{"id":4358,"date":"2021-09-27T22:25:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T22:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2021-09-27T22:25:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T22:25:56","slug":"the-islands-of-the-world-a-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2021\/09\/27\/the-islands-of-the-world-a-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Islands Of The World (a guide)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/islands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/civitavecchia-1600-1024x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-36\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An artefact from another world, <em>The Islands Of The World<\/em> is a guidebook to the many strange and wonderful places that exist out there across the endless immensity of the seas. <\/p>\n<p>Here among these hundred islands you will find <a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/islands\/2021\/09\/12\/wonder\/\">wonders<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/islands\/2021\/09\/12\/zaratan\/\">whales<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/islands\/2021\/09\/11\/allegory\/\">mountains<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/islands\/2021\/09\/12\/lure\/\">mermaids<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/islands\/2021\/09\/12\/sorrow\/\">sorrow<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/islands\/2021\/09\/12\/silence\/\">silence<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/islands\/2021\/09\/11\/boundary\/\">forever frozen fields<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/islands\/2021\/09\/12\/fireflies\/\">ever-burning flames<\/a>, alongside a treasure trove of carefully curated <a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/islands\/2021\/09\/11\/illustrations\/\">illustrations<\/a> from around the world.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Islands Of The World (a guide)<\/em> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lulu.com\/en\/gb\/shop\/david-guy\/the-islands-of-the-world\/paperback\/product-4e8rzd.html?page=1&#038;pageSize=4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available now<\/a> in a beautiful, fully illustrated, pocket book edition for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lulu.com\/en\/gb\/shop\/david-guy\/the-islands-of-the-world\/paperback\/product-4e8rzd.html?page=1&#038;pageSize=4\">\u00a39.99\/$12.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lulu.com\/en\/gb\/shop\/david-guy\/the-islands-of-the-world\/paperback\/product-4e8rzd.html?page=1&#038;pageSize=4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/islands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/4e8rzd_3_print_cover-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-656\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>___________<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Written between the 1st and the 9th of September, 2021<\/em><br \/>\n2. <em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lulu.com\/en\/gb\/shop\/david-guy\/the-islands-of-the-world\/paperback\/product-4e8rzd.html?page=1&#038;pageSize=4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">book version<\/a> is quite nice<\/em><br \/>\n3. <em>But also you can read it all for free on its <a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/islands\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">own website<\/a> if you want<\/em><br \/>\n4. <em>And there&#8217;s also a <a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/islands\/2021\/09\/11\/illustrations\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full indexing of all the images<\/a> I used there too<\/em><br \/>\n5. <em>Alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/islands\/2021\/09\/11\/notes-references-and-acknowledgements\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some more notes<\/a> not included here<\/em><br \/>\n6. <em>I like notes<\/em><br \/>\n7. <em>Sorry about that<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3><i>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">patreon<\/a> or my <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon subscribers<\/a> get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.<\/br><\/br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ko-fi contributors<\/a> probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). <\/br><\/br>Thank you!<\/i><\/br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artefact from another world, The Islands Of The World is a guidebook to the many strange and wonderful places that exist out there across the endless immensity of the seas. Here among these hundred islands you will find wonders and whales, mountains and mermaids, sorrow and silence, forever frozen fields and ever-burning flames, alongside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,2],"tags":[411,479,1274,1273],"class_list":["post-4358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-short-story-or-two","category-news","tag-books","tag-islands","tag-novels","tag-the-islands-of-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4359,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions\/4359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}