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nielskuijpers98's review
3.0
3,4*. An interesting story about an adventurous young African man who embarks on a trip from Togo to Greenland.
It's an interesting story for sure and I enjoyed learning about two cultures that I didn't know anything about prior to reading this book. Unfortunately, it's too factual in my opinion. It could've done with some less description of eating seal blubber.
"So thick were the flakes, you'd have said that all the white birds in the world were shredding their feathers"
It's an interesting story for sure and I enjoyed learning about two cultures that I didn't know anything about prior to reading this book. Unfortunately, it's too factual in my opinion. It could've done with some less description of eating seal blubber.
"So thick were the flakes, you'd have said that all the white birds in the world were shredding their feathers"
kiramke's review
adventurous
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Fantastic.
Pleased to find this gem of ethnography and travel. Such an interesting and compelling mind, and above all story. But it is also interesting to step back and think about how most of our stories of culture are filtered through a European viewpoint first, and interesting to see that mind outside of the main narrative - though of course colonialism is present in both cases, and still doing its thing. Really enjoyed the reflections and interpretations and connections made.
Pleased to find this gem of ethnography and travel. Such an interesting and compelling mind, and above all story. But it is also interesting to step back and think about how most of our stories of culture are filtered through a European viewpoint first, and interesting to see that mind outside of the main narrative - though of course colonialism is present in both cases, and still doing its thing. Really enjoyed the reflections and interpretations and connections made.
kathieboucher's review against another edition
3.0
As young boy in Togo, Michel Kpomassie happens upon a book about Greenland that captures his imagination. It becomes his life’s ambition to get to Greenland, and by golly, he makes it happen for himself.
He encounters everyone and everything with equanimity, and for the most part, he’s received the same way as he travels northward along the west coast of Greenland. Fascinating and courageous story.
He encounters everyone and everything with equanimity, and for the most part, he’s received the same way as he travels northward along the west coast of Greenland. Fascinating and courageous story.