Yearning for Polar Seas
James Hamilton-Paterson: North, 1 September 2005
The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
by Joanna Kavenna.
Viking, 334 pp., £16.99, February 2005,0 670 91395 2 Show More
by Joanna Kavenna.
Viking, 334 pp., £16.99, February 2005,
The Idea of North
by Peter Davidson.
Reaktion, 271 pp., £16.95, January 2005,1 86189 230 6 Show More
by Peter Davidson.
Reaktion, 271 pp., £16.95, January 2005,
“... a documentary about a vast region without a single National Geographic banality concerning square miles, population figures or the value of timber and fur exports. The programme was the first of a projected trilogy; the second was to be about Newfoundland. Gould went there in 1968, fully aware of its Viking history, ‘in search of characters for a ... ”