Citations:islandophile

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English citations of islandophile

lover of islands

• 1986, Landscape, page 48:

  He also wanders around cities searching for symbolic and temporal breaks in the landscape that will shed light on the processes affecting the spatial organization of real live places. Sally Gibson, writer, photographer, and islandophile, studied art history at Vassar and urban studies at Yale. Then she settled in Toronto, across the bay from the Toronto Island. The mysterious island became the subject of one planning report, one doctoral dissertation ...

• 2014, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's The Amalfi Coast, Capri & Naples, Fodor's Travel (→ISBN):

  Islandophiles, of course, have always had a special love for Capri (the first syllable is accented—“Ca-pri”). Pleasure dome to Roman emperors and still Italy's most glamorous seaside getaway, this craggy, whale-shape island has an epic beauty: ...

lover of Iceland

• 2016, R Antinucci, "Domesticating the North: Anthony Trollope's Re-writing of Iceland", in Textus:

  It is precisely this multi-focal gaze that sets Trollope apart from most Victorian Islandophiles when it comes to the perception of cultural difference and relativity, and which mostly informs […]