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The Museum of Whales You Will Never See - Travels Among the Collectors of Iceland (Paperback)
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The Museum of Whales You Will Never See - Travels Among the Collectors of Iceland (Paperback)
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Loot Price R244
Discovery Miles 2 440
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Welcome to Iceland, a very small nation with a very large number
(two hundred and sixty five) of (mostly) very small museums.
Founded in the backyards of houses, begun as jokes or bets or
memorials to lost friends, these museums tell the story of an
enchanted island where bridges arrived only at the beginning of the
20th century, and waterproof shoes only with the second world war.
A nation formerly dirt poor, then staggeringly rich, and now
building its way to affluence once again. A nation where, in the
remote and wild places, you might encounter still a shore laddie, a
sorcerer or a ghost. From Reykjavik's renowned Phallological Museum
to a house of stones on the eastern coast; from the curious
monsters which roam the remote shores of Bildudalur to a museum of
whales which proves impossible to find, here is an enchanted story
of obsession, curation, and the peculiar magic of this isolated
island.
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