Discover the Many Layers of Iceland: A Traveller?s Guide to Icelandic Folktales by Jón R. Hjálmarsson (Iceland Review) Review by Eygló Svala Arnarsdóttir, photo courtesy of Forlagid. The moon casts a ghostly glow on your otherwise familiar surroundings. A bird hauls in the distance. Suddenly the rock in front of you seems to come alive? is someone there? You make a run for it. Land of the Abandoned (MetroActive) The farm-to-farm research summarized in The Farmworkers' Journey derives from almost ten years of collecting data at each end of the migrant circuit between west-central Mexico and central California.