The review goes on to note that “Boehmer’s ambitious goal – and her great achievement – is to understand what culturally connects these otherwise very different southern locales, both for those living there and for those imagining them from afar.”

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Elleke Boehmer’s literary and cultural history offers a deeply researched, masterfully crafted account of southernmost parts of the world.

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In a piece entitled, ‘Reorienting the World: From the Southern Hemisphere to the Invisible Geography of Disease’, Frankopan calls the book ‘a wonder and a revelation’, and ‘a layered, nuanced and important account of how the South has been imagined’.

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Boehmer calls Southern Imagining ‘the book I have been wanting to write for 40 years’. It is ‘a study of perception’ that captures ‘something that I have seen and want to share’.

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Elleke Boehmer has cooked up an aromatic southern stew of artistic life and perspective in her enchanting new book Southern Imagining[.]

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Boehmer explores an astonishing range of writers, artists, travellers and scientists, bringing forth the diversity, complexity and scatteredness of the far south. 

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[A] novel saturated with extremes: the extremity of the distance between the two lovers, the extreme difficulties of communication, given the lack of taken-for-granted communication infrastructure at the Antarctic, and the extreme climate conditions [the character] Niall endures.

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In it, she calls it “a novel of ideas, stylised in its approach to dialogue and description as it explores questions of symmetry and opposition – north/south, here/there, now/then. … adept at capturing the oppressiveness of the icescape”.

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