Looking for the hidden folk : how Iceland's elves can save the Earth
Brown, Nancy Marie2023
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Abstract: Icelanders believe in elves. Why? Looking for answers in history, science, religion, and art - from ancient times to today - Nancy Marie 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. Brown offers an intimate conversation about how we look at and find value in nature. She reveals how the words we use and the stories we tell shape the world we see. She argues that our beliefs about the Earth will preserve or destroy it. Icelanders believe in elves - and you should too.
Main title:
Looking for the hidden folk : how Iceland's elves can save the Earth / Nancy Marie Brown.
Author:
Brown, Nancy Marie, author
Edition:
First Pegasus Books paperback edition.
Imprint:
New York : Pegasus Books, 2023.©2022.
Collation:
xiii, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 21 cm.
Notes:
First published in hardcover: 2022.Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
A Note on LanguageOne. The Elf Lobby ; Icelanders Believe in Elves ; OtherworldsTwo. The Island that Likes to be Visited ; Thought and Memory ; Walking WithershinsThree. Windows ; Seeing is Believing ; The Volcano Show ; Send Cash, Not AshFour. Elf Stories ; Doors ; The House of the Steward ; A Kind TrollFive. Wonder ; A Soul Clad in Air ; A Sense of Place ; Everyone is an Artist.
ISBN:
9781639365746 (paperback)9781639362288 (hardback)
Dewey class:
914.91204914.912
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1971968