Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will

Black Rock of St Helena Island turned into a place of Napoleon’s exile and death. The tiny Tromelin Island seemed like a magical refuge for the shipwrecked slaves. However, freedom soon turned into a struggle for survival. Alexander Selkirk, a sailor spent four years and four months in complete solitude on the island. With a dash of the pen, he became the prototype of Robinson Crusoe. The island was named after this hero. In a flight across the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island, disappeared Amelia Earhart, a talented aviator. The allure of the beautiful unknown has attracted expeditions to the polar ice. The unexplored continues to captivate the travellers and romantics within us.
Fifty islands are featured in this remarkable book, far from the mainland and people, from the airports and tourist brochures, lost in the ocean. Each of them hides its secrets, each has its own stories, which are sometimes enchanting, sometimes scary. In this wonderfully written guidebook, the author Judith Schalansky invites the reader on a journey through a wide variety of places and eras, from Easter Island to St George, from the 17th century to the present day. The book includes detailed maps and geographic coordinates.

Judith Schalansky. Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will / Translated from German by Marina Kedrova. Executive Editor Maryana Terekhova. Executive Editor Elizaveta Solodovnikova. Publishing Editor Margarita Bushueva. — Moscow: KoLibri, Azbuka-Atticus, 2024.