Islands : Searching for truth on the shoreline - Mark Easton Fiction With every step

With every step

� � This certainly doesn't mean that I'm quitting my day job

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a failed love life and rock-bottom self-esteem

Islands : Searching for truth on the shoreline - Mark Easton Fiction With every stepNo man is an island, wrote John Donne. BBC Home Editor Mark Easton argues the opposite: that we are all islands, and it is upon the contradictory shoreline where isolation meets connectedness, where 'us' meets 'them', that we find out who we truly are. Suggesting that a continental bias has blinded us, Easton chronicles a sweep of 250 million years of island history: from Pangaea (the supercontinent mother of all islands) to the first intrepid