Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic

by Karen Oslund

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029599293X
• ISBN13: 9780295992938
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher