Islomania is a recognized affliction. But what is it about islands that is so alluring and why do so many people find these self contained worlds irresistible. Utopia and Atlantis were islands and islands have captured the imaginations of writers and artists for centuries. Venetian sailors were among the first to collect them by drawing maps of the islands they visited in their isolari or island books. Then in 1719 Daniel Defoe published his tale of a castaway on a desert island Robinson Crusoe one of the first great novels in the history of literature and an instant bestseller. To celebrate the tercentenary of Robinson Crusoe a truly international range of leading illustrators imagine they too have been washed up on their own remote island and create specially designed maps showing what their island looks like what it is called and what can be found on its mythical shores. Huw Lewis-Jones is a British historian author and curator specialising in exploration history visual culture and polar expeditions. He has worked with major museums and academic institutions and has published several books that explore the intersection between geography cartography art and the history of exploration. In this publication he combines scholarly interest in exploration narratives with contemporary illustration and cartographic imagination bringing together artists from around the world to reinterpret the cultural fascination with islands and invented geographies.