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 vi
... whole of the fruits of this ex- cursion , and has obliged me in the following sheets to rely in no small degree upon my me- mory , needs not here to be detailed : it will find its place in the narrative of the voyage . Suffice it now to ...
... whole of the fruits of this ex- cursion , and has obliged me in the following sheets to rely in no small degree upon my me- mory , needs not here to be detailed : it will find its place in the narrative of the voyage . Suffice it now to ...
Page xiii
... whole surface of the coun- try was overgrown with forests , through which it was necessary to open a passage with the axe as often as they went on their journies . who So great was the number of Norwegians now followed Ingulf to Iceland ...
... whole surface of the coun- try was overgrown with forests , through which it was necessary to open a passage with the axe as often as they went on their journies . who So great was the number of Norwegians now followed Ingulf to Iceland ...
Page xiv
... that the whole power became at last an easy prey to a few arbitrary and enterprising men , who , as XV is usually the case , wantonly abused it to 5 xiv INTRODUCTION . the first settlers was a mixture of aristocracy and ...
... that the whole power became at last an easy prey to a few arbitrary and enterprising men , who , as XV is usually the case , wantonly abused it to 5 xiv INTRODUCTION . the first settlers was a mixture of aristocracy and ...
Page xix
... whole island became converted , without blood- shed , though not without opposition , and it was agreed , at a general assembly of the inhabitants , that the worship of idols should be abandoned , and the religion of our blessed Saviour ...
... whole island became converted , without blood- shed , though not without opposition , and it was agreed , at a general assembly of the inhabitants , that the worship of idols should be abandoned , and the religion of our blessed Saviour ...
Page xxvi
... whole island , and these necessarily resident at such a distance from the greater number of the inhabitants , that they are comparatively of little service : their salaries are besides extremely small . An apothecary is commissioned to ...
... whole island , and these necessarily resident at such a distance from the greater number of the inhabitants , that they are comparatively of little service : their salaries are besides extremely small . An apothecary is commissioned to ...
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