Recs if you like Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They are Today...

Niche nonfiction, aka micro-histories!

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nonfiction works that deal with maps and cartography, their history, and their impact on our world

no? well, now you do Books about [niche subject] or [not so niche subject] that spam from the mysterious and the macabre to the weird and unsettling to just interesting and fun