The ends of the world

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The Ends of the World is a collection of 23 travelogues on five continents by Roger Willemsen . In the rarest of cases it is purely travel reports, as personal experiences and acquaintances with other people almost always play a major role.

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The book begins with visits to a hospital for children in the Eifel and thus represents one of the many types of endings in this world according to Willemsen's experience. In some cases, he finds real, geographical ends such as the Cape of Good Hope , Patagonia and the Himalayas , sometimes more symbolic like a road in Borneo that simply ends in the jungle. Often times something ends during the trip, such as a relationship or an illusion. Some of these personal endings are ambiguous or difficult to identify, such as a hotel bed in Minsk , office in the war-torn Congo and a fresco of the Last Judgment in Orvieto . The author's psychological limits can be seen in a brothel corridor in Bombay or in an opium rush with a hill tribe in a remote area of Thailand . On the journey to the North Pole , one geographical end point connects with something else, the end of the life of a fellow traveler.

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  • The Eifel
  • Gibraltar
  • The Himalayas
  • South Africa (»God's Window«)
  • Iceland
  • Patagonia
  • Timbuktu
  • Kamchatka
  • Burma
  • Borneo
  • Italy (Fuciner See)
  • Bombay
  • Senegal
  • Hong Kong
  • Afghanistan
  • Tonga
  • Indonesia
  • Orvieto
  • Kinshasa
  • Minsk
  • Thailand
  • Madeira
  • North Pole

Text output

  • Roger Willemsen: The Ends of the World (Hardcover). S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-10-092104-8 .
  • Roger Willemsen: The Ends of the World (Paperback). S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-596-17988-6 .

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