Description: Further DetailsTitle: Iceland ImaginedCondition: NewSubtitle: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North AtlanticISBN-10: 029599293XEAN: 9780295992938ISBN: 9780295992938Publisher: University of Washington PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/14/2013Description: 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 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. The earliest visions of a wild frontier, filled with dangerous and unpredictable inhabitants, eventually gave way to images of beautiful, well-managed lands, inhabited by simple but virtuous people living close to nature.This transformation was accomplished by state-sponsored natural histories of Iceland which explained that the monsters described in medieval and Renaissance travel accounts did not really exist, and by artists who painted the Icelandic landscapes to reflect their fertile and regulated qualities. Literary scholars and linguists who came to Iceland and Greenland in the nineteenth century related the stories and the languages of the “wild North” to those of their home countries.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 386gAuthor: Karen OslundContributor: William Cronon (Foreword by)Genre: HistoryBook Series: Iceland ImaginedTopic: Science Nature & Math, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Iceland Imagined
Title: Iceland Imagined
Subtitle: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic
ISBN-10: 029599293X
EAN: 9780295992938
ISBN: 9780295992938
Release Date: 02/14/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: William Cronon (Foreword by)
Genre: History
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Iceland Imagined : Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic
Language: English
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Environmental Conservation & Protection, Europe / Scandinavia, Ecology, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Regional, Customs & Traditions, Europe / Iceland & Greenland
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Karen Oslund
Subject Area: Nature, Travel, Social Science, History
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks.
Format: Trade Paperback
