Judith Schalansky

Rarely has armchair travel been so farflung and romantic

By book's end, I felt that I had travelled to all fifty islands

Anyone who opens this ... is likely to get as lost as Robinson Crusoe

Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will

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.

Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands

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Utterly exquisite

Gorgeous, lyrical and whimsical

Rarely has armchair travel been so farflung and romantic

Utterly exquisite

Gorgeous, lyrical and whimsical

Rarely has armchair travel been so farflung and romantic

Utterly exquisite

Gorgeous, lyrical and whimsical

Rarely has armchair travel been so farflung and romantic

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