Journal of a Tour in Iceland in the Summer of 1809The Journal includes images of traditional Icelandic dress and natural landmarks. Paying particular attention to political structures and religious institutions, Hooker includes intricate tables of how tax dollars were spent, how hospitals and schools were run and more. As an academic botanist by trade, his journal entries describe the flora of the country; plants collected by Hooker on this trip were lost in a fire on the return voyage. |
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Page lvi
... early part of that summer Fahren- heit's thermometer varied in the course of the day from about 41 ° to 45 ° , seldom rising to 50 ° , and only once to 60 ° . Mr. Savigniac , lvi INTRODUCTION . most only for a few days, after which they ...
... early part of that summer Fahren- heit's thermometer varied in the course of the day from about 41 ° to 45 ° , seldom rising to 50 ° , and only once to 60 ° . Mr. Savigniac , lvi INTRODUCTION . most only for a few days, after which they ...
Page lvii
Sir William Jackson Hooker. and only once to 60 ° . Mr. Savigniac , how- ever , assured me , that at Reikevig one day the thermometer , exposed to the sun , rose to 100 ° . In the beginning of August there were severe frosts , and much ...
Sir William Jackson Hooker. and only once to 60 ° . Mr. Savigniac , how- ever , assured me , that at Reikevig one day the thermometer , exposed to the sun , rose to 100 ° . In the beginning of August there were severe frosts , and much ...
Page 14
... Savigniac , an agent for Mr. Phelps , who had spent the winter there , and a Mr. Betreyers , a Danish merchant , who could speak a little English . While these gentlemen were talking over commercial affairs below , I kept upon deck ...
... Savigniac , an agent for Mr. Phelps , who had spent the winter there , and a Mr. Betreyers , a Danish merchant , who could speak a little English . While these gentlemen were talking over commercial affairs below , I kept upon deck ...
Page 18
... Savigniac's house ; but , as this was built in Norway , and not different from what a wooden house would be in our own country , it had no charms for me . I therefore hastened to take a ramble by the sea shore . A little rude bridge ...
... Savigniac's house ; but , as this was built in Norway , and not different from what a wooden house would be in our own country , it had no charms for me . I therefore hastened to take a ramble by the sea shore . A little rude bridge ...
Page 21
... Savigniac's house , where it was proposed , that , while we continued together , we should all meet at our meals ; and where , with the addition of our ship - provisions to the good Icelandic mut- ton , fish , and scurvy - grass ( Rumex ...
... Savigniac's house , where it was proposed , that , while we continued together , we should all meet at our meals ; and where , with the addition of our ship - provisions to the good Icelandic mut- ton , fish , and scurvy - grass ( Rumex ...
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