| #462223 in Books | 2013-02-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.63 x5.98l,.90 | File type: PDF | 280 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Academic|By bikedog|This book has great information presented from a unique perspective with detailed references, but the language is so stiffly academic it rather detracts from the pleasure of learning about Iceland.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Rosemary McGettrick|Loved the country! Love t||". . . compelling and richly detailed . . ."―Kai Heidemann, H-SAE|"The narrative moves swiftly and elegantly over unusual grounds. . . . The final chapter discusses two present-day controversies . . . Oslund argues convincingly that in both these cont
Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, however, this marginalized region has gradually become part of modern Europe, a transformation that is narrated in Karen Oslund’s Iceland Imagined.
This cultural and environmental history sweeps across the dramatic...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) | Karen Oslund. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
