Atlas of Remote Islands

Posted on 03 July 2018 by Judith Schalansky

A rare and beautifully illustrated journey to fifty faraway worlds There are still places on earth that are unknown Visually stunning and uniquely designed, this wondrous book captures fifty islands that are far away in every sense from the mainland, from people, from airports, and from holiday brochures Author Judith Schalansky used historic events and scientific reports as a springboard for each island, providing information on its distance from the mainland, whether its inhabited, its features, and the stories that have shaped its lore With full color maps and an air of mysterious adventure, Atlas of Remote Island is perfect for the traveler or romantic in all of us. Best Read Atlas of Remote Islands Author Judith Schalansky For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr On a wonderfully warm and cloudless winter solstice day I took this volume on a picnic and was engrossed for a few hours with the beautiful maps and the equally beautiful stories that accompanied them While Judith Schalansky proves to be another of my fellow map nerds along with Simon Garfield and Ken Jennings, Judith s history has a unique slant on the usual type of nerdery.Judith grew up in East Germany during the late 80 s and early 90 s So her primary school years w...I would give this book 10 stars if I could I wish it was twice as long It has a beautiful introduction full of thoughts on travel and what it is that draws people to remote places The majority of the book is two page segments where the island s map is on one side and the other has basic information on it when it was discovered, how many people inhabit it, important moments in its history as well as a narrative That was my favorite part It might have a legend, a historical moment, a disc I would give this book 10 stars if I could I wish it was twice as long It has a beautiful introduction full of thoughts on travel and what it is that draws people to remote places The majority of the book is two page segments where the island s map is on one side and the other has basic information on it when it was discovered, how many people inhabit it, important moments in its history as well as a narrative That was my favorite part It might have a legend, a...This is the anti travel book You ve never been to these places, and if you know what s good for you, you never will The author has never seen them, either In fact, hardly any living person has been to these spots, and with good reason.It came in a box with another book and a CD, delivered to my front porch and awaiting me Friday night At first look, it seemed scant A large type introduction, as if to exaggerate the number of pages Some maps of islands with brief written observations on the facing page I read a few Cute, but I was already in the middle of a novel I was really enjoying and this could wait on a coffee table, where maybe it would belong.Came Saturday morning, and the novel stood next to...The mouse over tooltip for five stars here on Goodreads reads it was amazing and seldom have I come across a book to fit the bill better I was blown away by this wonderful atlas of islands already during the foreword The imagery of the author at eight, traveling the world by tracing a route with her finger in her atlas and her mother advising her to take the Panama canal, that s the shortest route is powerful and very vivid She brought her fascination with maps, atlases and islands in par The mouse over tooltip for five stars here on Goodreads reads it was amazing and seldom have I come across a book to fit the bill better I was blown away by this wonderful atlas of islands already during the foreword The imagery of the author at eight, traveling the world by tracing a route with her finger in her atlas and her mother advising her to take the Panama canal, that s the shortest route is powerful and very vivid She brought her fascination with maps, atlases and islands in particular with her into adulthood Her descriptions, insights and unique views of them moved and fascinated me and I don t think I will ever look at an atlas the same way aga...Written, designed and even typeset by the author, this is an exquisite little book to read In terms of content, I think it is compelling in a car crash kind of way disturbing and at times horrific, but difficult to turn away from Some of the stories I was familiar with, and I ve even visited one of these fifty remote islands, but overall I agree with the author who says in her introduction what I found on my journey were not models of romantic, alternative ways of living, but islands one migh Written, designed and even typeset by the author, this is an exquisite little book to read In terms of content, I think it is compelling in a car crash kind of way disturbing and at times horrific, but difficult to turn away from Some of the stories I was familiar with, and I ve even visited one of these fifty remote islands, but overall I agree