Judith Schalansky was born in 1980 on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. The Soviets wouldn't let anyone travel so everything she learnt about the world came from her parents' battered old atlas. An acclaimed novelist and award-winning graphic designer, she has spent years creating this, her own imaginative atlas of the world's loneliest places. These islands are so difficult to reach that until the late 1990s more people had set foot on the moon than on Peter I Island in the Antarctic. On one page are perfect maps, on the other unfold bizarre stories from the history of the islands themselves. Rare animals and strange people abound: from marooned slaves to lonely scientists, lost explorers to confused lighthouse keepers, mutinous sailors to forgotten castaways; a collection of Robinson Crusoes of all kinds. Recently awarded the prize of Germany's most beautiful book, the "Atlas of Remote Islands" is an intricately designed masterpiece that will delight maplovers everywhere. Judith Schalansky lures us across all the oceans of the world to fifty remote islands - from St Kilda to Easter Island and from Tristan da Cunha to Disappointment Island - and proves that some of the most memorable journeys can be taken by armchair travellers.

朱迪斯·莎兰斯基，1980年出生于德国，主修艺术史与传达设计，目前住在柏林，从事自由写作与设计。2006年出版印双字体集《我爱断折字体》（Fraktur mon Amour），一举拿下多项设计奖；2008年出版第一本文学作品《蓝色不适合你》（Blau steht dir nicht），描述一名女孩对出海远航的憧憬；2009年她获得了位于洛杉矶的“奥若拉别墅”（Villa Aurora）所颁发的奖助金；这一本《岛屿书》（Atlas der Abgelegenen Inseln）凭其出色的文字和设计为她带来了20009年德国莱比锡书展“世界最美的书”金奖、2011年德意志联邦共和国设计奖及2011年全球红点传达设计大奖。途终点到达传说中的未知之地，却发现真实与想象、疯癫与文明并无区别。