Pocket Atlas Of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited And Never Will

Author: Judith Schalansky

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Price : 30.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781846143496
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint : Particular Books
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Weight (g) : 0.288
Publication date : October 2011
Dimensions : 163mm X 110mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Judith Schalansky
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Dewey classification : 912.1942
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Pages : 240
BIC subject : WTRM
Illustrations : 50 maps and other illustrations
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Description

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.

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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

Author description

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.

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