title: Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will
author:  Judith Schalansky 
description: "(a) cartographical gem" -<b>The Wall Street Journal - Great New (Armchair) Travel Reads</b><br><br>"This beautifully illustrated atlas reveals that cartography and the creative imagination have always intersected, spurred on by human wanderlust."<b>-NPR's 2010 Favorites pick </b><br><br>"...absolutely magical." -<b><i>Conde Nast Traveler- CNTraveler.com</i></b><br><br>"An utterly exquisite object: atlas as Wunderkammer and bestiary, bound in black cloth and sea-blue card...makes a magnificent case for the atlas to be recognised as literature, worthy of its original name - theatrum orbis terrarum, "the theatre of the world". <b>-Robert Macfarlane, The Guardian (UK)</b><br><br>"'Paradise is an island. So is hell.' Or so says Judith Schalansky in the introduction to her charming, spooky and splendid Atlas of Remote Islands."-<b><i>The New Yorker's Book Bench</i></b><br><br>"The first five times (or so) that I paged through the Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will, I fell deeply in love with the book... Each of author and artist Judith Schalansky's maps--hand-drawn in shades of gray, black, white, and brilliant orange on cadet blue paper--transported me to a, usually, remote island..." -<b>NationalGeographic.com</b><br><br>"Last night I devoured the most beautiful book... It's wonderful: it's like Borges' eccentric encyclopedias. It is, in a word, great."-<b>Caustic Cover Critic blog</b>
zlib_text: **Shudder Island**
  
  >  **Shudder Island**
  
  > Shudder Island
  
  > • . . must we dream our dreams
  
  > and have them, too?
  
  > • Elizabeth Bishop,
  
  > “Questions of Travel”
  
  > ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  > Thanks to Sheila, George Bick, Jack Driscoll, Dawn Ellenburg, Mike Flynn,
  > Julie Anne McNary, David Robichaud, and Joanna Solfrian. Three texts were
  > indispensable in writing this novel: Boston Harbor Islands by Emily and
  > David Kale; Gracefully Insane, Alex Beam’s account of McLean Hospital; and
  > Robert Whitaker’s Mad in America, which documented the use of neuroleptics
  > on schizophrenics in American psychiatric institutions. I remain indebted to
  > all three books for their outstanding reportage.
  
  > As ever, as always, thanks to my editor, Claire Wachtel (every writer should
  > be so blessed), and my agent, Ann Rittenberg, who gave me the book by giving
  > me the Sinatra.
  
  > ix
  
  > PROLOGUE
  
  > FROM THE JOURNALS OF DR. LESTER SHEEHAN
  
  > MAY 3, 1993
  
  > I haven’t laid eyes on the island in several year