An Archipelago in Prose
Voyaging from Newfoundland to Devil’s Island, and Melville to King Kong November 2013
I was predisposed to like Island: How Islands Transform the World. For one thing, I remember with pleasure one of J. Edward Chamberlin’s earlier books, If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?, which was nominated for, but inexplicably did not win, the Charles Taylor Prize for best non-fiction book of whatever year it…