Book review: Sea Change – An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean, by Christina Gerhardt

When I needed the atlas in my school library, I knew it would be in the reference section – the place you go to look stuff up, to get the definitive answer. So it’s strange to think of an atlas as something provisional and temporary. I suppose they always were, but more so in an era of climate change. Maps are being re-drawn. Coastlines are moving. Glaciers are retreating. Some places might cease to exist altogether, including some places that might vanish without ever really being widely kn...