How the "Mastiffs" Went to Iceland
Anthony Trollope, best known for his sprawling Victorian novels, turns his methodical eye to a very different kind of story: a voyage to Iceland aboard a ship called the Mastiff. This travel memoir captures an age when reaching that remote island meant weeks of rough sea crossings and the journey itself was the adventure. Trollope writes of landscapes that seem from another world, of geothermal wonders and fishing villages where centuries-old ways persisted, and of the peculiar band of travelers willing to endure such hardships for the sake of seeing a place most Englishmen knew only from legend. His prose is attentive, curious, sometimes amused, always precise - the same qualities that made his fiction feel so real now make this account feel like time travel. For lovers of Victorian literature, this offers a window into how an educated Englishman of the 19th century saw one of Europe's wildest corners, long before tourism and modernization reshaped it.
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jenno, Piotr Nater, Cynthia Malone, Mark F. Smith
