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The Glaciers of Iceland: A Historical, Cultural and Scientific Overview
Helgi Bjornsson
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Description for The Glaciers of Iceland: A Historical, Cultural and Scientific Overview
Hardcover. Series: Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science. Num Pages: 637 pages, 75 black & white illustrations, 305 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DNC; RBGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 349 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1126.
This book is the first comprehensive overview and evaluation of the origins, history and current size and condition of all of Iceland's major glaciers (including Vatnajoekull, the largest in Europe) at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is not only illustrated with many beautiful photographs and graphs of recent statistics and scientific data, but is also a collection of historical writings and drawings from annals, sagas, folk tales, diaries, reports, stories and poems, as it presents a unique approach to the study of glaciers on an island in the North Atlantic. Balancing and comparing the world of man with ... Read more
This book is the first comprehensive overview and evaluation of the origins, history and current size and condition of all of Iceland's major glaciers (including Vatnajoekull, the largest in Europe) at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is not only illustrated with many beautiful photographs and graphs of recent statistics and scientific data, but is also a collection of historical writings and drawings from annals, sagas, folk tales, diaries, reports, stories and poems, as it presents a unique approach to the study of glaciers on an island in the North Atlantic. Balancing and comparing the world of man with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantis Press (Zeger Karssen)
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science
Condition
New
Weight
1126g
Number of Pages
613
Place of Publication
, Netherlands
ISBN
9789462392069
SKU
V9789462392069
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