Across Iceland : With Illustrations and Maps, and an Appendix on the Plants Collected

Name: Across Iceland
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108079853
Price: 4750 KES
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ISBN: 9781108079853

by William Bisiker

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration

ISBN-10 1108079857

ISBN-13 9781108079853

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 18th, 2021

Print length 254 Pages

Weight 336 grams

Dimensions 13.80 x 21.70 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Historical geography Historical geography

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Published in 1902 and including maps, photographs and an extensive appendix compiled by expedition member and botanist Arthur William Hill on the island's plant life, this work gives an engaging account of the 1900 expedition across Iceland, around its northern coast and to the Faroes.

Although a member of the Royal Geographical Society, and author of a number of books on geography, little is known of William Bisiker. Published in 1902, this is an account of an expedition, led by him, across central Iceland in 1900. The five men and one woman journeyed from the north-east of the country down to the south-west, and the book also gives accounts of visits to the Faroe Islands and coastal journeys to the fjords. Including maps, photographs and an extensive appendix compiled by expedition member and botanist Arthur William Hill on the island''s plant life, this work remains a detailed and engaging portrait. The impressions made upon the party by natural features such as geysers, quicksand and lava formations are vividly described, as are the visits to isolated settlements and farms. The chapter on Reykjavik covers the political situation in the country, still under Danish rule.

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