This first hand account of their emotional journey to her father's birthplace provides a beautifully written and very readable account of the geography, history, legend and pure contradiction of Iceland and her people's traditions and modern way of life. This engaging book allows you to explore the hectic, exciting city of Reykjavik and the more desolate and wild landscapes to the north whilst also showing the depth of history and cultural tradition the modern Icelandic culture is based upon. This book not only provides an unsentimental but tender portrait of a very private man who has been in the public eye fro over 25 years through the uncompromising eyes of his daughter but also introduces a beautiful country, which through brilliant writing, will provide you with an 'armchair journey' and may even inspire you to explore this magical place for yourself.
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In Sally's enjoyable and gently humorous travel book-cum-memoir, her father sounds as if his bark is much worse than his bite, and his country sounds like the perfect destination for fish-eater, fresh air fiends and fans of formidable foreign linguistics. - Val Hennessy, Daily Mail
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Höhe: 25 mm
Breite: 158 mm
Dicke: 242 mm
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978-0-340-86250-6 (9780340862506)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Sally Magnusson is a TV presenter and broadcaster. The daughter of Mastermind presenter Magnus Magnusson she was born near Glasgow where she still lives with her husband, the film director Norman Stone and their five children. Having worked on programmes such as Breakfast Time and Sixty Minutes Sally currently anchors Reporting Scotland as well as working on a range of other television programmes such as 4X4 and Hard Cash. She writes regularly for the newspapers as well as a monthly column in the personal finance magazine Moneywise and is the author of four previous books.
