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Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch, Folio (Comet, 1506) – Source

Image from J.J. Grandville’s Un Autre Monde (1844) – Source.

Piri Reis was a 16th century Ottoman Admiral famous for his maps and charts collected in his Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Navigation), a book which contains detailed information on navigation as well as extremely accurate charts describing the important ports and cities of the Mediterranean Sea.

"Islands are not only real places but projections of human ideas for a better world and the social wish to cast out undesirable subjects and objects at the same time. So it is not surprising that the image of remote islands is located somewhere between utopian paradise and jailhouse. My book is about the huge gap between longing and reality".

Judith Schalansky 

The New York Botanical Garden’s Exhibition, will celebrate Great American Gardens in the early 20th Century and the extraordinary Women Who Designed them. 

Le Voyage - Rendez-Vous 

Prolonger les vacances et l'ailleurs le temps d'un grand week-end: ça se passe à Tanger, destination on ne peut plus en vogue, transporté pour l'occasion à la Gaité Lyrique parisienne, des merveilless de sa cinémathèque (anciennes affiches de films), aux saveurs de son couscous (brunch et ateliers cuisine) en passant pas sa scène musicale (hip.hop, gnawas, transe traditionelle...), son cinéma contemporain, son pop-up souk d'artisans, ses bruits (installations sonores), ses inspirations romanesques...

A Weary Man's Utopia He called it "Utopia”, a Greek word which means "there is no such place." (Quevedo).