"Changing Ground." Travel writing about Iceland over a fifty year interval

• Main Author: Rósa María Sigurðardóttir 1966-
• Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Enska; Ferðasögur; Ísland; Auden; W. H. (Wystan Hugh); 1907-1973; MacNeice; Louis; 1907-1963; Letters from Iceland (bókartitill); Armitage; Simon; 1963-; Maxwell; Glyn; 1962-; Moon Country (bókartitill); Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/7345

This essay examines the relations between two travel books about Iceland, Letters from Iceland by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice that was published in 1937 and Moon Country: Further Reports from Iceland by Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell published in 1996. It observes the characteristics of each boo...