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**A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2022**
''A journey around both the author''s mind and the planet''s great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives'' ALAIN DE BOTTON
''A moving account of personal unbelonging'' THE TIMES
''Vanhoenacker... has a near-bottomless appetite for fresh sights and guidebook curiosities... Intimate and thoughtful'' PICO IYER, AIR MAIL
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Growing up in his small hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spun the illuminated globe in his bedroom and dreamt of elsewhere - of distant, real cities, and a perfect metropolis that existed only in his imagination. These places were sources of endless fascination and escape: streets unspooled, towers shone, and anonymous crowds bustled in cities where Mark could be anyone - perhaps even himself.
Now, as a commercial airline pilot, Mark has spent nea
