Born on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall, as a child Judith Schalansky could travel only through the pages of an atlas. Now she has created her own, taking us across the oceans of the world to fifty remote islands. Perfect maps jostle with cryptic tales from the islands, full of rare animals & lost explorers, marooned slaves & lonely scientists, mutinous sailors & forgotten castaways. About the author Judith Schalansky is a writer & award-winning graphic designer, & lectures on typography in Potsdam. She has written a novel & a typographic compendium, Fraktur mon Amour (2006) which has won several design prizes. She lives in Berlin.