Last Places: A Journey in the North
by Millman, Lawrence
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 039543615X
- ISBN 13
- 9780395436158
- Seller
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Gastonia, North Carolina, United States
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Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Persephone's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002642
- Title
- Last Places: A Journey in the North
- Author
- Millman, Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 039543615X
- ISBN 13
- 9780395436158
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1990
- Pages
- 242
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Adventure; Exploration Adventurers & Explorers
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Persephone's Books
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