An American in Iceland: An Account of Its Scenery, People, and History, with a Description of Its Millennial Celebration in August 1874; With
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1108049729
ISBN13:9781108049726
Release Date:May 2012
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.03 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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