Well, this was a disappointment. I'd been led to expect a scholarly overview of "polar mythology", but it turns out Godwin is a credulous esotericist himself. For example, noting that Blavatsky's and Guénon's accounts of prehistory contradict one another and that both rely on unidentified sources, his instinct is to try and reconcile them. Which is darkly amusing in a way, but it's not something I'd bought if I'd known what I was getting. ( )

Arktos is an encyclopedic look at a fairly obscure topic: the prevalence of Hyperborean creation tales in modern occult and fascist literature. Godwin is even-handed in relating the links and legacies of this strange and singular concept. ( )