Fascinating new book reveals the world’s eeriest abandoned islands

Take a globetrotting tour of some of the world’s most fascinating abandoned islands courtesy of this new coffee-table book. Abandoned Islands by Claudia Martin, published by Amber Books, is a lavishly illustrated compendium of ‘some of the world’s eeriest places… a brilliant pictorial exploration of lost worlds’. The book is packed with photographs of 180 abandoned places, taking the reader on a spellbinding tour of deserted outcrops scattered across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. Martin writes in the introduction: ‘Across the globe there are many hundreds of abandoned islands, some abandoned when settlers were defeated by the hostile forces of nature… never-ending typhoons, volcanic eruptions or disappearing freshwater. For many…