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Reykjavik (Innercities Cultural Guides)
Gerard Lemarquis
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Description for Reykjavik (Innercities Cultural Guides)
Paperback. Cultural guide to this unique city, the most northerly capital city in the world Series: Innercities Cultural Guides. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DNC; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
Founded by Viking adventurers around AD 870, Reykjavik, the most northerly capital city in the world, is paradoxically a young city. Though it is home to the Althing, one of the oldest existing democratic institutions in the world, it was not until the eighteenth century that it developed from an isolated fishing village into a small town. It survived natural disasters and famine, a harsh climate and foreign meddling. Impoverished and marginalized under Danish rule, it was only with the Second World War, occupation by Allied forces and independence that Reykjavik grew into an important commercial and cultural centre. ... Read more
Founded by Viking adventurers around AD 870, Reykjavik, the most northerly capital city in the world, is paradoxically a young city. Though it is home to the Althing, one of the oldest existing democratic institutions in the world, it was not until the eighteenth century that it developed from an isolated fishing village into a small town. It survived natural disasters and famine, a harsh climate and foreign meddling. Impoverished and marginalized under Danish rule, it was only with the Second World War, occupation by Allied forces and independence that Reykjavik grew into an important commercial and cultural centre. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Signal Books Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Innercities Cultural Guides
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908493828
SKU
V9781908493828
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Ref
99-50
About Gerard Lemarquis
Gerard Lemarquis is a journalist and translator who has lived in Reykjavik since the 1970s. He was formerly the Iceland correspondent for Agence France Presse and is correspondent for Le Monde.
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