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Lawrence Millman

Auteur de Last Places: A Journey in the North

30+ oeuvres 547 utilisateurs 13 critiques 1 Favoris

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Lawrence Millman is the author of sixteen books, including such titles as Last Places, Lost in the Arctic, An Evening Among Headhuters, andmost recentlyGiant Polypores Stoned Reindeer. His artistes have appeared in National Geographic, Outside, Smithsonian, Atlantic Monthly, and Sports Illustrated afficher plus He is a Fellow of the Explorers Club and has a mountain named after him in East Greenland. afficher moins

Œuvres de Lawrence Millman

Last Places: A Journey in the North (1990) 167 exemplaires
Fascinating Fungi of New England (2011) 14 exemplaires
Hero Jesse (1981) 13 exemplaires

Oeuvres associées

The Best American Travel Writing 2001 (2001) — Contributeur — 236 exemplaires
The Best American Travel Writing 2002 (2002) — Contributeur — 190 exemplaires
The Best American Travel Writing 2003 (2003) — Contributeur — 179 exemplaires
The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic (2004) — Avant-propos — 167 exemplaires

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Date de naissance
1948-01-13
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA

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Lawrence Milman travels rough from Bergen to Newfoundland across the north sea meeting the hardy and often wild chatacters who inhabit the wild northern lands, looking not only what exists today but what existed throughout the history of the adventures who discovered and lived in the north many years ago.
 
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David-Block | 2 autres critiques | Mar 11, 2024 |
 
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ritaer | 1 autre critique | Jul 9, 2021 |
Good grief, I thought I was checking out a murder mystery, a true crime narrative that took place under the auspices of a mysterious comet in the Arctic, not a cranky diatribe against computers and the digital world. Millman very begrudgingly returns to the murders and trial that are supposedly the focus of this book but is easily distracted (irony?) by people using their "iDevices" and computers and relying on online information instead of observing the natural world. He interrupts the narrative constantly to point out people in his current world walking around with their eyes on their devices or relying on the internet for information. He can't go two pages without complaining about technology, and the story suffers terribly as a result. Just when you think you're getting some details of what seemed like an incredibly intriguing crime that happened in the Arctic, you get paragraphs like this: "... like a birder friend of mine. Using an app on his iDevice, he succeeded in identifying a semipalmated plover on Cape Cod's Sandy Neck beach in six minutes, while it took me less than a minute to identify the same bird using my app-free guidebook." If you want to hear smug, constant interrupting thoughts about how much the author hates the digital world and technology, read this book. (Actually, I'm guessing there are much better thought-out arguments and coherent narratives on this topic than this book.) But if you're looking for a "murderous tale" like this book was marketed, you will be very disappointed and most likely at least mildly annoyed.… (plus d'informations)
 
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KABarnes | 5 autres critiques | Jun 30, 2020 |
AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Lawrence Millman

My Rating ⭐️⭐️▫️▫️▫️
Publisher St. Martins Press
Publication Date. January 17, 2017

SUMMARY
At the End of the World is a story of several murders that occurred on Belcher Island in Hudson Bay in 1941. According to Lawernce Millman, those murders show that senseless violence in the name of religion is not only a contemporary phenomenon, and that a people as seemingly peaceful as the Inuit can become unpeaceful at the drop of a hat or, in this instance, a meteor shower.

At the same time, the book is a warning cry against the destruction our culture’s humanity, along the destruction of the natural world. Has technology deprived us of our eyes? the author asks. Has it deprived the world of birds, beasts, and flowers?

REVIEW
Having made a recent trip to Alaska I was looking forward to reading this book about murders that occurred in the Arctic. The book cover and book description are appealing. While I appreciated the Hudson Bay map, I would've loved to see a closer map of the Belcher Islands.

Millman admits his tremendous struggle in writing this book and it shows. I would've loved to have seen more details about the murders, the people involved and the trial. The description of the terrain left me wanting to know more.

I appreciated Millman's point about technology. I tend to agree that we spend to much time looking at our little screens and failing to notice the world around us, but I fail to understand the nexus between these murders in the Artic in 1941, and technology. The interjection of opinion on technology takes away from a very interesting story.

Thanks to Netgalley and St Martins Press for an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

At the end of the world rough notes

It's my belief that the book is about a story in 1941 orders that occurred as a result of man's will use a man's believe that he was God and other bins play so they were Fightin however the author tells the story of a very disjointed manner. Interspersing his thoughts about the Internet the lack of teaching writing writing skills in school and the issues associated with screen tim

In chapter 19 for example he starts with a story March 12, 1941 with Arnie and Pete setting off a dogsled journey to the great well river to get to the Hudson Bay Company trading post it talks about how great a handler of dogs that Peter Wireless he states that Robert Flannery repeatedly feel filmed Peter in 1914 have a bobsled driver and it was captured in footage that was lost by Flarity and then he goes on to talk about how a person who know so much about about dogsledding could think that sled dogs might be why think that they were site and then he reverts to trip to the year 2001 and says the dogsled step then replace bus loop snowmobiles and Belcher have a snowmobile is efficient but you can't eat it if you get stuck somewhere and then he talks about some acronyms acronyms associated with snowmobiling and then he talks about I won't text you while breast-feeding and speculate whether the child will grow up associating phone screens with nurture and he said for himself he associates coffee with Marshall and then we're back perhaps in 2001 because somebody is telling him that they don't believe that big of a tackle our country on 911 really happened that they think it was just made up for TV The author speculates that there was a DVD in the stores at the store and if this person has seen it that would explain why he thought 911 was fiction

The author attempts to use Huber I guess all I'm making a correlation between people that live in Siberia Siberians and what he terms CYBERIAN those that are familiar with the Internet and how to use it. The Humour falls flat see location 627

In in chapter 21 it talks about being about the wind wind blowing up tent down a how to get a hotel but there was a broken TV in his room America want to give my new room and he said no he likes room with a broken TV and then he visited since that's ITT wear since wife said that our Jack's father had been murdered and that's why our RV Jack had committed the murders himself sick but visited to recap I want to get soap stone for carvings I said sometimes the Slopestyle was blood red because of the murders and then sit gave him a gift of a polar bear car. Serves stop Septo have any moves into talking about electric that a gay on ecology of the area and how it was when Wendy that night and I don't in detail about what he talked about in terms I wants going to happen as a result
The author jumps back and forth in time from 1941 to 1962 I don't know when

The author includes comments from my notebook and questions rhetorical questions as the slides to stimulate the readers interest perhaps
The author somewhat critical of those that are using on any kind of electronic device for communication

One of the most interesting parts of the book is found in chapter X regarding the trial associated with the murders that had occurred in previous years the royal mail to please have believe there was enough caused to try The self professed murderers and a judge was flown in to conduct the trial judge Paxton a jury was seated with none of the natives as your remembers
The author frozen seemingly random questions in the midst of telling a story
In chapter 31 the author regaled us with his writing process for this book and even tells us of the type of pencil that are used to write with and all the troubles he had while riding and what direction to go inh

In chapter 230 to the author tells us about his interest in TUP I L a KS and how he went to Greenland after hearing about it to Peloch attack

In chapter 35 the author finally gets back to the trial the other has a running commentary on everything that is happened during the trial so he's not telling a story as much as commenting on his opinions on everything that happened

Pro nature and anti screen/computer

Rants
Questions
From my notebook
Predujuice

Quotes from poets, naturalists and others with random thoughts
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LisaSHarvey | 5 autres critiques | Sep 10, 2017 |

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