Edward Chamberlin - Islands

Islands are seen as a relaxing, and occasionally mysterious, landscape that rise up from the ocean's depths in the middle of the ocean. But for an isolated spit of land, how do vegetation, animals and humans come to call them home? J. Edward Chamberlin examines the impact on islands and how they came to influence the the continents in his new book Islands: How Islands Transform the World. He also recommends a few of his own favorite islands to visit.