search for books and compare prices
Island
Descriptions of each edition are found in brief where available. Click details & prices to get more information on a book or to find the best prices for the title.
Sort options: binding | publication date | edition
Hardcover
Book cover for 9780809590483 Book cover for 9780881791839
 
from Hartley & Marks (July 1, 2000)
9780881791839 | details & prices | List price $16.95
About: For over a hundred years, the inhabitants of the Pacific island of Pala have been part of a social experiment whereby western science has been brought together with eastern philosophy and humanism to create a paradise on earth.
from Borgo Pr (June 1, 1991)
9780809590483 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $25.00
Paperback
Book cover for 9780060085490 Book cover for 9780060809850 Book cover for 9780061561795 Book cover for 9781500461560
 
from Createspace Independent Pub (July 10, 2014)
9781500461560 | details & prices | 388 pages | 8.50 × 11.00 × 0.88 in. | List price $13.75
About: In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports the reader to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for over 100 years.
from Harpercollins (October 20, 2009)
9780061561795 | details & prices | 354 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.64 lbs | List price $15.99
from Perennial (August 1, 2002)
9780060085490 | details & prices | 268 pages | 5.25 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $14.99
About: The author's last novel introduces a supposedly Utopian Pacific island where drug use and open sex are encouraged, and children are not at the mercy of one set of parents.
With Simon Hill (other contributor), Warren Lapworth, Jem Roberts | Reissue edition from Perennial (July 1, 1989)
9780060809850 | details & prices | 4.25 × 7.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $7.00
This edition also contains Nintendo 64 Game Secrets: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
About: A shipwrecked journalist discovers the beauty and serenity promoted by science on the island of Pala