- Hardcover: 112 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; First Edition edition (2 Nov 1978)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0224014986
- ISBN-13: 978-0224014984
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 20 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 643,204 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In their other well-known collaboration, John Fowles' essay forms an introduction to a collection of Fay Godwin's photographs. Here, Fowles' long meditation is illustrated with a large number of photographs, many of them full-page, distributed through the text. The "Islands" of the title are the Scillies, and readers of John Fowles' other work will know what to expect; a poetic, speculative, slightly ethereal musing on the history, mythology and psychology of the Scillies and their place in the Atlantic; on Homer and Shakespeare, the Vikings and the Celts, with flashes of the entirely unpredictable.
My chief interest was in the photographs, and it is only fair to say these disappoint after the collection in the later Land. This is primarily down to poorer reproduction. The "screen" used is less high-resolution, so Godwin's distinctive textures become blurred by the printing "dots" being visible to the naked eye. The ink is a harsh black, rather than the warm bistre in "Land", and the dark of the shadows loses subtlety, becoming monolithic blocks of opaque black.
This is still an enjoyable book and one I will keep for inspiration. Anyone who has visited the islands will get an extra layer of meaning from it.
My chief interest was in the photographs, and it is only fair to say these disappoint after the collection in the later Land. This is primarily down to poorer reproduction. The "screen" used is less high-resolution, so Godwin's distinctive textures become blurred by the printing "dots" being visible to the naked eye. The ink is a harsh black, rather than the warm bistre in "Land", and the dark of the shadows loses subtlety, becoming monolithic blocks of opaque black.
This is still an enjoyable book and one I will keep for inspiration. Anyone who has visited the islands will get an extra layer of meaning from it.
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