Subjects:  1. History / General    2. Ida Pfeiffer   

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Subjects:  1. Essays & Travelogues    2. History    3. History: World    4. Medieval    5. Middle East - General    6. Travel - General   

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Cultural And Social Anthropology    3. Ethnology    4. Iceland    5. Social Science    6. Social life and customs    7. Sociology    8. Anthropology    9. Cultural studies    10. Europe    11. European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland)    12. Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural   

Subjects:  1. Bibliographies & Indexes    2. Bibliography    3. Europe - Scandinavia    4. Iceland    5. National Bibliographies    6. Politics/International Relations    7. Reference    8. Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies    9. Cultural studies    10. European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland)    11. Geography   

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Excellent New Text by Grewe and Hieatt
Regarding the LIBELLUS DE ARTE COQUINARIA AN EARLY NORTHERN COOKBOOK, I can report as to exactly what this volume is all about. The LIBELLUS is among the oldestof culinary recipe collections & dates from the early thirteenth century.It survives in 4 versions in three languages... Danish, Icelandic, & Low German. It is thought to date back to possibly even the 12th century. It's a small collection of only 35 recipes and was published as part of the Collection included in AN OLD ICELANDIC MEDICALMISCELLANY [Ms. Royal Irish Academy 23D 43.]in 1931 by Henning Larsen.Read more

Subjects:  1. Cookery, Danish    2. Cookery, Icelandic    3. Cooking    4. Cooking / Wine    5. Early works to 1800    6. History    7. Regional & Ethnic - Scandinavian    8. Literary studies: general    9. National & regional cuisine   

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Subjects:  1. 1858-1914    2. Description and travel    3. Europe - Iceland & Greenland    4. History and criticism    5. Iceland    6. Sagas    7. Travel    8. orsteinn Erlingsson,    9. ¤orsteinn Erlingsson,    10. Journeys    11. ¤orsteinn Erlingsson   

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Subjects:  1. Dictionaries    2. Europe - General    3. Europe - Scandinavia    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History: World    7. Iceland    8. Reference    9. Scandinavia - History    10. European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland)    11. Reference works    12. Social Science / Reference   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Corporate & Business History - General   

Subjects:  1. Europe - Ireland    2. History    3. History - General    4. History - General History    5. History: World   

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Loaded with useful information
I've not used other Rough Guides before, but a friend swears by them, so I tried this one for Iceland. I also got the Insight Guide, which had pretty pictures and background info but little else.The Rough Guide was infinitely more useful, and I totally relied on it during a weeklong trip around Iceland. We drove all the way around the ring road and out to the Westfjords, and the only incorrect piece of information we found in the entire book was the price at one guest house. Plenty of info on where to stay and eat, what to see and do, and background information was useful and interesting. My one criticism is the maps, they are small and only of small regions of the country (but what are you going to do in such a small book?). It would have been nice to have a large, comprehensive map of the island, so we bought a large road map in addition.The book was particularly useful in the isolated parts of Iceland where 'towns' on maps consisted only of a single house or 2. It was comforting to know the Rough Guide contained accurate information we could rely on to find a place to stop on those remote roads.

A Good First Effort for a Great Series
The ROUGH GUIDE series has produced some wonderful books -- I am particularly fond of the titles on France and Scotland, which I have used extensively. This is their first crack at Iceland, and it is a commendable, if not outstanding, effort. So much to see!
We had a 3-day stopover in Iceland, and used the Rough Guide as our main source of information. The information in the book was accurate and very useful, especially when driving in the less populated areas. It was nice to know which towns had fuel stations, cafes, guesthouses, etc. It was a little confusing when we drove east from Vik, and the book was written as if driving west toward Vik, but we managed. Read more

Subjects:  1. Europe - General    2. Europe - History    3. Europe - Iceland & Greenland    4. Travel    5. Travel - Foreign    6. Travel Guides    7. Travel / General