Bad Island
  • Published: 13 April 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241983904
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $26.00

Bad Island

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Paperback
13 Apr 2021
EBook
29 Aug 2019
EBook
29 Aug 2019
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From artist Stanley Donwood, a starkly beautiful graphic novel about the end of the world

A wild seascape, a distant island, a full moon. Gradually the island grows nearer until we land on a primeval wilderness, rich in vegetation and huge, strange beasts. Time passes and things do not go well for the island. Civilization rises as towers of stone and metal and smoke, choking the undergrowth and the creatures who once moved through it. This is not a happy story and it will not have a happy ending.

Working in his distinctive, monochromatic linocut style, Stanley Donwood carves out a mesmerising, stark parable on environmentalism and the history of humankind.
  • Published: 13 April 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241983904
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $26.00
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Praise for Bad Island

Bad Island is an extraordinary, unsettling document: a silent species-history in eighty frames, a mute future archive. I can imagine it discovered in the remnants of a civilisation; a set of runes found amid the ruins. Stark in its lines and dark in its vision, Bad Island reads you more than you read it.

Robert Macfarlane