A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World
by González Macías
Description
First Prize for the Best Edited Book by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in the category of general works in 2020, ICMA Silver Award (Book typography & layout) and 14 translation rights sold.
Beautifully illustrated stories which transport the reader to the world's most remote and isolated lighthouses From a blind lighthouse keeper tending a light in the Arctic Circle, to an intrepid young girl saving ships from wreck, and the plight of the lighthouse crew cut off from society for forty days, and taking in Edgar Allan Poe's unfinished texts and Virginia Woolf's childhood, this is a glorious book full of wild stories that will transport the reader to the world's most remote and isolated lighthouses. With over thirty stories taken from the lives of real guardians of the coast, and accompanied by beautiful illustrations, nautical charts, maps, architectural plans and curious facts, these stories are as full of wonder as the far flung lighthouses themselves.
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WEL - Picador
German - mare verlag
French - Autrement
Italian - Einaudi
Dutch - Meulenhoff
Polish - Wielka Litera
Korean - orangeD
Russian - Azbooka-Atticus Group
Hebrew - Pardes publishing
Czech - 65pole
Chinese - Golden Rose Books
Taiwan - Yuan-Liou
Croatian - Artresor naklada
Norwegian - Spartacus
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First Prize for the Best Edited Book of 2020 by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in the category of general works.
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[repubblica.it] Il cantico dei fari perduti. «Breve atlante dei fari in capo al mondo»
[stampa] I fari in capo al mondo, un’epopea con qualche fantasma
[ELLE.com] 5 libri a tema viaggio da regalare e regalarsi
[ilfoglio] “Breve atlante dei fari in capo al mondo” è un manuale di solitudini avventurose
[harvestmagazine.no] Verdens mest avsidesliggende fyrtårn
[protisedi.cz] González Macías zve na průzkum nejodlehlejších majáků
[forbes.cz] Kdyz nemate zadnou inspiraci
[polityka.pl] Bibliofile i faronauci. „Światło na krańcach świata. Mały atlas latarni morskich”
Author Biography
Jose Luis González Macías is a Spanish writer, graphic designer and publisher. In 2003 he published several short stories and poems which received the Letras Jóvenes award. Soon after he became interested in graphic design and, since then, has worked for museums and cultural institutions designing books and other graphic material. Along with Lia Peinador, he runs Ediciones Menguantes, a small publishing house based in León in northern Spain. A fan of maps since he was a child, in A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World he has combined his passion for words and images in more than thirty stories about remote lighthouses.
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Ediciones Menguantes
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- Publisher Ediciones Menguantes
- Publication Date October 2020
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9788494853432 / 8494853432
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 25 EUR
- Pages160
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleBreve Atlas de los Faros del Fin del Mundo
- Copyright Year2020
- Page size25x17 (24,5x17,5) cm
- Illustration34 illustrations + 34 line drawings + 34 maps
