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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Lawrence Millman is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Company titles including: 'The Last Gentleman Adventurer','Last Places'
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- PublisherTrafalgar Square
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0233985603
- ISBN 13 9780233985602
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages242
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