The Ends of the Earth |
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| Author:
| Willemsen, Roger |
| Translator:
| Lewis, Peter |
| ISBN: | 978-1-909961-02-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 2015 |
| Publisher: | Haus Publishing
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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An author, foreign correspondent, academic, and television personality, Roger Willemsen is a familiar figure in Germany, and
The Ends of the Earth offers English-language readers a chance to engage with his uniquely astute take on the world. Consisting of twenty-two essays recounting and reflecting on a lifetime of travel to the far and forgotten corners of our planet, the book offers remarkable encounters and mysterious entanglements in locations as diverse as a Kamchatkan...
More DescriptionAn author, foreign correspondent, academic, and television personality, Roger Willemsen is a familiar figure in Germany, and The Ends of the Earth offers English-language readers a chance to engage with his uniquely astute take on the world. Consisting of twenty-two essays recounting and reflecting on a lifetime of travel to the far and forgotten corners of our planet, the book offers remarkable encounters and mysterious entanglements in locations as diverse as a Kamchatkan volcano, a Burmese railway station, an Arctic icebreaker, and a Minsk hospital ward. Willemsen is the perfect companion, reveling in the strange and unlovely, and tracing unexpected connections among places, times, and peoples.