The Little Book of the Icelanders in the Old Days Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox Caught between the past and

Caught between the past and an uncertain future

000-mile journey back to England via the foreboding jungles of Papua New Guinea

If the occasional curse word makes you cringe

with dreams of making it big in Hollywood

The Little Book of the Icelanders in the Old Days Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox Caught between the past andIceland in centuries past was a formidable place to live. Situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the edge of the inhabitable world, the nation was both isolated and abjectly poor. Centuries of colonization translated into oppression and subjugation from the colonial overlords, and a hostile climate and repeated natural disasters meant that mere survival was a challenge to even the hardiest of souls. In these 50 miniature essays, Alda Sigmundsdottir