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EXTREME NORTH - BERND BRUNNER GEBUNDEN

People have perennially projected their fantasies onto the North as a frozen no-man's-land full
of marauding Vikings or as the unspoiled landscape of a purer  more elemental form of life.
Bernd Brunner recovers the encounters of adventurers with its dramatic vistas  fierce weather 
exotic treasures and indigenous peoples-and with the literary sagas that seemed to offer an
alternate (whiter and superior) cultural origin story to those of decadent Greece or Rome  and
the moralistic Semitic Bible. The Left has idealised Scandinavian social democracy. The Right
borrows from a long history of crackpot theories of Northern origins. Nordic phenotypes
characterised eugenics  which in turn influenced America's limits on immigration. The North 
Brunner argues  was as much invented as discovered. A valuable contribution to intellectual
history  full of vivid documentation  Extreme North is an enlightening journey through a place
that is real  but also  in fascinating and very disturbing ways  imaginary.

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