ATLAS OF REMOTE ISLANDS

There is something magical about an atlas that helps transport the reader to a distant place, even if the atlas merely shows a small green country with foreign names in a distant land. Such an atlas captured Judith Schalansky's imagination when she was growing up in the closed society of East Germany during the cold war. Schalansky went on to study art history and graphic design, but never l ost her infatuation with maps and distant places. The result is Atlas of Remote Islands, a look at fifty extremely remote locations around ...[Read more]