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Under the Glacier

Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307429881
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Under the Glacier written by Halldor Laxness and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Snæfells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community that regards itself as the center of the world and where Creation itself is a work in progress. What is the emissary to make, for example, of the boarded-up church? What about the mysterious building that has sprung up alongside it? Or the fact that Pastor Primus spends most of his time shoeing horses? Or that his wife, Ua (pronounced “ooh-a,” which is what men invariably sputter upon seeing her), is rumored never to have bathed, eaten, or slept? Piling improbability on top of improbability, Under the Glacier overflows with comedy both wild and deadpan as it conjures a phantasmagoria as beguiling as it is profound.

Glaciers

Author : Alexis M. Smith
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1953534988
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Glaciers written by Alexis M. Smith and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vulture Best Short Book A She Reads Indie Book Club Pick for Summer “Alexis Smith’s brilliant debut novel is filled with kaleidoscopic pleasures. Line by line, in and out of time, this is a haunted, joyful, beautiful book—a true gift.” —Karen Russell “Her story could be told in other people’s things. The postcards and the photographs. A garnet ring and a needlepoint of the homestead. The aprons hanging from her kitchen door. Her soft, faded, dog-eared copy of Little House in the Big Woods. A closet full of dresses sewn before she was born. All these things tell a story, but is it hers?” Isabel is a single twenty-something in Portland, Oregon, who repairs damaged books in the basement of the local library, dreaming of a life she can’t quite reach. She is filled with longing—for a life in Amsterdam even though she’s never visited, for the unrequited love of a coworker, for a simpler time from her childhood in Alaska among the threatened glaciers she loves, and for the perfect vintage dress to wear to a party that just might change everything. Unfolding over the course of a single day, Alexis M. Smith’s shimmering debut finds Isabel looking into her past—remembering her parents’ separation, a meeting with an astrologer, and a life-changing encounter with a glacier—and shows us how fleeting, everyday moments can reveal an entire life. In classic movies, in old photographs and unsent postcards, rare books, and thrifted gems, Glaciers tells the story of a young woman’s love of the past and a hope to make something new and all her own.

Bodies from the Ice

Author : James M. Deem
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618800452
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Bodies from the Ice written by James M. Deem and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "Bodies from the Ash" and "Bodies from the Bog" takes readers on a captivating and creepy journey to learn about glaciers, hulking masses of moving ice that are now offering up many secrets of the past. Full color.

World Light

Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307430316
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book World Light written by Halldor Laxness and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificently humane novel from the acclaimed Icelandic Nobel Prize winner: as an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation, the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are to be revered. Over the ensuing years, Olaf comes to lead the paradigmatic poet’s life of poverty, loneliness, ruinous love affairs and sexual scandal. But he will never attain anything like greatness. As imagined by Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness in this extraordinary novel, what might be cruel farce achieves pathos and genuine exaltation. For as Olaf’s ambition drives him onward—and into the orbits of an unstable spiritualist, a shady entrepreneur, and several susceptible women—World Light demonstrates how the creative spirit can survive in even the most crushing environment and even the most unpromising human vessel.

On Time and Water

Author : Andri Snær Magnason
Publisher : Icelandic Literature
ISBN 13 : 9781948830539
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book On Time and Water written by Andri Snær Magnason and published by Icelandic Literature. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that will make you understand what our future holds for us, if we don't act immediately.

Independent People

Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679767924
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Independent People written by Halldor Laxness and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1997-01-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, a magnificent, epic novel—"funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant" (Annie Proulx)—at last available to contemporary American readers. Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.

