Last Places: A Journey in the NorthHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000 - 242 síður A classic of northern exploration and adventure, LAST PLACES is Lawrence Millman's marvelously told account of his journey along the ancient Viking sea routes that extend from Norway to Newfoundland. Traveling through landscapes of transcendent desolation, Millman wandered by way of the Shetland Islands, the Faeroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador. His way was marked by surprising human encounters--with a convicted murderer in Reykjavik, an Inuit hermit in Greenland, an Icelandic guide who leads him to a place called Hell, and a Newfoundlander who warns him about the local variant of the Abominable Snowman. By turns earthy and lyrical, LAST PLACES is an ebullient celebration of the exotic North. |
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Introduction | |
Embarkation | 1 |
Birds of a Different Feather | 11 |
Whale Bashing | 36 |
Naked City | 59 |
A Trip to Hell | 77 |
DogDay Revolutionary | 97 |
Video Night on the Arctic Circle | 107 |
A Walk on the Wild Side | 136 |
City of the Dreadful Night | 166 |
Travels in the Late Stone Age | 182 |
Cains Land | 200 |
Last Place | 220 |
Landfall | 238 |
Acknowledgments | 240 |
The Lighthouse at the End of the World | 123 |