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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 *

Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 07/06/2012
    ISBN13: 9781846143496, 978-1846143496
    ISBN10: 1846143497
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    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.

    Trade Review
    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 *

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