Description: CONDITION: NEW 2022 Pegasus hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. 2 color photo sections plus B&W photos throughout. Decorated end pages. CONTENT: 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. [SELLERS NOTE: The term Anthropocene has been rejected by The Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (Geology group). We are still in the Cenozoic Era which began 66 million years ago. The suggestion came from findings in a Canadian lake] Shipping via USPS media mail within 2 days of order. All books clean. Questions welcome & answered.
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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Book Title: Looking For the Hidden Folk
Book Series: Travel
Item Length: 8.2 in
Original Language: English
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: 2022-10-04
Language: English
Item Height: 1.3 in
Personalized: No
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated, 2 Color photo sections, B&W photos throughout, Decorated End pages, Blue Boards
Topic: Environment, Environmental Issues, Environmental Protection, Travel Writing, Folklore & Mythology, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Europe / Iceland & Greenland
Item Width: 5.5 in
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Intended Audience: Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
California Prop 65 Warning: NONE
Pages: 288
Publication Year: 2022
Type: Non-Fiction: Travel
Literary Movement: Travel & Environment
Illustrator: Yes
Era: Cenozoic
Author: Nancy Marie Brown
Genre: Environment, Nature & Earth, Folklore & Mythology, History, Travel, Social Science
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
