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Looking for the Hidden Folk

- How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth
Af: Nancy Marie Brown Engelsk Paperback

Looking for the Hidden Folk

- How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth
Af: Nancy Marie Brown Engelsk Paperback
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*A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE*

"An impassioned, informative love letter to Iceland." — New York Times Book Review

" This compelling and highly readable book offers a thought-provoking examination of nature of belief itself" — Bookpage , starred review

In exploring how Icelanders interact with nature—and their idea that elves live among us—Nancy Marie Brown shows us how altering our perceptions of the environment can be a crucial first step toward saving it.

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.
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*A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE*

"An impassioned, informative love letter to Iceland." — New York Times Book Review

" This compelling and highly readable book offers a thought-provoking examination of nature of belief itself" — Bookpage , starred review

In exploring how Icelanders interact with nature—and their idea that elves live among us—Nancy Marie Brown shows us how altering our perceptions of the environment can be a crucial first step toward saving it.

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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9781639365746
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1639365745
Kategori: Kulturstudier
Udg. Dato: 23 nov 2023
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 209mm
Højde: 138mm
Forlag: Pegasus Books
Oplagsdato: 23 nov 2023
Forfatter(e): Nancy Marie Brown
Forfatter(e) Nancy Marie Brown

Kategori Kulturstudier

ISBN-13 9781639365746

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 288

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 209mm

Højde 138mm

Udg. Dato 23 nov 2023

Oplagsdato 23 nov 2023

Forlag Pegasus Books