🔥Wawn (ed) The Iceland journal of Henry Holland 1810

The Hakluyt Society, second series n° 168, 1987, 342p, with map, bibliography and index, hardcover met stofomslag, excellent condition

Sir Henry Holland was one of Victorian London's most celebrated physicians and tireless travellers. He showed all the Icelandophile enthusiasms of his time: a perception of unrivalled medieval literary achievements, a keen enjoyment of the sublimities of the scenery, and a scientific curiosity about Iceland's mineralogical legacy.