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AS a compass needle points and dips to the north, so it seems does our imagination and our dreams. Explorers, tourists, Nazis, scientists and many others have sought meaning in the far north. All of them appear in Joanna Kavenna鈥檚 beguiling tour of time and space from ancient Greece to the present day and from Scotland to the Arctic, passing through Munich and Estonia on the way.

In The Ice Museum, Kavenna nods to current concerns about climate change and pollution. Her main focus, however, is the persistent belief in Thule, a mystic northern land whose location retreated as explorers pursued it.

Her story sheds light on our growing knowledge of Earth and our persistent wish for something strange just beyond the horizon.