Medienkombination, Englisch, 930 Seiten, Format (B × H): 250 mm x 324 mm, Gewicht: 1400 g
Medienkombination, Englisch, 930 Seiten, Format (B × H): 250 mm x 324 mm, Gewicht: 1400 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
ISBN: 978-1-108-03050-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865) was an eminent British botanist, best known for expanding and developing the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew into a leading centre of botanic research and conservation. At the age of nineteen he undertook an expedition to Iceland, his first outside Britain. Unfortunately, all his specimens and notes were destroyed in a fire on the return voyage (described in Volume 1), but he was able, with the help of the notes made by Sir Joseph Banks on an earlier expedition, to write this account. His work was first published privately in 1811, but a second edition was published in 1813 and is reproduced here. Volume 1 gives a brief history of Iceland before Hooker begins his detailed observations of the people and topography, and the flora and fauna he found. Volume 2 includes detailed descriptions of the many volcanoes on the island.
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Volume 1: Dedication; Preface; Introduction; Recollections of Iceland. Volume 2: Appendix: 1. Detail of the Icelandic revolution in 1809; 2. Proclamations, letters, and other documents, relative to the Icelandic revolution; 3. Volcanoes; 4. Odes and letters presented by the literati of Iceland to the Right Honorable Sir Joseph Banks and the Honorable Captain Jones; 5. Icelandic plants; 6. Danish ordinances concerning the trade of Iceland by land and sea, as also the products of its manufactories; Index.
