THE ICE MUSEUM: IN SEARCH OF THE LOST LAND OF THULE

Book ID/图书代码： 11701208B25940

English Summary/英文概要： The Ice Museum is an account of a poetic tour through northern lands. It’s also a history of ideas about remote Arctic places. As the narrator travels, strains from the past keep her company - centrally the classical idea of a land called Thule, a northern Atlantis, seen once and never found again. The route takes her through the lands that have been called Thule: from Shetland to Iceland, Norway, Estonia and Greenland.

There are cameos from former travellers: Richard Burton, Anthony Trollope, W. H. Auden, and Fridtjof Nansen. There are dark moments: the Thule Society, founded after the First World War, had Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Hess amongst its members. The narrator reaches an isolated US military base called Thule; she finds Arctic poets, Inuit musicians and Polar scientists. Finally, she arrives at Svalbard, a beautiful archipelago at the edge of the frozen ocean.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Joanna Kavenna向北方冒險，尋找寒地中的亞特蘭堤斯，傳說中的Land of Thule----一個曾被古希臘探險家所描寫，後來便再沒被發現過之境。因為被這塊被稱做Thule的地方深深地著迷，作者從蘇格蘭北方的雪特蘭出Shetland發，途經冰島Iceland、挪威Norway、愛沙尼亞Estonia與格陵蘭Greenland。在途中，她發現了之前的作家與旅者的足跡，他們全都為這塊Thule之境著迷過，包括Richard Burton、William Morris、 Anthony Trollope以及挪威籍的北極探險家Fridtjof Nansen.。伴隨著偶爾相遇的北極科學家，讓這本遊記，成了一部交會著所有人類在北極有過活動的歷史。(VL)

Awards/获奖情况：A fascinating travel book and a magnificent literary accomplishment. Joanna Kavenna’s accounts of her travels through northern Europe are always vivid and evocative, insightful and illuminating, and sometimes very amusing. But her writing is also informed by a profound knowledge of Nordic history, literature and myth. The result is a magical book about a magical land.---Avi Shlaim

A truly original debut: the sensitive exploration of a dark myth---Colin Thubron

An evocative account of crossing frontiers - geographical, cultural, political and personal.---Timothy Garton Ash, Sunday Times

Joanna Kavenna writes in many forms, and in many voices, beautifully, always convincingly: the literary essayist, the historian, the child, the memoirist, the social sketcher, and the travel writer. This is a brilliant debut, an important and unusual book about metaphors and myths can drive history.---Robert Macfarlane

A book for anyone who has ever been fascinated by ice landscapes and ice myths. I was captivated.---Giles Foden

About the Author/作者介绍： Joanna Kavenna grew up in various parts of Britain, and has also lived in the USA, France, Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic States. Her first book The Ice Museum was about travelling in the North. Her most recent book is a novel called Inglorious. Kavenna’s writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Guardian and Observer, the Times Literary Supplement, the International Herald Tribune, the Spectator and the Telegraph, among other publications. She has held writing fellowships at St Antony’s College, Oxford and St John’s College, Cambridge. She currently lives in the Duddon Valley, Cumbria.
Joanna Kavenna英國出生長大，也在美國、法國、德國等地居住過，由於經常旅遊，第一本著作The Ice Museum寫的就是旅遊相關的作品，首部小說Inglorious一出版便廣獲各大媒體的好評，更榮獲2008年柑橘獎的最佳新人獎。

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