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. Karen Oslundis 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