Iceland imagined : nature, culture, and storytelling in the North Atlantic / Karen Oslund ; foreword by William Cronon.
"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 becom...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full text (Emerson users only) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Contributors: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
2011.
|
| Series: | Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: imagining Iceland, narrating the North
- Icelandic landscapes
- Natural histories and national histories
- Nordic by nature
- Classifying and controlling Flora and Fauna in Iceland
- Mastering the world's edges
- Technology, tools, and material culture in the North Atlantic
- Translating and converting
- Language and religion in Greenland
- Reading backward
- Language and the sagas in the Faroe Islands
- Epilogue: whales and men
- Contested scientific ethics and cultural politics in the North Atlantic.