01776cam a2200385 i 4500 610227864 TxGeo 20221121120000.0 220216t20222002||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781639362288 hbk. 1639362282 hbk. (OCoLC)1296945088 TxGeo rda Brown, Nancy Marie, author. Looking for the hidden folk : how Iceland's elves can help save the earth / Nancy Marie Brown. How Iceland's elves can help save the earth. First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. ©2002. New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2022. xiii, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274). Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh, asks Nancy Marie Brown in this wonderfully quirky exploration of our interaction with nature. Looking for answers in history, science, religion, and art - from ancient times to today - Brown finds that each discipline defines what is real and unreal, natural and supernatural, demonstrated and theoretical, alive and inert. Each has its own way of perceiving and valuing the world around us. And each discipline defines what an Icelander might call an elf"--Dustjacket flap. 20221213. Landscapes. Fairies. Elves. Iceland. QS5