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  • Published: 20 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9781846143496
  • Imprint: Particular Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $59.99

Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands

Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will



A fresh and characteristically beautiful reworking of this booklover's favourite

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.

  • Published: 20 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9781846143496
  • Imprint: Particular Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $59.99

About the author

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.

Praise for Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands

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