Daughter of fire: A portrait of Iceland

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"Katharine Scherman s [Daughter of Fire

is a succinct account of a unique and fascin-

ating island." Samuel Eliot Morison

"Both lively and authoritative, Daughter of

Fire reflects for us in a clear glass the total

culture of one of the most civilized countries

in tile world." -- Clifton Fadiman

Katharine Scherman s newest book,

Daughter of Fire: A Portrait of Iceland,

splendidly recaptures the insight, charm,

and bracing enthusiasm that have so

distinguished her previous works, in-

cluding the recent, highly praised Two

Islands. Daughter of Fire unfolds both a

natural and a human history of the mid-

Atlantic island of Iceland, from her first

emergence out of the ocean fifty million

years ago, through the shaping of her

landscape by the violent forces of vol-

canoes, glaciers, storms, and ocean, to the

formation of her remarkable farmers

republic by Viking warriors of the tenth

century and her turbulent history from

that day to the present. Scherman pays

particular attention to that outstanding

body of literature which flowered at the

time of Europe s Dark Ages: the famous

Icelandic histories, skaldic verse, family

sagas, and the incomparable Eddas. She

also reviews the island s natural history,

describing how Iceland s one hundred

and fifty live volcanoes impart a precari-

ous wild beauty to the scenery. The

author completes her story of the earth s

second-newest island with a perceptive

study of the Icelanders today, who live so

harmoniously with their strange, danger-

ous, often beautiful, often bleak land that

their country seems to an outsider the

last outpost of an uncluttered

civilization.

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