"Islandology" is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in
critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across
different cultures and argues for a world of islands. The book
explores the logical consequences of geographic place for the
development of philosophy and the study of limits (Greece) and for
the establishment of North Sea democracy (England and Iceland),
explains the location of military hot-spots and great cities
(Hormuz and Manhattan), and sheds new light on dozens of
world-historical productions whose motivating islandic aspect has
not heretofore been recognized (Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Wagner's
"Ring of the Nibelung"). Written by Shell in view of the melting of
the world's great ice islands, "Islandology" shows not only new
ways that we think about islands but also why and how we think by
means of them.
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