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Iceland imagined : nature, culture, and storytelling in the North Atlantic
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- Creator
- Karen Oslund ; foreword by William Cronon
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780295802992, 0295802995, 029599083X, 9780295990835
- OCLC
- ocn932315220, ocn744362075, ocn657223803
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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