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An American in Iceland - An Account of its Scenery, People, and History, with a Description of its Millennial Celebration in August 1874; With Notes on the Orkney, Shetland and Faroe Islands, and the Eruption of 1875 (Paperback)
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An American in Iceland - An Account of its Scenery, People, and History, with a Description of its Millennial Celebration in August 1874; With Notes on the Orkney, Shetland and Faroe Islands, and the Eruption of 1875 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
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Samuel Kneeland (1821 88), educated at Harvard and in Paris as a
doctor, served as an army surgeon during the American Civil War.
After the war, he returned to lecturing on physiology, and expanded
his academic interests to zoology and to natural history in
general. His expedition to Iceland was fuelled by a fascination
with volcanoes, volcanic islands and the flora and fauna that
abounded on them, but Kneeland was as much a cultural and
historical tourist as a scientist, enjoying the millennial
celebration of the first settlement by Norwegians, the spectacle of
geyser eruptions, and the Norse history and traditions of the
Icelanders. This 1876 work offers a chronological account of his
party's travels through the Scottish islands and around Iceland,
bringing a very individual touch to a description of the country,
its culture and its outstanding landscapes.
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