Author: Lawrence Millman
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A Cure For Whatever Ails You
Let me begin with a confession: sales of my books don’t pay the rent, so I’m obliged to lead plant and…
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One Man’s Miracle
Möðrudalur, one of the most isolated farms in Iceland, lies under the icy nipple of Mt. Herðubreið in the northeastern…
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In The Giant Redwood Forests Of Iceland
Can the Icelandic Forest Service restore the nation’s long-lost tree cover?Visitors to Iceland seem to have no interest in the…
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The Last Emperor Of Atlantis Was An Icelander
Karl Kerulf Einarsson, aka Dunganon, aka the Duke of St. Kilda, aka Emperor Cormorant XII of Atlantis, was both an…
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Cemetery Erections
Beatrix Potter could not find the courage to draw one. Charles Darwin’s daughter Etty destroyed all the specimens she could…
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Grímsey: Hanging Out On The Arctic Circle
“You’re spending five days on Grímsey?”, a Reykjavík friend asked me in astonishment. “But there’s nothing to do there.” ”Precisely…
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Grímsey: Island Of Chess Players
Willard is not your typical Icelandic name, but until a few decades ago it was a not an uncommon name…
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Tangling With Tupilaks
A kayaker friend who’d just returned from East Greenland told me a very strange story. He said that a tupilak…