App Store

Google Play

{{seriesTitle}} - De boekenserie

BE - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Onbeperkte toegang tot een oneindige bibliotheek vol verhalen - allemaal in 1 app.

Luisteren én lezen

Gilles Lapouge

Thoroughly documented, a worldwide selection of places representing many attempts made by mankind through the ages to re-create a paradise on Earth.

 "Paradises got off to a bad start early on. The one the
 Bible had arranged had to rapidly close its pearly gates when its first two occupants, Adam and Eve, had misbehaved."

 According to Gilles Lapouge, paradise is a paradoxical creation of our imagination, blending hope and nostalgia. Historically, mankind has sought to fashion a paradise, which could be accessed during its lifetime: ideal cities, cities made of glass and steel, castles of freedom, etc.

 This atlas embarks us upon a journey across civilizations,
 through the exploration of 27 real or fictional
 places, including

 • gardens of the Middle Ages
 • Atlantis
 • the castles of King Ludwig II
 • Oceana
 • Pitcairn Island
 • city of Manoa
 • Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang

 Each place is illustrated with a specially designed map in a graphic style that has become the hallmark of
 this Atlas series.

Schiffer

Atlas series

Atlas of Lost Paradises

Cyril Hofstein

This new title in this bestselling series relates 37 stories of shipwrecks, great discoveries, mysteries, and disappearances still thrilling adventure seekers.

 From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, from the Baltic Sea to the Caribbean, the Antarctic, and the Indian Ocean; from ancient history to the present day, these short tales cover all aspects of high-seas adventure and feature prominent human incidents and tragic events. Combining tales of adventures and legends, they fuel the imagination of all those captivated by the sea and its sailors.

 The most-famous stories are part of our maritime heritage, like the legend of the Flying Dutchman, which inspired the ghost ship in Pirates of the Caribbean, or the fire that destroyed the MS Georges Philippar off the coast of Somalia, causing the death of senior reporter Albert Londres, who was then returning from China. Some are based on real historical events, like the sinking of La Belle, which put an end to the conquest of North America by the French, or the historic duel between the CSS Alabama, a Confederate raider, and a Union frigate USS Kearsarge, which moved the American Civil War to the English Channel.

 Many more have been long forgotten and are ready to come to life again.

Atlas of Shipwrecks and Fortunes of the Sea

Dominique Lanni

A keepsake collection of maps depicting legendary and real places for the lover of literature, history, and cartography.

 This exploration of the "Mythical Elsewhere" explores a wide array of places, from the well known to the obscure, through the eyes of historians, explorers, conquerors, and writers across the ages. Lose yourself in the past as you travel to such destinations as Troy, the Mughal Empire, the Congo, the river Nile, El Dorado, and many more across the globe:

Europe: Candia, Kythira, Ogygia, Troy

Asia: Cathay, Cipangu, Colchis, the Mughal Empire, Golconda, Kafiristan, the Land of the Cimmerians, Taprobana, Tartary

Africa: Barbary Coas, Cape Bojador, Congo, Meroë, Mutapa, the Land of the Mangbetu, Prester John’s Kingdom, the Kingdom of Saba’, the Source of the River Nile, the Lands of Good Hope

The Americas: Araucanía, Cibola, El Dorado, the Land of the Amazons, Tierra del Fuego

Southern Lands: New Cythera, Terra Australis
 the Edge of the World: the Isles of the Blessed, the Garden of the Hesperides, Lemuria, Thule

 Accompanied by this unique atlas and the great explorers of antiquity and Renaissance as well as poets, scholars, and novelists of all eras, readers will embark on a poetic exploration of the world. Let such greats as Herodotus, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, and Heinrich Schliemann be your guide on this journey to dreamlike places that are sometimes imagined and imaginary but, to those who believe, always “perfectly real.”? It's a trip you will never forget.

Atlas of Dream Lands

Olivie Blake

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake is the runaway TikTok must-listen fantasy novel of the year, read by a full cast of narrators. If you loved Ninth House and A Deadly Education, you’ll love this. 

