Iceland
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Iceland

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eBook - ePub

Iceland

About this book

A new, thoroughly updated edition of Bradt's Iceland, recipient of the Lowell Thomas Award (the highest travel writing award available in the United States) providing more context for individual places than any other guidebook, plus honest, investigative hotel and restaurant reviews that hide nothing. Based on 20 years of personal and business travel, exploration and adventure all around the country, Bradt's Iceland is in-depth, well-researched and comprehensive, featuring a year-round approach to travelling in Iceland in line with the development of the local tourist industry to offer attractions beyond the normal summer season. This latest edition covers the growing tourist infrastructure: the new, fully-paved road system, better routes through the interior, a wave of new hotels and resorts, more tour companies with more tour options, new adventure activities, plus day tours from port city destinations and tips for those travellers arriving by cruise ship. Natural history and wildlife experiences are featured prominently along with a focus on the outdoors and help in accessing even the most difficult corners of Iceland. Also featured is the most in-depth political and economic analysis offered by any guidebook since the turmoil of 2008. And, even though Iceland is notoriously expensive, there are now a lot more options for travellers, including more hostels, campsites, and budget airlines. This new edition also includes a foreword by the newly elected President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson. Containing information on remote offshore islands, the uninhabited interior and Reykjavik's bustling music and art scene, this remains the definitive guide.

Replete with lava flows, colossal glaciers and thundering waterfalls, Iceland is one of Europe's most unusual destinations. Pure, wild, and still in the midst of its own creation, it stands apart from the rest of Europe. With its moody volcanoes and massive ice caps, Iceland has caught the world's curiosity like never before. Iceland offers visitors a chance to get close and personal with its immense nature and vivid wildlife, to experience the live volcanoes and ancient glaciers, and gape at roaring waterfalls and the drifts of obsidian sand in the country's bleak desert interior.

Andrew Evans has been travelling in Iceland for over 20 years. As a contributor to National Geographic, and a frequent host for tours to Iceland, he explores some of the remotest corners of the country regularly. He has studied the Icelandic language, history, and biology and continues to lecture about the country to high-end tour groups, as well as the National Geographic Society and Smithsonian Institution. His guide is exhaustive, allowing travellers to make informed decisions, to go anywhere and explore anything.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Colour Map
  5. List of Maps
  6. Photos – Don’t Miss
  7. Introduction
  8. At a Glance
  9. Part One General Information
  10. Chapter 1 Background Information
  11. Chapter 2 The Icelanders
  12. Chapter 3 Natural History
  13. Chapter 4 Practical Information
  14. Part Two The Guide
  15. Chapter 5 ReykjavĂ­k
  16. Chapter 6 Reykjanes
  17. Chapter 7 Suðurland (South Iceland)
  18. Chapter 8 Vesturland (West Iceland)
  19. Chapter 9 Vestfirðir (The West Fjords)
  20. Chapter 10 Norðurland vestra (The Northwest)
  21. Chapter 11 Norðurland eystra (The Northeast)
  22. Chapter 12 Austurland (East Iceland)
  23. Chapter 13 Hålendið (The Highlands)
  24. Appendix 1 Language
  25. Appendix 2 Further Information
  26. Index
  27. Author
  28. Copyright
  29. Foreword
  30. Contributors
  31. Acknowledgements
  32. Back Cover