<b>A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning <i>Atlas of Remote Islands</i></b><br><br><i>The Atlas of Remote Islands</i>, Judith Schalansky's beautiful and deeply personal account of the islands that have held a place in her heart throughout her lifelong love of cartography, has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere. Using historic events and scientific reports as a springboard, she creates a story around each island: fantastical, inscrutable stories, mixtures of fact and imagination that produce worlds for the reader to explore.<br><br>Gorgeously illustrated and with new, vibrant colors for the <i>Pocket </i>edition, the atlas shows all fifty islands on the same scale, in order of the oceans they are found. Schalansky lures us to fifty remote destinations - from Tristan da Cunha to Clipperton Atoll, from Christmas Island to Easter Island - and proves that the most adventurous journeys still take place in the mind, with one finger pointing at a map.
