Extreme North : A Cultural History

Name: Extreme North : A Cultural History
Brand: WW Norton & Co

WW Norton & Co

People have perennially projected their fantasies onto the North as a frozen no-man\u2019s-land full of marauding Vikings or as the unspoiled landscape of a purer, more elemental form of life.\nBernd Brunner recovers the encounters of adventurers with its dramatic vistas, fierce weather, exotic treasures and indigenous peoples\u2014and with the literary sagas that seemed to offer an alternate (\u201Cwhiter\u201D and \u201Csuperior\u201D) cultural origin story to those of decadent Greece or Rome, and the moralistic \u201CSemitic\u201D Bible. The Left has idealised Scandinavian social democracy. The Right borrows from a long history of crackpot theories of Northern origins. Nordic phenotypes characterised eugenics, which in turn influenced America\u2019s limits on immigration.\nThe North, Brunner argues, was as much invented as\n\nExtreme North\nA Cultural History\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services;