Reading this book one feels as if to enter Icelandic spaces. The authors engage their subject matter in a way that is almost visceral, close up yet almost in awe in a country of huge spaces. Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir's 'Conversations with ourselves in metaphysical experience of nature' directly addresses the matter of sublime, while Emily Brady's chapter offers a challenge to the largely celebratory writing of landscape in acknowledging the terror of beauty and its potential ugliness. Emotions and human subjectivities are at work here. In 16 rich, enjoyable chapters, various disciplines work explanations and the feeling of landscape through a general notion of relationality in the guise of conversations into a 'liveliness'.
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