with the author who says in her introduction what I found on my journey were not models of romantic, alternative ways of living, but islands one might wish had remained undiscovered unsettlingly barren places whose riches lay in the multitude of terrible events that had befallen them Like any other atlas, the islands are grouped into regions in this case by ocean and each entry includes the name, alternate names, the ruling or owning territory, the co ordinates, the size, the number of inhabitants, a few distance comparisons to establish remoteness,...This is genuinely a delightful book And it s such an original concept I mean, how often do you think of islands Really think of islands Not very often Me either Judith Schalansky however, has thought about islands a lot, and she shares it with the world in this beautiful book Each island takes up two pages, one with a small description and one with a simple, but wonderful illustration of the island The description is not a description per se, it sa selected story about the island i This is genuinely a delightful book And it s such an original concept I mean, how often do you think of islands Really think of islands Not very often Me either Judith Schalansky however, has thought about islands a lot, and she shares it with the world in this beautiful book Each island takes up two pages, one with a small description and one with a simple, but wonderful illustration of the island The description is not a description per se, it sa selected story about the island itself, a piece of its history or a story that relates to the island in some way I know that islands exist, of course, but I had no idea that so many of them were so inaccessible, or that some of them have got such a rich, weird, grotesque or d...Physically, this is a very lovely book In concept it is surely a contender for the ultimate expression of armchair journalism on Earth The proportions and weight of this book makes it deeply satisfying to hold I love the very feel of the paper the minimal palette of colour the frustratingly unspecified fonts used to set the texts In relief, each island is positioned on a background of water cool pale greyish blue annotated with bays and settlements, points and capes, lesser islands, san Physically, this is a very lovely book In concept it is surely a contender for the ultimate expression of armchair journalism on Earth The proportions and weight of this book makes it deeply satisfying to hold I love the very feel of the paper the minimal palette of colour the frustratingly unspecified fonts used to set the texts In relief, each island is positioned on a background of water cool pale greyish blue annotated with bays and settlements, points and capes, lesser islands, sand, ice, roadways, andAtolls convey a sense of hovering half formed between dry land and wet reef.Edward Tufte would, I believe, wholeheartedly approve of the design layout of information ...This book drove me crazy The author includes fifty islands, most unfamiliar to a general audience Iwo Jima and Easter Island are the only ones I recognized Each spread includes information like the island s name, area, number of residents, etymology of the name, parent country, distance from other locations, timeline of major events, a small map of where island is in relation to major continents, and a larger map of the island itself The brief text that accompanies this is liable to go in a This book drove me crazy The author includes fifty islands, most unfamiliar to a general audience Iwo Jima and Easter Island are the only ones I recognized Each spread includes information like the island s name, area, number of residents, etymology of the name, parent country, distance from other locations, timeline of major events, a small map of where island is in relation to major continents, and a larger map of the island itself The brief text that accompanies this is liable to go in any whimsical direction the author fancies for Tromelin, for example, you learn about a shipwreck in 1760 survivors were rescued sixteen years later Fascinating, but what about that tantalizing 4 residents up in the left hand ...Nesen izlas ju vienu gr matu par kart m Off the map , kad biju vi u goodreads pareizi iegr matojis, man tika pied v ts izlas t ar o gr matu Kartes ir mana v j ba, nav t , ka es b tu dikti uz vi m kritis, bet no atv rta atlanta mani ir gr ti dab t prom Ja zina, ko ar vi m dar t, tad var ieg t daudz inform cijas Joka p c pap t ju ar o gr matu un sapratu, ka man vi u vajag un vajag t l t L dz t l tam gan bija j pacie as tr s ned as, jo bookdepository p d j laik izmanto glieme u pastu, Nesen izlas ju vienu gr matu par kart m Off the map , kad biju vi u goodreads pareizi iegr matojis, man tika pied v ts izlas t ar o gr matu Kartes ir mana v j ba, nav t , ka es b tu dikti uz vi m kritis, bet no atv rta atlanta mani ir gr ti dab t prom Ja zina, ko ar vi m dar t, ta...

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03 July 2018

Judith Schalansky