Ida Pfeiffer, the Viennese housewife who became one of the great women travellers, set out for Iceland in 1845. She rides on ponies over lava fields and marshy plains to the Geysir and other sights, describes Icelandic farms, food and churches with unsparing candour, and returns through Norway and Sweden. The edition adds an essay on Old Norse poetry.
A sharp-eyed early travel book from the author of A Woman’s Journey Round the World. Download the free EPUB.