Penguin Island

A short-sighted missionary baptises a colony of penguins by mistake, heaven is obliged to give them souls, and the rest is the history of France. Anatole France published it in 1908, two years after Dreyfus was cleared, and the chapters on the forged evidence are the sharpest thing he ever wrote. This edition is bound with a gallery of 59 plates, among them paintings by Edvard Munch, Gustave Doré and George Catlin, dating from 1832 to 1920.