
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- TO HON. JOHN AMORY LOWELL
- PREFACE
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Contents
- Maps
- CHAPTER I THE ORKNEY ISLANDS
- CHAPTER II THE SHETLAND ISLANDS
- CHAPTER III THE FAROE ISLANDS
- CHAPTER IV OFF FOR ICELAND
- CHAPTER V CELEBRATION AT REYKJAVIK
- CHAPTER VI PHYSICAL CHARACTERS OF ICELAND
- CHAPTER VII THE VALLEY OF THINGVALLA
- CHAPTER VIII THE CELEBRATION AT THINGVALLA
- CHAPTER IX ROUTE TO THE GEYSERS
- CHAPTER X IN THE VALLEY OF THE GEYSERS
- CHAPTER XI THE OLD NORSEMEN
- CHAPTER XII THE PEOPLE OF ICELAND
- CHAPTER XIII POLITICAL HISTORY OF ICELAND
- CHAPTER XIV DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
- CHAPTER XV LITERATURE OF ICELAND
- CHAPTER XVI VOLCANIC HISTORY OF ICELAND
- CHAPTER XVII GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY
- CHAPTER XVIII ICELANDERS IN AMERICA
- CHAPTER XIX THE FUTURE OF ICELAND
- CHAPTER XX USEFUL INFORMATION
- NOTES
- Frontmatter
- TO HON. JOHN AMORY LOWELL
- PREFACE
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Contents
- Maps
- CHAPTER I THE ORKNEY ISLANDS
- CHAPTER II THE SHETLAND ISLANDS
- CHAPTER III THE FAROE ISLANDS
- CHAPTER IV OFF FOR ICELAND
- CHAPTER V CELEBRATION AT REYKJAVIK
- CHAPTER VI PHYSICAL CHARACTERS OF ICELAND
- CHAPTER VII THE VALLEY OF THINGVALLA
- CHAPTER VIII THE CELEBRATION AT THINGVALLA
- CHAPTER IX ROUTE TO THE GEYSERS
- CHAPTER X IN THE VALLEY OF THE GEYSERS
- CHAPTER XI THE OLD NORSEMEN
- CHAPTER XII THE PEOPLE OF ICELAND
- CHAPTER XIII POLITICAL HISTORY OF ICELAND
- CHAPTER XIV DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
- CHAPTER XV LITERATURE OF ICELAND
- CHAPTER XVI VOLCANIC HISTORY OF ICELAND
- CHAPTER XVII GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY
- CHAPTER XVIII ICELANDERS IN AMERICA
- CHAPTER XIX THE FUTURE OF ICELAND
- CHAPTER XX USEFUL INFORMATION
- NOTES
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- An American in IcelandAn 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, pp. xvii - xxiiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012First published in: 1876