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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... miles to the southward of the Cape , when one day , as she was running before the gale , the man at the wheel - startled at a sea which he thought was going to poop her - let go the helm ; the vessel broached to , and tons of water ...
... miles to the southward of the Cape , when one day , as she was running before the gale , the man at the wheel - startled at a sea which he thought was going to poop her - let go the helm ; the vessel broached to , and tons of water ...
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... miles from any troublesome shore , —all combine to inspire a feeling of comfort and security difficult to describe . These pleasures , indeed , for the first days of our voyage , the Icelander had pretty much to himself . I was laid up ...
... miles from any troublesome shore , —all combine to inspire a feeling of comfort and security difficult to describe . These pleasures , indeed , for the first days of our voyage , the Icelander had pretty much to himself . I was laid up ...
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... miles away in the interior of the island . From the moment we got hold of the land , our cruise , as you may suppose , doubled in interest . Unfortunately , however , the fair morning did not keep its promise ; about one o'clock , the ...
... miles away in the interior of the island . From the moment we got hold of the land , our cruise , as you may suppose , doubled in interest . Unfortunately , however , the fair morning did not keep its promise ; about one o'clock , the ...
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... miles south - west of Cape Reikianess , its flat top white with guano , like the mouth of a bag of flour , —five miles on our port bow ; and seldom have I remembered a pleasanter four - and - twenty hours than those spent stealing up ...
... miles south - west of Cape Reikianess , its flat top white with guano , like the mouth of a bag of flour , —five miles on our port bow ; and seldom have I remembered a pleasanter four - and - twenty hours than those spent stealing up ...
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... miles of our ride lay across an undulating plain of dolorite , to a farm situated at the head of an inlet of the sea . At a distance , the farm - steading looked like a little oasis of green , amid the grey stony slopes that surrounded ...
... miles of our ride lay across an undulating plain of dolorite , to a farm situated at the head of an inlet of the sea . At a distance , the farm - steading looked like a little oasis of green , amid the grey stony slopes that surrounded ...
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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...