Kari Gislason

Saga Land was just what I needed after the unedifying experience of reading Burnt Sugar. It's a travel book of sorts: a memoir of time spent in Iceland, where ABC radio presenter Richard Fidler went to make a program about Icelandic sagas, with his friend, university academic Kári Gíslason. There are retellings of some of the most famous sagas, and it's also about a search for identity because Gíslason had some personal issues to sort out.

The book was written collaboratively, chapters alternating between the two authors. The style is relaxed and intimate, much like Fidler's very popular program Conversations. And although it's published as a paperback not a coffee table book, there are colour plates which illustrate (for those of us who've never been to Iceland) the landscape through which they travelled.

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