Fire and Ice

摘要

In this time of adventure travel and discovery shows on TV, it takes a lot for a country to be spectacularly impressive. So think up the most enigmatic and bizarre landscape imaginable. Give it a topography of hardened lava, lush sheep-grazed hilltops, thrusting mountain peaks, and a jagged coastline. Then make it bubble with boiling mud, freeze over with advancing glaciers, explode with geysers, and roar with waterfalls. Throw in gnomes, elves, fairies, and dwarves―as described in local lore―and what you have is Iceland.