TY - BOOK AU - Lewis-Jones,Huw TI - Archipelago: an atlas of imagined islands SN - 9780500022566 (hbk.) : AV - PN56.I44 A7 2019 U1 - 823.0222 LEW PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Thames & Hudson KW - Imaginary places KW - Islands in literature KW - Literature KW - ukslc N1 - Map on lining papers N2 - Islomania is a recognised affliction. But what is it about islands that is so alluring, and why do so many people find these self-contained worlds completely irresistible? Utopia and Atlantis were islands, and islands have captured the imaginations of writers and artists for centuries. Venetian sailors were the first to make collections of them by drawing maps of those they visited in their isolari - literally the 'island books'. Then in 1719 Daniel Defoe published his tale of a castaway on a desert island, 'Robinson Crusoe,' one of the first great novels in the history of literature and an instant bestseller. Defoe's tale combined the real and the imagined and transformed them into a compelling creative landscape, establishing a whole literary genre and unleashing the power of an island for storytelling ER -