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Atlas of Remote Islands

by Judith Schalansky, Christine Lo (Translator)

4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 · rating details · 657 ratings · 154 reviews

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 repo...more

Hardcover, 144 pages

Published September 28th 2010 by Penguin Books (first published 2009)

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Aug 12, 2011 Jenny rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: All dreamers, travelers, and writers

Shelves: cold-weather-islands, read2011, favorites

I would give this book 10 stars if I could. I wish it was twice as long. It has a beautiful introduction full of thoughts on travel and what it is that draws people to remote places. The majority of the book is two-page segments where the island's map is on one side and the other has basic information on it (when it was "discovered," how many people inhabit it, important moments in its history) as well as a narrative. That was my favorite part. It might have a legend, a historical moment, a disc...more

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Jun 15, 2013 Erica rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, art

The concept is fascinating: each island is drawn in exquisite detail in black, white, and orange (for cities and roads) and stranded on an expanse of pale blue. The layout evokes the isolation, the constant threat of the ocean. On the facing page is a small bit of factual information about the island: size, population, name, language, latitude & longitude, distances from three nearest land masses, and a timeline of its discovery. Below that is the text of the book, a single paragraph telling...more The concept is fascinating: each island is drawn in exquisite detail in black, white, and orange (for cities and roads) and stranded on an expanse of pale blue. The layout evokes the isolation, the constant threat of the ocean. On the facing page is a small bit of factual information about the island: size, population, name, language, latitude & longitude, distances from three nearest land masses, and a timeline of its discovery. Below that is the text of the book, a single paragraph telling the story of a single aspect of the island. It is brief, clipped almost, and highly poetic prose that sometimes borders on cliché (“feathered tribe” for example) and I wonder about the translator striking that balance between accessibly poetic and trite. Though the language can get saccharine (an unusual problem in my experience of translations from German, so something I definitely wondered about) the facts are exquisitely chosen.

In some cases she focuses on the people, or a person: a horrifying historical event (hundreds of babies dying of tetanus), or something so surreal as to be unbelievable (Marc Liblin learning Rapa in his dreams as a six year old living in France). Sometimes its an environmental disaster, or surprising geographical feature. Very few are unremarkable – like most books intended for a mass market audience the pieces are dense with sensationalism disguised as fact. And some of these stories are easily verified by internet searching (the tetanus epidemic), and the sensationalism of the telling becomes quickly justified. But others, like the Marc Liblin story, is more or less unverifiable.

As a proponent of lying in creative non-fiction it doesn’t trouble me too much. The idea is the more important thing, and stories can have an emotional truth without having a journalistic truth. She asserts as much in the introduction:

“That’s why the question whether these stories are ‘true’ is misleading. All text in the book is based on extensive research and every detail stems from factual sources. I have not invented anything. However I was the discoverer of the sources, researching them through ancient and rare books and I have transformed the texts and appropriated them as sailors appropriate the lands they discover.” (20)

Of course the Marc Liblin story takes place in the 1960s, so sources would not have been in “ancient and rare books,” and yet the only hits from a google search are other reviews of this book. So what. The story has all the resonance of a Borges story, and for that reason I accept it as an imaginative truth if nothing else.

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Jun 04, 2013 Ipsith rated it 5 of 5 stars

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What is it? It’s a blue hardcover containing hand-drawn maps of fifty super-isolated islands, paired with a page of text about each. It’s also a collection of fifty prose poems. And a quest for the loneliest places in the world. And a testament to the transformative power of maps.
You can read it in an hour. Or a month. It contains lots of lines like: “Here in Neptunes Bellows, at the gates of hell, in the jaws of the dragon, the waves crash interminably”. Or, “ They soak the rock-hard leather in...more

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Feb 21, 2013 Helmut Barro rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Suchen ist seliger denn Finden

Reiseführer sind schrecklich langweilig. Jeder Schritt ist vorgedacht, jede Eckenumrundung geplant, jeder mögliche Fund wird als "Geheimtipp" einem riesigen Leserkreis bekannt gemacht. Das Abenteuer der Reise wird zum Abhaken einer Liste von vorgekauten Sehenswürdigkeiten.

