Islands Beyond the Horizon: The Life of Twenty of the World's Most Remote Places

The author has a passion for remote islands and has visited many.  This book has a chapter on each of 20, the majority in the Atlantic (Half Moon island in Svalbard to South Georgia and including three in the British Isles) although strays to several I had never heard of specifically such as Tuamotu in the Pacific and Wrangel off the extreme northeast coast of Russia.  The text looks at the wildlife of each and at their human communities as well as how scientists and conservationists have (or have not) succeeded in retaining their often unique birds and other wildlife.  Atmospheric and a plea for their conservation, not to mention a good read.

Book reviewed by Peter Lack