Title Iceland imagined : nature, culture, and storytelling in the North Atlantic / Karen Oslund ; foreword by William Cronon.

Publication Info.	Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2011]
	©2011

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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 260 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Weyerhaeuser environmental books
	Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject	Human ecology -- Iceland.
	Human ecology.
	Iceland.
	Natural history -- Iceland.
	Natural history.
	Ethnology -- Iceland.
	Ethnology.
	Folklore -- Iceland.
	Folklore.
	Iceland -- Social life and customs.
	Manners and customs.
	Iceland -- Description and travel.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Oslund, Karen. Iceland imagined. Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2011 9780295990835 (DLC) 2010033491 (OCoLC)657223803
ISBN	9780295802992 (electronic book)
	0295802995 (electronic book)
	9780295990835
	029599083X