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A rare and beautifully illustrated journey to fifty faraway worlds. There are still places on earth that are unknown. Visually stunning and uniquely designed, this wondrous book captures fifty islands that are far away in every sense-from the mainland, from people, from airports, and from holiday brochures. Author Judith Schalansky used historic events and scientific reports as a springboard for each island, providing information on its distance from the mainland, whether its inhabited, its features, and the stories that have shaped its lore. With stunning full-color maps and an air of mysterious adventure, Atlas of Remote Island is perfect for the traveler or romantic in all of us.

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(a) cartographical gem <br> - The Wall Street Journal - Great New (Armchair) Travel Reads <br> 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. <br> -Robert Macfarlane, The Guardian (UK) <br> This beautifully illustrated atlas reveals that cartography and the creative imagination have always intersected, spurred on by human wanderlust. <br> - NPR 's 2010 Favorites pick <br> '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. <br> - The New Yorker's Book Bench <br> .. .absolutely magical. <br> - Conde Nast Traveler- CNTraveler.com <br> The first five times (or so) that I paged through the Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will, I fell deeply in love with the book... Each of author and artist Judith Schalansky's maps--hand-drawn in shades of gray, black, white, and brilliant orange on cadet blue paper--transported me to a, usually, remote island... <br> -NationalGeographic.com <br> .. . A testament to the transformative power of maps. Atlas of Remote Islands is a celebration of what can still be accomplished with imagination, paper and ink. Holding it, you feel as if you've stolen the composition book that dreamy girl in the back row of our high school English class is always scribbling into. You page through it and think, Oh, my God. She's a genius. <br> -Anthony Doerr, TheMillions.com <br> That impossible-to-please friend, that cranky relative, that coffee table begging for something more interesting that last Sunday's New York Times Magazine- worry about them no more. Here is your holiday gift, your birthday present, your living room's conversation-igniter. <br> -HeadButler.com<br>

.. .The author's prose (translated from the German) is poetic and clever, descriptive and dramatic without falling prey to travelogue cliches. Engrossing as a novella, each entry comes complete with characters... Schalansky's anecdotes are so crisply detailed and evocative, one assumes that she conducted her research in person, even time-traveling to witness certain historical events...To be honest, she didn't really need to have visited the islands. By book's end (Peter I Island, Antarctica), I felt that I had traveled to all 50, my mind's wings tired from all that flapping. <br> - The Washington Post <br> In a world crowded with people, noise and violence, hearing about these remote, seldom- or never-visited places feels both comforting and unsettling. A fascinating volume on a unique subject. <br> - Daily Herald (Utah) <br> Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky is magic in its own way, a fascinating compendium of 50 remote islands far from the mainland, from pe

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Judith Schalansky was born in 1980 in Greifswald, Germany. She hasdegrees in both History of Art and Communication Design. Judith currentlyworks as a freelance writer and designer in Berlin and has been teaching coursesin the principles of typography at the Potsdam Technical Institute since 2008.

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