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Loading... Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln fünfzig Inseln, auf denen ich nie war und niemals sein werde (original 2009; edition 2011)by Judith Schalansky
Work InformationAtlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will by Judith Schalansky (2009)
  
No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |   ) WellReadSoutherner | Apr 6, 2022 | ) qwertify | Sep 10, 2021 | The design of the book is amazing, compressing a remarkable amount of geographical and historical information into two pages for each island whilst retaining clarity and aesthetic appeal, as all atlases should. I suspect researching such obscure places was also a challenge even with access to the power of the internet. Elegent, interesting and unique; a fabulous book. (  )1  Arbieroo | Jul 17, 2020 | ) untraveller | Jun 13, 2020 |
 Med sina poetiska, lätt absurda berättelser kan ”Atlas över avlägsna öar” föra tankarna till Italo Calvinos ”De osynliga städerna”, där Marco Polo berättar för Kublai Khan om alla städer han besökt under sina resor. Fast här handlar det alltså om fastlandets fotnoter. Calvino hade älskat den. Xavier de Maistre också. Judith Schalansky has chosen to incubate the minds of people who map islands. Curled up behind their eyeballs, she has let herself be carried around the globe from Lonely island in the Arctic to Deception in the Antarctic. Although she travels like Jules Verne, she describes each lonely deceptive landfall like Jorge Luis Borges. . . The writing is mercurial and bewitching. Almost as good as a map. In her foreword, Schalansky describes the act of finger-walking a map as an "erotic gesture". Cartophiles will know instantly what she means: not that there is a sexual frisson involved in map-reading, but that the distant longing for a landscape is usually far greater than the satisfaction gained by reaching it (eroticism's essence being anticipation rather than consummation). "There is no more poetic book than an atlas," Schalansky writes, and her book 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". Readers expecting a feelgood gazetteer of romantic destinations will be brought up short by the subtitle to Judith Schalansky's extraordinary and excellent book: 'Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will'. A recent bestseller in her native Germany (she designed and typeset it herself), Atlas of Remote Islands is a tribute to her early fascination with cartography and the geographical restrictions on travel that were in place in her youth in East Germany. In the preface she maps out her formative notions of impassability and wanderlust, remoteness and colonisation, and the result is a phantasmagoric mosaic of human frustration and brinkmanship from Pingelap to Pukapuka, and beyond.
For each island, this book provides information on its distance from the mainland, whether its inhabited, its features, and the stories that have shaped its lore. No library descriptions found. |
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 Google Books — Loading...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)910.914History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography and Travel History, geographic treatment, biography - Discovery. exploration Geography of and travel in areas, regions, places in general Land, LandformsLC ClassificationRatingAverage: (4.21)
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