Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands write by Judith Schalansky. This book was released on 2014-11-12. Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote Islands The Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky’s beautiful and deeply personal account of the islands that have held a place in her heart throughout her lifelong love of cartography, has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere. Using historic events and scientific reports as a springboard, she creates a story around each island: fantastical, inscrutable stories, mixtures of fact and imagination that produce worlds for the reader to explore. Gorgeously illustrated and with new, vibrant colors for the Pocket edition, the atlas shows all fifty islands on the same scale, in order of the oceans they are found. Schalansky lures us to fifty remote destinations—from Tristan da Cunha to Clipperton Atoll, from Christmas Island to Easter Island—and proves that the most adventurous journeys still take place in the mind, with one finger pointing at a map.
Atlas of Improbable Places
Atlas of Improbable Places - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Atlas of Improbable Places write by Travis Elborough. This book was released on 2021-07-06. Atlas of Improbable Places available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Atlas of Improbable Places shows the modern world from surprising new vantage points that will inspire urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in.
An Inventory of Losses
An Inventory of Losses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Inventory of Losses write by Judith Schalansky. This book was released on 2021-12-21. An Inventory of Losses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote Islands A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Winner of the Warwick Prize Winner of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize Longlisted for the International Booker Prize Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific—shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, or Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and, taken as a whole, opens mesmerizing new vistas of how we can think about extinction and loss. With meticulous research and a vivid awareness of why we should care about these losses, Judith Schalansky, the acclaimed author of Atlas of Remote Islands, lets these objects speak for themselves: she ventriloquizes the tone of other sources, burrows into the language of contemporaneous accounts, and deeply interrogates the very notion of memory.
The Moth and the Mountain
The Moth and the Mountain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moth and the Mountain write by Ed Caesar. This book was released on 2021-11-02. The Moth and the Mountain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit--all utterly alone. Wilson doesn't know how to climb. He barely knows how to fly. But he has the right plane, the right equipment, and a deep yearning to achieve his goal. In 1933, he takes off from London in a Gipsy Moth biplane with his course set for the highest mountain on earth. Wilson's eleven-month journey to Everest is wild: full of twists, turns, and daring. Eventually, in disguise, he sneaks into Tibet. His icy ordeal is just beginning."--Provided by publisher.
The Giraffe's Neck
The Giraffe's Neck - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Giraffe's Neck write by Judith Schalansky. This book was released on 2014-04-22. The Giraffe's Neck available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Adaptation is everything. Inge Lohmark is well aware of that; after all, she's been teaching biology for more than thirty years. But nothing will change the fact that her school is going to be closed in four years: in this dwindling town in the eastern German countryside, there are fewer and fewer children. Inge's husband, who was a cattle inseminator before the reunification, is now breeding ostriches. Their daughter, Claudia, emigrated to the U.S. years ago and has no intention of having children. Everyone is resisting the course of nature the Inge teaches every day in class. When Inge finds herself experiencing intense feelings for a 9th-grade girl, her biologically determined worldview is shaken. And in increasingly outlandish ways, she tries to save what can no longer be saved.