Secrets. Betrayal. Seduction.
Welcome to the Alexandrian Society.

When the world’s best magicians are offered an extraordinary opportunity, saying yes is easy. Each could join the secretive Alexandrian Society, whose custodians guard lost knowledge from ancient civilizations. Their members enjoy a lifetime of power and prestige. Yet each decade, only six practitioners are invited – to fill five places.

Contenders Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona are inseparable enemies, cosmologists who can control matter with their minds. Parisa Kamali is a telepath, who sees the mind’s deepest secrets. Reina Mori is a naturalist who can perceive and understand the flow of life itself. And Callum Nova is an empath, who can manipulate the desires of others. Finally there’s Tristan Caine, whose powers mystify even himself.

Following recruitment by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they travel to the Society’s London headquarters. Here, each must study and innovate within esoteric subject areas. And if they can prove themselves, over the course of a year, they’ll survive. Most of them.

The story continues in The Atlas Paradox, the heart-stopping sequel.

‘Great plot, with lots of wonderful twists! I've already pre-ordered the sequel’ – Listener Review

‘Just wow! The use of words... the thought going into every phrase... the writing in itself is just magical. And... the narrators are brilliant too.' – Listener Review

‘An amazing book by a ridiculously talented writer’ – Listener Review

Originally a self-published sensation, this edition has been fully edited and revised. Now includes the short story Sacred Hospitality.

Damian Lynch

James Patrick Cronin

Siho Ellsmore

Andy Ingalls

Caitlin Kelly

Munirih Grace

David Monteith

Steve West

The Atlas Six

Read by a full cast of narrators.

Discover The Atlas Paradox, the dark academia sequel to viral sensation The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake – a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller.

Inside the Alexandrian Society alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken and all must pick a side.

Six magicians were offered the opportunity of a lifetime.
Five are now members of the Society.
And two paths lie before them.

In this thrilling next instalment, the secret society of Alexandrians is unmasked. Its newest recruits realize the institute is capable of raw, world-changing power. It’s also headed by a man with plans to change life as we know it – and these are already under way. But the cost of this knowledge is as high as the price of power, and each initiate must choose which faction to follow. Yet as events gather momentum and dangers multiply, which of their alliances will hold? Can friendships hold true and are enemies quite what they seem?

Reader reviews for The Atlas Paradox:

‘Olivie Blake has done it again’

‘More of everything I loved from the first book’

‘I was completely shocked. NOW I NEED BOOK 3’

Daniel Henning

Alexandra Palting

The Atlas Paradox: The Incredible Sequel to International Bestseller The Atlas Six

The Atlas Complex marks the much-anticipated, heart-shattering conclusion in Olivie Blake's trilogy that began with the internationally bestselling dark academic phenomenon, The Atlas Six.

Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive.

An explosive return to the library leaves the six Alexandrians vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment.

Old alliances quickly fracture as the initiates take opposing strategies as to how to deal with the deadly bargain they have so far failed to uphold. Those who remain with the archives wrestle with the ethics of their astronomical abilities; elsewhere, an unlikely pair partner to influence politics on a global stage.

And still the outside world mobilizes to destroy them — while the Caretaker himself, Atlas Blakely, may yet succeed with a plan foreseen to have world-ending stakes. It’s a race to survive as the six Society recruits are faced with the question of what they're willing to betray for limitless power — and who will be destroyed along the way.

Discover the stunning finale to The Atlas Six trilogy that fans are dying to read

'Desperately excited to be emotionally devastated' - @literamie
'I never want the series to end but I need answers!' - @thelibraryofdais
'Until I have a copy of the book in my hands, I will not know peace' - @vivafalastinleen
'Words can't express how excited I am' - @joereads

Samara Naeymi

Stephanie Németh-Parker

The Atlas Complex: The devastating conclusion to the story that started with The Atlas Six - now an international bestseller

Atlas series - De boekenserie

Atlas series - De boekenserie

Atlas series-boeken op volgorde

Luisteren én lezen