Atlante Delle Isole Remote: Cinquanta Isole Dove Non Sono Mai Stata E Mai Andrò (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
Wonderful, wonderful book! And, for map lovers, it is utterly required!! The author did the design and typesetting...the whole presentation shows such fine attention to detail. I know it is a translation from German to English but it flows so beautifully that it's hard to believe. I spent hours and hours with the book at my computer, looking for images and satellite images of the islands: the stories she tells and the maps made them all so very interesting. A totally enjoyable experience! This book is unforgettable. Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands is a beautiful little book. It occupies the same space in my mind as Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities: that of speculative geography. But where Calvino's book concerns cities that only vaguely resemble real places, the Pocket Atlas is grounded more firmly in reality. All places described within exist: each neatly drawn dot on the map is an actual place that can be visited. Each entry is researched and based on real events. But the Pocket Atlas is less a guide to remote places and more a field book of the imagination. This is less about geography as a measureable science, and more about what geography *feels* like. Each two-page entry by itself - while well written - weighs quite lightly (though a few of them feel like well-aimed fists to the emotional gut), but all of them taken together are a beautiful, dreamy experience - a journey not only of physical miles but of also of our shared history and human nature. It manages to be poetic without ever feeling pretentious about it.This is a book that's going to stay with me for a very long time.
What do You think about Atlante Delle Isole Remote: Cinquanta Isole Dove Non Sono Mai Stata E Mai Andrò (2009)?
i only wish it had been sourced better so i could look up more about each island
—Whatisnick
