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Title: Last Places : A Journey in the North by Lawrence Millman ISBN: 0-618-08248-4 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 20 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: From Portico Birmingham Magazine
Comment: This is a really fun trip. Millman decides that he's going to follow the Vikings' original sea route from Norway to the Shetland and Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and eventually Newfoundland and the New World. The subtitle is "A Journey in the North," and that is quite true. For most of us, it is an alien landscape he travels through, eating fried seal nose bits, being propositioned in Iceland, seeing an albino moose, meeting a convicted murderer and enjoying other truly bizarre adventures. Last Places defines the success of the travel genre: you read it and then say, "I have to go there and see for myself."
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Journey
Comment: The term "Vikings" brings to minds an image of mystery and war. And when an author sets out on a voyage tracing the Viking routes, nothing could be better to "Vikingophiles". I was eagerly looking forward to reading this book.
Having read this book I must admit that I find Theroux's and Dalrymple's travelogues easier to read. For one, living in a tropical country and not having set foot on the cold northern countries, I found the book very difficult to read because it introduced too many unfamiliar terms to me. Only a picture dictionary could have helped me :-) Perhaps the author could have attached some photographs of the cold and lonely places to give us an idea of what it's like. Another drawback of the book is that the author has tried to be too funny and it sounds a bit artificial. Or perhaps I am more used to Theroux's humour :-)
I would still rate this as a great book and worth adding to your library of travelogues. Mr. Millman, you should now travel to Finland, Siberia, northern Japan(Hokkaido) and northern Russia and write another book on those cold places. That will be a good sequel.
Rating: 5
Summary: Curmudgeon On Ice
Comment: It is appropriate that Paul Theroux, that globetrotting curmudgeon who gave us THE OLD PATAGONIAN EXPRESS and so many other great travel books, should write the introduction for this edition of Millman's LAST PLACES. Millman takes Theroux's world-weariness to higher latitudes -- from Norway across to the Shetlands and Faroes, from there to Iceland and Greenland, and ending up in Labrador.
But like Theroux, Millman is wonderfully entertaining. See him witness a Faroese "grindadráp," or mass slaughter of a whole pod of whales, by throngs of gleeful Faroese bearing hooks and knives. See him wake up naked and hung over in a drainage ditch after a night of carousing in Reykjavik. And, most funny of all, see him fend off love-starved Inuit maidens in Nuuk who crave his bod and are not too dainty about their seduction technique.
Millman is a bit of a loner, and yet his book sparkles most when he is interacting with the locals. Because this happens hardly at all in the Shetlands, this is the weakest part of his book. LAST PLACES picks up steam as he visits an isolated lighthouse keeper in the West Fjords of Iceland whose library extends to 16,000 volumes. His encounters with Inuits in Greenland are priceless. And the episodes in Labrador show us a land of isolated cranks and eccentrics attempting to protect their way of life from do-gooder government relocation projects.
When the thermometer rises, pick up this book to cool you off. It makes for great summer reading. And it is excellent preparation for my upcoming trip to Iceland. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
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Title: Lost in the Arctic: Explorations on the Edge (Adrenaline Classics Series) by Lawrence Millman ISBN: 1560254114 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: An Evening Among Headhunters: & Other Reports from Roads Less Traveled by Lawrence Millman ISBN: 1571290559 Publisher: Brookline Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Iceland's Bell by Halldor Laxness, Philip Roughton, Adam Haslett ISBN: 1400034256 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Iceland: Land of the Sagas by David Roberts, Jon Krakauer ISBN: 0375752676 Publisher: Villard Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides by Adam Nicolson ISBN: 0865476675 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 02 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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