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Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will
Judith Schalansky
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Description for Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will
Flexibound. An atlas that takes us across the oceans of the world to fifty remote islands. It features rare animals and lost explorers, marooned slaves and lonely scientists, mutinous sailors and forgotten castaways. Num Pages: 240 pages, 50 maps and other illustrations. BIC Classification: WTL; WTRM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 112 x 20. Weight in Grams: 286.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Particular Books
Number of pages
240
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846143496
SKU
V9781846143496
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Judith Schalansky
Judith Schalansky is a writer and award-winning graphic designer, and lectures on typography in Potsdam. She has written a novel and a typographic compendium, Fraktur mon Amour (2006) which has won several design prizes. She lives in Berlin.
Reviews for Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will
Anyone who opens this ... is likely to get as lost as Robinson Crusoe
Die Zeit
By book's end, I felt that I had travelled to all fifty islands
Washington Post
Rarely has armchair travel been so farflung and romantic
Time Out
Gorgeous, lyrical and whimsical
Time
Utterly exquisite
Robert MacFarlane ... Read more
Die Zeit
By book's end, I felt that I had travelled to all fifty islands
Washington Post
Rarely has armchair travel been so farflung and romantic
Time Out
Gorgeous, lyrical and whimsical
Time
Utterly exquisite
Robert MacFarlane ... Read more