Publisher's Synopsis
Unique, brilliantly conceived and brilliantly executed' - New York Times Back in print, the underground classic rivalled only by J.R.R. Tolkein's Middle-earth describes the detailed history of Islandia, which occupies the southern portion of the Karain Continent and boasts an ancient civilisation, protected by a natural fortress of towering mountains. To this isolated land comes John Lang, the American consul, and together he and the reader come to know and envy this magnetic land, its unique people and its strange, wonderful customs.'
