Explore Everything

Name: Explore Everything
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SKU: 9781781685570
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Place-Hacking the City

By Bradley L. Garrett

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In Explore Everything, Bradley L. Garrett takes readers on an exhilarating journey through urban exploration, delving into hidden corners of cities worldwide. The book offers a unique perspective on adventure, revealing the thrill of discovering spaces often overlooked or deemed inaccessible. Garrett captures the essence of urban exploration, combining personal experiences with insights into the motivations behind this daring pastime.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

This book may appeal to you if you love the thrill of urban exploration and enjoy reading about adventurous journeys into off-limits places. With a blend of personal stories and insights into hidden cityscapes, it captures the excitement and challenges of discovering the unseen corners of urban environments.

"Volatile and extraordinary ... a gonzo road trip." - Robert Macfarlane, Guardian

"Volatile and extraordinary . a gonzo road trip." -Robert Macfarlane, Guardian

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What does it feel like to find the city's edge, to explore its forgotten tunnels and scale unfinished skyscrapers high above the metropolis? Explore Everything reclaims the city, recasting it as a place for endless adventure.

Plotting expeditions from London, Paris, Berlin, Detroit, Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Bradley L. Garrett has tested the boundaries of urban security in order to experience the city in ways beyond the everyday. He calls it "place hacking": the recoding of closed, secret, hidden and forgotten urban spaces to make them realms of opportunity.

The book is also a manifesto, combining philosophy, politics and adventure, on our rights to the city and how to understand the twenty-first-century metropolis.

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Explore Everything by Bradley L. Garrett is described as a volatile and extraordinary journey, likened to a gonzo road trip. The book receives admiration for its daring approach and Garrett's own adventurous spirit, notably writing parts from a crane vantage. It offers a high-energy report that encourages readers to see cities differently, challenging conventional views and encouraging exploration. The depiction of urban exploration blurs reality, invoking a thrilling, almost game-like experience of cityscapes. Underlying this physical exploration is a philosophical inquiry tied to psychogeography, woven together with intellectual references and dynamic photography.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781781685570

Publisher: Verso Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 September 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Verso Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 644g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

Bradley L. Garrett is a writer, photographer and researcher at the University of Oxford. After studying anthropology at the University of California Riverside and working in Australia, Mexico and Hawaii, he became an urban explorer, photographing off-limits urban spaces in both the US and Europe, his exploits have been featured on TV, radio, GQ magazine, the Guardian and the Telegraph. His latest adventures can be followed on www.bradleygarrett.com.