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.
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"(a) cartographical gem" -"The Wall Street Journal" - Great New (Armchair) Travel Reads "An utterly exquisite object: atlas as "Wunderkammer" and bestiary, bound in black cloth and sea-blue card...makes a magnificent case for the atlas to be recognised as literature, worthy of its original name - "theatrum orbis terrarum," "the theatre of the world." -Robert Macfarlane, "The Guardian (UK)" "This beautifully illustrated atlas reveals that cartography and the creative imagination have always intersected, spurred on by human wanderlust." -"NPR"'s 2010 Favorites pick "'Paradise is an island. So is hell.' Or so says Judith Schalansky in the introduction to her charming, spooky and splendid "Atlas of Remote Islands."" -"The New Yorker's Book Bench" ..".absolutely magical." -"Conde Nast Traveler- CNTraveler.com" "The first five times (or so) that I paged through the "Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will," I fell deeply in love with the book... Each of author and artist Judith Schalansky's maps--hand-drawn in shades of gray, black, white, and brilliant orange on cadet blue paper--transported me to a, usually, remote island..." -NationalGeographic.com ..". A testament to the transformative power of maps. "Atlas of Remote Islands" is a celebration of what can still be accomplished with imagination, paper and ink. Holding it, you feel as if you've stolen the composition book that dreamy girl in the back row of our high school English class is always scribbling into. You page through it and think, Oh, my God. She's a genius." -Anthony Doerr, TheMillions.com "That impossible-to-please friend, that cranky relative, that coffee table begging for something more interesting that 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." -HeadButler.com
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In the world of ASH, fairies are an older race of people who walk the line between life and death, reality and magic. As orphaned Ash grows up, a servant in her stepmother's home, she begans to realise that her beloved mother, Elinor was very much in tune with these underworld folk, and that she herself has the power to see them too. Against the sheer misery of her stepmother's cruelty, greed and ambition in preparing her two charmless daughters for presentation at court, and hopefully Royal or aristocratic marriage, Ash befriends one of these fairies-a mysterious, handsome man-who grants her wishes and restores hope to Ash's existence, even though she knows there will be a price to pay. But most important of all, she also meets Kaisa, a huntress employed by the king, and it is Kaisa who truly awakens Ash's desires for both love and self-respect...Ash escapes a life with her grim and self-serving stepmother and finds her beloved one...ASH is a fairy tale about possibility and recognizing the opportunities for change. From the deepest grief comes the chance for transformation.
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