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Frommer's EasyGuide to Iceland
\"Guidebooks to Iceland are currently on every list of guidebook best-sellers, and will now be joined by a powerful new entrant written by an acknowledged and heavily-published expert on the subject. He is Nicholas Gill, an outstanding journalist, whose writings on Iceland have been prominently featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Food & Wine magazine, and many other notable publications. His subject, the nation located just south of the Arctic circle but warmed by the Gulf Stream (and thus moderate in climate), is increasingly regarded as a place of multiple attractions that extend far beyond Reykjavik to nearly a dozen other towns, and to breathtaking nature including swimmable thermal springs.\"-- Amazon.com.
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Iceland Imagined
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'sIceland 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.
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Iceland Society & Culture Complete Report
Need to know it all? Our all-inclusive culture report for Iceland will get up to speed on all aspects of culture in Iceland, including lifecycle, religion, women, superstitions & folklore, sports, holidays & festivals, and etiquette.
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Warren, Chris: Holding a Fish
one photo of Chris Warren holding a fish by Scott S. Warren
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Warren, Chris: Whale Watching with Friends
one photo of Chris Warren and two girls on a ship by Scott S. Warren
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Fire and Ice
A small island bordering the Arctic Circle, Iceland is, according to one writer, \"El Nino with an Etch-A-Sketch...[where] freak-show landscapes abound\" (THE SEATTLE TIMES). Take a tour of Iceland and experience its many contrasts, natural and manmade.
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