![]() ![]() ![]() Reviewing the book in the Guardian, Robert Macfarlane said it “makes a magnificent case for the atlas to be recognised as literature, worthy of its original name – theatrum orbis terrarum, ‘the theatre of the world’.” It won the award for most beautiful book of the year from the German Arts Foundation. The book features maps of 50 remote islands alongside Schalansky’s descriptions and stories of their natural and human history. ![]() Her books include the international bestseller Atlas of Remote Islands, published in the UK as Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands. The author was born in East Germany and now lives in Berlin, where she works as a book designer and editor as well as a writer. “The Future Library gives me the privilege of forming two exceptional relationships – an imaginary one with my shadowy future readers and a very tangible relationship with the raw material which, one day, when my body is long decayed, will help bring my words to life,” she added. Schalansky said it was moving to know her text would be printed on the trees grown by the project. ![]()
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