This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland

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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 retain many of their traditional practices: some still hunt on... More

Iceland National Road Map (Red Cover)

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Iceland National Road Map (Red Cover)
* as of Friday September 10, 2010 08:46:16, America/Los_Angeles Product information Author: Roger Lascelles Manufacturer: Publisher: Roger Lascelles Category: Book Publication Date: October 2, 2000 Format: Import ISBN: 1858791812 Price is accurate as of the date/time indicated. Prices and product Availability are subject to change. A... More

The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman

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The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in... More

Icelandic Journals

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Icelandic Journals
William Morris's routes through south-west Iceland can still be followed, possibly, though not necessarily as for Morris's party, on horseback. Morris was plump, unfit and relatively untravelled, but his enthusiasm, grit and phenomenal eye for detail sustained him for six weeks in 1871 and a further two in... More

Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North

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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 version of the text that... More