ISBN:
9780393881011
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (199 pages)
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DDC:
306.091813
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
An entertaining and informative voyage through cultural fantasies of the North, from sea monsters and a mountain-sized magnet to racist mythmaking.
Abstract:
Intro -- Title -- Contents -- Dedication -- The Northern Unicorn -- Beyond the Borders of the Known World -- Left of Sunrise -- Onerous Journeys to Lands of the Midnight Sun -- Northern Wonderland -- Tired of the South: The New Love Affair with the North -- Discovering the Norse Myths -- A Confidence Man and a Blind Bard -- The Scent of the Arctic -- When East Was North -- Climate Makes the Man -- Shot Through with Gods and Demons -- "To the North Its End Shall Be Cast" -- The Dubious Cradle of Humanity -- The Tactics of Indigenous Peoples -- A Distant Atlantic Island -- Victorians and Vikings -- Arctic Mania and the Discovery of America -- Dramatic Cliffs and Kaleidoscopic Waves -- "For God's Sake, Don't Look Down!" -- The Farthest North -- The Fin de Siècle: Great Expanses and Wind! -- Developing Nordic Proclivities Further -- The Abyss of "Racial Science" -- "Aryan" Brothers in the South -- Scandinavia, Anti-Fascist Bulwark -- Before the Second World War -- The Eternal Longing for the Cold Apocalypse -- The Bible Is Right After All -- The True North -- Last Diamonds -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright.
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