Walter Moers at his best – great storytelling from Zamonia. Hildegunst von Mythenmetz should have been warned. Even on the journey to the island of Eydernorn, where he intends to cure his book dust allergy, he narrowly escapes death. However, at the hotel, he is greeted by a musical Hummdudel, his prominence elevates him to the status of a first-class patient, and helpful coastal gnomes offer their services. Curiously, he explores the bizarre fauna and flora of the island and dedicates himself to the hundred and eleven lighthouses that sparkle like a thousand at night. Everything could be so relaxing if it weren't for the increasingly threatening encounters with the nature of Eydernorn: hungry Belphegators and intrusive beach runners, monstrous Frostfrats, eerie cloud spiders, and the most dangerous demon from the depths of the Zamonian ocean, the legendary Quaquappa. Walter Moers' epic, illustrated with over 100 drawings, tells the selfless struggle of a sworn community that is determined to save Zamonia from the apocalypse. And at the center of it all is the writer Hildegunst von Mythenmetz, a hero unwillingly at the mercy of relentless fate. Like every Zamonia novel, "The Island of a Thousand Lighthouses" tells a self-contained story that is as entertaining as it is effortless for newcomers to navigate into the Moersian cosmos.