Destination Books--in living up to its name--is a bookseller that promotes travel as well as books on gardening and sustainability. We've recently added a series of unusual atlases to our inventory especially for those of you who may want to get out of town for a while.
Rebecca Solnit a prolific activist, social historian and author spearheaded a three-book collection known as Infinite Cities. Published individually as Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (2010) Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (2013), Nonstop Metropolis: New York City (2016) the University of California Press re-issued the books as a boxed set in 2019.
This three-volume boxed paperback set contains:
- The original, gorgeously designed atlases--Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas; Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas; and Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
- Three new and updated, full-color, fold-out posters for each city, including the popular "City of Women" map
- A new and thoughtful essay by Solnit reflecting on the project ten years after the publication of the first atlas
However, the books are available individually.
I have provided my personal dog-eared copies on loan at my booth at the Journeyman in downtown Decatur so people can check them out (The new books are hermetically sealed.) You will discover in the words of one reviewer, that each volume contains "historical, cultural and biographical essays are interspersed with photographs and maps that inform and revise our understanding of America's most storied places."
I plan on bringing them to my next popup at the Freedom Farmer's at the Carter Center, scheduled for November 23rd weather permitting.
If you cannot make to the Journeyman, the atlases are also available at my online store along with other Solnit standards like Hope Against the Dark (currently on backorder) which she wrote after the 2004 election. Her recent essay in The Guardian "Authoritarians Like Trump Love Fear, Defeatism and Surrender. Do Not Give Them What They Want" is equally inspirational.
Clicking on the QR code below will take you directly to the store.
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