Letters from High Latitudes: Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 in the Schooner Yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and SpitzbergenJohn Murray, 1867 - 252 Seiten Lord Dufferin served as Canada's third Governor-General 1872-1878. This book, very popular and often reprinted, served as a prototype of the comic travelogue and is probably the most famous travelogue ever written about Iceland. |
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... appearance . Some time ago there was a great demand in Australia for small river steamers , which certain Scotch companies under- took to supply . The difficulty , however , was to get such fragile tea - kettles across the ocean ; five ...
... appearance . Some time ago there was a great demand in Australia for small river steamers , which certain Scotch companies under- took to supply . The difficulty , however , was to get such fragile tea - kettles across the ocean ; five ...
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... appearance . We anchored in Reykjavik harbour this afternoon ( Saturday ) . H. M. S. " Coquette " sails for England on Monday ; so that within a week you will get this . For the last ten days we have been leading the life of the ...
... appearance . We anchored in Reykjavik harbour this afternoon ( Saturday ) . H. M. S. " Coquette " sails for England on Monday ; so that within a week you will get this . For the last ten days we have been leading the life of the ...
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... appearance of the good fairy at a pantomime farce ; then , gradually lifting its huge back above the water , rose a silver pyramid of snow , which I knew must be the cone of an ice mountain , miles away in the interior of the island ...
... appearance of the good fairy at a pantomime farce ; then , gradually lifting its huge back above the water , rose a silver pyramid of snow , which I knew must be the cone of an ice mountain , miles away in the interior of the island ...
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... appearance , he calls Greenland . In the course of a few years the new land has become so thickly inhabited that it is necessary to erect the district into an episcopal see ; and at last , in 1448 , we have a brief of Pope Nicolas ...
... appearance , he calls Greenland . In the course of a few years the new land has become so thickly inhabited that it is necessary to erect the district into an episcopal see ; and at last , in 1448 , we have a brief of Pope Nicolas ...
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... appearance of birds , which may perhaps account for 1 1 The Puffin ( Alca arctica ) . In Icelandic , Soe - papagoie ; in Scotland , Priest ; and in Cornwall , Pope . their powers of flight . A slight confusion still remains.
... appearance of birds , which may perhaps account for 1 1 The Puffin ( Alca arctica ) . In Icelandic , Soe - papagoie ; in Scotland , Priest ; and in Cornwall , Pope . their powers of flight . A slight confusion still remains.
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Seite 191 - ... distinguish the further mountains peeping up above its surface. The height of the precipice where it fell into the sea, I should judge to have been about 120 feet. On the left a still more extraordinary sight presented itself. A kind of baby glacier actually hung suspended half way on the hill side, like a tear in the act of rolling down the furrowed cheek of the mountain.
Seite 83 - A smooth siliceous basin, seventy-two feet in diameter and four feet deep, with a hole at the bottom as in a washing-basin on board a steamer, stood before us brimful of water just upon the simmer ; while up into the air above our heads rose a great column of vapour...