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Fresh from their mishaps with Charles Darwin and the evil Bishop of Oxford, the Pirates set sail in a bouncy new vessel - purchased on credit. In order to repay his debts, the Pirate Captain is determined to capture the enigmatic White Whale, hunted by the notoriously moody Ahab, who has promised a reward.Chaos ensues, featuring the lascivious Cutlass Liz, the world’s most dangerous mosquito, an excerpt from the Pirate Captain’s novel in progress (a bodice ripper, of course), whale ventriloquism, and more.

Ci sono nazioni scomparse per ragioni politiche, come la Jugoslavia o la Repubblica Democratica Tedesca. Ma la Storia è anche ricca di paesi dissoltisi per eventi bizzarri, imprevedibili, tragici e, spesso, ridicoli: proprio quelli che Gideon Defoe presenta in questo “Atlante dei paesi che non esistono più”, di confini ormai sfumati, di antiche ambizioni e di pessime idee (per esempio, insultare gli ambasciatori di Gengis Khan e pensare di farla franca insieme al proprio piccolo regno).

Countries die. Sometimes it’s murder, sometimes it’s by accident, and sometimes it’s because they were so ludicrous they didn’t deserve to exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip away almost unnoticed. Often the cause of death is either ‘got too greedy’ or ‘Napoleon turned up’. Now and then they just hold a referendum and vote themselves out of existence. This is an atlas of nations that fell off the map.