The Museum of Whales You Will Never See by A Kendra Greene – review

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Iceland’s idiosyncratic museum collections – from rocks to sea monsters – provoke delightful reflections from an American artist and essayist

In the geologist’s paradise of east Iceland she visits Stö∂varfjör∂ur, once the home of Petra Sveinsdottír, obsessive collector of stones. Greene describes seams of jasper, onyx, opal, agate and amethyst in the mountains around the town, as well as the fossils of deer from an age when the east of Iceland was continuous with Scotland. Petra’s “bookshelves filled and the curio cabinets filled and Petra bought new bookshelves and those filled up, too”.

 

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