Glaciers

Author : Jorge Daniel Taillant
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199367256
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Glaciers written by Jorge Daniel Taillant and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though not traditionally thought of as key natural resource, glaciers are a crucial part of both our global ecosystem and the sustaining of life around the world. Comprising three quarters of the world's fresh water, they freeze in the winter and melt in the summer, supplying water that is plentiful enough for agriculture and clean enough to drink. Without them, many of the planet's rivers would run dry shortly after the winter snow-melt. In fact, a single mid-sized glacier in regions like California, Argentina, India, Kyrgyzstan, or Chile can provide an entire community with drinking water for generations. On the other hand, when global temperatures rise not only does glacier ice wither away into the oceans, but these massive ice bodies can become unstable and cause severe natural events like glacier tsunamis. But glaciers often exist well outside our environmental consciousness, and they are mostly unprotected from atmospheric impacts from transportation emissions, or from industrial threats such as the mining industry, which seeks the precious metals that lie beneath them. Glaciers: The Politics of Ice is a scientific, cultural, and political examination of the cryosphere -- the earth's ice -- and the environmental policies that aim to protect it. Jorge Daniel Taillant discusses the debates and negotiations behind the passing of the world's first glacier-protection law in the mid-2000s, and reveals the tension between the industry experts, politicians, and glacier conservationists. The book provides the basic environmental science behind glaciers, outlines current and future risks to their preservation, and reveals the intriguing politics behind the debate over glacier policies and laws. Taillant also makes suggestions on what can be done to preserve these crucial sources of fresh water, from both a scientific and policymaking standpoint. Glaciers is a new window into one of the earth's most crucial natural resources, and a call to reawaken our interest in the world's changing climate.

The Secret Lives of Glaciers

Author : M. Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996267670
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Lives of Glaciers written by M. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our planet has over 400,000 glaciers and ice caps scattered across its surface, some 5.8 million square miles of ice. Fascinatingly, where there are glaciers, there are people, and the two have been interacting for the entirety of human history. But we know so little about that interaction, those human stories of glaciers. The Secret Lives of Glaciers explores glacier diversity in Iceland, highlighting the rich social and cultural context and variability amongst glaciers and people. Investigating glaciers and people together teaches us about how human society experiences being in the world today amidst increasing climatic changes and anthropogenic transformation of all of Earth's systems.

The Glaciers are Melting!

Author : Donna Love
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607181262
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book The Glaciers are Melting! written by Donna Love and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Pik and his friends Tammy Ptarmigan, Sally Squirrel, Mandy Marmot, and Harry Hare, all wonder what will happen to them if the glaciers melt.

Paradise Reclaimed

Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307427234
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Paradise Reclaimed written by Halldor Laxness and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nobel Prize winner comes a captivating novel about an idealistic Icelandic farmer who journeys to Mormon Utah and back in search of paradise. • "Full of an earthy poetry...a style wonderfully wise and entirely Scandinavian in its combination of magic and reality." —The New York Times Book Review • With an introduction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. The quixotic hero of this long-lost classic is Steinar of Hlidar, a generous but very poor man who lives peacefully on a tiny farm in nineteenth-century Iceland with his wife and two adoring young children. But when he impulsively offers his children's beloved pure-white pony to the visiting King of Denmark, he sets in motion a chain of disastrous events that leaves his family in ruins and himself at the other end of the earth, optimistically building a home for them among the devout polygamists in the Promised Land of Utah. By the time the broken family is reunited, Laxness has spun his trademark blend of compassion and comically brutal satire into a moving and spellbinding enchantment, composed equally of elements of fable and folkore and of the most humble truths.

A Child's Glacier Bay

Author : Kimberly Corral
Publisher : Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
ISBN 13 : 0882405039
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book A Child's Glacier Bay written by Kimberly Corral and published by Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two young Alaskans travel with their parents on a three-week sea kayaking journey along more than 200 miles of coastline of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.

Iceland's Bell

Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307426319
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Iceland's Bell written by Halldor Laxness and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish colony, suffering under extreme poverty, famine, and plague. A farmer and accused cord-thief named Jon Hreggvidsson makes a bawdy joke about the Danish king and soon after finds himself a fugitive charged with the murder of the king’s hangman. In the years that follow, the hapless but resilient rogue Hreggvidsson becomes a pawn entangled in political and personal conflicts playing out on a far grander scale. Chief among these is the star-crossed love affair between Snaefridur, known as “Iceland’s Sun,” a beautiful, headstrong young noblewoman, and Arnas Arnaeus, the king’s antiquarian, an aristocrat whose worldly manner conceals a fierce devotion to his downtrodden countrymen. As their personal struggle plays itself out on an international stage, Laxness creates a Dickensian canvas of heroism and venality, violence and tragedy, charged with narrative enchantment on every page. Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, Iceland's Ball is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire.

