The Passenger Islanda

The Passenger Islanda, Iceland a new editorial initiative by Iperborea is a book-magazine dedicated to all explorers of the world and it starts its first literary touristic-trip-guide with the most ancestral place of this world: Iceland.
Isolated by the rest of the world, Iceland is known for its great culture, affectionate language, because it is possible to admire a primordial nature, where, who visited Iceland can tell you everyone are relaxed, animals included! and where a landscape can changes abruptly because this one is a young country populated by many volcanoes.

With a lot of irony, and fun, we will discover thanks to various and diversified chapters of this book a land loved so badly. We will discover the respect of peasants for the duck somateria mollissima and the wonderful feathers that they love to remove (just at bit) at these ducks. These feathers are so warm and they will become expensive clothes and blankets for very rich people.

If they would be less expensive...

No sure if you knew that but time ago Gnarr a famous comedian, was also the mayor of the capital of Iceland, Reykjavik.
His party, The Best Party, wanted to be an answer at the establishment and common political parties, unable to bring answers.
Icelanders lived a terrible period of crisis, because of its banks and because of the eruption of the volcano, that brought us less smog in the air for some days and the old blue sky I knew when I was little ;-) with, of course enormous problems for business, planned trips.

They joked for all the electoral campaign and they won with great success.
Astonished and scared at first, these group of not-at-all-politicians were in grade to re-put things in order and also if Gnarr is not anymore in policy, (some of these so-called punk are still in policy) he remembers that years with joy and excitement.

We will discover that the language is sacred for this land, and Icelanders are trying the same experiment of France: to preserve their tongue like warriors although heavily and massively attached by a language, english, commonly used.

Tourism the first hilarious chapter, that will let you laugh a lot.

Icelanders for trying to resuscitate the country and their bad economy from the crisis of the past years tried with a card, tourism, with great success and hilarious conclusions!

Last, but not least did you know that Icelanders developed a special app for trying to discover if they go to bed sometimes with distant cousins or relatives? Most of Icelanders have the same blood in common.

Most of them have written a book; they're avid readers, in general they change work a lot of time in their life, let's add also that they're great creators of songs, musical bands, singers, and fishermen of course..

Interesting, funny, there is much more to discover, and I know that you will simply love to read this book!

Other editions of The Passenger, six every year will be released soon and they will involve at first Holland,  then Japan, Norway, Argentina and Portugal. Stay tuned!

Highly recommended.

I thank Iperborea for the physical copy of this book.


Anna Maria Polidori