Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Joep LEERSSEN: Foreword Ólafur Ragnar GRÍMSSON: Images of the North: Address by the President of Iceland Waldemar ZACHARASIEWICZ: The Theory of Climate and the North in Anglophone Literatures Sherrill GRACE: Canada and its Images of North Ármann JAKOBSSON: Food and the North-Icelandic Identity in 13th century Iceland and Norway W. Tad PFEFFER: People and Place in the Far North: A Vision of Life, Community and Change Karen OSLUND: Of Whales and Men: Images of Iceland and the North Atlantic in Contemporary Whaling Politics Kirsten HASTRUP: Images of Thule: Maps and Metaphors in Polar Exploration Edward H. HUIJBENS & Karl BENEDIKTSSON: Geared for the Sublime: Mobile Images of the North Karin SCHAER: From Hell to Homeland: Eggert Ólafsson’s Reise igiennem Island and the Construction of Icelandic Identity Annie DUFFY: The Natural Resource Industry Visual Impact Paradox: A Perspective on Alaskan Imagery and Art Sumarliði R. ÍSLEIFSSON: Icelandic National Images in the 19th and 20th Centuries Diana PETKOVA: Images of the North from a Distance Christopher M. FLETCHER: Inuit Symbols and Canadian Nationhood in the Imagined North Timothy PURSELL & Maureen P. HOGAN: Alaska’s Eternal Frontier: Rural Masculinity and Landscape Nostalgia Unnur Dís SKAPTADÓTTIR & Kristín LOFTSDÓTTIR: Cultivating Culture? Images of Iceland, Globalization and Multicultural Society Christophe PONS: The Use of Images in Aniconic Societies: Occultism, Protestantism and Imagination in Iceland Lisa Ann FAVERO: Perfomances of Scale: Visual Culture and Site-Specifi c Art in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Era Kristinn SCHRAM: The Wild Wild North: The Narrative Cultures of Image Construction in Media and Everyday Life Sarah S. MCCONNELL & Debbie Mekiana TOOPETLOOK: Welcome to Anaktuvuk Pass! Katla KJARTANSDÓTTIR: Remote, Rough and Romantic: Contemporary Images of Iceland in Visual, Oral and Textual Narrations Index