TY - BOOK AU - Dufferin and Ava,Frederick Temple Blackwood,Marquis of TI - Letters from High Latitudes: Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 of the Schooner Yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Meyen, and Spitzbergen AV - DL PY - 2003/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Iceland -- Description and travel KW - Arctic regions N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_from_High_Latitudes; Release date is 2003-02-01; This etext was produced by Gardner Buchanan with help from the distributed proofers; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Letters from High Latitudes" by Lord Dufferin is a travel book written in 1856, recounting his voyage to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen aboard the schooner Foam. Written as diary entries in the form of letters to his mother, the book captures adventures through volcanic plains, geysers, and Arctic islands with irreverent humor and lively wit. Its comic style made it extraordinarily successful, remaining in print for decades and translated into multiple languages, establishing it as the prototype of the comic travelogue. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3701 ER -