Judith Schalansky,Christine Lo: Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will

Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will


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A rare and beautifully illustrated journey to fifty faraway worlds. There are still places on earth that are unknown. Visually stunning and uniquely designed, this wondrous book captures fifty islands that are far away in every sense-from the mainland, from people, from airports, and from holiday brochures. Author Judith Schalansky used historic events and scientific reports as a springboard for each island, providing information on its distance from the mainland, whether its inhabited, its features, and the stories that have shaped its lore. With stunning full-color maps and an air of mysterious adventure, "Atlas of Remote Island" is perfect for the traveler or romantic in all of us.

Two of Shakespeare s greatest plays ("King Lear"and"A Midsummer Night s Dream") and two of his sonnets are here, as are Plato s"Symposium," "Gulliver s Travels," "Candide," "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," Renaissance poetry of love and desire, and"Don Quixote"visualized by the legendary Will Eisner. The revolutionary Volkswagen advertising campaign of the 1960s and 70s is universally acknowledged to be the greatest and most influential ever created and was acclaimed as 'the campaign of the century' in the Millennium editions of Time Magazine and the US ad industry bible Advertising Age. Remember those great Volkswagen ads? is the only comprehensive review of this definitive ad campaign. It features a brief history of the iconic Volkswagen Beetle, followed by an account of the birth of the campaign at US ad agency Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB). This much enlarged and updated edition is illustrated with over 450 reproductions of press advertisements and TV commercial storyboards primarily featuring the VW Beetle, but also the Van, Bus and Camper and finally the VW Fastback and Squareback vehicles. Also included is a new section devoted to the billboards created by DDB in Los Angeles, as well as some of the Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will download epub ads created by their offices in Europe. The book is the result of years of research and numerous face-to-face meetings between the internationally renowned authors and DDB and Volkswagen executives around the world.


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Author: Judith Schalansky,Christine Lo
Number of Pages: 143 pages
Published Date: 20 Dec 2010
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Publication Country: New York, NY, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780143118206
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