Ganz anders dieses wunderbare kleine Bändchen. Das ist das genaue
Gegenteil des "pass mal auf, ich sag Dir, wie das dort ist". Die Texte, kurz, knapp, manchmal fragmentarisch, immer aber irgendwie...more

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Feb 07, 2013 Jocelyn Koehler rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book is as lovely as it is hard to categorize. Judith Schalansky chronicles 50 islands all over the globe, offering deceptively dry factual information like location, size and significant years of in each island’s history. But readers hoping for a travel guide will be bitterly disappointed. Flipping through the pages, you may be lulled into thinking that this is an easy book to read. The text is as spare as the graphics. But as you fall into a description of an island, you start to wonder h...more

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Jul 03, 2011 K R N rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: islandbooks, maps, favorites

I love this book. Every part of it is exquisitely designed, and every part of it is a pleasure to look at. The cover is gorgeous, the margins and layout of the map pages are beautiful, so are the inside covers -- nothing is unintentional. Even the design of the 24 page text at the beginning -- it's large like in children's books, while she's talking about her childhood and faraway places, the feeling of how large the world is -- she toys visually with the idea of scale. If you see the book and t...more

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Jun 03, 2011 Blog on Books rated it 5 of 5 stars

In the intro to the “Atlas of Remote Islands” (Penguin) author Judith Schalansky proclaims this as a book of “fifty islands that I have never set foot on and never will.” With what seems like a travel limitation is actually more of a warning. Schalansky, who grew up learning about the world through atlases from her post in East Germany, warns readers about some islands that are so small, so isolated that they are havens for rampant crime and abuses such that visitors may feel trapped by their su...more

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Apr 26, 2011 Matt Leibel rated it 5 of 5 stars

Wonderful. As a fan of slightly surreal cartography, maps that straddle the line between real-world representation and poetic metaphor, I think I'm the target audience here. Those who wanted straight-up facts and sources are going to ding this stars, but maybe are missing the point here. Shalansky's intro issues the clarion call: "It is high time for cartography to take its place among the arts, and for the atlas to be recognized as literature..." She's laying her cards on the table, I think. Ea...more

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Mar 09, 2011 Courtney Johnston rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, history, science, own

Envy is not a pretty emotion. It makes you feel empty, and small. Thankfully my delight in Judith Schalansky's 'Atlas of Remote Islands' was great enough to overwhelm the occasional twinge of envy that she, and not I, has made something that I find so utterly covetable. (Made worse, let's be honest, when I just discovered that she's a year younger than me).

Of course, I couldn't have created this book: it grows entirely out of Schalansky's own self. Her discovery of the household atlas as an eigh...more

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Jun 11, 2013 Rick Wilcox rated it 4 of 5 stars

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
~ St. Augustine

As a literary wonk who has traveled the world and grown with each adventure, I have found particular delight in "Atlas of Remote Islands", a marvelous book by Judith Schalansky.

Beautiful in both aesthetics and word-craft, each page introduces the reader to one of 50 islands that have been placed like jewels by God on our rich and eclectic planet.

She says “The absurdity of reality is lost on the large land masses...more

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Jul 30, 2011 g rated it 2 of 5 stars

This book drove me crazy. The author includes fifty islands, most unfamiliar to a general audience (Iwo Jima and Easter Island are the only ones I recognized). Each spread includes information like the island's name, area, number of residents, etymology of the name, parent country, distance from other locations, timeline of major events, a small map of where island is in relation to major continents, and a larger map of the island itself. The brief text that accompanies this is liable to go in a...more

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Jan 05, 2013 Risa rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky was both a passport into fantastical hinterlands made real and a beautifully rendered cartographic account of man's historic quest for a land and life beyond the realm of the known world.

My interest in maps and any sort of cartography has long since been desiccated by a sexagenarian geography professor who ordered us to memorize countries, capitals, seas, and rivers, but Schalansky's Atlas was just so visually arresting and captivatingly submersiv...more

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Jul 19, 2012 Suzanne rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book had more style than substance. I loved the idea of a book about remote islands, as like many people, I dream of living on an island some day (although I know I probably couldn't really take it!) This book shows a map of 50 isolated islands, and writes a bit about each. The problem for me was that what is written is fairly random---a little piece of an anecdote about something that happened on the island, a mystical kind of description, a dreamy sort of nature hike---but never just stra...more

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Mar 30, 2012 Stu Sherman rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Marc McGee

An amazing work that is a testament to the possibilities of the book as both an object as well as a medium. It is as much visual art as it is narrative, containing fabulously composed pages, with hand drawn maps and typography developed by the author. I found the book randomly while writing in the library one day and was intrigued by the title, specifically the subheading “Fifty Islands I have never set foot on and never will”. Who would write such an atlas? Why would they be intrigued by these...more An amazing work that is a testament to the possibilities of the book as both an object as well as a medium. It is as much visual art as it is narrative, containing fabulously composed pages, with hand drawn maps and typography developed by the author. I found the book randomly while writing in the library one day and was intrigued by the title, specifically the subheading “Fifty Islands I have never set foot on and never will”. Who would write such an atlas? Why would they be intrigued by these remote patches of land lost in the sea? It was shelved in the travel section, next to other atlases, which made if all the more interesting. Was it really and atlas or some kind of ironic joke.

