Incredible Iceland by Mary Walker

Incredible Iceland by Mary Walker

An account of a road trip around Iceland, a precariously habitable land in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, torn apart by volcanic forces and home to the Icelanders, descendents of Viking and Celtic colonists.

Most people who arrive in Iceland do not venture far from the capital, Reykjav k, but Mary Jane travels right around the island (though there is still more to be seen, next time )

By the author of the award-winning Neglected North Island: New Zealand's Other Half.

Mary Jane Walker is a writer of historically well-informed travel memoirs, with her own unique voice. A Maverick Cuban Way is the third book in a series of eight. Mary Jane always wanted to visit Cuba, an island which conjures up images of revolution, romance and roaming back in time. Being a Maverick, it is just so fitting to go to Cuba, an island which rejected America's way of doing things. So too did the author's home country New Zealand, in a smaller way: it rejected visits from nuclear-powered submarines (Mary Jane at age 15 kicked one of these) and vessels carrying nuclear weapons, and declared itself nuclear free, and was excluded from a military alliance because of that. Mary Jane travelled the whole island in three weeks and loved it. She was in a beachside restaurant when Harry Belafonte turned up; went to the Sierra Maestro Mountains where Fidel hid as a guerrilla for 18 months; and climbed Pico Turquino, the highest peak in Cuba. She met and spoke with taxi drivers, academics and locals from all over Cuba. Though the country is poor many are happy, and do not want to see a society with a major income divide re-emerge.

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ISBN 13	9780473589820
ISBN 10	0473589826
Title	Incredible Iceland
Author	Mary Walker
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Maverick Traveller Ltd
Year published	2021-10-26
Number of pages	162
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