Independent people : an epic /
" ... are the small freeholders of the Icelandic countryside--operators of the one-man, one-family farm got by inheritance or puchase and held with grim tenacity against all connivances of nature and man by folk whose ruling passion is to be their own masters on their own acres"--Dust jack...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
1946.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | " ... are the small freeholders of the Icelandic countryside--operators of the one-man, one-family farm got by inheritance or puchase and held with grim tenacity against all connivances of nature and man by folk whose ruling passion is to be their own masters on their own acres"--Dust jacket. |
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| Item Description: | Edition statement lacking on some printings. |
| Physical Description: | vi, 470 pages ; 22 cm. Also issued online. |