Following the natural cycle of the year, The Land of Maybe captures the essence of 'slow life' on the 18 remote, mysterious islands which make up the Faroes in the North Atlantic. Closer to the UK than Denmark, this fast disappearing world is home to a close-knit society where just 50,000 people share Viking roots and a language that is unlike any other in Scandinavia.

The Land of Maybe: A Faroe Islands Year

A pop-saturated epic novel about the second man on the moon, and the quiet thirty-year-old gardener who idolizes him. A story of unconventional psychiatry, the Faroe Islands, amateur boat building, and the journey across the space that divides us from other people: a journey as remote and dangerous as the trip to the moon itself.

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Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?

Having left the Faroes as a child, Jan Reyna is now a British police detective, and the islands are foreign to him. But he is drawn back when his estranged father is found unconscious with a shotgun by his side and someone else’s blood at the scene. Then a man’s body is washed up on an isolated beach. Is Reyna’s father responsible?

Looking for answers, Reyna falls in with local detective Hjalti Hentze. But as the stakes get higher and Reyna learns more about his family and the truth behind his mother’s flight from the Faroes, he must decide whether to stay, or to forsake the strange, windswept islands for good.

The Blood Strand (Faroes #1)

Jonathan Brand, a graduate student in anthropology, has decided to do his fieldwork in the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. But, despite his Harvard training, he can barely understand, let alone "study," the culture he encounters. From his struggles with the local cuisine to his affair with the Danish woman the locals want him to marry, Jonathan is both repelled by and drawn into the Faroese way of life. Wry and insightful, Far Afield reveals reveals Susanna Kaysen's gifts of imagination, satire, and compassion.

Far Afield

Stranded in a stormy corner of the North Atlantic midway between Norway and Iceland, the Faroe Islands are part of ""the unknown Western Europe""- a region of recent economic development and subnational peoples facing uncertain futures. This book tells the remarkable story of the Faroes' cultural survival since their Viking settlement in the early ninth century. At first an unruly little republic, the islands soon became tributary to Norway, dwindled into a Danish-Norwegian mercantilist fiefdom, and in 1816 were made a Danish province. Today, however, they are an internally self-governing Danish dependency, with a prosperous export fishery and a rich intellectual life carried out in the local language, Faroese. Jonathan Wylie, an anthropologist who has done extensive field work in the Faroes, creates here a vivid picture of everyday life and affairs of state over the centuries, using sources ranging from folkloric texts to parliamentary minutes and from census data to travelers' tales. He argues that the Faroes' long economic stagnation preserved an archaic way of life that was seriously threatened by their economic renaissance in the nineteenth century, especially as this was accompanied by a closer political incorporation into Denmark. The Faroese accommodated increasingly profound social change by selectively restating their literary and historical heritage. Their success depended on domesticating a Danish ideology glorifying ""folkish"" ways and so claiming a nationality separate from Denmark's. The book concludes by comparing the Faroes' nationality-without-nationhood to the contrasting situations of their closest neighbors, Iceland and Shetland. The Faroe Islands is an important contribution to Scandinavian as well as regional and ethnic studies and to the growing literature combining the insights and techniques of anthropology and history. Engagingly written and richly illustrated, it will also appeal to scholars in other fields and to anyone intrigued by the lands and peoples of the North.

The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History

"Captivating and wild. . . . There is a vast, oceanic narrative power in Jóanes Nielsen's Faroese chronicle "The Brahmadells"." —Anders Juhl Rasmussen

One of the first Faroese books to be translated into English, "The Brahmadells "is an epic novel chronicling the lives of a particular family—nicknamed "the Brahmadells"—against the larger history of the Faroe Islands, from the time of Danish rule, through its national awakening, to its independence.

Filled with colorful characters and various family intrigues, the novel incorporates a number of genres and styles as it shifts from individual stories to larger world issues. There are historical documents, including nineteenth-century medical journals, documents detailing the lives of real historical figures, digressions about religion, a measles outbreak, and many other travails, large and small.

Referred to as the "Faroese "Moby-Dick"" for its scope, importance, and literary approach, "The Brahmadells "is a playful, engrossing look at life in an island nation whose rich history is relatively unknown to most English readers.

Jóanes Nielsen is the author of four novels, a collection of stories, three volumes of essays, and eight poetry collections. He's been nominated on five occasions for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize.

Kerri A. Pierce has published translations from seven different languages, including "Justine" by Iben Mondrup and "The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am" by Kjersti A. Skomsvold, which was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

The Brahmadells

"With time running out to stop the nuclear destruction of Tel Aviv, Dewey Andreas must defeat his most fearsome opponent yet."
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Off a quiet street in Brooklyn, New York, Israeli Special Forces commander Kohl Meir is captured by operatives of the Iranian secret service, who smuggle Meir back to Iran, where he is imprisoned, tortured, and prepared for a show trial.

What they don't know is that Meir was in New York to recruit Dewey Andreas for a secret operation. Meir had been tipped off that Iran had finally succeeded in building their first nuclear weapon, one they were planning to use to attack Israel. His source was a high-level Iranian government official and his proof was a photo of the bomb itself.

Dewey Andreas, a former Army Ranger and Delta, owes his life to Meir and his team of Israeli commandos. Now, to repay his debt, Dewey has to attempt the impossible ---to both rescue Meir from one of the world's most secure prisons and to find and eliminate Iran's nuclear bomb before it's deployed---all without the help or sanction of Israel or America (at the near certain risk of detection by Iran).

