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In Island Tales, author Malachy Telek takes us on a captivating adventure into mysterious and forgotten corners of the world. The book collects the stories of twenty-four non-existent islands around the world. These islands were first discovered, but later proved not to exist at all. Some appeared on the map for thousands of years and were eventually erased. The author divides these islands into six categories: islands that exist in legends and stories, islands discovered by early explorers in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, islands discovered by navigators in the Age of Discovery, islands that are thought to have sunk, islands that are fabricated by liars, and islands that have recently been proven not to exist. From the well-known island of Atlantis to the mysterious Far North, from the Blessed Island in Western mythology to Fuso Island, the place where the sun rises in the East... Every island has a little-known history and story, and no island is exactly the same. But from the stories of their "existence", we can see mankind's undiminished desire to explore the ocean, and the ideas and values ​​of our own era projected into places full of unknowns and unreachable. This book tells the story of how humans build their understanding of the world through the stories of these islands.