The Ends of the Earth
by Roger Willemsen
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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 volcano, a show more 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. show lessTags
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for sure and interesting writing style. tryign to catch the atmosphere of the places instead of just discribing the site. Sometimes it works, somestimes it does not. some story I wish to be longer others I did not care for. A good collection of stories to read in bed before you go to sleep and then travel in your mind while you fall asleep. I will look up other books of this author.
Ein wirklich gutes Buch mit vielen ungewöhnlichen Geschichten.
Aug 29, 2016German
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Fischer Taschenbuch (17988)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Ends of the Earth
- Original title
- Die Enden der Welt
- Original publication date
- 2010
- Important places
- Eifel, Germany; Gibraltar; Himalayas; Ísafjörður, Vestfirðir, Iceland; God's Window, Mpumalanga, South Africa; Minsk, Belarus (show all 22); Patagonia, Argentina; Timbuktu, Mali; Mumbai, India; Tangkiling, Indonesia; Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia; Mandalay, Myanmar; Fucine Lake, Italy; Gorée, Dakar, Senegal; Hong Kong, China; Amu Darya; Tonga; Tana Toraja, Indonesia; Kinshasa, Congo; Chiang Mai, Thailand; Orvieto, Umbria, Italy; North Pole
- First words*
- Ich kam in die Stadt und suchte die Glücklichen, jene, die weg streben.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Der Neujahrsmorgen in der Eifel kommt mir wieder in den Sinn, und die Decke des Krankenhauses öffnet sich schneeweiss, und nichts ist zu hören als das Echo der Grenze.
- Original language*
- Deutsch
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Classifications
- Genres
- Travel, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 910.4 — History & geography Geography & travel modified standard subdivisions of Geography and travel Accounts of travel and facilities for travellers
- LCC
- PT2685 .I3877 .W555 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
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Statistics
- Members
- 113
- Popularity
- 286,514
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.47)
- Languages
- English, French, German
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 5
