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22 April 2021 - 12:45 By Margaret von Klemperer The Museum of Whales You Will Never See is an elegantly written and beyond quirky read. Image: Supplied The Museum of Whales You Will Never See A. Kendra Greene Caught by the title and the subtitle, which is Travels Among the Collectors of Iceland, I picked this book out of a pile to be reviewed. It sounded either unutterably twee or quirkily fascinating. But I was hopeful: travel writing has long ceased to be a straightforward catalogue of journeys and chance encounters and has moved into more philosophical realms. The author travelled in Iceland, that most remote, sparsely populated and very different country, which boasts about 265 museums and collections, some very small. The country doesn’t have a long history of collecting – most of these museums are comparatively recent, usually started by someone who is often still involved. ....
As we bask in our long summer days filled with sunshine and light, spare a thought for the residents of Reykjavik, who currently get less than five hours of daylight each day. Despite the darkness, winter is a tempting time to visit the Earth s northernmost capital city. With the colourful buildings of the city blanketed in snow, it s the best time of the year to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights. And while this city basically on the other side of the planet is out of reach while travel restrictions remain, it s the perfect destination for a spot of mind travel. ....
Please forgive me, authors of hard-hitting nonfiction investigations, or dark personal sagas, or intense emotional thrillers set in contemporary New York. This year, all I craved in my reading was escape. I couldn’t focus on a book unless it got me out of my head and into someone else’s, or out of my house and into another world. It was fine if the place I was escaping to was worse than America, 2020, as long as it was different. These are the 10 books that whisked me away. The Animals in That Country A wildly inventive dystopian adventure, in which a mysterious pandemic causes humans to be able to understand the speech of animals. As an irascible grandmother follows her son across the Australian Outback, she’s tormented by the birds overhead, bugged by the ants underfoot, and protected by a dingo who wouldn’t mind becoming the alpha. Both a hell of a ride and a revealing thought experiment about our place in the natural world. ....