Atlas of the remote islands

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The Atlas of the Remote Islands is a half literary, half cartographic book by Judith Schalansky , published in 2009 by Mareverlag . The content is aptly described by the subtitle Fifty Islands I Have Never Been and Never Will Be . A double page in the book is dedicated to each of the 50 islands, containing geographical, demographic and historical information, anecdotal fragments from the island's history and a map at a scale of 1: 125,000. The book was also designed by the author. She uses Sirenne as a script .

Book content

construction

The book begins with a foreword entitled Paradise is an island. Hell too. The descriptions of the individual islands follow with the same structure. The book closes with a glossary of the foreign language geographic terms and an index of names of persons, countries and cities as well as geographic terms.

Easter Island , which takes up a complete page in the book, was decisive for the uniform map scale of 1: 125,000 .

List of described islands

Arctic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

Indian Ocean

Pacific Ocean

Antarctic Ocean

Prizes and awards

The book was awarded the first prize of the 8 January 2010 Book Art Foundation from the Association of German Book Trade e. V. for 2009. In 2011 it was also awarded the Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany (silver) and the Red Dot Design Award .

expenditure

  • Atlas of the remote islands. Fifty islands that I've never been and never will be. Mare, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86648-117-6 .
  • Pocket atlas of remote islands. Fifty islands that I've never been and never will be . Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-596-19012-6 .
  • Atlas of the remote islands. A musical audio piece. Directed by Thom Luz . Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2016. 1 CD, 53 minutes.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ not published in the book, but on February 4, 2017 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , p. 22: Lothar Müller: Guadalupe ( online , online version without the map printed on the newspaper page)
  2. ↑ a b The most beautiful German book. ( Memento from January 22nd, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on: mare online
  3. ↑ Red dot design award at the red dot award for “Atlas of the remote islands” and “BasisBibel”. on: buchmarkt.de , July 28, 2011.
  4. ↑ Footnotes on the mainland. In: FAZ of February 20, 2017, page 10.

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