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 v
... , 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 - ship then expected to leave England in the a bas ...
... , 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 - ship then expected to leave England in the a bas ...
Page vi
... ship . Of the rest of my manuscripts and collections , including plants , books , drawings , minerals , and other subjects of natural history , nothing could be preserved . With the slender materials that remained to me I should not ...
... ship . Of the rest of my manuscripts and collections , including plants , books , drawings , minerals , and other subjects of natural history , nothing could be preserved . With the slender materials that remained to me I should not ...
Page xi
... ship , and this , more fortunate , immediately flew towards the wished - for shore . Floco , after the manner of his predecessors , first touched at the eastern coast , whence , steering his course round the southern part of the island ...
... ship , and this , more fortunate , immediately flew towards the wished - for shore . Floco , after the manner of his predecessors , first touched at the eastern coast , whence , steering his course round the southern part of the island ...
Page liii
... ships but those of this com- pany come into the Icelandic ports to traffic . The principal purchaser from the king did an essential injury to the inhabitants by suffering the manufactory of cloth to go into decay , whereby numbers were ...
... ships but those of this com- pany come into the Icelandic ports to traffic . The principal purchaser from the king did an essential injury to the inhabitants by suffering the manufactory of cloth to go into decay , whereby numbers were ...
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... ship , the Orion , from Denmark , and , that a man of war , from England , had but two days previous left Reikevig , where she had been staying some time , and had been entering into an agreement with the governor about permitting the ...
... ship , the Orion , from Denmark , and , that a man of war , from England , had but two days previous left Reikevig , where she had been staying some time , and had been entering into an agreement with the governor about permitting the ...
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