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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