Tuesday, February 14, 2006
In search of a land that may not exist
A book review of The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule by Joanna Kavenna. Sounds interesting. The ancient Arctic land called Thule may not actually exist, but that hasn't stopped generations from trying to find it.
For centuries, daredevil explorers searched for Thule in frozen locales from Greenland to the far northern stretches of Norway. Well-heeled Victorians endured endless steamship voyages to poke around Iceland. Even the Nazis joined the hunt, with one of their most feverish partisans claiming to find the fatherland's heritage in Thule's supposed Aryan past.Found over at the Anomalist.
posted by Prof. Hex at 3:09 AM
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