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This Cold Heaven
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...
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Iceland National Road Map (Red Cover)
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Author: Roger Lascelles
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Publisher: Roger Lascelles
Category: Book
Publication Date: October 2, 2000
Format: Import
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
ISBN: 1858791812
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The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
DIVDIVDIVDIVFive 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 Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of...
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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 1873...
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Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North
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Author: Ida Pfeiffer
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Publisher: University Of Michigan Library
Category: Book
Publication Date: April 27, 2009
Languages: English (Orig...
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