I believe that the contents will resonate with members of several scholarly communities, not just those interested in Nordic landscapes, literature, environ- mental ethics, human ecology, social theory, and biology but also in visualization, place memory, creativity, and therapeutic landscape. I can envision it being used for interdisciplinary seminars, formulating research agendas, and public television documentaries. I would strongly encourage the editors and publishers to consider another volume whichwouldincludethecontributionsofphotographers,poets,novelists,musicians, artists, and those who study spiritual and nonhuman worlds. Certainly, these professionals have as much to say about language, representation, human ecology, climate change, indigenous belief systems, encroaching globalization, and gender/ culture interfaces as those disciplines represented in this volume. Also, I strongly recommend the editors and publishers to provide a DVD or CD for those of us interested in circumpolar environments to ‘see and hear’ the landscapes around us. These ‘conversations’ need to include more than familiar visual landscapes, but also the soundscapes of climate change (ice chunks breaking off the Greenland ice cap), the silent breeding grounds of diminishing endangered species, the last speaker of a soon-to-be-extinct indigenous language, malls with new diaspora shoppers, the conversations of the visual, and the hearing impaired, and the cacophonies of zoos, sporting events, and youth cybercafe´s. Conversations, or ways of conversing, are both visible and invisible, words and gestures. Finally, the publisher might use this volume to develop a series of ‘conversation/landscape’ books in major world regions; these would broaden our thinking of our conversations across the earth and biological sciences, the visual and auditory arts, and humanities. Stanley D. Brunn Department of Geography University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0027, USA brunn@uky.edu # 2011, Stanley D. Brunn Iceland imagined: nature, culture, and storytelling in the North Atlantic by Karen Oslund, by William Cronon, Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 2011, 260 pp., US$35.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-295-99083-5 Prior to the middle of the eighteenth century, Iceland and North Atlantic were viewed as the exotic and wild periphery of Europe. Mainland Europe’s ‘wild North’ laynotonlyatthefringesofmapsofthecontinent,oftenbeingentirelyexcludedfor cartographic convenience, but also at the fringes of mental maps of European cultural space. Much of the early mental geography of this region was based on myths,sagas,andconstructedimagesratherthanactualresearchbypeoplewhohad traveled to these regions. Karen Oslund’s wonderful, easy-to-read book narrates the transformation of Europe’s northern edge from a wild frontier populated by dangerous and primitive inhabitants to becoming fully a part of Europe. It is an environmental history of Iceland and the North Atlantic, which, in addition to Iceland includes Greenland, northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands, but more of a 216 Book Reviews