ATLAS FREAK

摘要

Judith Schalansky s book Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Willrn(Penguin Books, $28) is a book that opens like a trunk of dusty letters in an attic-full of the promise of the unknown, and the discovery of small delights. Schalanskyrnadmits from the get-go that she is an atlas fanatic, a "child of the atlas" as it were, drawn to the lines, blurred colors and ridges, and aerial glimpses of exotic lands.