Best for: Anyone with some interest in world history, or Icelandic history. In a nutshell: Author Bjarnason provides a condensed (and at times humorous) history of Iceland. Worth quoting: “…claim, respectively, that Icelander live for up to 150 to 300 years — because of the pure climate, or course. Which I’d say is fair reasoning: the human body is organic, and we all know that vegetables and other organic things last longer in the fridge.” “Few countries are as vulnerable to global warming as Iceland. […]