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Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands

Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will

Judith Schalansky author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:7th Jun '12

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Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands cover

Born on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall, as a child Judith Schalansky could travel only through the pages of an atlas. Now she has created her own, taking us across the oceans of the world to fifty remote islands. Perfect maps jostle with cryptic tales from the islands, full of rare animals and lost explorers, marooned slaves and lonely scientists, mutinous sailors and forgotten castaways.

Utterly exquisite -- Robert MacFarlane * Guardian *
Gorgeous, lyrical and whimsical * Time *
Rarely has armchair travel been so farflung and romantic * Time Out *
By book's end, I felt that I had travelled to all fifty islands * Washington Post *
Anyone who opens this ... is likely to get as lost as Robinson Crusoe * Die Zeit *

ISBN: 9781846143496

Dimensions: 168mm x 115mm x 20mm

Weight: 286g

240 pages