Un-Discovered Islands
An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fakes
by Malachy Tallack
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Tallack's handsome book examines twenty-four deflated legends ... Readers of Tallack's acclaimed travelogue Sixty Degrees North will know of his gift for introspective exploration. He puts this to good use here, deriving a satisfying emotional argument from [the un-discovered islands'] clash of sentiment and fact
TLS
intrepid intellectual fun
Sunday Herald
It's a joy to island-hop through the book. After wowing the world with Sixty Degrees North last year, Tallack's second book is shaped by the same, clear, sharp prose and keen curiosity. Packed full of intelligent musings on everything from religion to astronomy, alchemy to the occult
National Geographic Traveller
This has been a vintage year for books about cartography: Malachy Tallack gave us The Un-Discovered Islands - a swashbuckling romp through 20 islands of the imagination, some of which featured on sea charts for centuries before being proven not to exist
Scotland on Sunday
Malachy Tallack is an engaging and fluent writer of essential kindliness
The Scottish Review of Books
Tallack teases all this out with great wit and subtlety
The Scotsman
This is a splendid and wistful book
The Spectator
One of the best new travel books
The Guardian
This is a book to cherish and to dip in and out of when time allows
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About the Book
Journey through the imagined islands of history.
Gathered in this book are over twenty islands that have decidedly human origins, whether they are the products of imagination, deception or simply human error. They are phantoms, fakes and legends: an archipelago of ex-isles and forgotten lands.
From the well-known story of Atlantis to more obscure tales from around the globe, from the islands of pure fiction to others whose existence are still in question, Malachy has created an atlas of fairytale and wonder.
Beautifully illustrated throughout with original full-colour maps.
The Author
Malachy Tallack
Malachy Tallack has written for the New Statesman, the Guardian, the Scottish Review of Books, Caught By the River and many other publications, online and in print. He won a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust in 2014, and the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2015. He is from Shetland, and currently lives in Glasgow.You may also like…
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