I thumbed through it quickly and brought it home to examine and read. The book starts with an introduction about the authors obsession with atlases as a child growing up in a divided It traces her love of maps and distrust of the political divisions and politics that goes into their creation. Map making is a very political affair.

The book reminded me a lot of invisible cities by Calvino. While it didn’t have the same poetic sensibility with the writing, it was still very good and deliciously elliptical. For remote places in the middle of the sea, each story told me just enough to get interested in finding more, but never to a satisfying degree. There was always something left unexplored, a character, a motivation, a piece of wilderness or wild bird. People end up at these places because something is missing in their lives and the stories reflecting this same lacunae of meaning. Tales of high seas adventures and daring escapes are excised from their youthful excitement and shown in more realistic light. These islands are lonely places and are sought by lonely men (and women, but usually men).

The stories straddle somewhere between fiction and non-fiction. This is not an accurate atlas or guide to islands of the world. It is a piece of art inspired but said islands. I’m quite comfortable with this, and I feel the book is very up front with this conceit. While they are presented as entries into an atlas, they are quite obviously not encyclopedic in nature. Each entry contains the co-ordinates location on the globe, distance from other sites, and timelines. These proximate to other lands and timelines are often very empty, and the long lines help convey the sense of isolation.

I think the best parts of the book are the hand drawn maps that accompany the stories. Each entry is on the left hand side of the book and each picture is on the right hand. Often the ratio of seas to island helps increase or decrease the sense of isolation one feels about the place. Some maps take up whole pages, with rivers and mountains and bays. Others are small dabs of white in a sea of blue. You feel, just by looking at them, lost and alone.

I highly recommend everyone at least take a look at this book. Having returned it from the library I think I now have to buy a copy.
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Nov 06, 2011 Llew rated it 2 of 5 stars

Having read the Loopmanics guide to uninhabited locations I thought this would be right up my alley, and the presentation is beautiful, but I hated hated hated the writing. The cloying attempt at creative language was a constant distraction from actually finding out about these places. The descriptions are terse -- each island is only given less than a page -- and there's no proper border between the author's fiction and the actual stories of the people who lived here.

One island has the descrip...more

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Aug 15, 2011 Mooch rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: travel

This is a beautifully made book, the sort of reading experience you really can only have with a real book and NOT on an e-reader. Schalansky, a fellow Berliner, here describes fifty little-known and isolated islands. The typography is beautiful, as are the hand-drawn maps that introduce each of the islands. No wonder, the book won a host of design awards!
For each island, ranging from Tristan Da Cuna to Easter Island to some really unknown arctical islands, Schalansky has written a double page t...more

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May 01, 2011 Adam rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book received the unusual honour of being the most beautiful German book of the year. The young author did indeed produce the whole text herself including typesetting, design, layout etc. Whilst you should not judge a book by its cover this book is an exception.

Essentially non-fiction in nature, the author manages to create a mesmerising story out of geographical, historical, socio-historical and maritime information that in each case relates to one of 'fifty islands I have not visited and...more

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Jul 24, 2011 Pasteurisiert rated it 4 of 5 stars

Pasteurisiert mit 4.5 von 5 Sternen. Fünfzig kleine, abgelegene Inseln und ihre Anekdoten. Ein Gute-Nacht-Geschichten Buch.

Judith Schalansky's unkonventioneller Atlas erhielt den Designpreis 2011und wurde damit zum "Schönsten deutschen Buch 2009" deklariert. Der Mare-Verlag produziert eine Reihe von Büchern ähnlicher Qualität. Das schöne Buch "Tiefsee" wartet bereits im Bücherregal auf mich. Der Atlas von Judith macht ebenso wie das Buch "Tiefsee" alleine schon deshalb neugierig, weil Schrift un...more Pasteurisiert mit 4.5 von 5 Sternen. Fünfzig kleine, abgelegene Inseln und ihre Anekdoten. Ein Gute-Nacht-Geschichten Buch.

