Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Part traveler's journal, part philosophical exploration, the book considers the idea of islands and asks whether they encourage eccentricity and grandeur in human beings, as scientists argue they do in the natural world." He takes readers on a journey to famous islands around the world - including Iceland, Madagascar, Molokai, Mallard Island, and Isla Mujeres - and into the heart of China - and to islands of ideas, including imagination, pain and more. Works cited. Maps. 346 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 1-571312455.