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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... thoughts the lonely time , XVI . When as he watched that sculptured life - like smile Through many an anxious hour of Arctic gloom , Its magic influence would half beguile The bleak and barren ocean tracts to bloom- XVII . With well ...
... thoughts the lonely time , XVI . When as he watched that sculptured life - like smile Through many an anxious hour of Arctic gloom , Its magic influence would half beguile The bleak and barren ocean tracts to bloom- XVII . With well ...
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... thought the loveliest scene in Scotland . Far below at our feet , and stretching away on either hand among the mountains , lay the blue waters of the lake . On its other side , encompassed by a level belt of pasture- land and corn ...
... thought the loveliest scene in Scotland . Far below at our feet , and stretching away on either hand among the mountains , lay the blue waters of the lake . On its other side , encompassed by a level belt of pasture- land and corn ...
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... thought the loveliest scene in Scotland . Far below at our feet , and stretching away on either hand among the mountains , lay the blue waters of the lake . On its other side , encompassed by a level belt of pasture- land and corn ...
... thought the loveliest scene in Scotland . Far below at our feet , and stretching away on either hand among the mountains , lay the blue waters of the lake . On its other side , encompassed by a level belt of pasture- land and corn ...
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... thought was going to poop her let go the helm ; the vessel broached to , and tons of water tumbled in on the top of the deck . As soon as the confusion of the moment had subsided , it became evident that the shock had broken some of the ...
... thought was going to poop her let go the helm ; the vessel broached to , and tons of water tumbled in on the top of the deck . As soon as the confusion of the moment had subsided , it became evident that the shock had broken some of the ...
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... thought of not being able to hear of our safe arrival , I knew there would be an opportunity of writing to you almost immediately after reaching Iceland ; but I said nothing about it at the time , lest something should delay this letter ...
... thought of not being able to hear of our safe arrival , I knew there would be an opportunity of writing to you almost immediately after reaching Iceland ; but I said nothing about it at the time , lest something should delay this letter ...
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Seite 179 - ... 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 71 - 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...