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Paperback Land of the Snow Men Book

ISBN: 0977072312

ISBN13: 9780977072316

Land of the Snow Men

Fiction. LAND OF THE SNOW MEN is a collection of visionary stories and renderings taken from the journals of the enigmatic George Belden, who claimed to be on the tragic expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott to reach the South Pole in 1910 through 1912. Norman Lock discovered Belden and his remarkable journal by accident. He had been for some years in Africa, writing a novel, A History of the Imagination. The strain of living in a country as alien...

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Beautifully Written, Chillingly Horrifying

I bought this book in the West Village because I was entranced with the title and the first few pages. Once I started reading it I found myself caught in the same type of web that the narrator finds himself in, descending slowly into madness. It was absolutely terrifying to read, and reminded me strongly of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James - the only other novel to scare me so strongly. This tale is somewhat akin to the short story, 'The Ice Man' by Haruki Murakami, which is shorter, more poetical, and as sad but far less terrifying. I was sad that this book didn't tell me anything about the author...he's worth reading.
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