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"We raised our fists and cheered. . . . With the sagas in our heads?? with Iceland at its wildest beneath our boots?? it would not have been impossible to see B?rdr clumping along the summit ridge?? prodding the glacier with his staff?? ready to show us the way down."
Iceland is a pictorial classic on one of the last "undiscovered" countries in Europe--reissued for the first time in paperback.
????????Iceland is often thought to be covered by ice?? but in fact it is gloriously green. Lush meadows?? wildflower fields?? and miles of rich tundra cover a landscape of remarkable variety: deep lakes?? bubbling hot springs?? tumbling waterfalls?? snow-capped mountains. It's also a landscape amazingly alive with massive lava flows and enormous glaciers. The human story of Iceland goes back more than eleven thousand years?? and its heritage is told here in a treasury of riveting sagas of real-life heroes and all manner of supernatural beings.
????????Both the land and the people of one of Europe's most gorgeous countries come to life in this colorful account of the authors' adventure