'Essential Places' is a collection of journeys through a landscape of ideas - half travel book, half guide to the icons of our age.
From Kowloon to California, from Charles Darwin's garden to Vincent van Gogh's asylum, from the birthplace of the skyscraper to the tomb of Tutankhamun, David Dale seeks out the places every serious traveller must try to reach in order to understand the modern world. He brings together Archimedes and Marilyn Monroe, politics and pasta, feng shui and future shock in twenty-six voyages of the mind and body.
