Top islands of the world / [editor, Leizel Brown, Rod Baker].
Material type: TextPublication details: London : New Holland, c2006.Description: 160 p. : col. ill. 31 cmISBN:- 184537178X (hbk.)
- G 500 .T62 2006
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described as "quirky,complex places, rich in their unique blends of history, culture, landscape and wildlife". These islands were chosen because they have the best seas and oceans. Also, it provides information on how these islands were colonized. Some of cited islands like Shetlands
Isles of Capri, Malta and Jersey known as holiday sites. These considered top islands have interesting succession of visits from people like the traders, whalers, missionaries, fishermen , pirates, slaves, shipwhreck survivors, opportunists and escapists that creates "colorful cast of characters that has laid the cultural bedrock for the many islands".
Kauai considered as "miniature worlds complete with an incredible dicersity of greenery ranging from mountains and canyons to rainforests and swamps"
which has a "long procession of gannets and fulmars"
It features the top 27 islands of the world
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