Part history, part journey into memory and myth, The New Icelanders is a collage of photos and remembrances exploring a singular segment of the North American Icelandic community a people who, in 1875, left their island of glaciers and volcanoes to settle the farms, cities and towns of the Canadian and American midwest, establishing the Republic of New Iceland on the shores of Lake Winnipeg. Today, their descendants number over 50,000. The New Icelanders is a unique celebration of their ethnic experience through archival photographs, interviews, and cultural and factual documents.
The New Icelanders includes "The Myth of Beginnings," an essay about the earliest settlement, the establishment and de-establishment of New Iceland, essays and personal histories of Icelandic settlers, selections from settlers' letters and diaries, Icelandic folklore and festivals, early newspaper reports, songs, recipes, illustrations, photos, and a fold-out map of The Republic of New Iceland, complete with original farm and family names.
Turnstone Press Ltd.
