Letters from Iceland Mothers Day Embattled by friends and enemies

Embattled by friends and enemies alike

she swims in the ocean's cold embrace

The second volume of the remarkable

Tim Kendall and Fiona Mathews take us on a safari unlike any other

Letters from Iceland Mothers Day Embattled by friends and enemiesIn the summer of 1936, W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a travel book, but found themselves capturing concerns on a scale that were far more international. 'Though writing in a "holiday" spirit,' commented Auden, 'its authors were all the time conscious of a threatening horizon to their picnic world wide unemployment, Hitler growing everyday more powerful and a world war more inevitable.' The result is the