Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Judith Schalansky Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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- Paperback
- Publisher: Penguin Books (2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 014311820X
- ISBN-13: 978-0143118206
- ASIN: B005DTZYWW
- Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
That impossible-to-please friend, that cranky relative, that coffee table begging for something more interesting than last Sunday's New York Times Magazine --- worry about them no more.
Here is your holiday gift, your birthday present, your living room's conversation-igniter.
And no worries that "Atlas of Remote Islands (Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will)" will be showing up on legions of gift lists. [To buy "Atlas of Remote Islands" from Amazon, click here.] Though published by Penguin, the biggest recognition the book has received to date is the German Book Office's October Book of the Month. The author, Judith Schalansky, is a German designer and novelist whose last book was "Fraktur Mon Amour, a study of the Nazis' favorite typeface.
Schalansky got interested in maps and atlases for the most personal of reasons. She was born in East Berlin; when she was 10, East and West Germany merged, "and the country I was born in disappeared from the map." With that, she lost interest in political maps and became fascinated with the basic building blocks of Earth's land masses : physical topography.
Fascinating stuff.
You doubt me?
Consider: Schalansky sees a finger traveling across a map as "an erotic gesture."
Consider: Schalansky disdains any island you can easily get to. The more remote the destination, the more enthusiastic she is for it. Like Peter I Island in the Antarctic --- until the late 1990s, fewer people had visited it than had set foot on the moon.
Consider: Schalansky believes "the most terrible events have the greatest potential to tell a story" --- and "islands make the perfect setting for them." Thus, the line at the start of the book: "Paradise is an island. So is hell.
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