Islands Beyond the Horizon: The Life of Twenty of the World's Most Remote Places

by Roger Lovegrove

Book Overview

Islands have an irresistible attraction and an enduring appeal. Naturalist Roger Lovegrove has visited many of the most remote islands in the world, and in this book he takes the reader to twenty that fascinate him the most. Some are familiar but most are little known; they range from the storm-bound island of South Georgia and the ice-locked Arctic island of Wrangel to the wind-swept, wave-lashed Mykines and St Kilda.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198727577
• ISBN13: 9780198727576
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.6"