Judith Schalansky's unkonventioneller Atlas erhielt den Designpreis 2011und wurde damit zum "Schönsten deutschen Buch 2009" deklariert. Der Mare-Verlag produziert eine Reihe von Büchern ähnlicher Qualität. Das schöne Buch "Tiefsee" wartet bereits im Bücherregal auf mich. Der Atlas von Judith macht ebenso wie das Buch "Tiefsee" alleine schon deshalb neugierig, weil Schrift und Grafik, sowie der Einband und die Qualität von Deckel und Papier einfach das Gefühl geben, etwas Besonderes in der Hand zu haben (nein, ich stehe nicht auf der Gehaltsliste von Mare).

Judith erzählt Anekdoten; kleine Geschichten zu entlegenen Inseln, die meist unbewohnt irgendwo weit ab von den Hauptschiffahrtswegen in den grossen Meeren dieser Erde liegen. Beschrieben sind tropische Paradiese und eisige oder felsige Festungen. Und es gibt Menschen, die mit diesen Auswüchsen aus den Meeren etwas erlebt haben. Entdecker, Schiffbrüchige, Inselbewohner, Militärs, kranke und gesunde Menschen.

Jede Doppelseite ist nach dem gleichen Muster aufgebaut; links oben Name, Grösse, Einwohnerzahl (falls überhaupt Einwohner existieren), Entfernungen zu anderen Inseln, Zeitstrahl mit den Meilensteinen der jeweiligen Insel. Der Rest der linken Doppelseite ist gefüllt mit einer lebendig beschriebenen Anekdote. Nur um das Fernweh noch zu steigern, füllt eine Karte der Insel die gesamte rechte Seite.

Fünfzig Inseln sind eigentlich zu wenig. Ich hätte gut noch mehr vertragen können. Durch die abgeschlossenen Geschichtchen, die jeweils nur eine Seite umfassen, gewinnt das Buch einen Gute-Nacht-Geschichten Charakter. Und so habe ich das Buch auch auf dem Nachttisch immer griffbereit gehabt. Den Kindern habe ich abends immer nur eine Geschichte aus ihrem Märchenbuch vorgelesen. Ich selbst habe mir beim o.g. Atlas den Luxus erlaubt auch mal zwei, drei oder fünf Geschichten zu lesen.

Sicherlich ist der Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln nicht das wertvollste oder bemerkenswerteste Buch meiner Sammlung, jedoch ist es das, welches eine Sympathie zum Buch erzeugt, die ich sonst nur aus Kindertagen kenne.(less)

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May 24, 2011 Melody rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a lovely, lovely, lovely book about tiny places in the middle of the oceans. Schalansky has researched the oddest stories about each place, and I would happily read a book about each of the events she describes. In fact, I hope someone will expand on some of these stories, the snippets here were not enough. The illustrations are so wonderful- old-fashioned and detailed and interesting. Topography done in modified pointillism. And the font & typesetting! Oh, how I love the type in thi...more

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Mar 28, 2011 Chris rated it 3 of 5 stars

It's an absorbing record of an idiosyncratic interest (one I can enter into, although I go more for the ends of peninsulas and edges of continents), but I wish there had been more information to go with her project of semi-fictionalising history. Does anyone live there? Who? Are they permanent inhabitants, or just working there? What do they do? If uninhabited, has anyone ever tried to live there? What's the landscape like? How about the weather?

The selection is a little artificial at times: su...more

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Dec 28, 2011 Barry rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, read-in-2011

This book attracted me because of two traits of mine. Firstly Wanderlust; I have a thing for maps and reading or watching documentaries about places, but rarely seem to go anywhere! And secondly the fact that often I am just pretty much a loner. So I had to order it in to my library right away. I knew it was a ‘literary atlas’ from the get go, something the part of my brain that loves knowledge could love while enjoy good creative writing, sounds perfect! Unfortunately, it’s not.

I was left rathe...more This book attracted me because of two traits of mine. Firstly Wanderlust; I have a thing for maps and reading or watching documentaries about places, but rarely seem to go anywhere! And secondly the fact that often I am just pretty much a loner. So I had to order it in to my library right away. I knew it was a ‘literary atlas’ from the get go, something the part of my brain that loves knowledge could love while enjoy good creative writing, sounds perfect! Unfortunately, it’s not.

