Returning to Iceland: Is there a geography of happiness and does it bring you home?
Channel: statelibraryqld
Date: 30/05/2011

Filmed as part of the 2011 Ideas Festival, Brisbane. Travel allows us many kinds of experiences. Time spent traversing different terrains affords us time to re-evaluate our sense of belonging to particular places. It also gives us the distance required to reflect on the moments in our lives these places have come to represent. Kári Gíslason, lecturer in Creative Writing at QUT, takes us on a return journey to Iceland, his country of birth, as a way of exploring the intriguing relationship between place, stories, and the feeling of coming home.