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The Iceland Journal of Henry Holland 1810 (by Edited by Andrew Wawn)

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The Iceland Journal of Henry Holland 1810
 

The Iceland Journal of Henry Holland 1810
(by Edited by Andrew Wawn)

$25.00

ISBN: 0904180220

  • 1987 edition.  342 pages
  • Published by The Hakluyt Society, London.
  • Hardcover with dust jacket.  Blue boards.  Format C.
  • Very good condition.  Minor shelf wear to dust jacket.  Small owner stamp on free front end paper.

Hakluyt Society Second Series, Volume 168.   Indexed and Illustrated.

Sir Henry Holland, one of Victorian London's most celebrated physicians and most tireless travellers, visited Iceland twice  - in 1810, as a member of Sir George Mackenzie's party of young Edinburgh scientists, and again, astonishingly in 1871, his fascination with the bleak and distant land undimmed by extreme old age.

Holland's intoxication with the prospect of Iceland was shared by many intellectuals and whiggish armchair primitives of his time.  To some, Iceland was the home of unrivalled medieval literary achievement;  to others, touched by European romanticism, the sub-limities of Iceland offered an irresistible alternative to the familiar grandeurs of southern Europe;  to others still, born in the heroic age of geological science, Iceland's centuries of volcanci and geothermal upheaval had deposited a bewildering mineralogial legacy for examination and analysis.

Henry Holland shared all these Icelandophile enthusiasms, and his journal, appearing now in its first English edition gives vivid expression to them.

As well as a fastidious scientific record, the Holland journal depicts a turbulent society gripped by grievous commerical privation resulting from the Napoleonic wars.  It also represents a previously unrecognised source for Mackenzie's celebrated published account of the expedition;  a work in which Holland was a frustrated and indignant collaborator.  Not least, the journal reveals something of the sensibility as well as the sense of the British 'Enlightenment' mind. 

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