I went to Paris around 1992 to visit an ancient library where they had centuries old maps of obscure, remote and 'lost' islands. The experience of searching through the old Atlasses and roaming the buildings was almost as interesting as hunting down the maps of the remote islands themselves. This was all pre-internet. Years later I used early versions of online and Google maps and researched the islands again.
A Dutch writer[1] wrote 5 books on obscure remote islands[2] he was fascinated by. Later he made lots of documentairies[3] visiting the islands. There must be translations and subtitles by now but I didn't search for them.
Later Dutch and British documentairy makers followed in Büch's footsteps and visited almost all of these remote islands. I collected at least 200 hours of these.
Noteworthy are Ben Fogle and Floortje Dessing, even some by David Attenborough.
Since I build the first public internet provider I got involved in building cheap fiber optic submarine cables to several of these remote islands. I developed a technique orders of magnitudes cheaper than regular submarine cables because island can't afford the hunderds of millions they cost. My techniques only cost around a million or less. Only Starlink and it successors can compete with my cheap solutions but only just, as they also cost several millions per island to sustain.
The island books have the Dutch word 'eiland' in the title so you can find all 5 if you search the wikipedia page.
You can then download the books with the 5 ISBN codes from Anna's Archive. The books are mostly based on historical library materials, not on actual visits.
A Dutch writer[1] wrote 5 books on obscure remote islands[2] he was fascinated by. Later he made lots of documentairies[3] visiting the islands. There must be translations and subtitles by now but I didn't search for them.
Later Dutch and British documentairy makers followed in Büch's footsteps and visited almost all of these remote islands. I collected at least 200 hours of these.
Noteworthy are Ben Fogle and Floortje Dessing, even some by David Attenborough.
Since I build the first public internet provider I got involved in building cheap fiber optic submarine cables to several of these remote islands. I developed a technique orders of magnitudes cheaper than regular submarine cables because island can't afford the hunderds of millions they cost. My techniques only cost around a million or less. Only Starlink and it successors can compete with my cheap solutions but only just, as they also cost several millions per island to sustain.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudewijn_Büch
[2] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudewijn_Büch
The island books have the Dutch word 'eiland' in the title so you can find all 5 if you search the wikipedia page. You can then download the books with the 5 ISBN codes from Anna's Archive. The books are mostly based on historical library materials, not on actual visits.
[3] https://www.youtube.com/@DaveBleeker/search?query=island