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Looking for the hidden folk : how Iceland's elves can help save the earth
Abstract:
"Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh?, asks Nancy Marie Brown, in this wonderfully quirky exploration of our interaction with nature. Looking for answers in history, science, religion, and art--from ancient times to today--Brown finds that each discipline defines what is real and unreal, natural and supernatural, demonstrated and theoretical, alive and inert. Each has its own way of perceiving and valuing the world around us. And each discipline defines what an Icelander might call an elf. Illuminated by her own encounters with Iceland's Otherworld--in ancient lava fields, on a holy mountain, beside a glacier or an erupting volcano, crossing the cold desert at the island's heart on horseback--Looking for the Hidden Folk offers an intimate conversation about how we look at and find value in nature. It reveals how the words we use and the stories we tell shape the world we see. It argues that our beliefs about the Earth will preserve--or destroy it. Scientists name our time the Anthropocene: the Human Age. Climate change will lead to the mass extinction of numerous animal species unless we humans change our course. Iceland suggests a different way of thinking about the Earth, one that offers hope. Icelanders believe in elves--and you should, too."--Amazon.com.
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Author:
Brown, Nancy Marie, author.
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Brown, Nancy Marie,
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Bisbee (Copper Queen Library)~1
Contents:
The elf lobby -- Icelanders believe in elves -- Otherworlds -- The island that likes to be visited -- Thought and memory -- Walking withershins -- Windows -- Seeing is believing -- The volcano show -- Send cash, not ash -- Elf stories -- Doors -- The house of the steward -- A kind troll -- Wonder -- A soul clad in air -- A sense of place -- Everyone is an artist.
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u646311
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SD_ILS:646311
Edition:
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Author:
Brown, Nancy Marie, author.
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Landscapes.
Title:
Looking for the hidden folk : how Iceland's elves can help save the earth
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Book
ISBN:
9781639362288
Language:
English
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1
OCLC:
1296674698 1296910186
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Physical Description:
xiii, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Preferred Shelf Number:
914.91 BROWN
Publication Date:
2022
Publication Date as Range:
2022
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2022
Reverse Author:
Nancy Marie, author. Brown
Subject:
Landscapes.
Fairies.
TRAVEL / Europe / Nordic Countries / Iceland & Greenland
Iceland.
Travel writing.
Brown, Nancy Marie -- Travel.
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Fairies.

TRAVEL / Europe / Nordic Countries / Iceland & Greenland

Iceland.

Travel writing.

Brown, Nancy Marie -- Travel.
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How Iceland's elves can help save the earth
Summary:
"Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh?, asks Nancy Marie Brown, in this wonderfully quirky exploration of our interaction with nature. Looking for answers in history, science, religion, and art--from ancient times to today--Brown finds that each discipline defines what is real and unreal, natural and supernatural, demonstrated and theoretical, alive and inert. Each has its own way of perceiving and valuing the world around us. And each discipline defines what an Icelander might call an elf. Illuminated by her own encounters with Iceland's Otherworld--in ancient lava fields, on a holy mountain, beside a glacier or an erupting volcano, crossing the cold desert at the island's heart on horseback--Looking for the Hidden Folk offers an intimate conversation about how we look at and find value in nature. It reveals how the words we use and the stories we tell shape the world we see. It argues that our beliefs about the Earth will preserve--or destroy it. Scientists name our time the Anthropocene: the Human Age. Climate change will lead to the mass extinction of numerous animal species unless we humans change our course. Iceland suggests a different way of thinking about the Earth, one that offers hope. Icelanders believe in elves--and you should, too."--Amazon.com.
Title:
Looking for the hidden folk : how Iceland's elves can help save the earth

How Iceland's elves can help save the earth
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Looking for the hidden folk :
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Adult Non Fiction