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Islands make for great metaphors. For the human psyche or, as in Louise
Young鈥檚 Islands: Portraits of Miniature Worlds, for our planet. Here is
biodiversity in Hawaii, the collapse of civilisation on Easter Island, 鈥渇ire,
gold and spice鈥� in Indonesia, the dodo of Mauritius, climate change in Iceland,
and coral atolls, volcanic islands鈥攅ven Atlantis. Published by W. H.
Freeman, $23.95, ISBN 0716731355.