Stories of Ice

Author : Lynn Martel
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781771603898
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Stories of Ice written by Lynn Martel and published by Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the state of global ice constantly in the news, one mountain journalist examines Canadian glaciers to uncover their secrets and their future. From a mother/daughter duo who spent five months skiing across icefields from Vancouver to Alaska, to scientists discovering biofilms deep inside glacier caverns, to protesters camping for weeks to protect their beloved local glacier, western Canada's glaciers are dynamic, enigmatic, exquisitely beautiful, sometimes dangerous environments where people play, work, run businesses, explore, and create art every single day. Author Lynn Martel is one of them. With gorgeous images by some of the country's best outdoor photographers, Stories of Ice shares the excitement, the mystery, and the wonder of Canada's glaciers and poses questions about their future.

Glaciers of Alaska

Author : Alaska Geographic Association
Publisher : Alaska Northwest Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Glaciers of Alaska written by Alaska Geographic Association and published by Alaska Northwest Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaska Geographic is an award-winning series that presents the people, places, and wonders of Alaska to the world. Over the past 30 years, Alaska Geographic has earned its reputation as the publication for those who love Alaska. The series boasts more than 100 books to date, featuring communities from Barrow to Ketchikan, animals from bears to dinosaurs, history from the Russian explorers to today, and natural phenomena from the aurora to glaciers. Written by leading experts in their fields, these books are illustrated throughout with world-class photography and include colorful maps for reference.

Oraefi

Author : Ófeigur Sigurðsson
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1941920683
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Oraefi written by Ófeigur Sigurðsson and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austrian toponymist Bernhardt Fingerberg makes his way back to civilization following a solo expedition out on Vatnajokull Glacier, barely alive. While recuperating, Dr. Lassi digs into the scholar's strange trek into the treacherous mountainous wasteland of Iceland: Öræfi. Was he really researching place names out there, or retracing the footsteps of a 20-year-old crime involving someone very close to him?

Glacier's Historic Hotels & Chalets

Author : Ray Djuff
Publisher : Farcountry Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560371700
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Glacier's Historic Hotels & Chalets written by Ray Djuff and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces creation and use of Great Northern Railway's hotels and chalet colonies in Glacier National Park, and Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton Lakes National Park. Anecdotes, inside correspondence, and park and corporate lore. Covers history of Great Northern in the parks, and histories of: Belton ChaletsCut Bank ChaletsGlacier Park LodgeGoathaunt ChaletGoing-to-the-Sun ChaletsGranite Park ChaletsGunsight ChaletsLake McDonald LodgeMany Glacier HotelPrince of Wales HotelRising Sun Auto CabinsSt. Mary ChaletsSperry ChaletsSwiftcurrent Auto CabinsTwo Medicine ChaletsGenerously illustrated with color photographs of Great Northern promotional materials, and black-and-whites of guests and staff at play and work.

Glacier Science and Environmental Change

Author : Peter G. Knight
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470750235
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Glacier Science and Environmental Change written by Peter G. Knight and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glacier Science and Environmental Change is an authoritative and comprehensive reference work on contemporary issues in glaciology. It explores the interface between glacier science and environmental change, in the past, present, and future. Written by the world’s foremost authorities in the subject and researchers at the scientific frontier where conventional wisdom of approach comes face to face with unsolved problems, this book provides: state-of-the-art reviews of the key topics in glaciology and related disciplines in environmental change cutting-edge case studies of the latest research an interdisciplinary synthesis of the issues that draw together the research efforts of glaciologists and scientists from other areas such as geologists, hydrologists, and climatologists color-plate section (with selected extra figures provided in color at www.blackwellpublishing.com/knight). The topics in this book have been carefully chosen to reflect current priorities in research, the interdisciplinary nature of the subject, and the developing relationship between glaciology and studies of environmental change. Glacier Science and Environmental Change is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate research students, and professional researchers in glaciology, geology, geography, geophysics, climatology, and related disciplines.