Gunkanjima Vital Mud And because every story is

And because every story is simply built from the twenty-six letters of the alphabet

constructed between 1968-1972

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Gunkanjima Vital Mud And because every story isFirst edition of Gunkanjima by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre (2013) First impression Large format hardback in as new condition Signed by the artists to title page No markings Published by Steidl About Hashima is a small island located off the extreme southwest coast of Japan, about ten miles from Nagasaki. Its darkwarship like silhouette earned it the nickname of Gunkanjima (battleship island). During the wave of industrialisation in the nineteenth