Eccentric Islands - by Bill Holm (Paperback)

About the Book

Bill Holm, often called "the bard of the Midwest, " takes readers on an excursion to islands both real and symbolic. He journeys to five physical islands and he travels to conceptual islands Writing with the mind-set of a 19th-century traveler for whom the journey is as important as the destination, Holm appeals to the traveler and the philosopher in everyone.

Book Synopsis

Bill Holm, often called "the bard of the Midwest," takes readers on an excursion to islands both real and symbolic.

Like a modern-day literary Darwin, Bill Holm travels to Isla Mujeres, an exceptional island east of the Yucatán Peninsula; Moloka'i, whose history is graced by the example of Father Damien; Iceland, with a human genetic code nearly unmatched in its purity; Madagascar, an island of musical and botanical eccentricities; and Mallard Island, tucked in Rainy Lake, near the Canadian border. He also visits islands of ideas, including the Necessary Island of the Imagination, the Piano Island--located in the man-made lake under the atrium sky of an upscale hotel in the far interior of China--and the acute isolation of the Island of Pain.

Writing with the mindset of a 19th-century traveler for whom the journey is as important as the destination, Holm appeals to the traveler and the philosopher in everyone.