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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... o'clock June 16. the next morning , we discovered West- man's Isles , or Vestmanna - eyer , as the natives call them . These islands are so named , from the circumstance of some Irish fugitives , who had killed their master , having ...
... o'clock June 16. the next morning , we discovered West- man's Isles , or Vestmanna - eyer , as the natives call them . These islands are so named , from the circumstance of some Irish fugitives , who had killed their master , having ...
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... o'clock for that purpose . But , after getting enveloped in a labyrinth of bogs during a heavy rain , I was obliged to return without being able to reach it , and with but a few plants , which I did not find the preceding day . This ...
... o'clock for that purpose . But , after getting enveloped in a labyrinth of bogs during a heavy rain , I was obliged to return without being able to reach it , and with but a few plants , which I did not find the preceding day . This ...
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... o'clock in an Icelandic sailing boat , with eight rowers , and had a passage of about four miles to his house , which stands on the pleasant little island of Vidöe . As we approached the island , we got a view of the house , in a well ...
... o'clock in an Icelandic sailing boat , with eight rowers , and had a passage of about four miles to his house , which stands on the pleasant little island of Vidöe . As we approached the island , we got a view of the house , in a well ...
Page 59
... o'clock ; but did not for some time recover the effects of this most involuntary intemper- ance . At table we were waited upon by two females , so exceedingly handsomely dressed , that I concluded they were not common servants , * On ...
... o'clock ; but did not for some time recover the effects of this most involuntary intemper- ance . At table we were waited upon by two females , so exceedingly handsomely dressed , that I concluded they were not common servants , * On ...
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... o'clock in the even- ing , I found myself , apparently , as far from the object of my walk as when I set out . This de- lusion , I apprehend , was owing to the extensive valley that I entered yesterday , through which the lava had made ...
... o'clock in the even- ing , I found myself , apparently , as far from the object of my walk as when I set out . This de- lusion , I apprehend , was owing to the extensive valley that I entered yesterday , through which the lava had made ...
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