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Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands

Judith Schalansky
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands Book PDF

Author : Judith Schalansky
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780143126676

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Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky Pdf

A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote Islands The Atlas of Remote Islands, 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. Gorgeously illustrated and with new, vibrant colors for the Pocket 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.

Archipelago

Huw Lewis-jones
Archipelago Book PDF

Author : Huw Lewis-jones
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500022566

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Archipelago by Huw Lewis-jones Pdf

Celebrate the three-hundredth anniversary of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe with this vibrant atlas in which an international gathering of illustrators conjure imaginary islands and castaway dreams. What is it about islands that is so alluring, and why do so many people find these self-contained worlds irresistible? Utopia and Atlantis were islands, and islands have captured the imaginations of writers and artists for centuries. In 1719, Daniel Defoe published his tale of a castaway on a desert island, Robinson Crusoe, one of the first great novels in the history of English literature and an instant bestseller. Defoe’s tale combined the real and the imagined into a compelling creative landscape, establishing a whole literary genre and unleashing the power of islands in storytelling. To celebrate the tercentenary of the publication of Robinson Crusoe, Archipelago presents a truly international range of leading illustrators who imagine they too have washed up on their own remote island. In specially created maps, they visualize what their island looks like, what it’s called, and what can be found on its mythical shores. In a panoply of astonishingly creative responses, we are invited to explore a curious and fabulous archipelago of islands of invention that will beguile illustrators, cartographers, and dreamers alike.

Atlas of Remote Islands

Judith Schalansky
Atlas of Remote Islands Book PDF

Author : Judith Schalansky
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Amsterdam Island (Terres australes et antarctiques françaises)
ISBN : 014311820X

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Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky Pdf

Visually stunning and uniquely designed, this wondrous book captures 50 islands that are far away in every sense--from the mainland, from people, from airports, and from holiday brochures.

Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands

Judith Schalansky
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands Book PDF

Author : Judith Schalansky
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780143126676

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Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky Pdf

A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote Islands The Atlas of Remote Islands, 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. Gorgeously illustrated and with new, vibrant colors for the Pocket 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.

An Inventory of Losses

Judith Schalansky
An Inventory of Losses Book PDF

Author : Judith Schalansky
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811229647

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An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky Pdf

A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote Islands A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Winner of the Warwick Prize Winner of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize Longlisted for the International Booker Prize Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific—shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, or Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and, taken as a whole, opens mesmerizing new vistas of how we can think about extinction and loss. With meticulous research and a vivid awareness of why we should care about these losses, Judith Schalansky, the acclaimed author of Atlas of Remote Islands, lets these objects speak for themselves: she ventriloquizes the tone of other sources, burrows into the language of contemporaneous accounts, and deeply interrogates the very notion of memory.

The Moth and the Mountain

Ed Caesar
The Moth and the Mountain Book PDF

Author : Ed Caesar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501143380

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The Moth and the Mountain by Ed Caesar Pdf

"In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit--all utterly alone. Wilson doesn't know how to climb. He barely knows how to fly. But he has the right plane, the right equipment, and a deep yearning to achieve his goal. In 1933, he takes off from London in a Gipsy Moth biplane with his course set for the highest mountain on earth. Wilson's eleven-month journey to Everest is wild: full of twists, turns, and daring. Eventually, in disguise, he sneaks into Tibet. His icy ordeal is just beginning."--Provided by publisher.

Fraktur Mon Amour

Judith Schalansky
Fraktur Mon Amour Book PDF

Author : Judith Schalansky
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-03
Category : Design
ISBN : 156898801X

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Fraktur Mon Amour by Judith Schalansky Pdf

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "150 of these [blackletter] fonts for free private and restricted commercial use."--Page 4 of cover.

Atlas of Improbable Places

Travis Elborough
Atlas of Improbable Places Book PDF

Author : Travis Elborough
Publisher : Aurum Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780711264014

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Atlas of Improbable Places by Travis Elborough Pdf

Atlas of Improbable Places shows the modern world from surprising new vantage points that will inspire urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in.

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas Book PDF

Author : David Mitchell
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307373571

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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Pdf

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profound as it is playful. In this groundbreaking novel, an influential favorite among a new generation of writers, Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity. Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . . Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.

