| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Comparative/World

John Gillis. Islands of the Mind: How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. Pp. xiii, 217. $26.95.

Inspired by his own island experiences (the book is dedicated to Maine's Great Gott Island and its inhabitants), John Gillis has produced an original, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking book about the intellectual construction of islands over two thousand years. In so doing, he offers some unexpected connections—between the religious sea-going voyages of the Irish St. Brendan and the desert ascetics of the Sinai, the creation of Acadia National Park and the independence of the Faroe Islands, Harris Tweed and Outward Bound. Islands, Gillis argues, have played an essential role in Western culture, which "not only thinks about islands, but thinks with them" (p. 1). If islands have often mattered to Europeans because they were literally set apart, Gillis insists that we think of islands as places that are connected to mainlands and that, in fact, shaped what happened on continents.

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