Thursday, January 31, 2013

Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

Iceland Imagined
Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by Karen Oslund

New!: $24.95 (as of 01/31/2013 12:03 PST)

Iceland

This cultural and environmental history sweeps across the dramatic North Atlantic landscape, exploring its unusual geography, saga narratives, language, culture, and politics, and analyzing its emergence as a distinctive and symbolic part of Europe.

Karen Oslund is assistant professor of world history at Towson University in Maryland.

"One should read this book for its history of ideas and perceptions and its grasp of the tensions that exist and have existed at cultural frontiers." -Geographical Review

"Sure to be of interest to those studying Iceland and the North Atlantic's culture and environmental history and those interested in the European understanding of that region." -Choice

  • Rank: #228063 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-03-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 280 pages