The Glaciers of Iceland
A Historical, Cultural and Scientific Overview
Authors: Björnsson, Helgi
Free Preview- The only book providing a comprehensive systematic account of all main glaciers of IcelandThe first book integrating the story of active glaciers with the life of Icelanders, their history language and culture
- The book explains how research into the glaciers of Iceland may be used as a model for studies on the response of glaciers to climate changeThe book contains a large collection of illustrations and data
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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 Vatnajökull, 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 the world of nature, the perceptions of art and culture with the systematic and pragmatic analyses of science, The Glaciers of Iceland present a wide spectrum of readers with a new and stimulating view of the origins, development and possible future of these massive natural phenomena, as well as the study and role of glaciology, within specific time lines and geographical locations. Icelandic glaciers the author argues could prove essential for understanding the current unsettling progress of global warming. The glaciers of Iceland, therefore, aims at presenting to a wide readership an original, historical, cultural and scientific overview of these geophysical features in Iceland while also suggesting increasingly important lessons and models for man's future interaction with the world's glaciers as a whole.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Origins and Nature of Glaciers
Pages 3-37
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Reading the Landscape
Pages 39-101
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Iceland
Pages 103-127
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History of Glaciology in Iceland
Pages 129-207
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Glaciers of Southern Iceland
Pages 211-273
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Glaciers of Iceland
- Book Subtitle
- A Historical, Cultural and Scientific Overview
- Authors
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- Helgi Björnsson
- Translated by
- D'Arcy, J.M.
- Series Title
- Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science
- Series Volume
- 2
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Atlantis Press
- Copyright Holder
- Atlantis Press and the author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-6239-207-6
- DOI
- 10.2991/978-94-6239-207-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-6239-206-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIV, 613
- Number of Illustrations
- 75 b/w illustrations, 305 illustrations in colour
- Topics
