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| The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule | 
 enlarge | Author: Joanna Kavenna
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 288676
Media: Paperback
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 014101198X
EAN: 9780141011981
ASIN: 014101198X
Publication Date: February 23, 2006
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 Ice cold travelogue August 5, 2007
I share the authors love of cold white places after visiting Iceland. This is a well written travelogue interspersed with references from adventures and authors.
Engaging sharing the awe and wonder of the north
Cold Conquest June 12, 2007
Definitely worth whatever hype it got. I didn't see much hype really, but then I try to avoid those sort of things. Read for yourself anyway - it's definitely worth the time.
northern travels June 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My friend gave me The Ice Museum as a present last year, and I loved it - it is a very beautiful, poetic account of travelling in the north, and I very much enjoyed the portraits of the towns and places on the western coast of Norway. It is also full of new ways of seeing and describing - I have read many descriptions of ice and snow but Kavenna is constantly alert for a new turn of phrase or an unusual concept. I am a Norwegian myself, from just south of Trondheim, so I also wanted to defend our nation against the charge below - we are not sanctimonious at all!
Excellent book June 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is just a really excellent travel book, and also strays winningly into other genres - detective trail, memoir, poetic landscape writing. Much wilderness writing these days is ineffably preachy and tedious and yet Kavenna manages to write passionately about the northern lands - whcih she clearly knows well - while maintaining a wry tone of voice. this means her book is sometimes very funny, as well as lyrical and enticing. I read it because a few people had recommended it to me, though I am no great fan of 'the North' in general. I think she is perhaps too kind to Norwegians, who are in my experience a very boorish and sanctimonious people (I lived there for 10 yeras, and feel I might make that sort of assertion with a reasonable amount of certainty..) However, she depicts a wide variety of encounters with local people, some of them hilariously odd and some just very sympatheitc and stranded up in the remote North. There is talk of declining wildernress and the dangers of global warming, but it is more through her vivid descriptions and the depth of her knowledge of the region that Kavenna makes a strong case for the need to preserve these regions, to save them from ourselves. the depth of mythical importance they have had should not just be discarded as we continue on our mad course to environmnetal destruction. A very sane and lovely book.
 Hyped-up, stereotyped and badly researched April 19, 2007
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Kavenna's book has been almost consistently hailed as a major work of its kind. I strongly disagree and would argue that it is marred by embarrassingly stereotyped observations and factual mistakes. I can only refer anyone who is interested to read my more comprehensive review of the book in the Arctic Book Review, on http://www.ric.edu/rpotter/arcticrev.html
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