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Released in 2007 by the world's biggest travel publisher,
Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-Made Nations
is arguably the best contemporary armchair traveller's guide
to a range of
better-known territorial micronations, as well as a number
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Originally published in 1985, Erwin Strauss'
How to Start
Your Own Country was the first attempt at
comprehensively documenting the micronation phenomenon.
An expanded Chinese-language edition was published in
2008. |
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Rebels,
Pretenders & Impostors is a fascinating and
detailed exploration of the many quixotic wannabe rulers who have tried (and usually
failed) to assume control of various polities from antiquity
through to the present day. Several chapters deal with
doomed attempts at establishing new polities during
the European colonial period, and with the 19th century
obsession with national myths. |
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The Land that Never Was is the incredible true story
of Gregor MacGregor - the Scottish-born south American
independence hero who, as the "Cazique" (prince) of Poyais -
a completely imaginary country in what is today Belize -
wowed London society, was formally received at the Court of
St James' and convinced hundreds of investors to part with
the equivalent of millions of dollars for the priviledge of
taking ship to
a bucolic tropical paradise... which actually turned out to
be a fetid, uninhabitable, malarial swamp. |
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The first in a series of
well-researched booklets published by Wolfgang Baldus
dealing with the philately and broader history of a number
of historical micronations and ephemeral statelike entities,
The Postage
Stamps of the Principality of Trinidad explores the
background to the putative island kingdom founded in 1894 by
US-born eccentric and adventurer James Harden-Hickey .
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The second in a series of
well-researched booklets published by Wolfgang Baldus
dealing with the philately and broader history of a number
of historical micronations and ephemeral statelike entities,The
Postage Stamps of the Independent State of Acre
explores the background to the late 19th century attempts at
establishing a secessionist state in Brazil's remote
southwest Amazon region. |
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The third in a series of
well-researched booklets published by Wolfgang Baldus
dealing with the philately and broader history of a number
of historical micronations and ephemeral statelike entities,
The Postage
Stamps of the Independent Republic of Guyana
explores the background to the several late 19th century
attempts at establishing a secessionist state in Brazil's
northeastern corner. In its first incarnation, Guyana was known
as the Republic of Counani.
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The fourth in a series of
well-researched booklets published by Wolfgang Baldus
dealing with the philately and broader history of a number
of historical micronations and ephemeral statelike entities,The
Postage Stamps of the Kingdom of Sedang explores the
background to the ephemeral polity created in the highlands
of present-day Vietnam in 1889, when French adventurer
Charles David Mayrena managed to convince the Sedang tribal
people to elect him as their king. |
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Published in 193? by the American Numismatic Society,
Ephemeral Decorations comprehensively
documents the history and the medals and awards issued by a range
of mostly 19th century ephemeral states, micronations and false
chivalric orders, including the Kingdom of Sedang, the Empire of
the Sahara. It features numerous monochrome photographs of the
decorations and medals described.
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Sketch of the Mosquito Shore, by Captain Thomas
Strangeways, was published in 1822. It purports to be a
guidebook to the Principality of Poyais, which the
book paints as a bucolic tropical paradise inhabited by a
mixed population of industrious European migrants and
civilized Anglophile natives. In fact,
Strangeways is thought to be a
pseudonym of Gregor MacGregor, the chief author of the Poyais fraud. The book was written with an eye to attracting
wealthy British investors, and so focuses in exhaustive
detail on the commercial value of Poyais' purported natural
resources.
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State of the Sky blah blah blah.
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