Daughter of Fire: A Portrait of Iceland

Boston, MA USA and Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book in Good Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. "'Daughter of Fire' unfolds both a natural and a human history of the mid-Atantic island. from her first emergence out of the ocean. through the shaping of her landscape by the violent forces of volcanoes, glaciers, storms, and ocean, to the formation of her remarkable farmers' republic by Viking warriors of the tenth century and her turbulent history from that day to the present. Scherman focuses on the body of literature which flowered at the time of Europe's Dark Ages: the famous Icelandic histories, skaldic verse, family sagas, and the incomparable Eddas. Binding of blue half cloth with bright and sharp gilt titles, lighter blue paper-wrapped boards, quite clean with light sunning along upper and lower edges. Endpapers the same lovely shade of blue. Clean, tight, solid sewn binding. Upper edge of text block speckled. Fore-edge and lower edge are foxed. Endpapers the same lovely shade of blue as the boards. Internals are quite clean and free from any markings, no creasing. Unclipped jacket has an illustration of an Icelandic town; clean and unmarked, one chip to spine head, light wear to spine heel. KEY WORDS: SAINT BRENDAN, INGOLF ARNARSON ALTHING, LEIF ERKISSON, SAEMUND SIGFUSSON, ARI THORGILSSON, JON ARASON, NORWAY, DANISH RULE, LUTHERAN REFORMATION, LAKI, DENMARK, SURTSEY, ICELANDIC MANUSCRIPTS, HEIMAEY. 364 pages with Chronology and Index. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Little, Brown and Company, published simultaneously in Boston, MA USA and Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1976.