Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will [Hardcover]

A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winningAtlas of Remote Islands

The Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky’s beautiful and deeply personal account of the islands that have held a place in her heart throughout her lifelong love of cartography, has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere. Using historic events and scientific reports as a springboard, she creates a story around each island: fantastical, inscrutable stories, mixtures of fact and imagination that produce worlds for the reader to explore.

Gorgeously illustrated and with new, vibrant colors for thePocketedition, the atlas shows all fifty islands on the same scale, in order of the oceans they are found. Schalansky lures us to fifty remote destinations—from Tristan da Cunha to Clipperton Atoll, from Christmas Island to Easter Island—and proves that the most adventurous journeys still take place in the mind, with one finger pointing at a map. (a) cartographical gem -The Wall Street Journal - Great New (Armchair) Travel Reads

This beautifully illustrated atlas reveals that cartography and the creative imagination have always intersected, spurred on by human wanderlust. -NPR's 2010 Favorites pick

...absolutely magical. -Conde Nast Traveler- CNTraveler.com

An utterly exquisite object: atlas as Wunderkammer and bestiary, bound in black cloth and sea-blue card...makes a magnificent case for the atlas to be recognised as literature, worthy of its original name - theatrum orbis terrarum, the theatre of the world .-Robert Macfarlane, The Guardian (UK)

'Paradise is an island. So is hell.' Or so says Judith Schalansky in the introduction to her charming, spooky and splendid Atlas of Remote Islands. -The New Yorker's Book Bench

The first five times (or so) that I paged through the Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and NevlCG