Ultima Thule

Title: Ultima Thule

Writer: Cees Nooteboom

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789023437154

Condition: Good

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Description:
Ultima Thule – the end of the world. This is what Spitsbergen, the northernmost group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, used to be called. In Ultima Thule, Simone Sassen and Cees Nooteboom describe a journey to that place and to the former Russian coal mining town of Pyramiden. These are romantic views of lonely landscapes without any significant vegetation, of peatlands, glaciers, mountains, eternal ice, fjords. Then, like a mirage, the silence of a deserted city: closed factories, abandoned houses, a former post office, desolate children's playgrounds and sports fields. Traces of a bygone gold-digger's spirit and of a city life in the eternal ice. Simone Sassen's colour photographs and Cees Nooteboom's text capture the 'end of the world', as it happened in Pyramiden, in a fascinating way – images of a past whose shadows fall over our future.