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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 May 2013
    10 May 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139235839
    9781108049726
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139235839
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.47kg, 368 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    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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