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Title: Museum of Whales You Will Never See, The: Travels among the collectors of Iceland
Author: GREENE A KENDRA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 31/08/2021
Imprint: GRANTA
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
Meet the obsessives and dreamers of this remote island nation, and travel through the collections of Iceland’s eclectic museums and into its curious past.
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.
ISBN: 9781783785940
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 272