Sad Topographies Non-Book an unlikely friendship slowly starts

an unlikely friendship slowly starts to blossom

Nowadays cities are bathed in light

It has been a wonderful piece of detective work tracing many of these 250 letters

far away with everyday events closer to home

Sad Topographies Non-Book an unlikely friendship slowly startsSad Topographies is an illustrated guide for the melancholic among us. Dispirited travellers rejoice as Damien Rudd journeys across continents in search of the world's most joyless place names and their fascinating etymologies. Behind each lugubrious place name exists a story, a richly interwoven narrative of mythology, history, landscape, misadventure and tragedy. From Disappointment Island in the Southern Ocean to Misery in Germany, across to Lonely