Joanna Kavenna
Autor(a) de The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
About the Author
Joanna Kavenna has recently been the Alistair Horne Fellow at St. Anthony's College, Oxford.
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- unknown
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (2013)
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- Obras
- 9
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 674
- Popularidade
- #37,468
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Críticas
- 40
- ISBN
- 38
- Línguas
- 1
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
Where was the legendary Thule? The Shetlands, Iceland, Norway, Svalbard, Greenland? Kavenna visits them all, meeting the locals, weaving in mentions of Nansen, Burton and other explorers, and talking a lot about ice. There are some sections of great interest but too often I thought to myself "why has this bit been included, if not to pad the book out?" Case in point, the interview with a woman who was the wartime daughter of a Norwegian woman and German father; a tangential connection to Thule at best. I see a company named Thule manufactures baby strollers; I'm surprised Kavenna didn't pay the factory a visit.
The book was written too early to comment on the discovery of the solar system's most distant object, temporarily named Ultima Thule. We've missed out on a chapter of Kavenna attempting to hitch a ride on a spaceship on a mission to the cold classical Kuiper belt object.… (mais)