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Ísland Howells # 87769 [Forlagsband, kápa]

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Contents:
Ísland Howells - Howell´s Iceland. Höfundur texta Frank Ponzi. Hjörtur Pálsson þýddi á Íslensku.
Many Victorians made pilgrimages to the "land of the sagas" during the 19th century. One of them was Frederick W. W. Howell, a young, adventuresome British schoolmaster who would be the first to climb Iceland's highest elevation of Hvannadalshnúkur in 1891 and in 1899, the first to lead a walking-party across the glacier of Langjökull. As a guide to Victorian travellers he was to die in a drowning accident in 1901 leaving behind a legacy of glass-plate photographs. Besides portraying the land, its inhabitants and the sagasteads, these images also depicted the beginnings of change taking place to a long traditional way-of-life now virtually extinct. Using Howell's scattered photographs and a variety of visual and textual material, the author, art historian Frank Ponzi, evokes here Howell's brief life and an important decade of Icelandic history.
Having both English and Icelandic texts, this edition contains 214 pages of 376 photographs with additional illustrations and maps.

Product details:
Mosfellsbær. Brennholtsútgáfan, 2004.

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