great Green Wall in Central Africa, the Trump resort Mar-a-Lago, to the border wall between Israel and Palestine. This book is a grand tour of the most pertinent places in the world today.
– Richard Weller, To the Ends of the Earth – A Grand Tour for the 21st Century (Birkhäuser, 2024), book description from the publisher’s website

The text is in English. The book is lavishly illustrated with drawings by Oliver Atwood.

Weight 574 g
Dimensions 19,6 × 14,6 × 2,7 cm
Author(s)

Richard Weller

Publisher

Birkhäuser

Publishing year

2024

Language

Images

drawings

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Number of pages

312

ISBN

978-3-0356-2793-0