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  • About
  • Poetry
    • Birdsongs
    • Flight from Manhattan
    • Landscape and Language
    • At First, At Last
    • The Ones Who Got Away
    • Occasional Verse
    • Other Published Poems 1
    • Other Published Poems 2
  • Selected Articles
    • About
    • The 400-Year Old Commune
    • The Ghent Altarpiece
    • Elizabeth Freeman
    • The Final Solution
    • Our Bones Shall +
    • Never Before a Case Like
    • Forgotten Patriots
    • Fire and Ice G P O
    • Iceland Be Dammed
  • Varia
    • The Invisible Nation
    • Libretti | with W. Russo
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    • Freydis Erik's-daughter
    • Notes on Switzerland
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Fire and Ice: Gudmundur Pall Olafsson

One man's response to threats agains Iceland's wilderness

One of several pieces Jon Swan wrote about Icelandic naturalist Gudmundur Páll Ólafsson and his efforts to stem the tide of industrial imposition on the Icelandic wilderness.

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