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Bernd Brunner

Extreme North: A Cultural History

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An entertaining and informative voyage through cultural fantasies of the North, from sea monsters and a mountain-sized magnet to racist mythmaking.Scholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man's-land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cradle of prehistoric human life. Bernd Brunner reconstructs the encounters of adventurers, colonists, and indigenous communities that led to the creation of a northern cabinet of wonders” and imbued Scandinavia, Iceland, and the Arctic with a perennial mystique.Like the mythological sagas that inspired… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Chase, Jefferson (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-393-88101-1
  • EAN: 9780393881011
  • Produktnummer: 36882161
  • Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Abbildungen: 12 illustrations

Über den Autor


Bernd Brunner is an historian, lecturer, and author of many acclaimed books whose work has also appeared in Lapham's Quarterly, the Paris Review, and Aeon, among other outlets. He splits his time between Istanbul and Berlin.

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