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May 3, 2002 · No One Thinks of Greenland. : John Griesemer. Picador, May 3, 2002 - Fiction - 352 pages. "You'll want to scratch." These spoken words open to us the strange and beguiling world of young Rudy Spruance, forced to join the military due to a mysterious past, and sent for some inexplicable reason to a top-secret military hospital in Greenland.
The novel, "No One Thinks of Greenland" by John Griesemer - an accomplished author as well as a successful Broadway and movie actor - was first published in 2001 and tells the fictional story of a young Air Force corporal, Rudy Spurance, who arrives at a secret base in Greenland, under orders and not through some personnel mix-up, and is swarmed by mosquitoes as he steps off of the cargo plane that dropped him at the remote destination.
No one thinks of Greenland by Griesemer, John. Publication date 2001 Topics Military hospitals, Soldiers, Bildungsromans Publisher New York : Picador USA Collection
Dec 31, 2011 · No-One Thinks Of Greenland - Kindle edition by Griesemer, John. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading No-One Thinks Of Greenland.
Dec 12, 2022 · The title of John Griesemer’s novel “No one thinks about Greenland” is used as a parable to describe these reasons and the attitude of the US and US foreign policy towards Greenland. Furthermore, it is analyzed, why the US tried purchasing Greenland several times and why certain groups in the US had an interest to keep the US-Greenland relations in the shadows.
This article analyzes the US-Greenland rela-tions during the long 19th and 20th centuries 1 John Griesemer, No One Thinks of Greenland (New York: Picador USA, 2001). with a focus on the perception of Greenland in the US and furthermore explains why the US-Greenland relations gained only little attention, or why it might have been even in
