Letters from high latitudes
Subtitle: being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen
By: by Lord Dufferin
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: J. Murray
Published: 1867
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Description and travel
Description: Lord Dufferin served as Canada's third Governor-General 1872-1878. This book, very popular and often reprinted, served as a prototype of the comic travelogue and is probably the most famous travelogue ever written about Iceland.