some unknown to historians, and compiled his findings in a question-and-answer format in his newly released debut book ‘Shades of Black and Gray - An inquiry into the Island of Pico and its ...

By Juliet Nicolson When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THE ISLAND OF EXTRAORDINARY ... for reasons unknown. He was sent to a transit ...

the book might pass for an exercise in self-reflexive postmodernism. The story begins in 1901, when a ship from Istanbul lands on Mingheria, where bubonic plague has broken out. The island has ...