Majestic Island Worlds
is a 1987 book by the National Geographic Society. It includes pictorial
chapters on the Galapagos Islands, Japan, Ireland, Bali, New Zealand, and
Seychelles.
Whether or not you’ll enjoy this book will depend primarily
on whether you enjoy the National Geographic brand of slice-of-life/vignette
travel writing (which, personally, I generally find interesting when I already
have some general knowledge about a culture (which this isn’t particularly
interested in providing) and somewhat tiresome otherwise).
There are a lot of gorgeous photos here, as you’d expect
from National Geographic. In fact, I
personally could have done with more pictures and less text. Japan, Bali, and
Seychelles are particular highlights.
In short, if you like National
Geographic, you’ll like this book. If it doesn’t do much for you, well,
this is the internet age, and innumerable fantastic nature photos are just a
Google away, and at the risk of sounding like some kind of book-eating savage,
you may be better off that way.
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
