THE ICE MUSEUM An amazing journey through myth and history in search of a lost world  To the ancients, Thule was a land beyond the edge of the maps, a northerly dreamland. It was a  mystery for thousands of years, long thought to be an icy Eden, a place of exquisite beauty and  unequaled purity. The lost world of Thule captured the imagination of poets, artists, explorers,  and, most recently, writer Joanna Kavenna, who set out on a harrowing and exhilarating voyage  of discovery. Her journey took her to Shetland, Iceland, Norway, Estonia, Greenland, and  Svalbard”into the Arctic wilderness, over frozen seas and ice mountains”in search of this most  haunting of northern places.  As she travels, Kavenna finds traces of earlier writers and seekers: Richard Francis Burton,  William Morris, Anthony Trollope, and Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen. But she comes to  discover that a darkness also inhabits Thule. She finds ice-bound relics of the cold war. She  unearths the story of the Thule Society, an offshoot of the Nazi party, devoted to the "purity" of  the Nordic peoples. Part diary, part detective trail, The Ice Museum is a wonder voyage  through landscape and myth, reminiscent of Lucy Jago™s The Northern Lights and Barry  Lopez™s National Book Award-winning Arctic Dreams.