- Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation
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For the film based on the book, see Dreamland (2009 film).
Draumalandið - Sjálfshjálparbók handa hræddri þjóð Author(s) Andri Snær Magnason Original title Draumalandið Country Iceland Language Icelandic Publisher Mál og menning, Reykjavík Publication date 2006 ISBN 9979327383 OCLC Number 185021869 LC Classification DL326 .A53 2006 Dreamland - A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation Author(s) Andri Snær Magnason Translator Nicholas Jones Country England Language English Publisher Citizen Press Ltd. London Publication date 2008 ISBN 9780955136320
Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation is a book written by the Icelandic author Andri Snær Magnason. It became the number one best-selling book in Iceland in 2006, and received the Winner of the Icelandic Literary Award, and Winner of the Icelandic Bookseller Prize the same year Andri Snær Magnason. The English edition of the book has a foreword by the Icelandic artist Björk. The Icelandic version's title is Draumalandið - sjálfshjálparbók handa hræddri þjóð (English: Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation).Content
Andri Snær speaker at a protest meeting
Dreamland is Andri Snaer Magnason's critique against the current decision taken by the Icelandic government to build out Iceland's rivers in order to produce energy that can be delivered to aluminium factories. Magnason describes how Iceland's government actively have pursued the idea to attract foreign aluminium companies to Iceland with the promise of the "cheapest energy in the world". The government advertisement described Iceland's energy potential as 30 TWh/year. Magnason argues in the book that in order to accomplish this, the majority of Iceland's rivers would need to be exploited, with the consequence that some of Iceland's most known waterfalls such as Dettifoss which is Europe's most powerful waterfall, and Gullfoss which together with Thingvellir and Geyser makes up the golden circle.
It is set up as a series of thoughts on issues in modern Iceland and the past Iceland and deals heavily with the Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Project and other similar works being done. It was the best sold book in Iceland in 2006 and raised Icelanders' interest in environmentalism by a large amount. In the book the Icelandic nation is encouraged to look to more "futuristic" types of business than aluminium processing and to stop believing that they can't do anything for themselves.
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Categories:- Icelandic books
- Environmentalism in Iceland
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