I was left rather disappointed on both accounts. But first I’d just like to say the presentation is exquisite, lovely art style on the Island maps and all beautifully bound in the style of an old school atlas, this is one of the very, very rare books now-a-days which I would actually prefer not to use my Kindle for. But once you start reading it starts going downhill.
On the atlas side; the hard facts, it’s simple a case of there not being enough information to really care about each Island. You get its Square km size, number of residents, km distances from its closest neighbours and a very meagre timeline of its major events, but that’s pretty much it. On to the writing and the problem is pretty much the same; the sparseness of it leaves it lacking any real depth. You get titbits of information, like I’m now aware of what Marlon Brando said about the Pitcairn Island, but in the timeline I’m also told that in 1856 residents resettled on Norfolk Island, then in 2002-5 there was a “rape trail”, where is the details on these? The quality of the writing it’s self is a bit hit-and-miss. Sometimes it doesn’t feel like it flows correctly, but I am reading the English translation. But mostly it is very good, readable and creative, if there were ever more than 20 lines on a subject you could imagine a decent story coming out of it.

In conclusion it’s a nice coffee table book, but for any depth there is much better historical fiction on all the major goings on here covered in the literary portions, and for actual real world information you’ll be better of using a high quality general atlas, leaving this book of pretty remote use.(less)

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Feb 27, 2011 Katie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: female-author

Atlas of Remote Islands is a unique, beautiful little book. It starts out with an introduction in which the author describes her childhood love for atlases. She beautifully describes the wondrous process of discovering and imagining all the places around the world in which she will never set foot. The introduction is followed by maps and a short vignettes about fifty different remote islands. The author states in her introduction that everything is based upon extensive research of rare texts and...more

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Nov 13, 2010 Meaghan rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2010, trivia, travel, history

This is beautifully written and well-nigh impossible to categorize. It's not a travel book. It's not a conventional atlas. There's a lot of history in here, but it's not a history book either. The book contains maps of fifty of the world's most isolated islands and one-page vignettes to accompany each one. Usually, but not always, these vignettes tell of some event in the island's history. The author is able to make each story absolutely fascinating and I am thirsty for more. Unfortunately she h...more

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Sep 03, 2011 Joel rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: cartography-or-geography, well-designed-books, island-living, exploration

A beautifully, lavishly designed book with maps & brief entries about exotic islands most people will never, ever visit. The entries are not merely dry listings of facts, but lyrical musings by the author based on historical or geographical information about each individual island.

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May 13, 2013 Dianne rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: cartography, non-fiction, poetry

Hands down the most gorgeous and lonely book ever written. Every page presents a feast for personalities like mine: map fanatics, lonely wanderers. Lots of microscopic print - beware, those with weak eyes, excellent light is needed to feast on every detail.

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Apr 09, 2011 Christopher Obert rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-2011

Something about this book made me pick it up off of my library’s shelf. And I am glad I did! The book covers fifty small islands scattered around the globe. Each island has two pages devoted to it. The first page has the name of the island, its’ location (shown by its location on a globe and its latitude and longitude), the size of the island and its current population (if any). This page also shows distances to other locations and a timetable of its history. But the best part of these first pag...more

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Jan 08, 2011 Elisha Condie rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a strange little book. A little spooky, too. And yet totally appealing. All it was missing was some drawings by Edward Gorey. All this book is a list of remote islands, none of which the author or any of us is ever going to visit. Each island has a page that tells how many inhabitants it has (0 to around 2,000) and a little weird bit of history about it. Some of the history is gory, some is boring, some is just strange.
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May 18, 2011 Nicola rated it 5 of 5 stars

Winner of the prestigious Essay Prize and its coveted walnut letter box!!!
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Why?

(From a U of A presentation:

(all of us, incidentally, in various absurd costumes involving the colors of the book: bright orange, muted blue, black, and white (no gray)--I was quite proud of my makeshift top hat: a lampshade from Target that was the right orange--it's amazing how you will see Schalansky's colors everywhere if you look for...more

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Apr 24, 2011 Brian Yatman rated it 5 of 5 stars

I can't imagine that this book could be improved upon. Gorgeous writing and artwork. Schalansky isn't just mapping islands - she's mapping human folly, bravery and desire.

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Jul 15, 2011 Pondering Pig Newton rated it 2 of 5 stars

I can understand why lot of people like this book. It's poetically written and the careful cartography of each island is lovely to look at. But I'm a remote island freak and have been since childhood. I probably know more about Tristan de Cunha and Kerguelan Island than most people (except the people who have actually been to those esteemed islands). And I crave to know more. I wanted whole chapters on flora and fauna and who lives there and what their lives are like and narratives and pictures...more

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Judith Schalansky studied Art History at the FU Berlin and Communication Design at the Fachhochschule Potsdam. After finishing her studies in 2007 she taught Typographic Basics at the Fachhochschule Potsdam until 2009.
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