At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic (Hardcover)

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Good grief, I thought I was checking out a murder mystery, a true crime narrative that took place under the auspices of a mysterious comet in the Arctic, not a cranky diatribe against computers and the digital world. Millman very begrudgingly returns to the murders and trial that are supposedly t...

from LisaSHarvey

AT THE END OF THE WORLD Lawrence Millman My Rating ⭐️⭐️▫️▫️▫️ Publisher St. Martins Press Publication Date. January 17, 2017 SUMMARY At the End of the World is a story of several murders that occurred on Belcher Island in Hudson Bay in 1941. According to Lawernce Millman, those murders show that ...

from akblanchard

From the subtitle, one would think that Lawrence Millman's At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Artic would be a true crime narrative. It is, sort of, but much of this brief book is taken up with Millman's sour reflections on the digital age. The true crime aspect of the book is...

from Beamis12

Not at all a chronological read, but more as musings, Millman wanders back and forth in thought and deed to the murders that took place in the Arctic in 1941. Most of these thoughts are only a few lines long but they are so extremely insightful, full of warnings and thoughts about our current add...

from rapotter

The Arctic has been the theme of many a book - tales of lost explorers, stories of oddball nothern "characters," and ecological parables of that bellwether northern zone. And yet some, though true in every particular to that portion of the earth which is their theme, have had a deep and profound ...