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MARC recordLetters on Iceland, containing observations made during a voyage undertaken in the year 1772 by Joseph Banks, Esq. / Uno von Troil.
| Title: | Letters on Iceland, containing observations made during a voyage undertaken in the year 1772 by Joseph Banks, Esq. / Uno von Troil. |
| Author(s): | Troil, Uno von. |
| Date: | 2011. |
| Publisher: | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press |
| Abstract: | Compilation of letters documenting Banks's tour of Iceland in 1772, and describing volcanoes and other geological features, providing meteorological information (including account of northern lights) and depicting Icelandic people, their culture, diet and occupations. |
| Notes: | Reprint of original 1780 edition. |
| Keywords: | 39 -- Ethnography. 551.1/.4 -- Geology. 551.23 -- Geysers, hot springs and fumaroles. 551.5 -- Meteorology. 551.594.5 -- Aurora, airglow. 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1772 Banks. 93"17" -- Eighteenth century. W -- Expeditions and exploration. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*35) -- Iceland. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*3) : 91(08)[1772] |
| ISBN: | 9781108031899 |
| SPRI record no.: | 195333 |
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