{"product_id":"desert-islands-book-walter-de-la-mare-9781589880672","title":"Desert Islands","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith its humor and its fancy and its wistfulness,  \u003ci\u003eDesert Islands\u003c\/i\u003e] is such a fountain of youth as no Ponce de Leon ever discovered. --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA vast treasure chest.to dazzle and fascinate everyone who lifts the lid.--Geoffrey Grigson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of those cabinets of curiosities, Michael McKeon writes in his new foreword, \u003ci\u003eDesert Islands\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with randomly juxtaposed artifacts and devices rare and wonderful and far-flung, which long ago graced the homes of the Renaissance patriciate and then, in the hands of natural historians, became the model for the modern museum. Join Walter de la Mare as he surveys the world of islands (symbols of man's love of adventure and longing), both fictional and real, romantic and not--along with shipwrecks, castaways, and solitude; pirates, explorers, and treasure; Shakespeare, Swift, Columbus, Darwin, Utopia, England; and particularly (of course), Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne begins to fall under the spell, by way of Mr. De la Mare's fine sinuous prose and fanciful comments, of those distant places, those buccaneers' islands and remote wave-washed ocean rocks, by which he himself is so strongly fascinated. --\u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter de la Mare\u003c\/b\u003e (1873-1956) wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poems. His \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of a Midget\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, is also available from Paul Dry Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50393380651281,"sku":"CIN1589880676VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1589880676.jpg?v=1751341669","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/desert-islands-book-walter-de-la-mare-9781589880672","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}