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Kári Gíslason

Kári Gíslason is a writer and an academic who lectures in Creative Writing at QUT. Kári was awarded a doctorate in 2003 for his thesis on medieval Icelandic literature. His first book, The Promise of Iceland (UQP, 2011), told the story of return journeys he’s made to his birthplace. His second book was the novel The Ash Burner (UQP, 2015). He is also the co-author, with Richard Fidler, of Saga Land: The island of stories at the edge of the world (HarperCollins, 2017), which won the Indie Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2018. His fourth book, The Sorrow Stone (UQP, 2022), is an historical novel that reimagines the life of one of the most famous women of the medieval Icelandic sagas.

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Title:

Saga Land (MP3)

Written by:

Richard Fidler; Kári Gíslason 

Read by:

Richard Fidler; Kári Gíslason 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

13 hours 51 minutes 

MP3 size:

613 MB 

Published:

October 23 2017 

Available Date:

October 23 2017 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489412591 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Ancient; European; Lifestyle - Travel 

Publisher:

ABC Audio 

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AUD$ 49.95

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Bestselling author

Winner Indie Book Awards / Non Fiction 2018

A new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history. This is Iceland as you've never read it before ...

Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kari Gíslason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland – the true stories of the first Viking families who settled on that remote island in the Middle Ages. These are tales of blood feuds, of dangerous women and people who are compelled to kill the ones they love the most. The sagas are among the greatest stories ever written, but the identity of their authors is largely unknown. Together, Fidler and Gíslason travel across Iceland, to the places where the sagas unfolded a thousand years ago. They cross fields, streams and fjords to immerse themselves in the folklore of this fiercely beautiful island. And there is another mission: to resolve a longstanding family mystery – a gift from Kári's Icelandic father that might connect him to the greatest of the saga authors.

'We already know Fidler is an interviewer of great empathy, now we know he mirrors that skill on the page, too.'
The Australian

'I adored this book – a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas'
Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites and The Good People