![]() ![]() So is hell.' Or so says Judith Schalansky in the introduction to her charming, spooky and splendid Atlas of Remote Islands."- The New Yorker's Book Bench "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. Robert Macfarlane, The Guardian (UK) "'Paradise is an island. ![]() "(a) cartographical gem" - The Wall Street Journal - Great New (Armchair) Travel Reads "This beautifully illustrated atlas reveals that cartography and the creative imagination have always intersected, spurred on by human wanderlust." -NPR's 2010 Favorites pick ".absolutely magical." - Conde Nast Traveler- "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". ![]()
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