Unfortunately, Dewey's first moves have caught the attention of Abu Paria, the brutal and brilliant head of VEVAK, the Iranian secret service. Now Dewey has to face off against, outwit, and outfight an opponent with equal cunning, skill, and determination, with the fate of millions hanging in the balance.

The Last Refuge (Dewey Andreas, #3)

Hans Jacobsen, my father, was born at the end of the 19th century in the Faroe Islands - eighteen small, rocky islands just below the Arctic Circle, north-west of the British Isles. He started sailing full time at age 14 or 15, travelling all around the world before finally settling in San Francisco fifteen years later. In 1916, at age 20, he made his last visit to his homeland. Some 80 years later I travelled alone to the Faroe Islands, longing to see these islands that I knew so little about, hoping to find out about my father's family, but not knowing at all what to expect. "The Missing Son" tells my story of finding my father's family and exploring his homeland, the remote, wild, and beautiful Faroe Islands. Letters to my father from his family from 1917-1924 have been translated from the original Danish, and they give a picture of life in these islands nearly 100 years ago. My father's sailing records and anecdotes from these same years tell of his travels around the world. The letters also revealed a surprising story - my father's fiancee wrote to him for seven years, always hoping he would return to her. He never did. Photographs show the sharp contrasts found in the Faroe Islands - steep cliffs, secluded fjords, lush green hills, quaint villages, and modern homes standing next to stone houses with sod roofs. In its 2007 survey of islands around the world, National Geographic travel experts ranked the Faroe Islands as the number one island travel destination, describing them as "lovely, unspoiled islands - a delight to the traveler." These remote and wildly beautiful islands are beginning to pique the interest of the American public. The Missing Son gives a first-hand view of the islands, the Faroese people, their culture, and their history.

The Missing Son: A Faroe Island Saga

Pack your bags for an unparalleled polar experience. Whether it's raving in Reykjavik, dogsledding in Disko Bay or fishing in the Faroes, this value-packed guide to one of the world's final frontiers will guarantee you make the most of the midnight sun.  
   106 detailed maps, including hiking routes  
   extensive listings of places to say, eat and be entertained  
   Icelandic, Greenlandic and Faroese language sections  
   all the transport options from ice breakers to bicycles  
 

Iceland, Greenland & the Faroe Islands

Love always finds a way… 
 
Lindsay Lohmeier’s life is no bed of roses. After struggling at a job she loved, but ultimately lost, she opened her own florist shop in Good Hope. Her budding business won’t be her only new addition. Lindsay is pregnant. While she’s happy to open her heart to her baby, opening up to the father is another story. 
 
The last thing Owen Vaughn expected to hear was that he was going to be a father—again. He’s been down this road before and it ended in pain so devastating he thought he’d never heal. Still, he won’t abandon his child or Lindsay, the woman who--before they broke up--had been a bright spot during his darkest days. 
 
Owen proposes, but Lindsay wants her child to grow up in a family built on love, not obligation. As they spend time together preparing for the baby, old feelings resurface. Owen encourages Lindsay to find her own way, hoping she’ll see this pregnancy has given them something special…a second chance at love. 


Tie the Knot in Good Hope (Good Hope, #7)

Stærke sømænd, fantastiske drukkendbolte, frække værtshuspiger røres rundt i den sorte gryde, så den ryger af blod og syder af liv.

Den sorte gryde

Well, 1935 has been a banner year for our heroes, and it's not over yet.

When we left the gang, they'd been scattered to the proverbial wind following a little mishap involving mythological relics, mind control, and a smorgasbord of other pulp-rich ingredients.

Now they are fighting for their survival on the chilly hills of the Faroe Islands and the baking sands of southern Spain, exploring ancient ruins and flying high over the frigid North Atlantic. Say hello once again to Lily, Archibald, the myriad Brothers Max, and that lovable Hugo "Brick" Brannigan as our band of adventurers continues their quest to foil the schemes of the wicked Cabal and Black Fang Delacroix and save the world as we know it.

If, that is, they can survive…

More packed with pulp than your day-old orange juice, come along for a rollicking adventure and see how the gang can survive being BURIED ALIVE IN THE FAROE ISLANDS.

Now with more suspense!

Faroe Islands

The Land of Maybe: A Faroe Islands Year

Tim Ecott

Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?

Johan Harstad

The Blood Strand (Faroes #1)

Chris Ould

Far Afield

Susanna Kaysen

The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History

Jonathan Wylie

The Land of Maybe: A Faroe Islands Year

Tim Ecott

The Brahmadells

Jóanes Nielsen

The Last Refuge (Dewey Andreas, #3)

Ben Coes

The Missing Son: A Faroe Island Saga

Jennifer Henke

The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History

Jonathan Wylie

Iceland, Greenland & the Faroe Islands

Deanna Swaney

Tie the Knot in Good Hope (Good Hope, #7)

Cindy Kirk

Den sorte gryde

William Heinesen

Brick Brannigan Is Buried Alive on the Faroe Islands! (Brick Brannigan, #2)

Eric Bonkowski

Faroese - A Language Course for Beginners

Jonathan Adams

The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History

Jonathan Wylie