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Atlas of Remote Islands
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will | Judith Schalansky
Judith Schalansky was born in 1980 on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. The Soviets wouldn't let anyone travel so everything she learnt about the world came from her parents' battered old atlas. An acclaimed novelist and award-winning graphic designer, she has spent years creating this, her own imaginative atlas of the world's loneliest places. These islands are so difficult to reach that until the late 1990s more people had set foot on the moon than on Peter I Island in the Antarctic.On one page are perfect maps, on the other unfold bizarre stories from the history of the islands themselves. Rare animals and strange people abound: from marooned slaves to lonely scientists, lost explorers to confused lighthouse keepers, mutinous sailors to forgotten castaways; a collection of Robinson Crusoes of all kinds. Recently awarded the prize of Germany's most beautiful book, the Atlas of Remote Islands is an intricately designed masterpiece that will delight maplovers everywhere. Judith Schalansky lures us across all the oceans of the world to fifty remote islands - from St Kilda to Easter Island and from Tristan da Cunha to Disappointment Island - and proves that some of the most memorable journeys can be taken by armchair travellers.
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nosferatu
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Pickpick

A book I‘ve been reading on and off for the past eight years; sometimes forgetting about it and then returning, always dreading getting to the final page and the end of this journey across the oceans. I did hit it today, but luckily I have little to no memory of most of the beautiful, anecdotal essays contained in this volume. Though I will likely never see any of Schalansky‘s islands in person, I will return to them in reading for sure.

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mayusteapot
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2. My parents are both readers, mum read aloud to us even b4 we were born. Also crappy friends and bullies at school. Books were my friends.

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4. Emily Byrd Starr, Jean Valjean, Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mr Crawford(Mansfield Park), Bertha Rochester(Jane Eyre), Cranford, Samwise Gamgee, Aramis, Snufkin(Moomin books)

#manicmonday @joscho

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mayusteapot
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Setting off to trek across the world. In my garden. With tea. Without shoes.

Centique I just put this on my TBR after listening to the Reading Envy podcast. Have you listened to that before? This book is on episode 200. 6y
mayusteapot @Centique I haven't. I think I saw it on Instagram or Goodreads suggested it to me. It's soooo lovely!! Atlases and islands are a theme in my own manuscript and I'm justifying this as background reading 🙄 6y
Centique @mayusteapot very cool! I‘m writing a book too. I keep going down wormholes about horses and farming and biotech though 😂🤣 Maps are far cooler! 6y
mayusteapot @Centique as you know, grass is always greener and so on 😁 but the book, this atlas that is, is so inspiring that if I weren't already writing on the theme, I might start ☺ it's very poetic 6y
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rockpools
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#emojinov #🏝📚

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rockpools
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It might have a few too many words to fall into the true category of #minimalistcovers, but it's moderately minimal... #jubilantjuly @RealLifeReading

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rockpools
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In a completely jumbled order, these are my #topreadsof2016, ones I either loved reading, or ones that will stay with me. #seasonsreadings2016.

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LouLouLane
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rockpools
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This was the first book I read this year, and I love it! 50 remote islands, 50 little maps, 50 tiny postcard-sized true short-stories from history, travellers, events... *happy sigh*

#setonanisland (or 50) #seasonsreadings2016

Lindy Sounds delightful! 8y
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Kaddele
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