The Ice Museum : In Search of the Lost Land of Thule (Paperback)

from wandering_star

Like many other people, I love the niche of polar exploration-themed books, so when I saw this, subtitled "In search of the lost land of Thule", I knew I had to have it. Well, it's not the first frozen-north-themed book I have disliked - that was Cold Earth - but this is certainly the first one I...

from wandering_star

Like many other people, I love the niche of polar exploration-themed books, so when I saw this, subtitled "In search of the lost land of Thule", I knew I had to have it. Well, it's not the first frozen-north-themed book I have disliked - that was Cold Earth - but this is certainly the first one I...

from NielsenGW

Thule was the name given to a semi-mythical northern land once reached by Pytheas, the ancient traveler. Joanna Kavenna seeks out all the places in the Northern Hemisphere that have been known as or theorized to be Thule. Her journey takes her from Scotland to Shetland to Iceland to Finland to Es...

from timjones

In this book, Joanna Kavenna writes about places that are of great interest to me - Iceland, Greenland, Svalbard, and others - but in a way I frequently found off-putting. Her brief is to search for Thule, the mythical northern land of the ancients, but her musings on the Thule myth frequently pr...

from MiaCulpa

A travelogue visiting the possible locations of the stuff of legends had great promise but The Ice Museum doesn't quite deliver on that promise. Where was the legendary Thule? The Shetlands, Iceland, Norway, Svalbard, Greenland? Kavenna visits them all, meeting the locals, weaving in mentions o...