{"product_id":"a-history-of-the-world-in-47-borders-the-sunday-times-1-bestseller","title":"A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\"\u003eJonn Elledge\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"contribution\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-color-secondary\"\u003e(Author)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA fascinating and surprising history of the world told through the lines people have drawn on maps, described by Richard Osman as 'an absolutely incredible present for anyone who's interested in the world at all, which is sort of all of us' (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Rest Is Entertainment\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epodcast)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fascinating' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTOM HOLLAND\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A delight from start to finish' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMIRANDA SAWYER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A novel and fascinating perspective on world history'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBILL BRYSON\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those at once' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGIDEON DEFOE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I love this book; I love Jonn Elledge; I love the way he looks at the world' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMARINA HYDE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeople have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped, why the world looks the way it does - and about the scale of human folly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Roman attempts to define the boundaries of civilisation, to the secret British-French agreement to carve up the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, to the reason why landlocked Bolivia still maintains a navy, this is a fascinating, witty and surprising look at the history of the world told through its borders.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ehe Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller April 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMore praise for 47 BORDERS:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'You'll never look at a map the same way again'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSTEPHEN BUSH\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[A] clever, confounding history' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePATRICK MAGUIRE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A witty grand tour'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eDORIAN LYNSKEY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Warm, funny and sharply political' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePHIL TINLINE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mearch Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52486011388170,"sku":null,"price":560.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/7124\/4554\/files\/81DZkRKhIfL._SL1500.jpg?v=1769872021","url":"https:\/\/urun-sepetim.myshopify.com\/products\/a-history-of-the-world-in-47-borders-the-sunday-times-1-bestseller","provider":"Mearch Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}