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Wallpaper City Guide: Reykjavik (Wallpaper City Guides)
WALLPAPER* CITY GUIDES not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he or she has a week or just 24 hours in the city. The guides feature up-and-coming areas, landmark buildings in an 'Architour', design centers, and a selection of the best shops to buy items unique to the particular city. WALLPAPER*...
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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
In a tribute to the far latitudes, Gretel Ehrlich travels across Greenland, the largest island on earth. All but five per cent of the island is covered by a vast ice sheet, an enduring remnant of the last ice age. Despite a uniquely hostile environment, it has been inhabited continuously for thousands of years. Greenlanders...
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Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North
This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic...
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Surtsey: The New Island in the North Atlantic
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Author: Sigrdur Thorarinsson
Creator: Solvi Eysteinsson
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Publisher: The Viking Press
Category: Book
Publication Date: 1965
Number Of Pages: 54
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Doom in the Deep: An Extraordinary Storm, a Miraculous Survival
It is one of the great tales of man against the elements. In February 1968, in a howling gale from the North Pole, fishermen fought desperately for their lives, hacking at the deadly ice that caked their vessels. Visibility was almost nil and communications only intermittent. When a wave swamped the hull of the trawler Ross Cleveland, she...
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