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100 1 $aMoss, Sarah.
245 00 $aNames for the sea :$bstrangers in Iceland.
264 1 $aBerkeley, Calif. :$bCounterpoint,,$c2013
264 4 $c©2012.
300 $a358 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $aNovelist Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University of Iceland and applied on a whim, despite having two young children and a comfortable life in an English cathedral city. The resulting adventure was shaped by Iceland's economic collapse, which halved the value of her salary, by the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull and by a collection of new friends, including a poet who saw the only bombs fall on Iceland in 1943, a woman who speaks to elves and a chef who guided Sarah's family around the intricacies of Icelandic cuisine. Sarah was drawn to the strangeness of Icelandic landscape, and explored hillsides of boiling mud, volcanic craters and fissures, and the unsurfaced roads that link remote farms and fishing villages in the far north. She walked the coast path every night after her children were in bed, watching the northern lights and the comings and goings of migratory birds. As the weeks and months went by, the children settled in local schools and Sarah got to know her students and colleagues, she and her family learned new ways to live.
505 0 $aIceland first seen -- Leave of absence -- Vestmannaeyjar -- Back to school -- Pétur's saga -- Winter -- The icesave thing -- Spring -- Eyjafjallajökull -- Vilborg -- The hidden people -- A small farm under a crag -- In search of the Kreppa -- Knitting and shame -- Last weekend -- Beautiful is the hillside.
600 10 $aMoss, Sarah$xHomes and haunts$zIceland.
600 10 $aMoss, Sarah$xFamily.
651 0 $aIceland$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aIceland$xSocial life and customs.
650 0 $aTravel writing$vAnecdotes.
651 0 $aEyjafjallajökull Volcano (Iceland)
852 00 $bglx$hDL315$i.M68 2013