Pliny Miles sails north by way of Elsinore, celebrating the Fourth of July at sea, and lands at Reykjavik in the 1850s. He recounts Iceland’s settlement and the Norse voyages to Greenland and America, describes the Althing at Thingvellir, the island’s geography and people, and rides out across its lava fields and farmsteads with a traveller’s curiosity.
An early American travel book on Iceland, full of history and wry observation. Download the free EPUB.