The subtitle of this book is "Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will." It's 100 pages plus a preface, with two facing pages devoted to each remote island. One page has a nice hand-drawn map of the island (to scale); the other tells a story related to the island. The entry for Christmas Island, for example, talks about the time of year when crabs come out to spawn, only to be met by swarms of ants in a battle to the death. Many islands host utopian experiments, others are so small as to be sinking back into the sea. Lots of lonely research stations.
It's a lovely and enjoyable armchair travel book that focuses attention on the far reaches of the globe.
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