The Ends of the Earth

Roger Willemsen

thg 12 2014 · Haus Publishing

Giới thiệu về sách điện tử này

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 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.

Giới thiệu tác giả

Roger Willemsen is the author of a number of works of nonfiction, including one based on interviews with former Guantánamo detainees. Peter Lewis is the translator of Sabine Gruber’s Roman Elegy.