At the End of the World
Notes on a 1941 Murder Rampage in the Arctic and the Threat of Religious Extremism, Loss of Indigenous Culture, and Danger of Digital Life
Lawrence Millman, foreword by Ryan Murdock
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- Originally published by Thomas Dunne Books in 2016; hardcover sold 3,000 copies
- The remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred in a remote corner of the Arctic in 1941
- About people, technology, and the loss of connection to our natural world
- Use of religion as a reason to kill in many societies; generational trauma
- Touches on Arctic languages and beliefs; ethnographic stories, tales, myths, superstitions, and taboos from Inuit elders
Contributor Bio
Lawrence Millman
is a writer, Arctic explorer, and mycologist who has made more than forty expeditions to the Arctic and subarctic. He has taught at the University of Iceland, the University of New Hampshire, Tufts University, and the University of Minnesota. His eighteen books include The Last Speaker of Bear, Last Places, At the End of the World, Fungipedia, Our Like Will Not Be There Again, Hiking to Siberia, Northern Latitudes, and Goodbye, Ice. He has received a Guggenheim Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Lowell Thomas Award. When not on the road or in the bush, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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