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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... OF EDINBURGH . LONDON : Printed FOR VERNOR , HOOD , AND SHARPE , POULTRY ; AND W. MILLER , ALBEMARLE - STREET ; By J. Keymer , Yarmouth . 2018 BIBLIOTH THEEK ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR JOSEPH BANKS. 1811 . 476750 E F ...
... OF EDINBURGH . LONDON : Printed FOR VERNOR , HOOD , AND SHARPE , POULTRY ; AND W. MILLER , ALBEMARLE - STREET ; By J. Keymer , Yarmouth . 2018 BIBLIOTH THEEK ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR JOSEPH BANKS. 1811 . 476750 E F ...
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Sir William Jackson Hooker. 2018 BIBLIOTH THEEK ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR JOSEPH BANKS , BART . 9495.1.
Sir William Jackson Hooker. 2018 BIBLIOTH THEEK ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR JOSEPH BANKS , BART . 9495.1.
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Sir William Jackson Hooker. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR JOSEPH BANKS , BART . , K. B. , PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY , & c . , & c . , & c . I MY DEAR SIR , FEEL a peculiar propriety in dedicating this little work to you , and ...
Sir William Jackson Hooker. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR JOSEPH BANKS , BART . , K. B. , PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY , & c . , & c . , & c . I MY DEAR SIR , FEEL a peculiar propriety in dedicating this little work to you , and ...
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... Sir Joseph Banks most unexpectedly proposed to me , as a compensation for my not having it in my power , during that season , to put in execution a projected voyage to a tropical climate , that I should take my passage in a merchant ...
... Sir Joseph Banks most unexpectedly proposed to me , as a compensation for my not having it in my power , during that season , to put in execution a projected voyage to a tropical climate , that I should take my passage in a merchant ...
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Sir William Jackson Hooker. of my friends , but at the request of the most valued of those friends . It is to Mr. Dawson Turner of Yarmouth that these sheets owe their existence . To Sir Joseph Banks , besides being honored with his ...
Sir William Jackson Hooker. of my friends , but at the request of the most valued of those friends . It is to Mr. Dawson Turner of Yarmouth that these sheets owe their existence . To Sir Joseph Banks , besides being honored with his ...
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