Atlas de islas remotas

In this award-winning atlas, Judith Schalansky transports us to 55 remote locations and recounts profound stories, the kind only reality can conjure when confined to a few square kilometers in the middle of nowhere: tales of mutant mice and militant missionaries, of trusting penguins and solitary explorers, of tireless corals and hapless treasure hunters, suspicious flying objects and singing floating wrecks. These are voluntary and involuntary Robinson Crusoe-style adventures, oscillating between illusion and disillusionment, demonstrating that the most adventurous journeys are still undertaken in the mind: with a finger on a map.