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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

Lawrence Millman

An exploration of indigenous trauma, climate change, and digital culture in the shadow of a series of Inuit murders in Canada in 1941

Book Details

  • Publisher: Terra Firma Books
  • Publish Date: Apr 4th, 2023
  • Pages: 222
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 5.50in - 8.10in - 0.60in - 0.60lb
  • EAN: 9781595349989
  • Categories: Canada - Provincial, Territorial & Local - Northern TerritorCultsMurder - General

About the Author

Millman, Lawrence: - 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.
Murdock, Ryan: - Journalist and podcaster Ryan Murdock is the author of Vagabond Dreams: Road Wisdom from Central America and editor-at-large (Europe) for Outpost, Canada's national travel magazine. He shares his love of travel literature through book reviews focused on the classics and the Personal Landscapes podcast and writes regularly for the Shift, an independent Maltese news portal. He lives in Berlin.

Praise for this book

Praise for At the End of the World:

"A dark and twisted story of religion, violence, and lasting trauma, this true crime book is chilling in more way than one." ― Bustle

"Millman's book is a plea for keeping the sanctity of the unique cultures and landscape of the Far North." ― Explorers Journal

"A poetic assertion of what it means to be a human being in the 21st century...Perhaps Millman's greatest accomplishment is that, despite its dark implications, At the End of the World is a pleasure to read." ― Adventures NW

"A smart, emotional, and thought-provoking analysis of a lingering trauma. Millman has created a quiet and stunning investigative masterpiece." ― Booklist (starred)

"[You] should be impressed with the manner by which Millman connects the dots...he skillfully provides parallels to contemporary times on the dangers of one culture infiltrating another." ― Kirkus

"A bizarre series of cult murders receives a fresh look in At the End of the World" ― Shelf Awareness

"Millman tells this tale in a free-flowing narrative style, interspersing his interviews of the remaining survivors and their relatives with a history of the region (including a sardonic account of the filming of the 1922 documentary "Nanook of the North" on the mainland), a liberal peppering of quotes from diverse authors on nature and on technology and the consequences of old and new cultures clashing." ― WBUR's The ARTery

"This tragedy is compelling." ― Virginia Quarterly Review

"Lawrence Millman is a true original. The Arctic seems his natural landscape; it's as if he knows how to eavesdrop on the spirit world there. At the End of the World puts literature of the North into a hypnotic fugue state, and it's just whopping good storytelling. People don't just read Millman, they collect him." ― Howard Norman, author of The Ghost Clause and The Bird Artist

"At the End of the World is a lamentation. And not for the loss of life at the hands of insane murderers. But the loss of connection to our natural world. I think Millman's struggle to write the story (at least he claims to have struggled―to my eyes, words flow freely and wonderfully from his "Ticonderoga Tri-Write No. 2") comes from this realization." ― Fungi

"Well-written and deeply philosophical." ― Alaska Dispatch

"An enlightening, beautifully constructed read." ― What's Nonfiction?

"Unique and compelling...At the End of the World is a one of the more unique historical crime books I've ever come across and most certainly worth your attention. There's a lot to think about in this one and, more importantly, a lot we should be thinking about." ― Coleen Mondor, TinyLetter.com

"Lawrence Millman is ... a master writer, naturalist, and adventurer."― Robert Pyle, au