The Sky Atlas

Edward Brooke-Hitching
The Sky Atlas Book PDF

Author : Edward Brooke-Hitching
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781797202198

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The Sky Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching Pdf

The Sky Atlas unveils some of the most beautiful maps and charts ever created during humankind's quest to map the skies above us. This richly illustrated treasury showcases the finest examples of celestial cartography—a glorious art often overlooked by modern map books—as well as medieval manuscripts, masterpiece paintings, ancient star catalogs, antique instruments, and other curiosities. This is the sky as it has never been presented before: the realm of stars and planets, but also of gods, devils, weather wizards, flying sailors, ancient aliens, mythological animals, and rampaging spirits. • Packed with celestial maps, illustrations, and stories of places, people, and creatures that different cultures throughout history have observed or imagined in the heavens • Readers are taken on a tour of star-obsessed cultures around the world, learning about Tibetan sky burials, star-covered Inuit dancing coats, Mongolian astral prophets and Sir William Herschel's 1781 discovery of Uranus, the first planet to be found since antiquity. • A gorgeous book that delights stargazers and map lovers alike With thrilling stories and gorgeous artwork, this remarkable atlas explores our fascination with the sky across time and cultures to form an extraordinary chronicle of cosmic imagination and discovery. The Sky Atlas is a wonderful book for map lovers, history buffs, and stargazers, but also for those who are intrigued by the many wonderful and bizarre ways in which humans have sought to understand the cosmos and our place in it. • A unique map book that expands beyond the terrestrial and into the celestial • A wonderful book for map lovers, obscure-history fans, mythology buffs, and astrology and astronomy lovers • Great for those who enjoyed What We See in the Stars: An Illustrated Tour of the Night Sky by Kelsey Oseid, Maps by Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski, and Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will by Judith Schalansky

The Un-Discovered Islands

Malachy Tallack
The Un Discovered Islands Book PDF

Author : Malachy Tallack
Publisher : Picador
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250148452

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The Un-Discovered Islands by Malachy Tallack Pdf

In The Un-Discovered Islands, critically acclaimed author Malachy Tallack takes the reader on fascinating adventures to the mysterious and forgotten corners of the map. Be prepared to be captivated by the astounding tales of two dozen islands once believed to be real but no longer on the map. These are the products of the imagination, deception, and human error: an archipelago of ex-islands and forgotten lands. From the well-known story of Atlantis and the mysteries of frozen Thule to more obscure tales from around the globe, and from ancient history right up to the present day, this is an atlas of legend and wonder, with glorious illustrations by Katie Scott.

The Giraffe's Neck

Judith Schalansky
The Giraffe s Neck Book PDF

Author : Judith Schalansky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620403396

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The Giraffe's Neck by Judith Schalansky Pdf

Adaptation is everything. Inge Lohmark is well aware of that; after all, she's been teaching biology for more than thirty years. But nothing will change the fact that her school is going to be closed in four years: in this dwindling town in the eastern German countryside, there are fewer and fewer children. Inge's husband, who was a cattle inseminator before the reunification, is now breeding ostriches. Their daughter, Claudia, emigrated to the U.S. years ago and has no intention of having children. Everyone is resisting the course of nature the Inge teaches every day in class. When Inge finds herself experiencing intense feelings for a 9th-grade girl, her biologically determined worldview is shaken. And in increasingly outlandish ways, she tries to save what can no longer be saved.

Island Dreams

Gavin Francis
Island Dreams Book PDF

Author : Gavin Francis
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781786898197

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Island Dreams by Gavin Francis Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR In Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and great voyages from literature, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness. Comparing the life of freedom of thirty years of extraordinary travel from the Faroe Islands to the Aegean, from the Galapagos to the Andaman Islands with a life of responsibility as a doctor, community member and parent approaching middle age, Island Dreams riffs on the twinned poles of rest and motion, independence and attachment, never more relevant than in today’s perennially connected world. Illustrated with maps throughout, this is a celebration of human adventures in the world and within our minds.

Infinite City

Rebecca Solnit
Infinite City Book PDF

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520262492

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Infinite City by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

What makes a place? Rebecca Solnit reinvents the traditional atlas, searching for layers of meaning & connections of experience across San Francisco.

Atlas of Untamed Places

Chris Fitch
Atlas of Untamed Places Book PDF

Author : Chris Fitch
Publisher : Aurum Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1781316775

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Atlas of Untamed Places by Chris Fitch Pdf

With beautiful, unique maps and evocative photography, Atlas of Untamed Places is an intrepid voyage to nature’s wildest places. In a world that has increasingly become tamed by human activity, the true wild holds a growing mysticism. Rugged landscapes with unspoilt scenery invoke romantic visions of paradise, but there are also intense and powerful wildernesses that produce fear and awe alike and unexplored zones where feral wildlife roams in the shadows. Chris Fitch takes you on a journey through the world’s most wild places, visiting immensely diverse floral kingdoms, remote jungles abundant with exotic birds, and both freezing cold and scorching hot inhospitable environments. From these natural havens we travel to the extreme and the incredible: lightning inducing lakes, acidic mud baths, and man-eating tiger kingdoms. We encounter places being reclaimed by nature, such as Chernobyl, that after being left abandoned for years are returning to a natural wilderness, free from human intervention. Not forgetting those most bizarre of destinations, such as the tidal surges of the Qiantang River, the bridge to Modo Island that emerges from the sea, and the strange magnetic pull of Jabuka rock. Also in the Unexpected Atlas series: Atlas of Improbable Places, Atlas of the Unexpected, Atlas of Vanishing Places.