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The Un-Discovered Islands

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by Malachy Tallack


  Malachy Tallack is an author and singer-songwriter who has written for many publications. He is contributing editor of the online magazine, The Island Review, and his previous book was Sixty Degrees North. Tallack is from Shetland, Scotland, and he lives in Glasgow. You can sign up for author updates here.

  About the Illustrator

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  Katie Scott is the illustrator of Botanicum and of the bestselling Animalium, which was chosen as the Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Year, 2014. She studied illustration at the University of Brighton and is inspired by the elaborate paintings of Ernst Haeckel. You can sign up for author updates here.

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  Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Introduction

  Islands of Life and Death

  Setting Out

  The Age of Exploration

  Sunken Lands

  Fraudulent Islands

  Recent Un-Discoveries

  Other Un-Discovered Islands

  References

  Further Reading

  About the Author

  About the Illustrator

  Copyright

  THE UN-DISCOVERED ISLANDS. Copyright © 2016 by Malachy Tallack. Illustrations copyright © 2016 by Katie Scott. All rights reserved. For information, address Picador, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Originally published in the United Kingdom by Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd.

  First U.S. Edition: November 2017

 

 

 


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